The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-30

This list really exhausts the heavy
losers. The other losses are in the
thousands, and while their aggregate
foots up a large sum, there is no just
ification for the stories of damage
ranging away from $1o,000,00O to $780,
0O0 200.
In East st. Louis the railroads and
the river interests were the heaviest
losers by the storm. The former will
not get off cheaper than $4,000, and the
latter suffered to the extent of per-
haps 100000. The loss to steamboat
followed in its ride by boxes, other
ed, but in wharfage, freight and mate
rial.
The fire caused a further loss of $780,
900, and the individual losses of proper
ty owners will swell the total to be-
tween $3,5000O0 and $4,000, 900.
COLONEL MARTINS STORY.
Chicago, May 29-Colonel Martin,
sergeant-at-arms of the national DEM
ocratic convention, arrived in Chicago
last evening on the Wabash railroad
from st Louis. Colonel Martin was a
witness of a large part of the st. Louis
tornado, and related his experiences as
follows:
II started to drive home in my car
rage. noticing that a storm was COM
ing.
1--WE had been out perhaps hfteen
minutes, when I saw another tremend-
Gus black cloud approaching 1t was
coming with the same whirling motion
we had noticed in the first one. The
phenomenon was beautiful. AS the tor
nado turned and rolled one could hear
a swishing roar which sounded like the
breakers on the lake rushing over each
other. l had left the buggy when my
horse started to run, and | got back
into the rig and drove for home
81 had hardly resumed my seat when
my son and / saw the slate fly from the
Grand avenue Presbyterian church,
which was but a block away. An in
slant later tight board fence, sixty
feet long, was torn from the ground
posts and carried some distance and
smashed into pieces.
"a huge tree had been uprooted and
was coming up Lindell avenue at ire
mendous rate 1t was lying horizontal
ly and was coming toward US, it's fol1-
age in front and the roots dragging on
the ground. The tree was in the mid
die of the road, as nicely as if it were
being pushed by human power, and was
followed in it's ride by boxes, other
trees and articles of every description.
We FASTENED as fast as possible to the
livery barn again, and as we reached it
we found a dozen men trying to close
the sliding doors which opened into the
first floor
''The wind was coming in at furi-
Gus rate, but they allowed us to drive
in There were upward of one hundred
horses on the third floor of the stable
NV son and / had scarcely got inside
the barn when there was tremendous
crash and the roof fell in. Fortunately
the brick walls fell in instead of out
and rested on the roof somewhat, so
that it did not crash all the way
through the building. 1t pinned in the
horses. however.
"Outside the scene by this time was
almost indescribable. The air appear
ed to be full Of everything. Boxes. trees,
roofs and everything else Imaginable
appeared to be flying about at ire
mendous rate. The big telegraph poles
were snapped like so many pieces of
slender glass, and the electricity run
ming through the wires was visible al
most everywhere. ] saw an immense
tree picked up and thrown on the top
of a house, which it crushed in. The