Show 18 ST LOOIS HECHT r caffo 01 the lia most lost disastrous storms enna in america F t 4 di 0 of f people millions of prop elfry 1 count countless less homes and hopes hope Ie troyed by a death dealing clown hirer storms Sto 1 alip great city of st laap is M ir in it ins n s today as a result of a deadly which began shortly after wednesday afternoon and r th thirty arty minutes tore its ay through the city with ith a iv v olover of avor eighty miles an heiar haur tie le number of dead and wounded ill amount to fully 1000 and the aage age dooe done to millions million of dollars doll as ejov hospital he p ti 1 which fortunate i arrived revived the storm is filled to i lapwing wing win with mangled men and ilcken il 1 n and the morgue within 0 0 alws cars car abw the end nd of the rm in g so full that it was naceb rv ry to provide abfier quarters for in addition to those who were C tied in their houses and streets indre endredi deare are beneath th ahr waters avi mississippi lissis sippi river of all the amers on the levee when tile the rm nm broke I 1 ut one is now afloat it 11 the others have gone down in any ills instances every soul OR oo board i n ne g lost ina t aud irr in others not aver among the boats destroyed in ie the don steamer greab i one of the largest steamers on ie lower river not a man espel from her and it is said she as crowded with excursionists I 1 lien the storm came the center of the city is a wreck malarly man buildings have apen demol he hed and others partially wrecked 1 9 tie lie streets are impassable aal in 0 any places progress on foot fool is a P itter of great biffl difficulty alty to and add the the night the i were rendered and the gai off leaving the I 1 i P 9 out oat in several I 1 i and the fire to make inake an because of the edition of the i r a number of fire i r n aged in the worl wor rw GI ead and wounded information r by the agent of the a who managed to n ng a telegraph office f dispatch as fol aing ina 0 at the rate of allies n an n hour struck 1 tonight and raged for half a abour no ar with great fury and as a alt hundreds of lives are lost on k i th sides of the river many build asare are blown down and many ver steamers ste omers sunk with all on oard it is is impossible at the pre nt time t ft estimate the number I 1 i lives live s lost oat as the hospitals are led aled with injured and the morgue filled with the slain while great limbers of the dead and maimed re lying among the ruins in all A portion of the east nd lid of the that hads bridge is destroyed aie ie grand stand at the fair grounds i down the portion of tie jail is gone and the immense apples block is partially destroyed Bt st the tha wates pierce oil borks are burning barning and other build toga in various sections of the city are on fire RECENT dispatches about 8 the same evening oper operator on h ronel I 1 station not far from east ax st louis managed to get the operator at decatur ill long enough kaend ni him word that the round wise house of the wabash road was blown down and that the freight house of the vandalia Va adalia was wrecked and that thirty five men were killed in the ruins ruing after hs he had told this much the wire failed him shortly after 5 the wabash operator at decatur reported led to the main dispatchers office at forest ill III that a cyclone cyclone had just passed the couil connary try to the south of decatur and that it had dons done great damage ina I 1 n a few minutes be sent word that a second storm had passed through the country almost exactly in the track of the first and that he be was unable to get any more information regarding ding it but that it was thought to have done great gresi damage 0 in the cot east cast of st louis the operators on the alton road were unable to get any information from their men in the neighborhood of st louis but bat reported that just before beford all their connections with that city were brokers brokens off they had received word that there hare had been a severe cyclone at rush kill hill mo which is ie a etnar howg on theAlton the alton road not fax far from mexico me x ico mo at midnight it was rep reported at the dispatchers office at ac the wa bash road at forest ill III that the ruins at east ft A louis were on fire and burning fiercely j S particulars death and destruction reigns supreme e in st louis and vicinity so Q widespread ia the CAI I 1 61 L low louis st 0 ig amarge and an loss of life buildings of every description are in ruins ruine and as a result hundreds of people are reported dead and anju injured red the storm broke out about 5 in the afternoon after a most oppi oppressive dessive hot day and rain began to fall it soon developed into a fierce thunderstorm with the wind from the east A little later the wind gained a velocity of eighty miles an hour driving the rain before it and tearing loose signs cornice chimney and everything in its way wat many buildings of every description we were re demolished and others set on fire by lightning and crossed wires the fire department responded to fourteen alarms ahn abe i were full of people going horine iome from work and a panic ensued as soon as the storm broke men dipre i ere picked a up p and hurled against alif Luil buildings dings horses and carriages effa pe bent ft flying fl ng here and there an and falling ing wires wires with the deadly curre current ot added to the horror borror of the scene suddenly the wind veered around to the west and corrill completed eted the destruction it is ie asserted by some of those who have traversed travers pd the downtown down town part of the city that there are few buildings in st louis lonis that have not suffered in home way from the storm the streets are in complete darkness and travel in any direction made dangerous by the falling of live wires and debris bridges were destroyed boats sunk trains wrecked and death brought on in a thousand forms to stock and people A trolley car loaded with passengers bound for the west side is ia said to have fallen through to the railroad track below but with what result is in not known the roof of the republican convention hall ball was blown off and a twenty four foot section of the western wall of the city jail was blown clear down ex poring the interior it was during exercise hours bours and prisoners were exercising in the building they were panic stricken and too frightened to try to escape FREAKS of THE tae STORM the day dav had been very hot with 0 it ii I 1 aind id no wind about 4 0 clock tho inq lag of the cloude cloud one UI guiont unon Ont tt other on the western horizon k some warning of what ww wa fog but not one has bas been foi fo tonight who apprehended at tb tha imola ny thing worse than a aiani thunder storm suddenly 0 ol lie cli ilia bank came a wh ta Jun juneio iio which dipped to tvs et ii toe storm was then east of ft lyton a small town a short d ce from st ht louis in the of five minutes it had trava trav dis tance lance from the west enwin of this city into tile the hea heal it swooped dow down b and r high buildings ser served ed to aur and dantil until they weeg etoye d there was no chance fo for sape the river was lit raised from its bed with the kg reds of boats that wre were w re and down it or were too hofft athe wharves where the ii cy as made at east st rii louk LV almost a mile in ill wid widel be leap was taken aith a alet with which tilt thy cyclone i the he city proper anil and se sev loaded with e em were wrecked without trace of anyone once over di of railroad pi eny beg bagi went rolling oa 01 ole 7 nay other ii bile tilt thy ra vimy 1 I ll 11 4 of freight were W any possible poi pos ible tible future diseta the city bear i ahe I 1 no 0 ap having deen L hel id bp by I 1 afa Y in some borne places sti structure uc eta rob ha W entirely destroyed AT while hil hi high g h jagged a walls atai coant menace to a of I 1 riot dot be gotten out for hoar al enough troug n thousands of citizens have offered their aid to the police do apartment pArt ment to help the work of rescue every hospital in the city is in filled with victims and thre is in a lack of nurses and medicines 1 at the morgue bodies bo dies are a r being brought in every minute f venice and War neo til pillages lages just outside of st louis louig we were totally destroyed and a grat loss of life is reported from them HELPLESS WHEN STRICKEN S i there was little warning for the helpless people in the streets the thousands hou sands on their way hole from work or tile the inmates of we tue great mercantile establishments of the city who had not left their posts of duty among the houses dee destroyed troyed are the furniture store of frederick Otte neds in the southern part where six men are reported killed a saloon where nine men are reported in the ruins st patrick church the aetna iron work the consolidated wire works totally wrecked seven people injured seriously by this wreck and many more are aie said to have been hurt by falling ailing walls the two story building of the sawyer manefa manufacturing company was demolished john sawyer a member of the firm and emma cheney and isabella handen typewriters were crushed to death under the walls 11 II 11 sawyer a member of the firm was injured fatally the st louis refrigerator and woodenware wooden ware companas comp anys factory was completely destroyed the loss lose is estimated at the gas tank near the consolidated wire works blown over and fallen in on the wire works building killing four men to a certainty and possibly more one thing that hinders the work of taking out the dead and rescuing the injured is the fact that eve every ry electric light wire and telephone wire is down this prevents communication muni cation between the various parts of the city and the town being in absolute darkness the work of rescue is slow to add to the dis crial situation the rainfall rain fell shortly after the tornado passed in torrents between moberly Mo berlyand aid S st t 11 louis 0 uis the dispatches say that various email towns have been wiped out and many persons person skilled killed in them it was at first thought 7 that scores hd liO been killed at t the lie fair grounds in the western part of the city where the roof of the grand stand was blown off while the last race was being bi ing run lun but the people saw the storm coming arid and rus rushing hinc out of the grounds ground took refuge in the adja beut fields att he time lime the storm struck the to d and created such havo 0 the accompanying noise was w aa ter terrific people were picked up in the streets and dashed to the ground or against the buildings as though they had ben been st straws three fire alarms were sent in ff a poor poo wafe blufe which has bas 1200 ia abt w the roof was blown off 34 nt js 19 feared that the number of jl I 1 is iff great A tr a was hurled from the track arack iti aw haid ei six coaches containing the train carries ees wand frota from their work at the ahe lolling mills milla works ite city au AU t the passengers P 1 4 us S aped IT except about forty ivi 1 PATH lyver As woof mr lifo life on t ver r it is re 64 the lnig magni ift ei 1 V ct it gunk I 1 h hj oa g board the P P pike 1 ak eil with thirty y aboard pre rd u ap 1 thay hal ia was blown biown bottem e mondelet or on delet ten miles miles below 61 Z the dauphin a pleasure boat containing twenty women lomeii pa passengers and a a crew of six men on board was blown against the middle pier of the eads eada bridge and aad broken in atwon in some miraculous manner the women and two of the crew ma managed to cling to the stone work of the pier and were afterwards rescued the steamer libbie conger of the diamond joe line with capt seaman his wife and the crew of six men was sunk in the middle of the river apart from the number of lives lost here and on the east side bide of the river the number drowned in the mississippi will aggregate hundreds excursion steamers ete ste amess lying at the levee and those running up and down the river were sunk almost immediately those on board having absolutely no opportunity to escape |