The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-02

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ferry beat Christy had a terrible expo-
rience. When the storm broke the boat
was torn from its mooTings as the foot
of Spruce street and blown down
stream with fearful velocity. The pas
sengers were crazed with fear and Is
two horse teams were On the lower
deck. It was driven before tbs storm
and hoatcd the stream. The river was
ike q raging sea, and the crew was IN
able to launch any boats. The peg
sengers crouched in the cabins expect
iDg every moment to go down. The
boat drifted az far as J ferson barracks,
where she sunk in shallow water. The
passengers we're rescued.
Among the buildings destroyed or
damaged in st. Louis are thefoilowing:
Singer Sewing Machine Co, building
almost totally destroyed; four people
injured.
The Eden Publishing House, building
~Unro0fed and stock damaged.
The Haycock Carriage Company,
building unroofed ard stock badly
damaged.
ST.. Johns church, OF Hickory street,
lost it's steep!e.
L~iederkTarz Hall, Chatham avenue
and 13 street, unroofed end entire
building fl odtd with water.
Leggett s. Meyer Tobacco Co., large
new building destroyed and & number
of unknown killed.
Merchants Elevator completely de
moljshed.
The Ni!Iey foundry building was re
lie7ed Of It's roof aud carried into the
street, while the freight house Of the
Burlington road suffered the same fate.
A. 8,h and Mlllanphy streets, the
front Of the building occupied by the
Allen Buggy Company, was blown
down, while that of Matthews and
8onrag Company, a block east, was
served in like manner.
The buildings formerly occupied by
Reilly & Walferts, sale stables, On
North Broadway, we're considerably
damaged,
Not a glass remains in the building
occupied by Kupferle Bros Company,
at Second and Mound streets.
Louis Brook factory, at Broadway
and Howard streets, was completely
wrecked.
AloAg 21st street, between Olive and
Papin streets, not a single building,
telegraph pole, tree or sign escaped.
Streets and sidewalks are almost a solid
mass Of debris, bricks, broken telephone
and telegraph poles, tin roofing, water
spouts, broken glass and broken signs,
while wires lie over the whole in an in
~terrninable netting.
At 40 South 213t street where j. T
Swifts & Co. 8 fresh meat establishment
is located, not a single window in the
building remained intact, the whole
place being fl 1Oded.
Tho building occupied By Epstein &
Burnsteiu, wholesale liquor dealers, 2US
South Broadway, was blown down;
julius Cell, book keeper, was killed
and Mr. Epstein was internally injured.
NJ. 1918 ChoteaU Avenue, occupied
by Sawyer Manufacturing Co., was
blown down. These under the ruins
are Emma CLANCY and Isabella Howe.
Charles Tandy is now buried in the
debris of ST Louis Cracker Company
at 18Th and Choteau Avenue; store at
21O2 Clark Avenue wrecked,
Grone's Brewery at pad ard Clark
AveEue, almost totally wrecked. Scan
dinavian, church, southeast corner
23rd and Clark streets was picked up
and turned completely over. At Gates
Wire Mill, 2I5t and Gratiot streets, a
scene indescrible was met with an i'm
mense portion of the roof of the build
ing lies piled up high on the south end
of the bridge while ell around a mass
Of wires, poles, roofing and tons of other
debris makes the vicinity utterly i'm
penetrable.
The old three story building on the
southeast corner Of Main ard Pine
streets, occupied by East st. Louis
Commission Company is g total wreck.
Pine street is filed with wreckage and
goods to the height of ten feet.
The storm visited the store Of Penny
and Gautles st the corner of Broadway
and franklin Avenue. The massive
plate glass windows and ali sides were
completely demolished. The firm esti-
mates it's loss at $40 900. The immu
nity from loss of life and injury to en-
ployees in the Iron Mountain road