Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-28

| first blast and blown miles down the river.
| OF all the crafts that lined the river for
miles, but one remains.
LIGHT OF DAY VANISHED.
i When the tornado struck the river, the
| light of day vanished in moment, and
those at work on the levees could be
barely discerned from the steamers as
one after another was blown out into the
dark waters.
The steamer j. j. Odell, of the Illinois
River Packet line, was blown from its
wharf, crashed into section of the pier
of the Eads bridge and sank. Her boilers
blew up before she disappeared. She had
crew of twelve and three women pas
sengers besides her captain, Geo. Town
send. Three of her crew reached the land
safely.
| There is no way of estimating the num-
Der of lives lost on river crafts. The loss
of life in the water on the east side seems
light, as everybody was cautioned not to
Jump and nearly everybody was carried
safely to land. Many heroic acts we're
| performed.
While the storm was at its height pas
senger train on the Chicago & Alton rail
way pulled out on the bridge from the
Missouri side. The overhead poles we're
SWAPPING AND TuMBLrNa INTO THE RIVER
while large stones we're shifting loose
from the foundations. Realizing that at
any moment his train might be blown
into the river or the bridge be blown
away, Engineer Scott put on full head
| of steam in an effort to make the east side
shore.
The train scarcely proceeded 200 feet
when the upper span OF the bridge was
blown away. Tons of huge granite
blocks tumbled to the tracks where the
train, loaded with passengers, had been q
moment before. The wind struck the
train, upsetting all the cars like play
things. Luckily no one was killed, but
several we're taken out severely injured.
The wrecked part of the bridge is just
east of the big tower, near the Illinois
shore, and extends east about 300 feet.
The entire upper portion, traversed by
street cars and carriages, is carried away,
while the tracks beneath are buried in
debris, in some places eight feet deep.
TIE FLAMES CONTRIBUTE TO THE HORROR.
At the burning of the st. Louis Re-
!
| jured fremen we're taken from the wreck
and three more are known to ba in the
cellar dead. Three brothers, named
! Hardy, are dangerously injured. 1t is
said that probably seventy persons are
still buried in the ruins.
The poor-house, situated at the extreme
southeast limit of the city, suffered Sc.
verely from the storm. The main dam.
age was caused by the destruction of the
tower, which stood on top of the central
building. II crashed entirely through the
building down into the basement and
eighty inmates received numerous wounds
Incredible as it may sound, with 1,O8t
patients in the building, 750 of whom are
insane, not life was lost.
The storm, after working its chaos o1
destruction in south st. Louis, moved
westward into the country.
II THE DREADFUL DEATH ROLL.
st. Louis.-The dead bodies 80 far re
covered are as follows:
. Mr.. and Mrs. David 8. Sage.
George Woods, clerk in the Vandali'
Office.
Henry Strickler, of the vandalia rail
way.
J. E. Keene, vandalia railway.
DR.. @. E. Neall, dentist.
Two children of Mrs. Horace Trump
Litchfield, Ill.
Joe FRANKIE, Joe Mitchell, Phil Strickel
Miles Mitchell, Ohas. Carroll, John Ken
Mrs. Scott Hayward, Frank Rose, E
Kavanaugh.
Jacob Kurtz, of Vincennes, Ind.
Mrs. Glendenning, Mrs. Bruce, Mr.
Emma Sullivan.
Robert Bland, John Reamer, Cha
Maitz, William Suber, Henry WintermaI
Anderson, Palmistry.
Miss Conley, Mrs. Slideu, John Hays.
Mrs. William Hays, Mrs. Pat Bean, Rot
ert Wilson.
) Twanty-nine employees Of Liggett
! Meyers cigarette factory.
!, twenty-five employees of the st. Lou
\ Wooden Gutter company.
; Malachi Mcdonald, Robert Miller, Jo
: eph Martini, John Caffordy, Harry Hes
i Fred Bernell.
4 Scores of other dead bodies are ri
5 identified.
!. The missing are: Eddie Bland, Oil
= Clerk Jerry Kahn, Frank Bland, Fran
: MCCORMICK, Albert volkman, Earl Keen
a George Woods, Mike Kildea, W. e. Kife
r Alvin Mate, Will Murray, Dan Keely, '
Frelink, George Romer, and w. Hanfor
6 all employees at the vandalia depot, ar
4 believed to be in the ruins.
q WHAT THH MORNING SUN REVEALED.
& When the sun rose on 81. Louis and '
n cinity this morning, il showed scene
Z terrible ruin and disaster. Wind, ra
4 and fire had combined In the mission
j. destruction. Two hundred lives we're 10
in this city and as many more in East {
Louis; while thousands were injure