Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04


ing of crowds and the signaling for con
veyances told of some gruesome find,
and an occasional Identification OF some
mangled remains by waiting friends
added horror to the scenes In the
eastern portion OF the wrecked locality
are located large number of factories,
and in the ruins of these 1t is believed
a large number Of bodies will be found
Probably all the victims Of the storm
will never be known The work OF
handling the identified bodies was
quickly reduced to system by Cor
onor Waite. The dead were placed in
rows behind screen, and the crowds
Of people searching for lost friends OF
the morbidly curious who thronged
about the morgue we're guided past
the dead room at rapid pace. By
this means the bodies were identified
rapidly, and as fast as identified were
remove to make place for the con-
stantly arriving corpses. The scenes
among the bodies were pitiful, the
corpse of hospital nurses being con.
stantly employed caring for fainting
women and terrified, shrieking child
rem. The steamers Pittsburg Diamond
Joe line. City of Vicksburg, and City OF
Providence, Of the Columbian Exsur-
sion company, City OF Monroe. of the
Anchor line, and all sorts of small craft
We're pitched and tossed about until
the final blast sent them from their
mooriags. They were swept across the
river and struck the Illinois bank
within a few blocks of each other
The loss of life on these boats is
thought to be slight as everybody was
cautioned not to jump. The steamer
St Par ID started for Keokuk when
the tornado struck the city she has
not been heard of. She had a full
cabin.
The estimated death list at East st
Louis Is two hundred and the injured
will reach two hundred and fifty. The
storm struck at the big elevators, BOX
yards below the Eads bridge, then fol
lowed tile river to the Eads bridge
then started diagonally towards the Re
lay depot and continued on the Collins.
VILE avenue. Then it lifted and
dropped again at the National stock
yards. Nothing whatever remains Of
Broadway from the river 10 the VIA
duet and on the east side for the width
of probably 500 yards there is absolute
~ no semblance to any house. The
cars in the yards were scattered al
over and into ponds, ard completely
wrecked The Big Four, Vandalia
Louisville 4 Nashville freight shed;
We're RACED TO the ground, not so much
as stick remaining in an upright 20.
sition. The Office force, together witt
the freight handlers at the latter shed
sought refuge in the box cars to III.
north of the platform on the approach
of the storm anG owe their lives tc
that fact. Nothing remains of the re.
lay depot to mark where it stood. The
National hotel at the National stock
yards. is wrecked, the whole front lie
ing torn out, the roof is off and every
window on all sides is blown in.
The Belle, Of Calhoun, Madhill, and
Libbie Conger, mcored near Choteau
avenue, were almost totally broken mp
Elon G. Smith, the harbor boat, WAS
blown down the river and wrecked
near Arsenal islanG. 1t is thought nc
lives were lost on this boat. The
steamer Harvester was torn from its
dock and carried down the river rho
loss on the river cannot be estimated
AS an instance of heavy loss may be
stated two large barges belonging tc
the Mississippi Valley Transporta5ios
company ana bearing l04 900 bushels Of
wheat, were blown away. When ihe
variety of goods transported by the
river craft IL considered it will be seer
how easily the amount lost foots up,
The path oil the storm through South
ST. Louis i a scene of death and ruin
The greatest damage DONE was between
Russell avenue on the south, and Cho'
teau avenue and Papin street, on the
north Within that territory from the
beyond, the loss OF life cannot be es
timated. The most wholesale slaugh
ter was at Seventh and Rutger streets
where thirteen persons We're crushed
to death in Mockenheimers saloon ane
boarding house. Many others are
known to be buried in adjacent houses
On Rutger street, were sixty men 81
work on Liggett & Myers new building
in course OF erection at klemm ant
Park avenues when the storm de.
molished the structure. Two We're
killed, and large number injured
The street car lines are in chaotic
condition. only these in the north enc
Of the city running. The Seculir
power house was blown to pieces, the
estimated loss being s250000.
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