The herald., 1896-05-29
WRECKED BUILDINGS
Paint Intimation Of the Enormous DamsR,
to Property

to Property
ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May 2S.-Among the
buildings destroyed ordamaged are the
following: Singer Sewing Machine
building. almost totally wrecked, four
people injured; the Eden Publishing
House building, unroofed and stock
damaged; the Haydock Carriage COM
pany's building, unroofed and stock
badly damaged; st. Johns church, on
Hickory street, lost steeple; Lieder-
kranz hall. Choteau avenue and Thir-
teenth street, unroofed and entire
building flooded with water; Brown To-
bacco company, lost top story; south
wall of nail department of St. Louis
wire company wrecked, fire breaking
out and destroying it,
The wind swept up the river frontand
completely demolished the Merchants
elevator Engine No. 23 of the St Louis
Transfer company was blown from the
track at Gratiot street. The Filley foun-
dry building was unroofed, and the
freight house of the Burlington road
suffered the same fate. At Eighth and
Mullen streets the front of the building
occupied by the Allen Buggy company
was blown down, while that Of the Mat
thews & Sons Bag company, a block
east, was served in like manner. The
building formerly occupied by Reilly &.
Walls sales stables, on North Broad
way was considerably damaged. Not
glass remains in the building occupied
by the kupferle Brass company, Sec
ond and Mound streets. The Louis
Brook factory at Broadway and Howard
streets was completely wrecked
Along Twenty-first street. between
Olive and Papin streets, not a single
building. telegraph pole. tree nor sign
escaped. The streets and sidewalks are
almost a solid mass of bricks, broken
telegraph poles. tin roofing, water
spouts, broken glass and broken signs.
while wires have fallen in inextricable
confusion.
At 80 South Twenty-first street
where J. T. Swift & Co.'S. fresh meat
establishment is located, not a single
window remains intact, the whole place
being flooded H-~~o
Buildings occupied by Epstein &
Bunstein, wholesale liquor dealers, at
No. 208 South Broadway, was blown
down, Julius Gall, bookkeeper for ED
stein. was injured No. 61S Choteau
avenue, occupied by the Sawyer Manu-
facturing company, was blown down.
Those under the ruins are Emma c.
Henry and Isabella Howard, Charles
Lands is buried in the ruins of the ST.
Louis Cracker company at Eighteenth
and Choteau avenue. A store at 1902
Clark avenue is wrecked
Grone's brewery at Twenty-second
and Clark avenue is almost totally
wrecked. The Scandinavian church on
the southeast corner of Twenty-third
and Clark was picked up and turned
completely over. At the Gates wire
mill, Twenty first and Gratiot, the scene
is indescribable. An immense portion
of the roof of the building lies up high
on the south end of the bridge, while
around is a mass of wires, piles Of roof
ing and tons of other debris.
Mr. Lippits, who was employed at the
Gates mill. said that four persons were
badly hurt, two fatally. He could not
explain how it happened that out of
three hundred or more boys and men
who were in the building only four
were hurt.
The old three-story building on the
southeast corner of Main and Pine
streets. occupied by the st. Louis Com
mission company, Is total wreck
Pine street was filled with wreckage
and goods to the height of ten feet
The storm visited the store of Penny
& Gentles at the corner of Broadway
and Franklin avenue. The massive
plate glass windows on all sides were
completely demolished ,and the windows
of every floor blown in, while the water
deluged the store in torrents. The firm
estimates it's loss at $4,000.
The immunity from loss of life and in
jury to employees In the Iron Mountasr
railroad yards is a little sort of marvel
Gus. The contents of the lumber yards
in the neighborhood were strewn like
hail. In some cases switch targets were
broken off by the flying timbers
Planks We're driven into the earth and
broken off. Freight cars were demol-
ished and merchandise scattered in all
directions.
The wind lifted the roof off Charles
Peck's new building to the north Of the