The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-05-29

Bridge not house Is left standing.
In the latter portion the loss OF life is
terrible. Scarcely family seems to have
without some member being
killed, while in many instan oes whole
households were wiped out of existe nee.
Along the river bank was located several
railroad freight houses and offices. In
the Vandalia Office about fifteen clerks
were at work when the storm broke. The
building was RACED to the ground, bury
ing every inmate In the ruins. Burt
Farrell, a young clerk, was found lying
in the ruins beneath q huge pile Of
debris, with both legs nearly severed by
huge beam that had fallen across them.
He was perfectly conscious, and his
piteous appeals for aid were heartreud
ing. AS the workers got closer to him
they found the dead body of joe Mitchell.
One of the most heartren1ing scenes wit
messed WAS at the ruins of the house at
Broadway. Nine persons lived in the
house, all of whom were buried in the
ruins when it went down. Horace
Trump, wife aud two children were
among the victims. Trump was taken
out apparently unhurt. His two children
were killed and his wife pinionad beneath
the heavy timbers, chilled the mob OF
hearers by her frantic screams of agony
and her piteous appea Is for aid.
School Children the Victims.
Mexico. Mo-, May 2s.-A tornado
swept across Audrian county yesterday.
The reports state that seven people were
killed in the county and probably 25 bad
~ injured.
In the Bean Greek district q school
house was carried away, and daughter
of JOsreh 6. Ware, one of the pupils, was
killed, and Lulu U Banks and Hilda
Blase, also school children, were fatally
injured. Others were more or less in
jnrsd. At the Bye school house, six or
eight miles further southeast, not pupil
escaped uninjured and five children were
killed, three outright, two dying later at
this place. The school house was utterly
demolished ard several of the children
were blown great distance away and
were not found until several hours after
wards and then in q mutllated condition.
LATER REPORTS.
Horrors of the Disaster Do Not Diminish
as n ore is Learned.
St. Louis, May 2S.-There are one hun
dred identified dead at the morgue, and
other bodies at the nlorgue unidentified.
1t is reported that twenty nine employees
of Liggett and Meyers's tobacco factory
are in tho ruins. Twenty-Five EN- ployes
OF the ST. Louis Wooden Gutter company
are missing and are thought to have been
killed when tho building fell.
The dend identified in East ST. Louis
number 11a. The unidentified dead in
East ST. Louis are 80 men and IS
women. Most of the men worked about
the different freight dspots.
Twenty men employed i'll the Vandalia
freight Depot are missing and are be-
Iievsd to have been killed when the
building fell. 1t is believed that the
total number CT dead will exceed two
hundred.
Many injured on beth sides of the river
are beyond the nope Of recovery. The
list of injured reported numbers 1900. A
great many were located at home and no
report was made of them. Two school
houses in East st. Louis serve RS tempo.
rary hospitals, while on this side the
armory does the same service.
Every private hospital is crowded.
Tue district bounded by Choate avenue,
west by Grand avenue, south by the city
limits, and east by the river is virtually
IL mass Of ruins. Not an electric light has
| burned nor car run in that section COM
prising go city blocks since $50 p. m.
| yesterday.
Within this territory scarcely build
ing escaped injury, and thousands of
them are in ruins.
| Beginning at the western boundary
Of tho scene is the handsome residence
section known as Compton hill, the home
of the fourth generation of the French
settlers of st. Louis. The aristocratic
home place is in mass of ruins. Just
east lies Lafayette park. There the trees
that have been the pride of rhe city,
were caught in the wind and the place
shayen bare as with a giants scythe.
| Farther east and south to the city lin
it's were the homes of thrifty German
Americans who had given p distinct char
acter to the district. Tonight thou
sands Of them are homeless, many of
them living like Nomads amid the ruins
or sharing the roofs of their hospitable
neighbors.
! Intorspersed in this latter section and
east to the river, are mills, broweries and
manufacturing concerns. These were
fair targets for the storm and they
suffered 1t was this class of losses that
added most to the wiping ou5 of what
is oonssrvatiyely stated TO be four mil
lion dollars invested capital.
| Theie are 16 breweries within these
bounds worth four millions. While
none are destroyed oil arc damaged.
The Losses fall heaviest on those least
able to bear them After the storm had
laid its heavy hand upon the southern
half of tho city, fire came to completo
the work of destrut ton. Five columns
of flames shot mp, but thanks to the
deluge of rain .he blaze WAS mainly
confined to the starting point In three
Instances engines were unable to get
nearer thar block Of tho fires The
storm was most destructive when it
crossed seventh street from tho east.
At least four people were killed. House
after house was totally demolished, and
tho wonder grows with the extended
| investigation, that the number of deaths
Is not far in excess of what it now ap-
pears to be. Nally's saloon on South
Seventh street. was @ total wreck Whom
it fell 1T was full of men who had taken
refuge there and from 10 TO 20 were
killed. Many of them were of class
who have few friends and would not be
missed. One man has been taken out
dead and ten others seriously Injured.
1t is thought others are in the brick
clicked basement and gang of men are
digging into the debris.
The force Of the winu was SO rightful
along here that the iron trolley support
Ing the poles of the electric line are bent
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