The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-05-30

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perintendent, DR.. p. f. Vasterling,
says that it will take at least $4,000 to
repair tho damage There are nearly
| 100 patients in the hospital and they
were thrown into state of panic.
The Hodgson school, still south of the
hospital, is wrecked to the second floor,
while row of residences across the
street were not harmed. The Chouteau
| school, half mile north, was so badly
damaged that it will probably have to
be rebuilt, while nearly ever dwelling
intervening was unroofed or demol-
ished.
At California and Russell avenues s..e
houses at the northeast corner are II
ruins, while those on the opposite cor
| ner were scarcely damaged. But for
blocks in every direction were ruined
buildings. Looking from this point
toward tho BURGESS centor of the city,
as far as the eye .ould reach, are wrecks
| of homes.
The course of the storm was down q
| valley where, be ore the city was laid
out, stream he'd run. Chouteau ave-
nue. lies parallel 20 this valley and is the
main thoroughfare leading to the heart
of st. Louis. For O mile to the south
and nearly half a mile north of Chou
teau avenue was the path of the storm.
Longfellow boulevard, winding
street lined with handsome homes, was
left with scarcely house standing un-
| harmed.
At Missouri and Russell avenues was
the South Side race track. 1t was al
most swept clean of the buildings that
stood upon it before the storm. North
from here is an immense pile of brick
and machinery and street cars. 1t is
what remains of what was Scullin's
electric street railway powerhouse. 1t
is estimated that $500, 900 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
tractive public pleasure grounds in the
city, has not single tree left standing,
1t resembles a thicket of underbrush,
with the trunks of great trees twisted
and torn scattered about.
The Lafayette Park Methodist church,
facing the park, is in ruins as is nearly
every beautiful house in that vicinity.
At Lafayette and Missouri avenues is
mass of debris which was formerly the
Lafayette Avenue Baptist church.
North from Lafayette park, on Mlssis-
sippi avenue, are the ruins of Schnider's
beer garden.
Nearly every house on the east side of
this street for mile or more is either
blown down or badly injured.
Browns tobacco factory, six-story
structure at Eighteenth and Chouteau
avenue, was almost wholly demolished
and TO the north of it is what remains
of Evans Brothers tobacco warehouse.
A short distance east of the warehouse
is the wreckage left from a blown up
gas house. A short distance south of
Chouteau avenue, on Seventeenth
street, is the Fulton grammar school, or
the ruins of it. From here can be seen
the remains of the city hospital. This
structure, according to Adolph Berliner,
the superintendent, has been damaged
to the extent of over 100000. The
stables of the hospital have been RACED
to the ground while the building itself
is so badly wrecked as to be almost UNI
inhabitable. The patients have for the
most part been removed to the Good
Shepherds hospital Devastation and
ruin is seen on every side from the
hospital. Scarcely a house in the ra-
dius of half mile escaped the ravage
of the storm.
At Thirteenth street and Soulard is
the ruin of st. Paul de Vincent church,
erected in 1874. The parochial school
adjoining the church is also seriously
damaged. The huge tower of the Saxon
Lutheran church at Eighth street and
Lafayette avenue, was blown off, as
was also the towers and roof OF st. Pc
ter and PauPs church on Soulard street.
The Soulard market, covering nearly an
entire block, from Seventh to Eighth
streets, and from Carroll to Julian
streets, is demolished. The cupalo and
roof of st. Martins Evangelical church
are gone and Soulard street at the COR
ner of Fourth is completely blockaded
with what q few days ago were the
homes of thousands of working people.
1t was about this point that the storm
turned its way to the north. 1t swept
nearly everything before it for two or
three miles from the river to Fourth
street. Among the important struc-
lures to fall were the roof and part of
the walls of the Saxony -four mill, the
Southern white lead works, Plants
mill and elevator, the St. Louis Foun-
dry and Machine company's works, all
of which were more or less seriously
damaged.
The number of families left homeless
by the devastation along the path Of
the storm will reach up into the thou
sands. In many instances these unfor-
tunates have lost all their worldly pos
sessions. Many will for days be de-
pendent ON charity and their more for
tunate neighbors for shelter.
There is probability that one man
whose horribly mangled body was taken
to the morgue was not killed by the |
storm. A gentleman who was in the |