Show Terrible Destruction WHEELING W Va April lBWhen the whirlwind struck St Clairesville it was split in two the two ascending whirling columns united in a great mass of black clouds the heavens The destruction at St Clairesvillo was if anything under estimated by last nights dispatches No adequate idea can be conveyed in words of tho scene of ruin and destruction The streets are strewn with wreckage and in some places the roads were impassable with broken trees prostrated telegraph poles and wires and fences There was a rush of sight seers to St Clairesville today Telegraph communication communica-tion had been cut off and great anxiety prevailed pre-vailed to know how bad the situation of affairs was No casualties were reported last night Today the following are reported re-ported C W Troll munager of tho Bel laire t > S 11 H has fractured arms the result re-sult of the storm J W Riley right leg broken a little son of S W Cochran Northern Railroad expressman colored was fatally injured Mayor Davis of Glairesville sent out today to-day an appeal for financial 1 help At Martins Ferry the distress is even greater than at St Clairesville the losers being in most cases poor working people Nearly fifty families have no shelter except what is afforded by the skating rink at their disposal |