Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-05-29
Hospitals are Filled with the In
jured and the Morgue is
Crowded with the
Dead.
One Thousand People Killed and
Injured.


The greatest destruction seem!
to have been in East st Louis
where elevators ana round house!
were blown down. In the Wanda
liza freight house thirty five mer
were killed. At the race tracks
the grand stand, which was crowd
ed with people, was blown down,
and 80 people were killed. The
Grand Republic and several other
excursion steamers, with all or
board have gone down. The Grand
Republic was one of the largest
boats on the lower Mississippi. II
was loaded with excursions s, and
not one escaped. All the steamers
on the levee were sunk.
The eastern approach to the
Eads bridge was blown away,
and the roof was blown from the
new convention hall.
LATER.
In the great tornado of We'd
nesday afternoon, over 300 people
are known to have lost their lives,
and the number hourly increases.
The loss of property is estimat-
ed at $50, ,OOO,O 900 with little or no
insurance.
The Grand Republic reported
lost got in safely with its load of
children.
The new Union depot was unin-
iured.
The National Republican Con-
vention Hall is injured but little,
a weeks work will repair it.
The grand stand at the race
tracks was blown away, but not
over ten persons were killed.
The eastern approach of the
Eads was wrecked, and the first
pier is cracked and shattered. A
c. & A. train with so passengers
was caught on the Eastern ap-
proach and wrecked. No one on
the train was killed, but all were
injured.
The L. & n. Round house and
offices were completely destroyed
and employees buried beneath the
ruins.
The fury of the storm was shown
graphically by the wreck of the
East approach to the Eads bridge.
Besides the destruction of the ma
sonry four iron girders weighing
100 tons each were picked bodily
from their supports and dropped
in the river.
The cyclone left st. Louis al
most at the mercy of the flames,
and Providence alone can be
thanked that the greater part of
the city was not wiped out by a
fire. Within few minutes after
the cyclone had spent its fury, fires
broke out all over the city. Alarms
were sounded, but in most cases
they were sounded in vain, as the
fire engine houses could not be
communicated with. And even
when the alarm was given the fire
had to pick its way
through the binding rain, among
meshes of tangled live wires, to
jhe scene of the blaze. In many
instances the engines were brought
IN round about way only to find
5he water plugs useless when the
fire was reached.
The rain helped materially to
luench the fires, and at midnight
Ill the fires which broke out early
n the evening were reported out
,r under control.
At Mexico, No., it is stated that
he village of Rush Hill is only a
hing of memory and that fifty
souls were claimed by the wind.
From Des Moines, comes the 1e-
'ort that another cyclone swept
hat State and that fully thirty
ives were lost.
Eighty children are said to have
'een killed by the wrecking of a
chool building at Drake, Ill.
In the vicinity of Laddonia, Mo.
en- are reported dead.
1t is reported that the Normal
chool at Warrensburg, has been
estroyed, and that SOpupils were
illed.
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