Show CITY OF ST LOUIS A WRECK cyclone follows cyclone with great rapidity one thousand Thoai aad dead and ana In Jureti many mair go 0 o down dawn M ith all on a board city Is in plunged ink in total earliness many buildings blown down hospitals pilled filled W th h in jared and the morgues with the marln while great numbers Main br of the t lie dead sad mid maimed are lying among the buinie in all directions one vast tast charnel ilomae ouse chicago may alay 27 one of 0 the greatest disasters of recent years overwhelmed the city of st bt louis louie tonight in tile the hape of a cyclone which began shortly short IY after 5 and for thirty minutes tore its awful way through the city with a velocity ot of over eighty miles an hour although reports from there are very meagre owing to the almost to total talde destruction st of the telegraph wires it seems certain the number of deail dead and wounded will amount to fully 1000 and the damage done to millions of dollars the city hob hospital pItal which fortunately survived the storm Is filled to overflowing with mangled men and children and the morgue within two hours houri after the end dof of the storm was so full of corpses that it was wan necessary to provide other quarters for the reception of the dead in addition to those who were killed in their houses and hun deeds are beneath the waters of the illie mississippi river of all the steamers on the levee when the bronn broke but one is now afloat all the others have gone down in many many instances every soul on board being lost lest and in others not over wo n no three being able to reach a place of ty among the boats destroyed Is the ex curtion steamer great republic one of the largest steamers steam crr on the lower river not it a man escaped front from her and it Is said she was crowded with excursionists when the storm came many buildings have been demolished and others partially wrecked 1 I he streets are utterly impassable to street cars and in many places progress on too foo is a matter of great difficulty to add to the horrors of the night the alei Lle plants were rendered fender incapable of ser vice and the gas lamps are arc alho abut off leaving the city in total darkness fire also broke out in several portions of the cit and the fire department was unable to make an effective fight because 0 of f the choked up condition of the streets and the large number of firemen who w were ere engaged in the work ark of rescuing the dead and wounded the only authentic information from the stricken it city tonight was sent out bj b the agent of the associated press who managed to reach an outlying we tele graph office and bent a brief dir dispatch patch as follows 10 at tile the rate of over eighty miles an hour struck st goulf tonight and raged for half an hor with great fury and as a result hundreds ol of lives are lost on boli bolh sides fides of the river many building are blown down and many river steamers mrs rs sunk alth with all on board it Is at the present time to estimate the number of lives lost and the are filled filed with injured and the morgue lb filled with the slain while great numbers of the dead and maimed are lying among the ruins in all directions A portion of the east end of the eads bridge 6 li destroyed the grand stand at the fair grounds Is down dawn the wom comans womans ins portion of the jail jai is gone and the immense cupples block la 18 partially destro destroyed ed the waif ra pierce oil works are burning and other buildings in various sections of the city are on fire the western union telegraph graph corn com pany announced that became e of lib iti in ability to keep up its wires it would be impossible to bend out any more messages tonight from st allo lo 10 is or its vicinity after sending tills this brief dispatch the telegraph wire failed one of the worst features of the disaster Is thought to have taken place at the race track at st louis where the races were acre in full swing owing and the grand stand was crowded returns from the st louis rices are received at the track at lakeside ind and a few minutes after 5 the operator fending ending the report of the race rac s topped stopped his work long enough to remark I there goes the grand stand and then his wire collapsed and nothing more was heard front from him in a few seconds the same message nies sage was reported from lexington ky with the additional addition il information that fully people were dead 1 I his information was subsequently corroborated bv the operator of the wabash road at decatur who said that in hla second message received front from eabe at t louis it was declared the grand stand at the races was war down and that fully people were burled buried in the ruins quincy ill may 37 27 A report hv has reached here that at drake ill i near rood house a cyclone struck a school house utterly it killing eighty children and injuring nearly as many more nearly ever every hoube in tile the village is wrecked irked and though wo no other fatalities are arc reported it Is more than probable other lives have been lost |