San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-05-30
ST. LOUIS STORM ECHOES
CONDITION OF POWER AND ELEC-
TRIO PLANTS.
The Destruction Outside Of the City for
200 Miles Was Terrible Heaviest
Rain Ever Known = Andrain
County Dead and Dying
Twenty-Five.

ST. LOUIS, May 30.-In the ter
rlble cyclone which struck this
city Wednesday, the Missouri Elec-
trio Light and Power company
escaped damage to the power
house, but on Broadway, Sixth,
Seventh, Chestnut, Eighteenth,
Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty
second and Mcpherson avenue, the
wires and great many OF its poles
are down. The estimate of poles
down number 500. The company
has sufficient reserve supplies on
hand to repair it's loss, and 200
linemen are at work, but fully
three or four weeks will elapse be-
fore all connections are made. The
loss Is not possible to compute.
Mr.. s. NJ. Dood, the president Of
the company and also president Of
the Illuminating company, was
seen, but he refused to even guess
at the amount OF the loss.
The poles Of the Edison Illumi-
mating company and its wires for
about 200 blocks from the levee to
Grant avenue, and from Rutger to
Clark avenue are torn out, and
every arc lamp is smashed. The
power house is a wreck, although
the machinery was not greatly in
jured. Some of the few city arc
lights that are burning are sup.
piled by switch feeders from the
Missouri Company power house.
The first mail to arrive in the
city since the storm broke was re-
ceived Friday morning from the
south. Until this time there had
been absolutely no communication
with the outside world. Reports
continue to come in from points
within radius Of 200 miles Of the
city, showing that Wednesdays
storm was widespread.
A special from Bowling Green,
Mo-, says: This city was not
swept off the earth as reported in
some quarters by Wednesday
nights wind storm, but has suffer
ed great loss OF property and in
jury to man and beast. Two miles
west of Bowling Green residences
and barns were blown to atoms.
A house was picked up with its
contents and occupants, carried
over tree tops and set down again,
in one instance without injury to
the occupants. In a strip of coun-
try a mile wide and extending
from here to Curryville, eight
miles, almost every house Is dam
aged and many are utterly demol-
ished.
At Curryville not single house
escaped damage. The residence Of
]. w. Avis was crushed in like an
eggshell and Mrs. Rebecca Avis
instantly killed. Jack Emerson
and Henry Cass and wife were In
jured. The damage to property
will aggregate many thousands OF
dollars.
Four miles west of here Miss
Carrie Bradbury had her ribs
crushed and sustained internal in
juries; Louis James had both arms
broken, and Joe Smith had hts
scalp taken of and will die. In
most places the wind was lorna
do, but at others took on a cyclonic
feature, twisting of elm trees three
feet in diameter and whirling
houses around their foundations.
Inside of thirty minutes the rain
fall was 81 inches, and from to b
o'clock IL aggregated 2 inches. No
such rain or wind was ever before
seen in Pike county. Creeks and
rivers are higher than ever known,
and five bridges are washed away;
every one, almost, on the st.
Louis and Hannibal road, from
Hannibal to Gilmore, is gone. This
road will not be able to run trains
for several days.
Reports received from other
storm visited places outside OF st.
Louis add to the dead and injured
and tell Of the great destruction OF
property. The section that suffer-
ed most is northwest of st. Louis,
while the tornado moved almost
directly east.
Two more OF the wounded at
New Baden, ILL.,, are dead.
Near Germantown 1t has been
learned that farmer was killed.
New Minden is practically swept
away. Five are dead and score
or more dangerously wounded.
Besides the six dead in Andrain
county, three are so badly hurt