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NUMBER 2t9

eastern bank. The loss Of life which
might have taken place at this Toint
was averted by the hour at which the
tornado came. a little later excursion
steamers would have been going out.
The death dealing cloud passed the
river at such an angle as to strike and
wreck the upper works at the east end
of the Eads bridge and to sweep part of
East st. Louis Perhaps the most i'm
pressive evidence of the storm clouds
force is seen in the wrench of the
eastern end of the Bads bridge. There
the tornado dealt with stone and ma
sonry. It tore off and tumbled down
tons upon tons of masonry. Beginning
with the big eastern pier and extending
to foot of incline, the cloud cut off
the upper part of the structure as if it
had been a flimsy trestle instead of a.
structure Of world-famed masonry.
FIRE ADDED MUCH
to the loss account The alarm svsten,
was paralyzed and the approaches
were blockaded.
The fire added at least $500, 900 to:the
losses of the storm.
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ST LOUIS, May 2S.-When the sun
rose on st. Louis and vicinity this
| morning it shone upon a scene of terri
bic ruin and disaster. Wind, rain and
fire had combined in a mission of des-
truction. Two hundred lives are lost
in the city and many more in East St.
Louis, while thousands were injured,
many so severely that they cannot re-
cover. The damage and destruction
10 property will aggregate many mill
lions. The terrible tornado that caus-
ed this destruction struck the city in
the afternoon at 5:15 and East st. Louis
felt the effects of the greatest damage.
HOURS OF SULTRINESS,
puffs of wind coming by turns from all
points of the compass, the flying hither
and thither of light, nlist-like forma-
tons across the dull, dark-colored
masses-those were characteristics of
the afternoon which brought to ST.
Louis the most disastrous storm in the
clty's history. For hours the torrents
shifted, the wind blew hot and cold and
storm center developed. The fury
of the elements was born within the
c1ty's limits. On the west thunder
storm developed. Early mutterings in
Dictated nothing more alarming than
dOWnpour with the ordinary electrical
accomplishments. This rain cloud came
up slowly at first from the west, be-
yond Forest Park. As the black cloud
mounted higher above the horizon it's
arc embraced more territory to the
north and south. a strong wind from
the east began to blow right in the
face of the storm. 1t was the lower
current. Suddenly the wind stopped
blowing fron the east and there swept
from the northwest terrific gale
which made the best built structures
tremble with the hurricane for that was
the first form the storm took, when it
broke over the western part of the
city; then came the deluge. From a few
minutes before o'clock until $50, this
hurricane blew from the northwest:
then there came a lull. The currents
shifted. In the southwest here came
into existence a storm cloud with essen
tial features of
A TORNADO, FUNNEL SHAPE.
This second storm burst upon the city
from the southwest. 1t came in on
South Lafayette park, struck the city
hospital and from there tore it's way
through the city to the river by
northeasterly course. 1t wrought a
havoc that Will leave traces in that
part Of the city which lies east of Sew
enth street and north of Cerre street
to Eads bridge. Boats were torn from
their mornings and capsized or went
adrfft.
Shortly after O'Clock with the sun
more than an hour above the western
horizon there settled upon the city
clouds so dense that the daylight
quickly gave place to the darkness of
midnight. That was a precursor of the
tornado from the southwest. The hur-
1icane from the northwest gave the
western portion of the city a severe
shaking uD. The tornado from the
southwest, which is responsible for the
loss of life and destruction along the
levee district and East st. Louis, fol-
lowed the hurricane by about half an
hour. Health Commissioner Strakloff.
about two hours after the tornado had
passed, sent word that the deaths
would reach 200 and that no fewer than
1000 persons had sustained serious in
juries.
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Choteau streets.
Woman and child found in ruins or
South Jefferson street.
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Below is a revised list of those most
seriously injured
Althouse, Henry; fatally.
Benel, George; fatally.
Bennett, Fred; badly.
Benwill, Mrs. Kate; arms, legs and
shoulders broken.
Berge, Joseph; leg fractured.
Booker, Mrs. Frank: badly bruised.
Boyd, Joseph; leg broken.
Bremen Harry; badly.
Brent, Joseph; leg broken.
Carman, Jacob; ribs and leg broken;
fatally.
Castle, Mrs; fatally.
Chucky, Frank; skull fractured.
Condolen, Joseph; legs crushed.
Flynn, William; leg broken.
frankie, Mrs. William and two chill
dren; internally.
Gallagher, Mrs. Lizzie; back seri-
ously.
Calvin, Mike; fatally.
Gum, Bridget; fatally.
Gunther, John H; legs broken.
Head, Miss
Heikminick, William; fatally.
Herman, j.; badly.
Herman, Miss Clara; badly bruised
and right arm broken.
Hoff, Anna; leg broken.
Infant son of Mrs. z. Hamilton; ia
tally.
Jansen, Edward; arm broken.
Johnson, William (colored); skull
fractured and elbow broken.
Kane, James: badly crushed.
Keller, Alex, of Alabama; fatally.
KlnS JapOh- ha51u bruised
Klos, Mrs Jacob, and child; badly
bruised
Kopadt, Henry; fatally.
Larey, James; internally.
Letheim, James; eyes destroyed.
Lenahen, James; internally.
Lewis, David; head cut and badly
bruised.
Maber. H. H; leg smashed.
Maber, Mrs; legs crushed.
Marbrous, Mrs. B.; fatally.
Marshall Annie; seriously.
McKenna, Gertie; injured internally.
Moran, Pat; leg broken.
Mulrooney, Michael; internally.
O'Brien, John.
O'Connor, John; arm broken and in
ternal injuries.
Ramay, Joe; leg broken.
Richter Paul; badly.
ROLAND, Caroline; badly.
1NOWueI, D. W., luIeIHdiIy.
Schmidt, Mrs; fatally.
Schultz, Albert; legs broken.
Shotman, Emil; badly bruised.
Shotman, Mrs. Emil and three child
rem; badly bruised.
Satek, Lulu; badly bruised.
Starkloff, DIR. Max; arm dislocated.
Stewart, Albert (colore0; skull
will die.
Street. Charles, syrabel, Phillip;
badly injured.
Tracey. Katie; skull fractured.
Tracey, Pat; hand torn off.
Tracey, Thomas.
Unknown (2), fatally.
Unknown ~, badly.
Unknown o. one unconscious.
Vadet, leg fractured.
Vincent, Frank; fatal
Vontuata, Charles; head hurt.
Wagner, Mrs. Mary, Carlinville, IN;
badly.
Waters, Emma; severely cut.
Warren, Joe; head and neck cut; will
lie.
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HORRORS UPON HORRORS
Pitiful Scenes for the Morning Sun
to Look Down Upon.

wing RACED to the graund, but one in
mate was killed The victim was To-
Gated in one of the upper stories and
was killed by flying brick when the
walls fell out. The roof came straight
down upon the foundations and the
rafter, after resting upon sound bed
castings, enabled the patients TO be
rescued without serious injury. The
entire building was rendered useless,
and the lettering wall will be torn
down and new structure built. Many
of the handsome residences in Four
tenth street and about Lafayette park
are ruined, but the most daamge was
done on Sixth, Seventh and Ninth,
south along Chouteau avenue, in
THE TENEMENT HOUSE DISTRICT.
Houses are tobe seen in all stages
of demolition, from loss OF roof to COM
plete destruction. In some of them
the front walls had fallen out and
the tenants performed their household
duties, cared for their injuries, or
mourned their dead in view of the
crowds in the streets. From the doors
of many of the partially wrecked
houses fluttered the black badge of
mourning, and scarcely a house in all
the district that did not have some in
lured relative, friend or neighbor with
in its wind-battered walls.
The path of the storm is about a
half mile wide and over four miles
long, sweeping drought the thickly
populated southwest portion of East
land and across the river into East ST.
Louis.
Colonel Wetmore, manager of the
Liggett & Meyers tobacco plant, which
was wrecked, estimates the entire
property damage at $4,000, 0OO which
will be- he says, almost a total loss
owing to the lack of cyclone insurance.
Other estimates range from SIS, goo 600
to $3O,0OO,0O0 but the majority of them
are close to that made by Colonel Wet
more.
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NIGHT OF HORROR.
Such One Never Before Known in
st. Louis.

Such n One Never Before Known in
st. Louis.
Such night of horror in St. Louis
was never known before. The hurr-
cane came when the business mea OF
the city had begun to send the workers
to their homes. The service on almost
all the street railways was suddenly
suspended. When night came soon
after the premature darkening brought
by the tornado. no electric Iafnps
blazed up. Many thousands of men
and women tCiled homeward through
the drenching rain.
In ST. Louis the destroyer seemed to
! have a course that lay chiefly between
the railroad track and Lafayette ave
nue., though it swept the entire city.
cutting wide swath wherever it did
any damage. The complete suspension
of telephone communication and street
car traffic multiplied the inconvenien-
ces and obstacles that beset the police
department and added to the general
discomfort. There were a few means
of summoning the ambulances for the
removal Of the dead or the injured,
and these were carried to various
places in wagons or in filters The city
dlspensary was oVercrow6ed. The de
molition Of the city hospital prevented
the utilization CT that institution, and
i4u44Ol cue VI peISOL HdSleHeQ Ilerc To
aid the unfortunate patients 1t was
first intended to utilize the armory or
the exposition building for the injured.
but the old House of the Good Shep-
herd was pressed into use
The wharf was the scene of
THE WORST DEVASTATION
this side of the river Before the storm
steamboats,. wharfboats and barges
were moored from Biddle street to
Choteau avenue, and these were swept
from their fastenings almost in a solid
phalanx, and cast adrift Some We're
overturned and sunk. Others were
blown across and crushed against the
other side. The Anchor Line wharf
boat and excursion boat were the only
craft left between the bridge and
Spruce street. Both were showed upon
the bank, indicating that the storm
had a rotary motion, as all the other
craft were blown in other directions
Some were seen floating when the
brunt of the storm had passed. but in
nearly all the upper works were torn
away.
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ST. LOUIS, May 2S.-When darkness
temporarily interrupted the search for
storm victims tonight S15 people We're
known to be dead on both sides of the
river. and although the complete death
list will never be known, it is believed
THAI it will approximate 400 in the two
cities. The number of the injured is
even larger, and many of the maiTo"d
cannot survive. The property loss
will reach wen into the millions, but n
surance people, firemen and police
alike refuse to hazard even a guess at
accurate figures. The uncertainty re-
garding loss of life and property is due
mainly to the wide extent of the havoc
wrought by the storm. The
MILES OF WRECKED BUILDINGS
as vet unexplored are the numerous
collapsed factories, towards the inves-
tigation Of which little progress has
been made, and they may hide almost
any number Of bodies, as the police
have been unable to secure anything
like an accurate list of the missing. In
the factory district many of the en-
Tl(tVeRS VIII were Oli Oltly at AAiC lilllt the
storm broke were without relatives in
the city, and their disappearance will
scarcely be noted, even though they
be buried in the ruins.
It is believed by the police that owing
to the suddenness with which the
crash came many trarnps and homeless
ones sought shelter among the build
irgs which were leveled and that moth
ing would be known of their death
until. perhaps weeks hence, their bodies
ere found.
The list of known dead in ST. Louis
is 1862 and in East st. Louis 146.
The city is in harness tonight, repairs
of the electric wires having scarcely
been begun, and but few of the trolley
> --~ --r-.i-1g All over the stricl-
en- district the debris-choked streets
are crowded sightseers, and through
s-a i4A-Iea alsies OF the city
1aorgue at Twelfth street
CONSTANT STREAM OF PEOPLE
is urged forward by lines of police.
HUNDREDS OF HOMES
are in ruins, dozens of manufacturing
plants and dozens of business houses
are wrecked; many steamboats, are
gone to the bottom Of the river. and
others are dismantled; railroads of all
kinds have suffered great loss and wire
and pole using companies have weeks
of toll and large expenditures of money
TO face before they will be in satisfacto-
~ shape again.
The most furious work of the storm
was along Rutager street, La Fayette
and Shouteau avenues, and the con-
tiguous thoroughfares east of Jefferson
avenue.
The houses are in the streets with the
roofs underneath, buried by brick and
mortar. Under the brick and mortar
are household goods OF every descrip
ton, and on top of all are uprooted
trees and tangled masses of wires.
There is not a tree nor a building
standing in Lafayette park The wreck
Of the city hospital is so surrounded by
wreckage that it is barely possible to
reach it. BY far the
MOST REMARKABLY FREAK
of the storm was at this many winged
house. About 200 patients were scat
tered Trough the wards when the tor
nado strrck, but although the entire i
upper story was cut off clean, and one
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The crew and passengers of the ferry
boat Christian had

The crew and passengers of the ferry
boat Christian had
A REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE.
When the storm broke the boat was
torn from its moorings at the foot Of
Spruce street and blown down stream
with fearful velocity. The passengers
were crazed with fear and sixteen two
horse teams stampeded on the lower
deck. The water rushed over the boat,
filling the hull, but by miracle it
foated and was driven before the
storm down stream. The river was
like q raving sea and the crew was
unable to launch any boats. The pas
sengers crouched in the cabin, ex-
pecting every moment to go down. The
boat drifted as far as Jefferson bar
racks, where she sank in shallow wa
ter. The teams on the lower decks
were drowned, but the fifteen passen-
gers were rescued in boats.
The steamer City of Cairo, Anchor
line, blown from the wharf at the foot
of Pine street, was carried to the Illi-
nois side of the river and totally
wrecked. Loss. 100000. Captain
William McCatchy and DR.. Riddell,
the only persons on board, were taken
off at noon.
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The storm was most peculiar, and
scarcely two people in all the city
agree as to just how the damage was
done The wind seemed to take the
form of tornado rather than that of
a cyclone and wrecked buildings show
none of the twisted irons and Orders
which usually mark the track of a
rotary wind storm. The general trend
was from southwest to northeast the
center of the business district of the
city lying about a mile north of the
storms path.
THE FIRST HEAVY DAMAGE
was in the vicinity of Tower grove and
La Fayette park, where hundreds of
handsome residences were wrecked
and many people injured.
One of the remarkable features was
the destruction of wing of the city
hospital, carrying 200 patients and
nurses down in the wreck and killing
but one person. The steamers Pitts
burg, of the Diamond Joe line; the
City Of Vicksburg and City of Provi-
dence, of the Columbian Excursion
company; the City of Monroe, of the
Anchor line, and all sorts of small
craft were pitched and tossed about
until a final blast sent them from
their mooring They were swept across
the river and struck the Illinois bank
few miles from each other. The
LOSS OF LIFE
on these boats is thought to be slight,
as everybody was cautioned not to
jump and they would be brought safe
~ to land.
The City of Vicksburg is almost a to-
tai wreck. The City of Providence 8as
blown Up on the Illinois bank Her
rudder is gone and cabin and smoke
stacks were blown away before she
parted from her wharf. The ST Louis
and ST. Paul Packet company's steam
er, St. Paul, had started for Keokuk
when the tornado struck the city. She
has not been heard from since. She
had a full cabin.
The Belle of Cation, the Mabel and
the Libbe Congel, which were moored
near Chouteau avenue, were almost
totally blown up. The cabins and
smokestacks were blown away. The
Ellen G. Smith, the harbor boat, was
blown down the river and was
wrecked near Arsenal island. 1t is
thought no lives were lost on this
boat The steamer Harvester of the
Mississippi Valley Transportation COM
pdny was also
TORN FROM ITS DOCK
and carried down the river. A river
man said that $1.5O0,O00 would not re-
pair and replace the boats alone that
figured in yesterdays disastrous
Storm.
AS an instance, it may be stated that
two large barges belonging to the
Mississippi Valley Transportation COM
pany and holding 100000 bushels of
wheat, the property of the White Com
mission company, were blown away.
When the variety of goods that is
transported by river craft is consid-
cred it will be seen how easily the
amount lost foots up. All of the
barges of the transportation company
except one were lost, and Captain
Haarstick has telegraphed Cairo to
see if he can secure others to continue
the business of the company while
new ones are building.
The Louis Logg broke from its hau-
sers during he tornado. Four of the
crew plunged overheard and were seen
to drown. The others were rescued.
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APPEAL FOR AID.
East st. Louis People Badly Need
Assistance.

East st. Louis People Badly Need
Assistance.
ST. LOUIS, May 2S.-An appeal is
sued at midnight by the East st. Louis
relief committee, plainly shows the sit
uation in their stricken city. They
say:
..At least 200 lives may have been
lost, and the number of MANNED and
wounded we are unable as yet to es
innate, but it will probably run into
the thousands.
"The amount of damage to property
is very great, and it is impossible at
this time to ascertain, but it Is safe
to say that at least 5000 families are
rendered homeless. A great number
of these must depend upon charity for
shelter.
''While the loss, appears to fall upon
the poorer class of people, almost every
citizen has directly or indirectly suf-
fered. While we regret exceedingly to
call upon the country at large i'll this
extremity, we feel utterly unable to
supply
THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITIES
of these afflicted people, although our
own citizens are putting forth every
effort ana Contributing HDeIdlly, anu
indeed more literally than their means
allow.
I'VE therefore appeal to the gener-
osity of our sister cities and other
communities for help in this, our hour
of trouble.
1--WE will be pleased to receive sub
scriptions and assistance in any form
which may be deemed advisable.
1--WE, the executive committee, have
appointed Mr.. Paul W. Abt, president
of the First National bank of this city,
treasurer to whom all contributions
can be sent"
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INDEX OF T01AY's IMPORTANT NEWS

PAGES.
1 st. Louis' Horror.
Congress Aids ST. Louis.
PrOhibs. Reject Silver.
Business, Mining and Stocks.
Teller at Chicago.
In Railway Circles.
Programme For Memorial Day.
Silver King Mines Appeal.
General Markets Quiet.
National Guard Matters.
Sale of State Bonds.
Democratic Convention at Provo
0gden's Fourth of July.
New BuncO Came.
scandinavian Church Tragedy.
Midsummer Carnival.
Luke Held For Perjury.
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CHURCHES WRECKED.
jacob MEMORIAL GOES DOWN AT
THE FIRST sTRoKE.
Mt. Calvary Completely Demolished,
and Many Others Are Minus Roofs,
walls or Spires.

Many churches in all parts of the
city suffered from the storm.
st. Francis de Sales church was
completely wrecked.
The jacob Memorial church at Ar
mond and Jefferson, while new and
apparently well built, went down at
the first stroke.
Mount Calvary. at Johnson and La
Fayette. was completely wrecked.
The La Fayette Park NJ E. church,
south, corner Missouri and La Fay