Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — WIPED OUT BY WIND. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WIPED OUT BY WIND.

AN ILLINOIS TOWN ALMOST DEMOLISHED. Two Killed. Many Injured—Public BuUdlng» and Residences Leveled to the Gro-ind —The Storm General In Character—Telegraphic Communication Almost Impossible. Red Bud mown Away. I t The city of Red Bud, 111., situated thirty miles southeast of St. Louis on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, was visited by a cyclone of wonderful intensity. The day preceding was a delight!ul autumn day, mild and bright. Toward night, however, the clouds began to gather, and the weather indications rather favored ra’n. Shortly a ter midnight e. terrific ra'nfall, accompanied by violent thunder and lightning, aroused the citizens, and at 3:3U in the morning a cyclone was raging. Eighty-four buildings were demolished, two persons killed, twelve seriously hurt, aud many more injured. It is estimated that slso,000 worth of property was destroyed. The dead: Koppe, Willie; Koppe, Mrs. Nob. The injured: Bayo, Mrs. louis; Crow, Emma; Dose, Peter; Havermann, Margaret; Heitman, Mr.; Kardel 1 , Mrs. Peter; Manderfield, Mrs. John: Starr, Alden; Starr, Mrs. Alden; Starr, Charles; SjS&rr, 8. A.; Sperr, Mrs. 8. A. Work of the Wind. Among the buildings blown down were the Catholic Church and parochial school, the German Lutheran Church, the City Hall and orison, the city fire engine house, the German Lutheran school, the high school building, the Continental Hotel, aud the residences of the following named: W, Perkins, H. D. Hedge, P. R. Droge, John Lang,

John Randhalt, John Haba, Peter Kardell, A. D„ Perry, L. Koffenberg, Ernst Buddi, Chas. Jaeger, Mrs. Hauerman, 0. Grelow, P. Janneman, Mrs. Jacob Kobe, John Kueker, Henry Wahlman, William Buetner, Henry Beeson, Dr. Alley, John Barnes, M. Trlerveiler, H. W. Schmidt, William Voges, John Mauderfelt, -tWillim Michaels, B. Miller, Charles Gubert, P. Enzi;nauer, William Stinde, J. J. Just, Jacob Miller, William Williamson, Frank Lang, George Reiss, Alden Starr, Mrs. Sophia Rathbert, Henry Rathbert, D. Uuthbcrt, John Wetzel, William Kellerholz, Frank Lish, F. D. Gukon, and Mrs. Dbfa Kaufman. Besides the above there were many barns, warehouses, and outbullnings de? molished. The storm came up without the slightest warning and the first intimation the Inhabitants of the ill-fated city hiid of it was when they were wakened from their slumbers by the crash of their homes about their ears. The horrors of an inky darkness lighted up momentarily by flashes of lightning added to the fear and madness which oppressed all minds during the terrible visitation. Daylight only made more terrible that which night had hidden. The scene cannot be described. The streets, when lit up by the first streaks of dawn, presented a pitiable scene of ruin and utter desolation. On every hand rose the moans of the injured and the grief of their friends and relatives. The streets were blocked with the debris of the storm’s wreck, and for some time it was Impossible to get an accuiatellstof thesuTerers of the terrible visitation. The one given above Is believed to cover all the casualties, and the number of houses wrecked by the storm Is fairly complete. Track of the Ntorm. The storm was destructive and far reaching. Sweeping down from the north came a tremendous storm of snow, rain, and sleet, which, encountering the warm air-currents of “Egypt," developed three distinct cyclonic storm centers, diverging from a common center near Red Bad. Taking a southeasterly course one part of the storm passed on! rapidly through Western Kentucky and Tennessee, leveling everything In Its path at Red Bud, and only when Northern Alabama was reached had it lessened Its force. To the westward moved a second storm center passing through Central Missouri,thence across Northern Kansas, finally being lost In the moun- 1 tains of Wyoming, but the curious feature of this remarkable atmospheric dis- 1 turbance lay In the direction taken by the third arm a northerly course,' through lowa, veering to the west into Nebraska leaving a hopeless tangle of wires In Its wake, until it became next to an impossibility to reach any of the great cities west of St. Louts except by circuitous routes. Not a wire remained from Milwaukee to St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Northwest, these points being served with European and Eastern domestic news over lhe Southern Pacific route to Denver, thence to Ogden, Utah. Helena, Mont., and via the Northern Pacific to Minneapolis and St. Paul.

RUINS OF THE SCHOOL HOUSE.