The herald., 1896-05-29

woHlhn ana TWO children, near Drury'S
| Ice house; messenger boy on bridge,
seven unknown men in Dublin house,
Michal Kindea, chief waybill clerk of the
Vandalia; Thomas Keefer, Bert Farrell,
William FARRELL, route clerk of the Van
dalia; Frank Mccormack, cashier of the
Vandal1a; Joseph Franks, general yard
master of the Vandalia; unknown man
about 40 years old; unknown woman
| about 35 years old; ex-Policeman Thom-
as Griffin and family of three; Frank
! Roose. foreman at Elliotts works; Rob-
F, ert Bland; John Valentine, city collector;
David S. Sage and wife; Philip Strickler
| Jr., and mother; Judge Faulke, of Van
| dalia, ILL.,; Mrs. M. Martell; all of the
| boarders at the Martell house except
| Judge Hope of Alton, Ill. Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hayes; VIII Hayes; all boarders.
| estimated at sixteen, at the fremont
house; Miles Mitchell. William Mitchell.
| Irene Clendennin; the unknown, un-
| identified bodies at Bridge tower; six
unidentified bodies at electric railway
station, two of whom are supposed to be
William Sullivan and wife; Mrs John
Reed; Patrick Dean and family of six;
John Buchanez; two boarders at SAac-
| ey'S boarding house, Edward O'Brien,
John Breen, Ida Gladdue, Mrs. Roof.
Albert Volkman, Joseph Mitchell,
| John Sullivan, William Hickey; un-
known man on Collinsville avenue,
son of Mrs. Ira Kent, Henry Winter
| mann, Winstan Park, Jacob Kortz. w.
| j. Murray. manifest clerk of the Van
! dalia, Elyin Cole, - Frawley, Andrew
Anderson, Henry Gladdue. John Reed.
Matt Keefe, Mrs. Barr, Mrs. Brewer,
Mrs. Joseph Sullivan, Mrs. KEN, Mrs.
| Seller, C. c. Carroll, Mrs. Schmike,
! George Schattman. Guy Avery, Joseph
| c. Brown, John A. Hearnie, W. T.. Smith,
| r. c. Simmons, Mike Brucker, unidenti-
| driver about 30, Dick Anderson Mabel
| Trump, Dissey Trump, T. j. McCann,
Mrs. Mary Lee, Sandy Hook, drowned,
eight unidentified dead at Brennar's
| morgue, Walsh Captain, Charles Which
| er. Mike Vogt, Martin Spellman. DIR.
| Num-, Ollie Kent
| The East st. Louis seriously injured
| are: William Stickney, arm broken;
| John Farrell, both legs broken; Joe
| Duffy, internal, may die; H. c. Null. leg
broken; William Cogan. engineer, seri-
ously injured; H. K. Vail. arm broken:
D. Moore, right arm broken:
Robert Bland, badly hurt; John Nc
| Maihon, rib fractured, shoulder blade
broken; Patrick Trainer, cash in back of
| the head, delirious; Joseph H. Burke,
| leg broken; Peter Harris. arm brok-
| William D. Walsh, ribs and shoulder
broken: D. F. Goodwin, hip dislocated;
John Kelly, leg dislocated; j. Brady.
back injured; H. c. Given, claim clerk
at Vandalia, injured internally; Joseph
Ably, ribs broken; Fred Boehl, arm
broken; William cullen, legs and side
hurt; f. Matthews, arms, hip and side
hurt; j. w. Steele, leg broken; Mrs.
Eva Holberg, arm broken; Mrs. Wind
houser, badly hurt, and her little 10
months -old daughter will die.
T. E. Williams, assistant superintend-
ent of the St. Louis & East ST. Louis
Railway company, was very seriously
injured internally severely bruised
about the body, his right arm broken
and the cords of his left arm so seriously
| injured that there is a possibility of his
| losing the use of 1t.
| The first section of the cyclone, for It
| appeared to come in waves, first struck
| East St. Louis about 5:15 o'clock. Eye
| witnesses who We're near the river de-
! clare the cloud seemed TO divide and then
| come together again. The path was very
| wide, embracing almost the entire levee
! district with the central and what ap-
peared to be the most destructive part
| of the storm near the Eads bridge. The
| upper portion of the bridge from the
| east side of the river for about fifty feet
was torn away the great iron girders
| being twisted like strings and the mass
| i've masonry torn away and hurled to
| the tracks beneath. On the bridge just
as the storm struck it was Chicago and
| Alton passenger train. This was turned
| completely over, as were also three troll
| ley cars on the upper portions of the
| bridge. All the passengers were badly
| shaken up, but none were seriously IN
| jured. Little to the north and directly
| on the river bank stood the Belt line
warehouse. q new brick structure. This
was razed to the ground. The three up
| per stories of Elevator 3 were blown
off and scattered for blocks. Directly
across the tracks from theBelt line ware
house were the Vandalia general offices
and freight houses. or the general ON
| 1,vin1 c left ton of an
| other, while of the freight houses moth
| ing remains but pile of kindling wood.
Not more than two or three OF the EN-
| ployes escaped. the remainder being
| crushed odeath.
| The path of the storm thence to the
relay station is marked by an unbroken
| line of overturned freight cars, tele-
| graph poles and roofless houses. The
/ car tracks are utterly impassable ana
! it will be days before anything ap-
preaching order can be effected. Whole
| trains of freight cars were lifted from
| the tracks and twisted in every direc-
tion. Sometimes the trucks had remain
| ed on the tracks, the bodies of the cars
being lifted bodily off and hurled indis-
| criminately about for rods. To the right
| of the bridge, where the bridge trolley
| cars met the local street cars, formerly
stood a long row of frame houses. OF
| these scarcely the wreckage remains.
| Right here several of the vagarieS of
| the storm was made evident. In one
of the houses lived John Mckenzie, an
| employe of the st. Louis and East st.
Louis street railway, his wife and four
| children When the storm struck their
home the mother was preparing supper
and with her in the room We're all her
| children. The entire house was razed
from the floor and hurled twenty feet
| one side, leaving the frightened mother
| and her little ones standing uninjured,
with the exception of a few minor
| bruises but the children had their cloth
| ing torn from them. Across the road
Mrs. Patrick Dean and her two children,
| aged 2 and years respectively. were
all killed when their house fell in on
| them.
0. c. Van Houten, an employee of
| the ST. Louis & East ST. Louis Electric
railway, was an eye witness to the de-
| struction of the Vandalia general offices.
Several of u.s." +. Van Houten said.
| "were standing outside the car sheds
| watching the approach of the storm. 1t
seems to me that there were two distinct
| cyclones. All at once they seemed to
come together. The telephone poles out
| in front of the barns went down first
| and then we ran for our lives. How 1
| got there don't knox, but finally man.
| aged to crawl under a truss of the big
| bridge and hung on for my life. Then
| l saw the barns where we had lately
stood cave in, and all at once the Van
| dalia offices went. The walls seemed to
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