The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-05-30

the Missouri Pacific railway hospital.
A great portion or the roof was torn off
and the whole building was 30 badly
wrecked, that the superintendent. DR..
p. II. VaEterling, says 1t will take at
least $4,000 to repair the damage. There
are nearly 100 patients In the hospital
and they we're thrown Into aNstate OF
panic.
The Hodgens school. gtill south OF the
hospital, Is wrecked TO the second floor,
while row OF residences across the
street was not harmed The ChOutenu
school, half n mile north. was SO badly
damaged that II will probably have TO
be rebuilt, hile nearly every dwelling
Intervening was unrOOted or dcmollsh-
cd At California and Russell avenues,
the houses at the northeast corner nre
in ruins, while those on the opposite
corner were scarcely damaged. But for
blocks in every direction were ruined
buildings looking from this point to-
wards the business centre OF the city as
far as the eye could reach are wrecks ot
homes. The course OF the storm was
down valley where before the city was
laid out stream had run. Choteau
avenue lies parallel to this valley and fs
the main thOroughfaTe leading to the
heart Of ST. Loul5. For mile to the
south and nearly half mile north OF
Choteau avenue was the path Of the
storm.
Handsome Homes Wrecked.
I.ongfellow Boulevard, a winding
street lined with handsome homes, was
left with scarcely house standing un-
harmed.
At Missouri and Russell avenues was
the south side railway track. It was
nImost swept clean Of the buildings that
stood upon It before the storm, North
from here lg an Immense pile OF brick
and machinery and street cars. II was
what remains Of what was SGhui!ins
electric street railway power house.
II is estimated that 5000. 600 will scarcely
cover the damage done here.
East from this ruin for half mile
there is scarcely building LEFT stand
ing.
Lafayette Park, one OF the most at
trnctive public pleasure grounds In the
city. has not q single tree left standing.
II resembles thiciset Of urdersrush
with the trunks Of great trees twisted
and torn scattered throughout.
The Lafayette Park Methodist church,
facing the park, IL in ruins, ns Is nearly
every beautiful house In that vicinity
AT Lafayette and Missouri avenues is
n mass OF debris which was formerly
the Lafayette avenue Baptist church.
North from Lafayette Park, on MisSis-
sippI avenue. are the ruins of SchEei-
dcr's beer garden,
Nearly every house on the cast side
of this street for n mile or more Is either
blown down or badly injured,
Browns tobacco factory, a stH-story
structure at Eighteenth street and Cho-
teau avenue, was almost wholly de-
mollshed and to the north Of II Is what
remains OF Evans Bros. tobacco ware
house A short distance east of the
warehouse is the wrrckaGe left from
a blown up gas house. a short distance
south of Choteau avenue on Seven
tecnth street, is the Fulton grammar
school, or the ruins Of It. From here
can be seen the remains OF the city hos
pltal This structure, according TO
Adolph Bcrlner, the superintendent.
has been damaged to the extent of over
100000. The stables OF the hospital
have been razcd TO the ground, while
the building itself Is so badly wrecked
as to be almost uninhabitablc. The
patients have for the most part been
removed to the Good Shepherds hos
pital Scarcely Il house in the radius Of
half mile escaped the ravages OF the
storHl.- Al Thirteenth street and Soulnrd
is the ruin OF ST Paul de Vincent
church greeted In lSif