The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-06-06


Lafayette Park BaptiSt...-.--....."..... 5000
Church of the Unity -. It.0OO
Mount Calvary acknowledgements. ao.OO
Memorial German VI. E,-........".--.... 10000
Holy Cross, .... l2.OO1
Compton Hill CONGREGATIONAL. ......... 1000
Compton Heights Christian 1000
St. HenryS Catholic l0.O11
St. Paurs Evangelical. 5000
Trinity Lutheran ie,Vo
St. Nincent's Catholic. ................... 5000
IS. Peter ami S0UO
81. Johns Episcopal. .....-......... lS,UO
AnDunciatiOn, Catholic ..............-.- $500
Over forty St. Louis churches were
smitten by the elements Wednesday
night.
Rain poured into the unroofed build
the furniture.
Falling steeples added to the gen.
eral havoc.
Nearly every church near the DESC
late districts that escaped damage is
used for hospital and shelter pur-
poses.
The houses of worship around La
fayette park, all of them of the cost.
liest kind, felt the blow more than the
others.
The Presbyterian church at Missouri
and Albion was damaged. Rev. 5. C.
Palmer is its pastor. His home, at
the eastern front of the park, was de-
molished. The root of the church
landed ear the center of Lafayette
park. The church was of rough stone,
and its Sunday-school is, next to Wan
amaker's in Philadelphia, the largest
in the United States.
Lafayette Park VI. Z. church. Rev.
S. c. Werlein, pastor, at Missouri and
Lafayette, was partly ruined by the
falling steeple. The pink stone walls
Uttered the vacant lot on the north, as
well as the auditorium. This church
isnotedfor the socialibity of its young
people.
On the north side of the park, corner
of Armstrong and Park, is the Church
of the Unity. This is a white stone
building, rather small, and is on an
elevation. The root was lifted off and
deposited in sections in the park.
Southeast of the park is the Baptist
church, at Lafayette and Mississippi, a
brick building, which sustained about
IS, 600 damage. The Baptist Orphans
home, Immediately east, was partly
wrecked.
Southwest of Lafayette park, Mt.
Calvery Episcopal church, Re- p.
Fauntleroy rector, at jefferson and
Lafayette, was entirely wrecked.
Part of it is on the Union club and
the rest of it covers the street car
tracks.
Following jefferson avenue south,
the Memorial VI. Z. church of brick,
corner of Accomac, n leveled.
Smaller churches and parochial
schools, with damaged fronts, can be
seen further south, and at Miami
street the old Saxon church of the
Holy Cross is a heap of ruins.
The Concordia seminary and the
publishing house are well battered up.
North and west from Lafayette
park, St. kevin's church, on Park and
Cardinal, escaped unscathed. Comp
ton Hill Congregational church, La
fayette and Compton, had it's cnrnice
and part of the roof sheeting detached;
Compton Heights Christian church, St.
Vincent and California, lost many
bricks, and the Episcopal church, on
Grand and Lafayette, suffered slightly.
St. Eenry's church, California and
Caroline, is wrecked.
Rumor has it that u priest and some
nuns are still under the ruins.
East of Lafayette park there are a
number of German families hat Will
lose thousands of dollars.
At Ninth and Lafayette is st. Paui's
Evangelical church, Pastor Jacob
Irons, Of which only about L. feet ot
wall remains. The monster steeple
crumbled like dust.
Trinity Lutheran church, Eighth
and Lafayette. shared the fate of all
high structures and collapsed. Pastor
Hansen lives next door and his family
narrowly escaped destruction.
st. Vincent's church, Ninth and
Park, did not lose it's steeple, though
there are no trimmings thereon. Like
a lonc sentinel it stands a mute wit
ness to the general leveling of mans
handiwork.
St. Peter and st. Paul's Catholic
church, probably the wealthiest Ger
congregations in the city, is desc
late compared with the grandeur that
the practitioners boosted of before the
tornado.
St. Johns Episcopal church at Hick-
DRY and DOlman is minus it's steeples
and a wing. Expenses of repairing
will amount to $4,000.
The German school at Eighth and
Marion was Quilted.
The AnnunciatiOn parish at Sixth
and La Sale is a heavy loser. The
steeples fell, and besides crushing the
adjoining row injured Father Head
and Miss Head.
Steamers Lost.
Thirty-fve boats, including tea
packets, excursion, ferry, tow and
other river craft, were wrecked or sunk.
The total loss is roughly computed at
S4O2, 900.
Comptroller Sturgeon says that the
damage TO buildings of city institutions
is about 5000. OOU.
with Newspaper Correspond
ents.
st. Louis is flooded with newspaper
correspondents. Four hundred news
paper representatives have sent out
hundreds of thousands of words de-
seriptive OF the storms work.
In this way the wild rumors OF