The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-29
HUNDREDS IRE KILLED
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SOME On THE DEAD.

SUNNY Ot' IIdE DEAD.
st, Louis, May 2S,-The following are
among the dead on both sides of the
river;
Captain Seaman and wife and three
of the crew of the steamboat Libbie
Conger; Wallace Bradshaw, negro,
aged IL; Josephine Martini, aged rs;
Henry Besichir, aged 20; John Nolta,
aged 40; Michael Dawes, driver; Peter
Diedrich, William Ottendale, factory
proprietor; Renjamin Burgess, Joseph
Carpenter foreman of St Louis Railing
works, wife and child; Alexander Schu-
linger, dairyman; Fred Vets, aged II,
Theresa Wetts, aged 10; julius Marano,
Frederick Zimmerman, chief electri-
clan Of the Sculler line power house,
East st. Louis; Judge Faulk of Van
dalia, killed in the wreck of the Mar
tell house, East ST. Louis David Sage
and wife, killed in the wreck of their
home at East st. Louis; Philip Strick-
Ter, wife and several children, buried in
the wreck Of their home at East ST,
Louis.
These bodies have been recovered in
st. Louis:
Fifteen employees of the Light &
Meyer Tobacco company at Tower
Grove Park, ten men employed in the
st. Louis Wooden Gutter and Refriger-
ator factory at Second street and Park
avenue, Michael Bradshaw, 81 South
Jefferson avenue; Katie Claypot, aged
q, and her mother at S14 South JEFF
ferson avenue; Martin Mcdonald, at
2745 Park avenue; Mrs. Cheney, at 1415
Mississippi avenue; John P. Pendy,
Jennie Hahn, Shrewsbury Park;
Charles Nee, 406 South Seventh street;
William Wrinkle, Eighth street and
Park avenue; James Dunn, City hospi-
tai; janitor of St. Paul's church; Julius
Gall, bookkeeper; Frank G. Fisher, 1914
Papin street; Mrs. Carter and child,
1910 Minard street; r. Desilva, 9S5
North Sixth street; Waterman on board
the Dolphin, Fred Wells, 172S South
Ninth street; f. Rodrigues, City hospi-
tall Charles Tandy, 1929 Choteau ave
nue.; Isabelle Horn, 1929 Choteau ave-
nue.; Emma Cheney, 1929 Choteau ave
nue.; Jones, engineer at Aetna Iron
works; Max Weiss, 1902 ST. Onge ave-
nue..
Some of those known to be dead in
East st. Louis are:
David Langg and wife, George Roose,
Miles Mitchell, Martin Martell, proprie-
tor of the Martell house; three servant
girls in the Martell house, James Kent,
sixteen dead in Vandalia freight house,
twelve dead in Louisville and Nashville
freight house, five dead in Air Line
freight house, twenty dead at the east
switch house of the Eads bridge, four
dead at Relay depot, six members of a
wharfboat crew.
In addition to the above nearly two
hundred squatters on Households on
lowlands on the Illinois shore of the
river were caught by the tornado and
nearly every one was killed
COURSE OF THE STORM.
Chicago, May 2S-The great storm
began its work of devastation and
death near Moberly, in Randolph coun-
ty, in the northeastern part of Missou-
ri, late yesterday afternoon. 1t then
passed into Audrain county, where 1t
destroyed a school house. The occu-
pants of the school house were killed.
The tornado moved slightly north into
Pike county, Missouri and then jump
ed across the Mississippi river into
southern Illinois. The Women's semi
nary, at Drake, in Green county, Hi
nois, was hit by the tornado, which
then passed south and east, following
the Illinois river till it Joined the Mis-
sissippi. The greatest destruction was
in St Louis, East st. Louis and East
Carondelet
The wind storm from that cluster Of
stricken cities then appears to have
..a,,a eo,IfIna etAr1y direp tiO;1
through Illinois, but no news Of de-
struction has been received from Hi
nois east Of the big river.
The tornado reached the Ohio river
and struck Evansville in the southw St
ern corner of Indiana.
SEVEN KILLED IN AUDRIAN.
Mexico. Mo-, May 2S.--A tornado
swept across Audrian county last even
ing, doing damage to crops and wreck
ing many buildings. Seven persons
have been killed in the county and
probably twenty-five were badly injur-
ed.
In the Bean Creek district a school
house was carried away, and a daugh-
ter of Joseph G. Ware, one of the pu-
pills, was killed, and Lulu Eubanks ana
Hilda Blase, also school children, were
fatally injured. Others along the route
of the tornado in this district, whose
names cannot yet be learned, are more
or less injured.
At the Bye school house, six or eight
miles farther southeast, not pupil es-
capped uninjured, and five children were
killed, three outright
The school house was utterly demol-
ished and several of the children were
blown a great distance away, and were