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Show oL LllUio TORNADO Three Persons Killed and Much Property Is Destroyed St. Louis, April 14. Three persons were killed and property vulued at between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 was destroyed yesterday by the most destructive de-structive storm that has vlsltod SL Louis since the memorable tornado of May, 1S96. The storm In St. Louis brpke at 5 p m Tho day had been warm and pleasant. Clouds gathered in the southwest, and, 'after a few drops of rain fell, there was a remarkable precipitation pre-cipitation of hall stones. Some of these arc reported as being three inches in diameter. Hail caused tho greatest damage. Thousands of windows in West End residences were broken. Greenhouses were demolished. Churches In the path of the storm did not escape and many stained glass windows were broken. In some sections a heavy wind accompanied ac-companied the downpour. Especially was this true in the north end. The Curlln?UDn elevator was wrecked" bv the wind and a large section of It was blown Into the river Tho elevator eleva-tor contained more than a million bushels of grain The damage is- estimated esti-mated at 51.000.000. A panic was precipitated at Sportsman Sports-man park, where the baseball came between the SL Louis and the Cleveland Cleve-land teams was In progress The wind blew down the flag pole, and the patrons pa-trons of the game threw themselves on the ground, face downward and protected their heads with their arms from the bombardment of hall stones. Three women returning from a fn neral were seriously Injuredwhen the horses attached to their carriage became be-came frightened and rau awav In all fifteen persons were injured In SL Loula. One woman was dragged to death while another died ofv fright. A man named Harry Foster was electrocuted. The storm swept down on the norlh end and in 15 minutes tho streets were strewn with wreckage. Scarcely any hail fell east of Grand avenue. Downtown the only Indication Indica-tion of the unusual disturbances In other parts of tho city was a torrential downpour of rain, accompanied by vivid viv-id lightning and crashing thunder. Tho weather bureau reported .15 of an inch of rain and within two hours a fall of 20 degrees in temperature. tempera-ture. Eight persons aro known to have been killed in Valles Minos, Cadet and vicinity. Four negroes are dead at Valles Mines and two white women wom-en at Cadet. Two men. John Powers, of Cape Girardeau and Geo J. Doners Don-ers of DeSoto were killed while riding rid-ing in nn automobile in the southern part of Jefferson count'. A third occupant oc-cupant of the machine, who was caught In the wind, is missing. At Shelby vllle, Ills., hail stones eight inches in circumferenco were reported while at Anna, Ills Growing crops were badly damaged by the hall and wind. The tornado, which wrought destruction In Cadet and Valles Mines, swept over and did considerable damage to several points In Washington, Montgomery. St Francis and Jefferson the lead belt counties Among the towns suffering suf-fering heavily were Flat River, Esther and Elvins. In tho three towns named flftv persons being more or less seriously seri-ously Injured. nn |