The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-28

is badly damaged by the flood of wa
ter. The greatest anxiety Is felt for
the safety of passengers on the differ
ent excursion boats which We're on the
river when the storm broke The
steamer City OF Florence, with an ex-
cursion party, is reported lost below
Carondolet. The steamer st. Paul with
thirty passengers, left for Tlton at
o'clock, and is believed to be wrecked
The levee is packed with people cropping
through the darkness and eagerly i'm
ploring information of loved ones on
the river,
The destruction to property in this
city VIII not be learned until daylight.
The Annunciation church, at Sixth and
La Sale streets, was destl Dyed. Father
Head, the pastor was fatally injured,
Michael Dawes, driver, was blown
from his wagon in the vicinity and in
stantly killed. The middle span of the
roadway above the railroad tracks on
the Eads bridge was blown completely
away. 1t is not known whether any
persons lost their lives while crossing
the bridge.
The Plant flour mills and the works of
the ST. Louis Iron and Steel company
We're destroyed and the big Cupples
building was partly demolished. The
dead and injured are being taken from
the ruins of the buildings. The Waters
Pierce OIL works were burned and the
buildings in several parts of the city
have been burning all night.
H. C. Rice of the Western Union at
the relay depot reports a wreck of
terrible proportions. He says that the
National hotel. fremont house, De-
Wolfe's cafe, Hazel Milling company's
mill. Horns cooper shop, and a large
number of dwellings, east of that section
We're swept into wreckage.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Vandalia
round houses, the Standard oil works,
East ST Louis and Crescent elevators
and dozen freight houses were caught
in the vortex of the cyclone and reduced
to debris.
Bloomington, ILL.,, May 27.-The cy-
clone at East st. Louis killed one hun
dred persons.
Two hotels, one of them the fremont,
are burning and numbers have perished
in the flames.
Kansas City, Mo-, May 27.-Rennick,
Randolph county, Mo-, was blown away
this afternoon and several persons were
killed.
Labiddie, Mo-, was also destroyed.
Ten persons were killed at the latter
place.
Louisville, May PA telegraph oper-
ator at Carondelet, four miles south of
st. Louis, says:
"A railroad man who walked out
from st. Louis reports the town badly
wrecked and hundreds of lives lost.
Street cars stopped. Lights all out and
everything in great confusion. He
says several city buildings, including a
hospital are wrecked Streets are al
most impossible from debris and great
volumes of water.
Springfield, ILL.,, May 27.-News from
East st. Louis is that the storm burst
at 5:25 and did it's terrible work in a
briefer space of time than it takes to
tell it. 1t passed in a southeasterly di-
rection and left a broad trail of de-
struction. The full horror of the scene
will not be known until daylight. Every
report that comes here brings new tales
of disaster. The relay depot at East St
Louis was completely destroyed. The
round-houses and freight sheds of the
Wabash and Chicago, and Burlington
and Quincy roads were crushed to
splinters. Both the great bridges lead
ing into st. Louis were badly wrecked,
the east approach to the Eads bridge
being swept away and span taken
bodily from the Merchants bridge.
Every steamer in the river in front of
ST Louis is reported sunk and the loss
of life must be enormous. No reliable
estimate can be obtained, but it is be-
lieved hundreds, perhaps thousands,
have perished The telegraph offices
here are besieged by anxious people
friends. From all that can be learned
the catastrophe is the most awful that
has happened for years.
Bloomington, ILL.,, May 27-Word
reached the Chicago and Alton road
tonight that cyclone had demolished
the village of Rush Hill, Mo-, twelve
miles from Mexico in Audrian county.
The cyclone struck the town few min
utes before 4 o'clock and blew down
the school house, crushing it's inmates.
The report is that fifty pupils were
killed.
Rood House, ILL.,, May 27.-It is re-
ported that eight children were killed
in a school house at Drake, near this
city, by the cyclone.
Sturgeon, Mo-, May pa cyclone
passed five miles north of Sturgeon
about o'clock this afternoon. At
Renick three men were seriously injur-
ed. Friendship church, north of town,
was demolished. Bridges and fences
are torn UP for miles.
The difficulty of obtaining information
from outlying districts is increased by
Mayor Walbridge's order that all cleo
trio light circuits be turned off. This is
to prevent death to persons coming in
contact with broken wires. Later re-
ports from the city hospital state that
only two persons were killed and six in
jured as the result Of the roof of that
institution being blown off. From
Soulard street southwark as far as Ca
rondelet the wind played havoc with
residences and business houses. The
streets are filled with the wreckage of
demolished houses over fifteen blocks.
The number of bodies found indicate
that the loss of life in that section will
reach at least 30. The body OF a well
dressed man was found at Marion street
and Park avenue. Peter Diedrich was
killed in the collapse of big mill at
Ninth and Marion streets. William
Oteendale, proprietor of a factor at
Marion and Eighth streets and Benja-
min Burgess. an emploYe. were killed