New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-28
nm 1OIrIS TORNADO SWEPT.
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K"' ,s william Otccndale, proprietor OF a
Mar' :. Marion and Eighth SITS. and Ben
la0 pureess. an employe. were killed In the
JAM" 1,,oge Of the building. An unknown dead
found under the bricks OF fallen
IT, .oy at Second and Choteau SITS. Joseph
-orter foreman Of the ST. Louis Railing
80 Z, Menard-st.. together with his wife and
,na uas crushed TO death in the collapse OF
e'" <.,orv The body Of an unknown man was
- badly mangled In a quarry In DE Soto-st.
i''1~arder Schulinger. a dairyman. was struck
.. falling tree and killed at Third and
,,,r,on SIS. Frederick Vets seventeen years
"a and his sister Theresa, thirteen years old,
80 found dead in the ruins of their home No.
-,S South Ninth-st
@. pauvs German Evangelical Church, on
x,,b-s, and Iaflyatte-ave.: Trinity Evangeh-
=, Lutheran Church. at Eighth-st. and Lafay-
'..aovo and ST. IIugo's Catholic Church, on
vorsas-ave were totally demolished.
rrstein & Bernstein's wholesale liquor store,
=, "a 300 South Broadway. collapsed from the
.,Os of the wind. julius Marano was killed
IA three others seriously injured.
1,a nower-house of the Scun Line, at JEFF
80 and Gayer ayes was destroyed and a
.o,sn employees received serious injuries.
rhs Gem Theatre building. in Walnut-st.. was
,.alv wrecked by the wind.
:. tho suburbs dozens of frame houses were
lam down. but up to II o'clock tonight no
abilities are reported
tornado destructive Of life and much prop
- ,is,ted East ST. Louis in June. 1872. The
,.,nal destruction was along the water front
=, In the railroad yards. Between sixty and
or,v lives were lost. boats were blown from
.sa,r mornings and sunk with all on board per-
..ns were picked up on the levec and hurled TO
1T death. buildings were scattered TO the four
I'D. Old railroad men recall some freaks of
AZ. s,orm. A forty-ton Alton engine was stand
49, - ,bo wards when the tornado struck that
:, tho city The mass of iron and steel was
-una over like a matchbox. The tornado hap
.u,a the same time of the day as to day awful
Ta visitation as we'll as nearly the same
time Of year
Indianapolis, May 21-Rairoad officials say
-. host estimates on the number Killed at ST.
? ous mt n in the neighborhood of LOCO The
,ornado is moving rapidly almost due East. The
vandaia started a special train filed largely
with surgeons and newspaper men at l0:3O
o'clock.
Springfield H. May 27--News from East ST.
louis is 10 the effect that the storm burst at o:Zo
o'clock. and did its terrible work In a briefer
mace Of time almost than it takes to tell It, IL
naseed In a southeasterly direction. and left
broad trail Of destruction. The full horror OF the
scene will not be known until daylight Every
rs,,r, that comes here brings new tales Of disas-
for The relay station at East st. Louis was
completely destroyed. The roundhouses ana
freight sheds Of the Wabash and the chicago
Burlington and Quincy railroads were crushed 10
splnters Both the great bridges leading into 81
Louis 10 the east side were badly wrecked 'he
east approach TO the Eads Bridge being swept
away and a span taken bodily from the Mer-
chants Bridge
Every steamer in the river In front OF 81 LOUIS
Is reported sunk, and the loss of life must be
enormous. No Trustworthy estimate can De op-
tanned but 1t is believed that hundreds. per-
haps thousands. have persisted Inc teleeraP"
Offices here are besieged by anxious people try
Ing to obtain some news OF absent lriehus
From all that can be learned the catastrophe is
the most awful that has happened for years
II Is learned that the northbound passenger
train on the Chicago and Alton, due mere at
D m, was blown from the tracks al East d.
7 o,,,s and ALL the passengers were killed. The
Wabash officials are informed that their round
house was destroyed and thirty-two men killed
The storm was in the form of a cloudburst. and
the devastation reaches as far north az Alton.
The latest report here Is that the whole country
is OVERLOOKING with water. News Of the disaster
Is received IN fragmentary dispatches 10 railroad
officials
Decatur Ill., May "a conductor on the
Vandalia Railroad who reached here at o p. m.
tonight, received message at the crossing OF
the Vandalia and Chicago and Eastern Illinois,
thirty -fve miles from Decatur, stating that 10
people had lost their lives in the Eads Bridge
wreck at East st. Louis. The message stated
that train was about to cross the bridge when
1t was struck by the storm and carried down In
the wreck. TIE report not confirmed.
Five hundred boxcars in the Wabash yards
were turned over and blown away. The Wa
bash and vandalia freighthouses were blown
down. together with many other buildings.
At Bingham H., the water Is running over
the station platform, and the whole country is
flooded
Cincinnati May GA report reached this city
this afternoon that the grandstand at the St
Louis fair grounds, where races are being held
was blown down and many people killed and IN
1ured. The report came over the race wires Oh
the Western Union Telegraph Company Inc
bare bulletin was received that tornado had
struck the racecourse ard had demolished the
grandetand, killing many people. Iheh con-
munication suddenly cut off, and hlor"ia-
ton came later that all wires leading out OF d.
Louis had been blown down by the storm.
Chicago. May Accommodation by teie-
uaph with ST. Louis was cut off about o ciooh
'ns afternoon. Just before the wires went uo"h
wofd was received that the roof OF the gra"o-
wand at the fair grounds racetrack hao peen
blown on, and that two persons were killed and
several Injured
THE STRICKEN CITY.
ORIGINALLY A TRADING POST 1T HAS GROWN TO