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Show WIND STORfVl " INJMSSOURI Excursion Steamer Loaded With Passengers lias a Narrow Escape. Lightning Start Several Flrea In 81 Louis and Number of Frame Houses Are Demolished, the Occupants Oc-cupants Being Hurt by Fall-Ing Fall-Ing Timber!. Rt iN A terrific wind and rain itorm s nick St I -on Is and vicinity Hi'ir. lav afternoon Mghtnlnr, start M . v. n flrea In different parla ot Ih.- em A negro, rnmo unknown, ' n from hi "ngon and n ps'-li e fire onglno ran over him Tii limbic wire were blown down sin and n few frame house were oYm irhed and n number ot people hurt in debrla Th excursion atenmcr IJberty (lied alth plonauro seeker, caught la tin storm near Alton, III, wns drlr en ihmugh the Mlaalaalppt river nt nrn'rnllahlo speed nnd dnahed Inlc i dlk" on the Missouri aide Hocking and li ppllnr with Uio terrnrlioil paa senccri hiiddliM In the cabin His pma of the Ixtnt waa forrnl up on the itniernment dlko wbllo the force nf He wind hurled chair Inlo Iho river from the deck and ebnttered thn cabin window The liont held firmly nn Ihn dlko bnneer, nnd whm Hie storm had abated audi rlmiii the gnxernmont IhniI I.ucln ran'hlpped the passenger nnd lind eil i' em In Alion The wind blew nt n velocity ot thirty mile nn hour nnd wna no ompnnled by Incoeannt lightning lad a heavy downpour of rnln nnd tor n short time hftllitnnea fell The mlnfall wne 39 of an Inch |