St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-12

and goods and furniture were water-soaked.
All this, however, proved entirely insigniti-
cant when the full extent of the disasters
wrought by the storm became known. The
Lathrop school building occupied a promi-
nent site at the corner of Eighth and Main
streets. 1t consisted of q main building. to
which an art wing had been added The
building was surmomted by tower, which
for some time had been considered unsafe.
1t had been twice condemned, once within
few weeks, but no action had been taken
in the matter. This morning the building
was crowded with children, many of whom
went nearly frantic with grief over the APP
pauling darkness and stiffness which pre-
ceded the tempest. Winds swept madly
across Broadway from the west. and seemed
| to concentrate its force in descent upon
the tower, which yielded with Il crash, and
carrying the heavy bell, plunged through
the intervening floors to the basement. The
main building is a mass of ruins within
shattered walls, which still stand. The
wing was comparatively uninjured, and
the scholars in there were unhurt. In the
main building, however, the
EFFECT WAS AWFUL.
The falling floors precipitated the terri
fed children to the basement where masses
| of bricks and beams chrushed them to the
ground and buried them from view. Per-
sons near, hearing the crash, made their
way as best they could against the beating
storm to the scene. The gate was quickly
broken in and the work of rescuing was
undertaken by eager hands. Owing to the
prevailing excitement the first work was
not very effective, but the fire department
and police soon arrived and an organized
search was commenced. The dead and
wounded were taken out as quickly as pos
sible and carried to the natatOrium adjoin-
| ing, which was turned into a hospital.
here the parents and friends of the little
ones soon gathered, each searching for his
or her own and uttering heart-rending cries
as they recognized in the MANNED and bleed
lug forms those whom they loved. Among
the first taken out several were dead and
one or two
ALMOST BEYOND RECOGNITION;
their clothing torn and their bodies covered
with dust and mortar. The deathly.pallor
of their skins showing in painful contrast
with the CRIME and blood stains. Many
heroic scenes were enacted during the res
cue and some of the wounded children
seemed to have greater control than their
elders. One little girl half buried in debris,
over whom the rescuers were busy, begged
them to leave her and help boy beside her
because she said he was only years old.
The scenes in the natatOrium as the little
ones were brought in and laid upon impro-
vised cots. the dead placed together upon
one side were pitiful beyond expression. A
dozen dead were taken out during the day
and their bodies sent to the houses of sor-
rowing families, and several of the children
belonged to prominent families in the city.
At No. 10 West Third street stood
three-story brick building in the middle of
the block, the third floor of which was used
as an overall factory conducted by Haar
Bros, the first and second floors being oc-
cupied by the Graham Paper company. In
the factory were about twenty-five en-
ployes, chiefly girls, and when the storm
broke out they
STARTED FOR THE CELLAR.
The building fell with crash being
RACED entirely to the earth and most of
the affrighted girls were caught in the
ruins. -Four have been taken out dead, a
number of others are wounded and some
are still missing. A force of laborers is
busy tonight by the Pickering lantern
lights upturning confused masses of bricks
and timbers.
The county court house stands at
Second and Main streets On the
! hill exposed to winds from the north and
west. The building was erected nearly
twenty years ago for hotel purposes, but
when completed was purchased by the
county for $500, 900 and converted into a
court house. The building has always
been considered rather unsatisfactory, and
the roof has frequently suffered injury from
high winds. The storm struck the
northwest corner, to-day, blowing in the
roof and the major portion of the
walls of the third and fourth stories. The
south wall at the east end was blown into
the street, and Deputy Sheriff Dougherty
was caught and killed. All others sue
ceeded in getting out of the building alive.
! The jail is located in the basement of the
building, and that portion escaped injury.
The prisoners were intensely alarmed, but
became quiet when the crisis had passed
and they found themselves unhurt. Judge
Storer had been holding court on the third
floor and had adjourned just before the
storm descended. A portion of the roof in
falling struck the chair the
JUDGE HAD JUST VACATED.
Across the street, on the northwest cor
ner of Second and Main streets, stood a
ten-story brick building erected in 1860 BY
the Santa Fe Stage company, one of the
oldest buildings in the city. from which the
stages formerly were started across
the plains in the stage-coaching days.
The building has of late years been occupied
by the United States engineers. Adjoining
that on the west was a three-story brick
coffee and spice mill. owned by Smith &
Moffatt. This building was demolished
falling over upon the adjoining one and
both were completely wrecked. Frank
| Smith, the senior partner of the firm, was
taken bleeding from the ruins. and died in
short time. Mr. Moffatt was badly hurt,
and three employees were taken out. The
debris is being removed tonight in search
for any who may yet be buried beneath.
The second span from the north end of the
bridge across the Missouri. opposite the
city, was blown into the river, the piers
being left apparently uninjured.. A great
number of telegraph wires were carried
down with the broken span. Workmen are
busy tonight raising wires from the wreck,
and it is hoped communication in that di-
rection will be restored by tomorrow morn
ing. The bridge is owned by the Hannibal
d st. Joseph company.
The following is list of the killed and
wounded as far as ascertained at 10 O'Clock
tonight:
KILLED AT SCHOOL HOUSE.
JOYSIE MASON, aged IL.
BESSIE INSCRE, years,
| NELLIE ELLIS, ii years.
JULIA RAMEY, IL years.
| RUTH JAMESON, 10 years.