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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-28
FATALITIES AT ST. LOUIS.
List of the Dead In the Center of the
Storm.

LAst VI thS hSao HI ahC SV"aSA VI sAS
Storm.
ST. LOUIS, May 2S.-Among the dead
are: Sophie Demartina. killed by falling
building at 18th and Spruce; Robert Will
son, killed by falling of Liggett & Meyers
tobacco factory: Katie Claypool. Wallace
Bradshaw (colored), Charles Nee. Julius
Gault, William Winkler, killed by a street
car rolling on him; Max Weiss. driver
Beerle & Evans Livery Company; Jose
phine Martin. Wallace Bradshaw. killed at
Ewing and Scott avenues; - Jones, en-
gineer, Aetna Iron Works; Frank Fisher,
Booker Epstein. Fred. Zimmers, chief ensi-
near. Union depot power house: unknown
child about five years old, California ave-
nue.; J. l.. Elemke. manager St Louis Bar
berS' Supply Company; unknown man at
A. B. Jones broom factory; Josephine Mar
tint, fifteen unknown men, one unknown
woman, one unknown girl, John Rafferty,,
Harry Hess. two unknown boys. two I'm
known men at 142S Menard avenue. I'M
known woman and child. between Lafay-
cite and Emmett street. in alley; child was
clasped in woman's arms; Fred. Rennell,
1880 South 18th street; unknown boy, ap-
parently seventeen years old, 1880 South
18th street; at Broadway and Boulevard
streets four-story brick collapsed, bury
ing several families; twenty-five employees
st. Louis wooden cutter factory; Malachi
Mcdonald, aged thirty, single, 2745 Clarke
picked up at I'D and Market streets: John
Pandy, child at 1914 Papin street: two at
21th and ST. Vincent, woman at 18th and
Soulard streets, unknown man at Dolman
street and Park avenue, janitor in ruins
of st. Paurs Church, two children at 1T23
South 9th street, William Ottewad, John
Burgess, Wallace T. c. Butler.
Unknown man found at midnight at foot
of Couteau avenue; butcher living at 1854
Hickory street, at Kennerk's sausage fac
tory: Robert Miller, Blair and Benton ave-
nues: unknown. picked up at Sd and Rut-
ger; Mr.. Martell and three servant girls at
Martell House; Mr.. and Mrs. Davis S.
Sage: George Woods, clerk in yandalia
office: Henry Sprickler. vandalia; J. f..
Helm. Vandalia: DR.. c. E. Hull, dentist:
two children Of Mrs. Horace Trump of
Litchfield, ILL.,: Mrs. Ryckey, Joe Frank,
Joe Mitchell. Phil. Stricken, Miles Mitchell.
Charles Carroll, barber: John Kent, Mrs
Scott Hayward. Frank Ross. o. KAY
anaugh, Jacob Kurtz, Vlncennes, Ind ::
Mrs Bruce. Mrs. Emma Sullivan, Robert
Bland. John Reames, Charles Waite. 1919
Collins avenue; William Surber, Henry
WATERMAN. - Anderson, Peter walms-
ley. Miss Conley. Mrs. Slide. a fagman of
Air line, name unknown: John Hayes Mrs.
VIM. Hayes, Mrs. Pat Bean, unknown boy.
]. A. Porter. Broughton, ILL.,. unknown
travelling man, supposed to be connected
with the Cincinnati Cigar Company.
In addition to this, the bodies of four
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VIEWS OF THE WEATHER OFFICER.
What In Said by III. w. FrnnkenneId
ut st. Louis.

ST LOUIS Mo, May 2S-H w. Frank
ehieid' local weather officer, was a busy
man during and after the storm. In an in
terview with the reporter of the Associated
Press he said:
FOR the past week the weather in the
vicinity of St. Louis has been characterized
by low pressure. high temperature ex-
ceSSive humidity and prevailing southerly
winds. The pressure has also been low
throush bout the west. At the same time II
is relatively high in the south, causing the
warm southerly winds. laden with moisture,
to blow from the Gulf OF Mexico This
moisture has been held IN suspense Ly the
warm atmosphere, and the humidity con
seinei'iIE increased from day to day. The
mean temperature Ncraged from :, TO Il
degrees ahovr the normal each dav while
the humidity ranged from to ~ per cent
each me an. for this season Of the year On
W cd e Sday morning the weather man
showed the Low pressure stll everything the
vest. with the center of depression extend
ing IN irregular oval from the Texas pan
handle, west Kansas ard Nebr3 ska.
throughout the state Of Missouri high
temperatures and humidties prevailed with
south winds. The day would be popularity
termed warm, haZy, muggy.' Although re-
ports are missing, owing to the Widespread
destruction, It IS cyident the storm area
moved slowly east during the day. The
barometer commenced to fan at noon and
by noon it had fallen .l3 of an inch. About
dark, thickly cumuiated stratas which, by
/ o'clock. formed mass of stratus cloud
"hlch commenced to assume light green
color in the northeast. This green slowly
advanced from the northeast, spread more
TO the west and north at the same tenn
perature and commenced to fall. The
normal cyclonic circulation thus brought
WINDS OF different temperatures and HUI
midit;es IN the one upper position, with the
re suits that decided install ility IVES pro-
duced In the atmosphere and a violent
secondary storm center was created The
barometer continued to fail rapidly, and by
. pm. 1t had fallen % inch since noon
Inc wind was becoming variable, with a
tendency toward a northery direction I'M
III lightning and thunder had commenced
at 30.
AT 800 p. m. the storm broke forth in all
its fury; the wind changed suddenly to
northwest with rapidly increasing velocity,
and the rain fell in torrents. The green
cloud still remained in the west and north
but the storm moved toward the southeast
With large, angry, detached masses of
cumulous clouds crossing each other At
o:l1 PM the wind changed from the north.
having the greatest velocity in the history
or st. Louis. About ) pm. the wind had
reached about 63 miles, and later on it
changed in its direction to the southeast.
From o:04 pm to GOA pm 1.33 inches of
rain fell. When the rain ended at 905 D m.
Lob inches had fallen in all. The electrical
storm was of unusual volume The sky
was almost one continuous blaze of light
and the clouds extended far into the
south"
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FIRST REPORTS EXAGGERATED
Yet the List of Dend and Injured e.
APPALLING

ST. LOUIS. May 2S.-By midnight re-
porters of the Associated Press had visit
ed all of the stricken portions of the CITY
and suburbs. The list Of the dead dis
covered fell far below the first estimates.
but it was long enough to be appalling,
Crushed beneath falling walls, hurled
against the sides of buildings, struck by
flying timbers. cut by the shattered glass,
shocked by the network of down wires hu-
manity suffered in ways innumerable
The names Of all the injured will never
be known. Enough were recorded at the
dispensaries last night to show how wide
spread were the tornado's effect.
OF the destruction OF property there can
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WORK OF THE FLAMES.
Water Works Destroyed and Firemen
Worked With Buckets.

ST. LOUIS. May 2S.-After the wind and
rain had done their work, fire added to the
destruction. Hetzel's mill was the first to
become igl tied and it was totally Destroy
ed. at loss of s1Jo,ooO Harris barrel
factory, nearly fifty loaded cars in the ter
minal yards. Lynchs boarding house,
Boards feed store, Lees blacksmith shop
and other places were burned.
The destruction of the water works early
in the storm cut off the water supply, and
Chief Purdy and MS men fought the fire
with a bucket brigade as best they could.
The hole central portion of the city was
threatened by the burning mill bat all
hands worked with such a will that its fur
Their spread was prevented. The fire caused
great CONSERVATION. Hundreds of neople
hurried to the scene. believing that II meant
the complete destruction of the tiesoIa-e5
district.
Passengers ON Bridge Trains
The passengers and tfRinmen of the two
trains on the bridge were taken to private
places in East st. Louis. There was not a
singh fatality or injury reported in these
two trains. which were passing along at
rapid rate when the wind struck them.
The whole top abutment Of the first pier
as we'll as the Zig rocks and iron Orders
of the approach. We're picked up and
thrown upon the roadbed just behind the
train. In front two baggage cars We're
picked up and placed across the tracks
The upper roadway was torn down and
thrown upon the train, along with four
wagons loaded with merchandise. A sud-
den slip was made, and although the cars
careened. the passengers escaped through
the WreCkS ge and We're taken care of. All
the way down the approach every pole
signal Wire and aIrCn were tern away, and
in nj my places piled on the tracks.
There We're pale faces and sinking hearts
in more st. Louis homes than ever known
before in its history. In st. Louis the de-
Stroyer seems to have chosen course that
lay chiefly between the railroad tracks and
Lafayette avenue. although it swept the
entire city, cutting wide swath wherever
1t did any damage.
Caring for the Injured.
The complete suspension of the tele-
phone communication and street car traffic
multiplied the inconvenience and obstacles
that beset the police department, ard add
ed to the general discomfort. There were
few means of summoning ambulances for
the removal Of dead or injured persons, and
many of them were carried to different
places in wagons or on filters.
The city dispensary was overcrowded. A
number of physicians rendered their SER
vices to the city, and score of volunteer
doctors worked for hours. The demolition
of the city hospital prevented the use of
that institution, and hundreds of persons
FASTENED there to aid the unfortunate pa
tients caught in the ruins. 1t was first in
tended to utilize the armory or exposition
building for the injured, but the old House
of the Good Shepherd, on 18th and Chest
nut streets, was pressed into use, and every
available cot and blanket was hurried
there.
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PASSENGER TRAINS RUNNING.
First Reports of Disaster Are Con.
tradfcted.

ST. LOUIS, May 2S-The officials of the
Alton road report not passenger hurt
nor even a passenger car damaged by the
cyclone. All passenger trains are now 60
ing forward on time.
CHICAGO, May 2S.-The report of cy-
clone with serious loss of life at Kewauee
ILL.,, is untrue
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 2S-A special
to the journal from Moberly, Mo-, states
that today's storm did no serious Carnage
at that point.
A special to the Journal from Mexico
Mo-, says: Audrian county was visited by n
terrific tornado this afternoon at 800. The
total number killed at Bean Creek and
Rush Hill is about eight. More than TWEEN
ty-five were injured. At the Dye School
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and Clark avenue after the storm, and
was sent to the City Hospital.
Two men-Tom Carroll and Joseph Ire
land-sought shelter in doorway at Bridge
and Beach on Poplar street, and were in
tured by flying wreckage. CarrOll's leg was
broken and Ireland was struck On the head,
receiving a serious wound.
NJ F. Crawley, with three others, was
standing in the doorway Of ST. Paur5
Church. 9th and Lafayette avenue. when
the building collapsed. They were bruised
by falling brick, but escaped without seri-
GUS Injury.
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house. six or eight miles further southeast
not pupil escaped uninjured, and five
chiliren were killed
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unknown men and two unknown women
are awaiting Identification at Hammers
livery stable and undertaking rooms and
kurWus morgue. The body OF
known woman was found lying under the
Hoisey residence, Broadway and Rock
road.
The following have been added to the
death list in st. Louis Waterman on board
OF the Dolphin. name unknown, drowned
Benjamin Desilva, unknown man at Lob
runs University. Alex. Chruchinger. driv-
er Tor Western Star Dairy Company; Jas.
Dunn. Francisco Rodriguez, Fred Wells,
three years old. Theresa Wells, eight
months old: Mrs. Garter and child In
known man. driver: Peter Deidrich, en-
ployed at bagging mill; Max Weiss. Ma
lochy Mcdonald superintendent Waters
Pierce OIL Company; Jones. engineer
Aetna Iron Works: frankie Fisher: Emma
Cheney, Isabella Horn, Sawyer Manufac-
turing Company; Charles Tandy, Sawyer
manufacturing Company; - thinner
man. killed at union depot, and Katie Clay
pool.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-02-22

This is 4 more nudacious demand II
possible than that of the wool men.
The lumber interest is one of the rich
est interests in the country. Tariff or
no tariff, their profits are enormous
into private pockets. One-tenth or less
would so into the public treasury.
There are more milliOnaires among the
lumbe1men of the country IN proper
ton to the entire number than there
are among any other class of manu-
factureTs.
But it is not material which protect
ed interest, which monopoly fattened
on the taxes paid by the people is NEST
aggressive and rapacious in this emcr-
gency when the country is in the midst
of a struggle with it's foes Of all kinds
with England claiming and ready to IN
force by its armies and fleets vast ter
ritorial rights on this continent, with
the gold sharks attacking the specie
reserve and the public credit at all
points, with every form Of domesti9
and foreign enmity.
This is the emergency which the
piratical protected interests have
chosen as a time to enforce on congress
their demands for new subsidies, new
bounties, new eXtortions under the
false color of yer taxation.-Chi-
capo Chronicle,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-02-22
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD.

"A shoe factory in Ohio is engaged in
equipping its works throughout with
electricity for the operation of it's ma
chinery.
An electric lamp FOR the bicycle has
been invented. The electricity is gen
Grated by a series of brushes on the
wheel hub which Tubs against a plati-
mum plate when the wheel re evolves.
Pure glucinum has been obtained
from the emerald by NJ. Lebeau, by
heating the cmerald in the electric fur
nace until the silicon is ~vOlathIzed,
when the residue is confined with
hydrotiuoric acid, and, after ii series of
publications, gives glucinum.
ALI the electric car lines of Genoa
have been stopped by Il decree of the
syndiC on account of the frequency of
accidents. The hills of Genoa are very
steep, and the people of the town were
so much alarmed at the possible conse-
quence of a runaway that they threat
med moi violence.
"A mouse nibbled through the in
sulated covering of an electric light
supply wire in a tomato factory in
Salem, n. j., and a fire resulted which
stewed 5000 gallons Of skinned toma-
toes. These were given away to the
poor people of the town.
There are 1916 miles of street rail-
way lines now in operation in the
United States, an increase of 5,j14 miles
over 1891. OF the total mileage 1925
miles are operated by electricity, 578
miles by cable, 400 miles by steam dunn
my engines. and there is still 1850 miles
operated by horse or mule power. The
odd mile unacCounted for in these fig
ures is distributed in fractions among
the four groups.
Lightning is accumulated electric
ity discharged from the clouds. This
is caused by evaporation from the
earth's surface, chemical changes which
take place on the earth's surface, and
currents Of air of UNEQUAL Temperatures,
which excite electricity by friction as
they pass by each other. When a cloud
which is overcharged with the electric
fluid approaches another cloud which
is undercharged the fluid rushes from
the former into the latter till both con-
tain the same quantity.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-02-22

he had exhausted his pipe he knocked
the ashes out and rose up and entered
the cabin. There was whisky in the
cupboard and he helped himself to a
drink. When he ~reappeared at the door
he stood for Il moment looking about,
and the half-asleep dogs reused up and
came gamboling about his feet.
"Gwine now?" queried the wife.
"Ies, gwine now"
He kicked the dogs asid" and went of
up the trail. The woman sat with her
eyes on her work, and he cast no back
ward glance. The dogs followed for q
few rods and then gave it up and re.
turned to their dusty beds. Two miles
up the trail vas Taylor's cabin. 1t was
the same sort of n hovci-same poor
acres grown up to weeds-same poverty
of pocket and intellect. A woman sat
smoking on the doorstep, but she was
alone. Her husband had gone down
the trail with his rife on his shoulder.
"Gwine to kill Jim Green?' she
asked, rs he was ready to go.
Reckon So" he replied, as he moved
away.
Two eabins-two wives on the door
steps-two men with rifles on the trail
between. At that height above the sea
sound travels a long distance. Both
women heard the crack of a rifle by and
by, but both smoked on. After an hour
or two Taylor returned home. When
he had lighted his pipe and taken a seat
beside her the wife asked:
Leave him down thar'?"
Eyes, left him down thar" was the
reply.
Two or three hours later a mar
stopped before the other cabin and said
to the woman smoking her pipe on tina
doorstep:
"Jim's bin popped"
"Up thar" she asked, pointing uu
the trail.
Yes, up thar"
Lynn dead?"
Yes, lynn dead. Good ~eavenin'."
"Eavenin' to yo'."-N. y. Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-02-22
FOR CAMPAIGN PURPOSE ONLY.
Objects of h Financial Legislation Nov
Pending Before Congress.

Pending Before Congress.
People of this country who are for
ward enough to read a newspaper once
a day or even once a week are not go
ing to be fooled by the fol-de-rol now go
ing on at Washington. The perform
ance upon which congress is now enter
ing is insincere and ineffective. It is a
pretense and a sham. The committee
on ways and means seems to have sat
on Christmas day for the purpose of
producing an effect upon the public
mind. 1t was the worst case of jingoism
in economies that has been seen in a
long time. Men of gravity and experi-
ence are engaging in a political circus
act. They are merely preparing for
campaign document, which is to u
something after this fashion: 1--WE
tried to relieve the distress of the treas.
ury and the revenue difficulties, but the
administration stood in our way. We
presented the remedy, but il was not
accepted"
The gentlemen who are engineer
ing the present scheme in the house
have hc expectation that it will ever
become a law. If they thOughtit would
they would probably not be for it.
They are merely meeting what is de-
clared to be a serious condition with g.
cheap article of pettifoggery. They
have no well matured plan of relief, and
If they had they would not put it in OPP
Grafton for the benefit of a democratic
administration.
Everybody knows what the course of
the administration on finance has been.
We shall not go ove an old discussion.
In carrying out a policy which the re-
publican party created Mr.. Cleveland
has been issuing bonds under the old
resumption law to get gold to maintain
n gold reserve of 500, 100000 in the
treasury. lie has been Kidding to the
public Indebtedness to maintain a
credit" hat has not been threatened.
He has been criticised in both parties
for his course. He lately advised con-
gress that there was another crisis, and
urged legislation hat would help him
to keep the gold stock up. Congress
had previously been advised that there
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-02-22
THE MAJORS ACCIDENT POLICY.


Interfered with Usual EnjoymenUs but He
Hoped to Make Up for 1t.
I'm not feeling very well to-dav,"
said Maj. llOstlcman. the soutIrrn sport
ing man, as he leaned YEARLY against
the marDl" rail of Il Park row cafe. I'm
in need of a tonic, and have been for the
past two days, and it's all my own
banked fault.
up to Il week ago was happy, free
and llght-heartcd; money was at flood
tide, friends numerous aud New York
immense, and | liked youc whisky dur
ing the week. but on Sundays enjoyed
that of Long Branch OF Manhattan
better.
"What has changed ali this?" con-
tinued the major, as he reached for his
tonic. "NclI, the story is simple enough.
| met a fellow, g~ood-lOoking. bright
talking chap, who made Il great impress
sion on me, and we became firm friends.
One day he came to my hotel and wore
one of those worried faces that make
you think of . hired mourner.
Eve mad been scorching II bit together
up the boulevard the night before, and
took a little tumble, just a slip that
didn'tcoUnt, but he brought that actuD
again, and with his sympathetic face
and teary voice began talking about the
jeopardy to my life and all that rot.
THE long and short OF it was that |
took out a policy for $4,000 and felt
good about it until the policy came
home. There was polite note inclosed
asking me To carefully read all the
printed matter on the policy, and that
is what makes me so glum.
"Thcre is an exception taken and a
provision made against paying for any
injury that occurs in the course of an
active life. cant go to prize fights. l
can't smoke or drink, play cards or ride
Il bike, travel on cable or trolley cars,
hunt or fish, or even walk without a
&uardi IN if | want to win on that game.
Life has become a nightmare; ii hid
eous, hooking sense of responsibility
to the stockholders of that insurance
company weighs me down"
"WhN don't you forfeit your policy,
MAJOR Iueried one of the listeners.
Forfeit nothing" was the reply.
I've paid for six months of that policy,
cash in advance, and don't propose to let
any Yankee cheat me if l know it;
but when that time is up-say, boys,
you'll all be around, won't you?"-~N.
\. World.