Show STRANGE THINGS DONE BT THE GREAT ST LOUIS CYCLONE 0 rw COX D GI OLLY v p 5 artia we le at RM 4 HOAI if NC ek a gl J r ps 11 ki va 1 1 1 i F 4 I 1 T A 7 k ru I 1 0 1 troy ris n 10 ANY were the eccentricities of M MANY the recent disastrous cyclone in st loula louis while stout buildings collapsed in the wild embrace of the storm weak structures survived and remain today to day as though they never expert exceed a severer atmospheric disturbance than a gentle summer zephyr one of the remarkable incidents of the fatal visitation was that ol of an infant which was carried high into the air and then safely deposited in a tub in another case a portion of the bark of a tree trunk was cut oft off as though by a knife but the rest ol of the bark was untouched and even the foliage remained on the tree through the side of a stout barn three beams were driven as though forced by a battering ram and a tour four inch beam was forced entirely through a steel boiler lafayette park and vicinity bore the brunt of the storm and the beautiful pleasure ground one of the finest in the nation was turner into ruin but while monuments crumbled and giant tre trees es were uprooted or snapped asunder a weak thatched rooted roofed summer garden remained unharmed all around it trees were broken down and swept away yet not a handful of thatch from its root roof was removed there were mav man v other vagaries of the storm in and around st louis but these there incidents and illustrations rive give a good idea of its truly wonderful operation |