Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man held in the jail at Chester, Illinois, was fatally injured when a tornado struck the building, according to a December 1885 report in the Narragansett Herald. The paper gives no name for him and no exact date of death. The item says a second man held in the jail was killed in the same storm, and it attributes the deaths to the tornado's impact on the building.
Cause of death, as reported: Died in an accident. A tornado struck the jail at Chester, Illinois, and fatally injured a man held there.
Reported by: news reports.