The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-29
The ToRNADO'S Awful SWEEP
Further Details of the Terrible
Storm at ST. Loui
The Dead in That City and Eas Sc. Louis
Will Number Over 400, al tho In
jured VIII Reach Into the thousands.
Loss OF Property Estimate at From
Ten to Thirty Millions of DlIars.

OF. LOUIS, may 2S.-The Anvil sweep
Of last nights tornado is markd to day
By devastated district in tb south
western portion Of the city q alt mile
wide and four miles long withwrecked
buildings. tottering walls. debr ,choked
streets and rescuing parties tell the
story Of havoc and death.
St. Louis is dazed by the Stent of
the calamity and it will be d., before
the total loss of life and the sIount Of
property destroyed will be knoln.
Estimated Fatalities.
The estimates of the numba killed
vary from 200 to 500. with the aef gen.
orally thai the latter fgura Is the
nearer correct.
Coroner Waite says the deaalist in
St. Louis proper would easily rech 400
or more. In East st. Louis it 1uld be
perhaps as large.
At police headquarters the .ead In
St. Louis were stimated at 2OdInd at
East st Louis ~ 900. Extra aitions
of the local papers place the toal loss
Of life at 500 or more.
The storm left its path littera with
dead and dying Patrol wagons ambu-
lances and undertakers' cars wen busy
all day carrying the identified dad to
their homes and homes of relates and
friends, or leaving the unidentiad with
the city morgue authorities.
The property loss Is terrifL esn-
mates ranging from $40, OOO 600 h $780,
OOO. 600.
The storm which wrought the havoc
was most peculiar one and Earcely
TWO people in oil the city sgre as to
just how the damage WAS don't The
wind seemed TO take the form D. tor
nado rather than that Of q cyclme, the
wrecked buildings showing nom OF the
twisted irons and girders which Usually
mark the trail of a rotary wind storm
The general trend was from soith ives t
to northwest, through the centH of the
business district OF the city to about a
mile north OF the city.
The Storms First Damage
The frat heavy damage was in the
vicinity OF Lower Grove and Lafayette
Parks, where handsome residences were
wrecked and many persons injued The
tornado swept from the noriheat as far
as the river when with a suddei turn to
the north IL cleared the Mississippi and
tore its way into the heart oflEast St.
Louis
IL will be several days before definite
Information can be obtained IS to the
loss OF lie and injury In addition TO
the killed and injured in St. Louis and
East st. Louis the cyclone moved down
many people in other places. Dispatches
received by the Associated Press give
accounts Of serious loss of life and
maimings in quite q mum Der of places.
Appended is a table showing the lat
est careful estimates of killed and in
Jured, based on the dispatches:
At st. Louis and Other Places
st. Louis, 200 killed, 300 Injured.
East st. Louis, $50 killed, 900 In
jured.
Near Centrslis, ILL.,, AZ killed, IS in
jured.
breckenridge, Ill killed.
Near Mt. Vernon. ILL.,, killed, 20 in
jured.
Near Vandalia, ILL.,. 10 killed, IS in =
Jured.
Near Mexico, Mo-. Is killed. "a in
jured.
The number of killed may not be far
from 500, and the injured 500.
Some of the Buildings DESTROYED.
Among the buildings DESTROYED or
damaged in ST. Louis are the following:
Singer Sewing Manufacturing Conn