The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-04

btuOOlf Hdll Hllie uOTIn, Was so baUly
damaged that it will probably have TO
be rebuilt, while nearly every dwelling
| intervening was unroofed or demolished.
AT California and Russell avenues
| the houses at the northeast corner are
In ruins, while those on the opposite
corner were scarcely damaged But for
| blocks in every direction were ruined
buildings, looking from this point 10.
wards the business center Of the city as
! far as the eye could reach are wrecks of
| homes The course of the storm was
down valley, where, before the city
was laid out, stream had run Cho.
teau avenue lies parallel to this valley
and is the main thoroughfare leading to
the heart of ST Louis For a mile to
the south and nearly half mile north
OF Choteau 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. II was al
most swept clean Of the buildings that
stood upon 1t before the storm. North
| from here is an immense pile Of brick
and machinery and street cars 1t was
.
electric street railway power house. 1t
Is estimated that $500, 900 will scarcely
| cover the damage done here.
East from this ruin for half a mile
there is scarcely a building lefb stand.
| ing
Lafayette park, one Of the most at
tractive public pleasure grounds in the
! city. has not single tree left standing
1t resembles thicket of underbrush
! with the trunks Of great trees twisted
and torn and scattered throughout.
! The Lafayette Park Methodist church,
facing the park, is in ruins, as is nearly
every beautiful house in that vicinity.
! At Lafayette and Missouri avenus is q
mass of debris which was formerly the
Lafayette Avenue Baptist church.
North from Lafayette park on Missis.
sippi avenue, are the ruins of Schnei-
der'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, a six.story
structure, at Eighteenth street and Cho-
teau avenue, was almost wholly de.
stroyed, and to the north of it is what
remains of Evans Bros tobacco ware
house. short distance east Of the
|
blown up gashouse.
A short distance south of Choteau
avenue, on Seventeenth street. is the
Fulton Grammar school, or the ruins of
ID. From here can be seen the remains
of the city hospital. This structure
according to Adolph Berliner, the su.
perintendent, has been damaged to the
extent of over $500, 900. The stables of
the hospital have been razed to the
ground, while the building itself is so
badly wrecked as to be almost uninhab.
liable. The patients have for the most
part been removed to the Good ,Shep.
herds hospital. Devastation and ruin
is seen on every side from the hospital.
Scarcely house in the radius of half q
mile escaped the ravages of the storm.
At Thirteenth street and Soulard is the
rnins Of st. Paul de Vincent church
erected in 1914
The parochial school adjoining the
church is also seriously damaged. The
hinge tower of the Saxon Lutheran
church, at Eighth street and Lafayette
avenue, was blown off, as was also the
towers and roof of st. Peter and Paul's
church on SOulard street. The Soulart
market, covering nearly an entire block
from Seventh to Eighth streets anC
from Carroll to Julian streets, is de.
molished, The Cupola and roof of St
Martins Evangelical church are gone
and Soulard street, at the corner ot
Fourth, is completely blOckaded with
what few days ago were the homes o.
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 OF
three miles, from the river TO Fourth
street. Among the important struc
lures TO fall were the roof and part oil
the walls of the Saxonv Flour mill, the
Southern White Lead works, Plants
mill and elevator; the ST. Louis Foun
dry aud Machine cOmpany's works, al
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 thusands
In many instances these unfortunates
have lost all their worldly possessions
Many will for days be dependent upor
charity and their more fortunate neigh,
bors for shelter
There is probability that one man,
whose horribly maugled body was
taken TO the morgue, was not killed by
the storm A gentleman. who was in
the neighborhood ofh the Union depo
power house just after the storm, as
serts that some of the crowd there AS
saulted a ghoul caught thieving ant
beat him to death.
J Corrected reports from various sourcel
along the river front materially reduce
the estimates Of the loss by drowning
How many roustabouts went down will
probably never be known. as they are
generally of a GLASS in whose welfare
there is little interest Five person!
went down on the steamer ! Odill
They were Morris Fisher, veil
known merchant Of Hardin, Ills. Mrs
Gooder of the same place, Sam Woods
chief clerk OF the boat, ard the second
cook aud chambermaid whose name,
are unknown.
The revised list OF total and partial
losses in the levee office OF the harbol
department Included the following
lteamers Dolphin NJ 9, Libbie Con
ger, j. j. Odill, City OF Quincy, Henry
Saokman, Geo A Madill, foar Wig
gins ferries tugboats Baton Rouge
Belle and S. O. Clubb, Bald Eagle anG
several barges, al total losses, and th
Providence, Vicksburg, Cairo, Exporter
Harvester, Monroe, Arkansas City
Louis Houck ard the city harbor boat
/. all badlV iniurad