The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-28
THE SALT LAKE HERALD, THURSDAY. MAY %. 1896

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building; They were panic stricken. and
TOO frightened to try 10 escape. Jailer
Wagner was on the scene in moment
and with the aid of number of police
cells.
The tanks of the Waters-Pierce Oil
company on Guatiot street, blew up,
spreading destruction on every hand,
Three stories of Coe Manufacturing
eom1panys building sIe Ninth and Gra a;i.p,
brewery were blown down.
TIE SUMMER HIGH SCHOOL,
Eleventh and Spruce; McDermott's
saloon, Eleventh and Chestnut; Central
Emigrant, on the opposite corner; Jere
Shehan's livery stable, Eleventh and
Walnut, were unroofed. The engineer OF
the Aetna Iron works, Twenty-first and
killed. The walls blew in and he was
sca,ded to death by steam. The Consoli-
dated Wire works, Twenty-first and
Rapan streets was almost totally wreck
ed. Seven people are known to have been
injured seriously by this wreck, and
many more are said to have been hurt by
falling walls.
The two-story building of the C. H.
Sawyer Manufacturing company. ISL
Choteau avenue, was demolished john
Sawyer, a member of the firm, and
Emma Cheney and Isabella Hamden,
typewriters, were crushed to death under
the walls.
H H. Sawyer, member of the firm,
was injured fatally.
The st. Louis Refrigerator e. Wooden
ware campanys factory was completely
destroyed by fire,
CAUSED BY LIGHTNING.
The loss is estimated at 100000
A rumor was widely circulated that the
gas tank near the Consolidated WIRE
works at the south end of the Twenty
first street viaduct had been blown over
and fallen in on the wire works building,
killing four men to certainty and pos
A. W. Becker of the big firm of j. P.
Becker & Co. of East st. Louis was
bridge after the storm abated. His family
was in St Louis and in his eagerness TO
get TO them he climbed over the DEBRIS
of the bridge on his hands and knees,
mass of other debris. He informed a re-
porter that the condition of East ST.
Louis is almost
BEYOND DESCRIPTION.
The town is wreck for blocks around
and the loss of life in that region alone
is estimated at from 200 to $50. a..
The Vandalia freight house near .ne
pletely demolished, number OF persons
having gone down in the ruins.
When Mr. Becker left the scene men
were engaged digging out the deaa anu
been removed. Meintz's grocery story
and whole row of brick buildings au-
Joining it were RACED to the ground, out
no person was injured; vac that
of the East st. Louis Journa!,
the whole middle portion OF od ~
being blown out. About sN,oOo
worth of clothing was scattered Gve II
which had just been repaired was com
nletelv wrecked. Court was in session
when the storm came but everybody got
out in safety.
ANOTHER BUILDING DEMOLISHED
was that of Philip Strickler; on the
corner of st. Louis and ColllhsH NnI'
avenues. Mr.. Strickler, his wife ana , sev-
eral children persisted IN 'le lain?
Among other structures demolished
were the National hotel at the STOCK
yards, the Klppel res3 @llbi;n bo tn an
old brick building near 1t. N None o.
these entailed any loss of life. Inc storm
appears to have extended far to the
south and westward: Inc ted cI Wicked *
The whole western portion on East
ST I,o,lis suffered greatly. 1t is lmpos-
sible even to approximate the Ioss oI
life IT IS variously put at from ntty
to one hundred and fifty. Judge FouiK
Of Vandalia is said to be among the
dead.
The storm struck just north OF the
East St. Louis elevator, and passed up
fine levee in a northeasterly direction
along the same path as the memorable
cyclone of March s, 1871. In its course
ii struck the Big Four freight house
first. then the blocks in which the
stores front on the levee. destroying
all back to C street. The swath cut
was three blocks wide and four long.
The top of the bridge was Knocked
off. as well as the big abuttment. Four
trains. including the wagons, contents
and horses, were piled up on the rail
way near the abuttment. Hundreds OF
cars are rolled from the tracks on the
south side and Broadway is complete
" blocked up with parts of houses.
The Marteil house, with all its guests,
was blown into Coholkio creek, and no
one but Judge Hope of Alton and Mr..
Marteil was saved.
David A Sage and his wife were
killed in Collinsville avenue.
Burk's hotel, the livery stable and
other places are filed with the injured.
The physicians estimate $50 dead.
City Clerk Cam cannot be found.
His house was blown down and burned.
The waterworks power house was
blown down. It is believed al people
in Klipp's restaurant are killed.