The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-05-28

| elm ped across the GcmOflshCV bridge and
made his way into st. Louis He report /,
that the National hotel, fremont House,
Martell House, DeWolf cafe, the plant of
the Hexcl Milling company, Horn $ cooper
shop, and IA great number Of other build.
ings are blown down. Many dwelling,
are wrecked and many Of their occupant
are known to be dead. The Vandalia
roundhouse, the Vandalia freight house
In which thirty-nve men are said to have
been killed, the Baltimore and Ohio round
house, the Standard Oil works, East St
Louis elevator, Crescent elevator and
twelve other freight houses on the levee
are destroyed.
The Great Republic and several more
excursion steamers, with all on board. are
reported to have gone down, and there is
but one boat now at the levee of all which
were there before the storm came. 1t is
diificult to estimate the number of dead
and wounded, but Il rough estimate would
place the number at about one thousand.
The Western Union and Postal compa-
MES have lost every wire out of the city.
Some of the worst features of the disas-
ter is thought to have taken place at the
race track at St Louis, where races were
In full swing, and the grand stand was
NA'NNCb WIN ptDJlt. IbeUuTlS lFOlll Une
st. Louis races are received at the track at
Lakeside, Ind, and at few minutes after
B O'Clock the operator sending the report
OF the races stopped his work long enough
to remark, "There goes the grand stand"
and then his wire collapsed, and nothing
more was heard from him
In few seconds the same message was
reported from Lexington, Ky, with the
additional information that fully $50 peo-
pie were killed This information was sub
sequently corroborated by the operator Of
the Wabash road at Decatur, who said
that in his second message received from
East st. Louis 1t was declared that the
grand stand at the races was down. and
that fully $50 people were buried in the
ruins
a few minutes after o'clock the opera.
tor of the Associated Press at St Louis,
who was in the act of taking the usual re.
port sent word that it was growing very
dark and asked for minutes delay that
he might provide himself with IA light. In
a second more the wire snapped and it
was impossible to get any further infor.
nation from him or out of the town.
The local weather office in this city was
unable to give any information regarding
the storm, as they were informed early in
the evening by the Western Union that it
would not be able to send the usual
weather bulletins from st. Louis. 1t was
said, however, at the local Office that the
conditions had been all day favorable for
severe storms all through Missouri and
southern Illinois
1t is thought that the storm swept over
st. Louis from the northwest to the south
east, as it is considered probable that the
storm which was reported in the afternoon
at Rush Hill, Mo, would require several
hours to reach St Louis, and the storm at
two points are reported as having been
long enough apart-to enable the storm 70
cover the distance between Rush Hill and
ST. Louis.
The storm which tore through the
country south Of CenuGlia is said to have
occurred ct about o'clock, or an houl
after St. Louis was devastated These three
points are in direct line from the north.
west to the southeast and the weather Of
fcials are inclined to believe that the
storm was one and the same.
The Eads bridge, which is reported as
having been badly damaged by the storm
was built in 1873, and was considered one
of the strongest arch bridges in the world.
1t was built without a drawbridge, and
rose to an elevationint the center and slOped
down TO the shore on either side. There
was upon it a double railroad track, which
was used by the trains of the Wabash and
Alton roads, a double pasSagewdy for
wagons and a double passageway for pedes-
trians. From the reports received it is not
thought that it is so seriously damaged as
TO delay the train service of the roads which
cross it to any large extent.
At midnight 1t was reported at the dis
patchers office of the Wabash road at
Forrest City, MS, that II was impossible
to reach any point further south than
NameOki, which is nine miles northeast
from East st. Louis. The operator mt that
point said that up to midui yht it had been
impossible TO obtain any definite informa- |
ton from st. Louis, but il was certain |
that fearful damage had been done Hell
said that the ruins at EHst St. Louis wore .
on fire and burning fercely but could tell |
nothing more than that. He had not been .
able to obtain any information from any
of the Wabash trains that had passed his /
station since 8 O'Clock i'm the afternoon.
The report of the damage to the bridge
and the estimates Of the number of dead .
and wounded, he said, were not confirmed .
with any accuracy, and the report of the
destruction Of the railway depot in Edst
St Louis also lacked corroboration
1t is reported hero this morning that the
limited train from Chicago to StLouisover
the Alton road was blown into the river
with section of the Eads bridge, and 200
lives lost.
At the Arcade Cafe.
This cafe which was formerly known as .
Breen's Rialto Cafe, has changed its name
and will hencefOrth be known as the Arcade I