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Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
Millions of Dollars of Prop.
erty Swept Away.
EAST ST. LOUIS A Cemetery.
The Mississippi Claims Many
Victims.
Final Estimates From the Lo-
cality of the Horror.

ST. LOUIS. May 25.-Two hundred
lives snuffed out in this city, and
many more in East st. Louis. and
property destroyed running into
millions is the record Of yesterday
evenings cyclone. This is con-
servative estimate. No possible idea
OF the number killed in the tornado
in this neighborhood in Missouri and
Illinois can be made at this time.
South st. Louis is Uttered with dead
bodies. East st. Louis is a gigantic
cemetery. Under the debris OF the
buildings in that city scores are
buried whose bodies may not be
brought to light for many days-per-
haps never. Ii was the most disas-
trous storm from every point of view
in the history Of the city. It did lit
tie damage in the business and north
ern portions OF the city, save along
the river front where the destruction
cannot be estimated, nor will it ever
be known just how many gave up
sissippi. The channel is full of
wrcckage. In South st. Louis the
storm spent is force.
strswa with Waste.
From where the storm entered the
city in the southwestern suburbs ia
where il left near the Eads bridge
the wide path runs. Factory after
factory went down, and piles OF brick
and timbers mark the spots on which
they stood. Dwellings, were picked
up and thrown in every direction.
Business houses were iia,tcned with
no chance for escape OF the occupants.
The ruins are covered with bruised
and manglcd bodies that can not be re-
covered until n systematic search is
made. Thousands Of families in
st. Louis are homeless. There is no
way Of estimating the number of
lives lost on the river craft that hap
pcned to be near when the cyclone
came. Hundreds OF barges were
moored all along the river bank. In
some instances IA many as 10 or IL
persons were on board. Men were
blown into the water, barges cap
sized. There were rumors that the
excursion steamer, Grand Republic,
had gone TO the bottom with 500 ex-
cursionists, but this is denied by an
officer OF that company who said the
boat left for Alton ut noon.
Path of the storm aud Appearance.
The storm struck the city from the
southwest and travelled in a north.
easterly direction TO Grand avenue.
then followed Mill creek valley to the
river. At the levee it swung almost
at right angles and swept straight
up the river to Madison. where IL
veered east again. Judging from
the reports of greatest damage the
patlfof the storm averaged 10 or l2
blocks wide with an extreme damage
six blocks wide. For hours before
the cyclone came the currents
shifted, the winds blew hot and cold
aud the storm controversed. In
the west n thunderstorm developed d
II came up slowly at first. As the
black rim mounted higher its arch
embraced more territory to III,
north and south. A strong winc
from the east began to blow in tn,
face Of the storm. Il was the lower
current. IL raised the dark cloud ant
itcame forward faster and faster. Sud
denly the wind stopped blowing from
. the east. when there swept from tn,
northwest terrific gale which made
the best built structures crumble.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
Reciprocity.

German professorS are proverbially
absentminded. but none Of them more
SO than Professor Dusel of Bonn. He
noticed one day his wife placing large
bouquet Oh his desk. What does all
that mean?'' he asked
why, this is the anniversary of your
marriage," " replied Mrs. Dusel.
rs that so? Well, let me know when
yours comes round and I'll reciprocate. +"
German
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28

Jack-Didn't Links dine at youf
mouse last night:
Tom-Ycs. l met him on the WY
home, and he came up and took pot
luck with me.
Jack-Was it anything like the jack
pot luck had the night before:-New
York Sun
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
ABBREVIATED TeuEeRAMs.

Mark A. Mckenzie. manager Of ex-Gov.
ernor McKinley's campaign, is i'll at his
home in Cleveland.
Fire at Brillon, Wis, destroyed the
Brillon Manufacturing company factory,
Barnes Lumber company's yard, Wei
gand's block, c. Tesch's store and resi-
dence, Union Opera House, Northwestern
depot, WernerS elevator and a number of
dwellings and barns. Loss, $l50,0O0.
Governor Bradley, of Kentucky. has
been indicted for failure TO comply with a
county tax law.
James A. Mckenzie. United States min
lister to Peru. is suffering from mild at
tack of smallpox.
AT Elyria, o., passenger train on the
New York was wrecked. The engine was
demolished, but the coaches hung to the
rails.
The state superintendent of insurance
has granted charter to the Bureau Coun.
ty Mutual winds,orm Insurance com
pany, of Wyonet, Bureau county. Ills. to
transact windstorm insurance business
in Illinois.
Clifford Abbott, of Lockport, Ind, ac
cepted 100 bushels of potatoes for a poem
he wrote. He has been dubbed the Hoo
sier Potato Poet"
At Auburndale Mass, the Lasall semi
nary canoe crew saved two men from
drowning, their canoe having capsized
Among the members of the life saving
crew were Misses Call and Parish, of Chi
cago.
Eighty pupils of the Rose Polytechnic
school of Terre Haute, Ind, headed by
Professors Howe and Gray, visited Chi
cago and inspected the Pullman works.
Georgia Brock, aged 81, ami her 1l-year
old sister were arrested and confessed tC
| burglary Mt New York. Georgia was ;
| society belle and her parents are immense
ly wealthy. Goods to the amount OF 81, 90;
| were stolen by the girls.
A man who is supposed to be Danie
Russell, a sailor, was found dead near tn,
Northwestern railroad tracks mt Homar
| avenue and kenzie street, Chicago Tn,
body was badly cut and bruised. Russell
had evidently been struck by a train.
Orc-bearing copper rock has been foun,
near Petoskey, Mich.
Padercwski has been compelled to canoe
his engagements in England because o
nervous prostration. He attributes his i'll
ness to hard work and the imprcssibl
woman worshipers who annoyed him dur
| ing his American tour.
DR. Terrill. who is attending Colone
John Mosby at san Francisco, says hi
patient is not dying. He is now conva
lescent.
The third biennial congress of the Gen
| eral Federation of Womcn's clubs is il
session at Louisville.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
SOME DETAILS OF THE CARNAGE.
Course the Storm Took Through the Cit!
on ITS Mission OF Havoc.

Course the Storm Took Through the City
on IFS Mission of Havoc.
The tornado proper WIS preceded by Il
fierce blow from the east. Strong and
steadily the wind came and then it swellcd
to hurricane and there were three dis
tinct attacks, which ripped up roofs and
commenced the general destruction which
followed. When this wind met one which
was coming from the southwest the tor
nado was born. and returning began its
work of destruction. II struck It. Louis
on the southwest at Il point just north Of
Tower Grove park and trs,ycrsed in "a
northcastcrly direction till it reached
Grand avenue. From there it followed
Mill Creek valley clear to the river. yeer-
ing slightly 10 tie .north when il reached
Tenth street
AT the leyco it swung around almost at
right angle. ard 7wept straight MP the
river TO heyond Venice and Madison,
where it veerei tn the clst again. Judging
from the reports of the greatest damage
done the path of the storm was on an
average Of ten to twelve blocks in width.
The worst damage was done i'll a path
about six blocks wide, extending east
ward from Grand avenue to Tenth street,
from Lafayette avenue ON the south to the
railroad tracks on the north
AT the Liggett q Myers Tobacco works
ten were killed and twenty injured. One
corner OF the city hopital was blown out
and the building otherwise damaged. One
paticnt died from fright and two others
gTere killed by falling debris. with many
seriously injured, a number Of whom will
die
The Sidell & Shenley building. at Sew
enth and RudCar streets fell in and it is
rumored that eighteen women are buried
in the ruins Engine house No w1s
blown down and all the firemen buried.
Every hospital IN the civ is filed with It's
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
CHILDREN KILLED AND INJURED.
School Houses Wrecked in Audlrian Cou
ty, Mo.-Great Destruction.

School Houses Wrecked in Autlrian Coun-
~, Mo.-Great Destruction.
MEXICO, May 2S.-Audrian county was
visited by n terrific tornado yesterday aft
ernoon at $3.50. The total number killed
at Bean Creek and Rush Hill is about
eight. More than twenty-five We're in
jured. Houses, churches, barns and
school houses were razed to the ground.
The storm was preceded and followed by
terrible rain and hail storms which did
incalculable damage. Full reports can
not be obtained at this hour, owing to
wires being down and high water.
In the Bean Creek district a school house
was carried completely away and daugh-
ter of Joseph 6. Ware, was killed and
Lulu Eubanks and Hilda Baise, also
school children, were fatally injured
Others along the route of the tornado in
this district whose names cannot yet be
learned are more or less injured.
At the Dye school house, six or eight
miles farther southeast, not pupil es
capped uninjured, and five children were
killed, three outright and two dying later
at this place. The school house was utterly
demolished, and several of the children
were blown Il great distance away and
were not found until several hours after
ward, and then in n mutilated condition.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
a MILLION WILL NOT COVER IT.

-Four Square Blocks Swept Awsy-Ail
Communicative Suspended.
ST. LoUis. May 2s-A million dol
lars Will not cover the damage TO
property. How so many persons in
the path OF the cyclone escaped is a
mystery to all who have passed over
the devastated region. Four square
blocks are absolutely swept away.
Many victims are sill beneath the
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28

A strange story Of money recovered
comes from Liverpool A chimney sweep
in cleaning an oven fiue found $40 in
coin in bag. On telling the lady Of
the house she burst into tears and faint
ed. She had put the money there herself
years ago, and having forgotten the
fact had accused her son, who was rather
wild, of stealing it, with the result that
he had left the house in Indignation aud
had never returned.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
Rattle Royal Now On.


CHARLESTON, Ills. May 2s.-Thc corner
stone of the si50,Ooo state normal school
here was laid yesterday by Grand Master
Owen Scott, Of the Masonic lodge of Illi-
nois. Addresses We're made by Governor
Altgcld, State Superintendent Inglis and
uthers
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
Ten Killed in a Kansas Tornado,

KANSAS CITY, May 27.-Specials to The
Times state that ten people were killed in
a tornado which struck the village of La
badie, Franklin county, last evening and
that the town of Renick, ten miles from
Moberly, in Randolph county, was com.
plctcly wiped out. Nothing definite from
either place.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28

three miles north of Sturgeon at o'clock
yesterday. At Rennick three men were
seriously injured and n family of colored
people was carried over a mile. two chill.
dren being badly hurt. Friendship church,
north of town, was demolished.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28

4 stImate Of 500 Dead and Destruction
Of $50. 900. .OOO

r stimate OF 500 Dead and Destruction
of e3O.OOO.OOO.
ST. Louis. May 2S.-Coroner Wait
said this afternoon the death list in
st. Louis would easily reach 200 with
perhaps as many more in East St.
Louis. At police headquarters the
dead is estimated at 800 and at East
st. Louis 200. The afternoon . 5ers
estimate the loss at 500 or more.
The storm left a path Uttered with
dead and dying. and patrol wagons.
ambulances, and undertakers' cars
have been busy all day carrying the
identified dead to their homes or
leaving the unidentified at the city
morgue.
The estimates Of property loss
range from ten to thirty millions.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28

XENIA, o.. May 2S.-Thc thirty-cighth
general assembly Of the United Presby-
terians met last night with :pO delegates
present. Ex-Modcrator DIR. J. u. McMci-
hard, Of Monmouth, Ills, delivered iifc
Opening sermon.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
HORRIBLE REPORT FROM ILLINOIS
Not Confirmed, However, and 1t May BE q
Mistake.

KANSAS CITY, May 2s-The train dis.
patcher at the headquarters of the Alton
road here has a report from the operator
at Roodhouse, Ills. that at Drake, Ills,
Just south of Roodhouse on the Alton
road, tornado at late hour yesterday
afternoon demolished q big school house
and that eighty children pcrished in the
ruins. No confirmation of the report can
ba obtained
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28

Uncle Mose-Dat dorg is ma best
friend, and wouldn't sell um TO- moth
in.
Van Pelt-I'I give you so eehts for
him.
Uncle Mose-He's yc' dorg-Yookers
On. ~ Home Journal and News
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28
The Iinrror at Victoria.

SEATTLE, May ga Victoria special to
the Post-Intclliecncer says: Fifty-threc
bodies have been recovered from the Point
Ellice bridge wreck and there are known
to be three more beneath the mass Of tim
hers and iron work Besides this il is not
known just how many there are sub
merged, but it is believed there are close
TO twenty.
Rock Island Argus., 1896-05-28

KEwANEE. May 2S.-The report of
a cyclone with serious loss of life at
this city is untrue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02

and unrelenting as is death itself. Robert
Fitzsimmons, the lank Australian pugilist,
is his quarry, and in order more readily to
capture him Corbett is denying himself
the pleasure of talking for publication.
II have nothing to say" is the stereo-
typed answer the conqueror of John L..
Sullivan returns to all questions concern
ing his plans for the future. 81 am here
for couple of weeks visit with my rela-
tives, and incidentally to renew old &C
quaintances. That is all.
From here 1 go to New York and from
there to Europe I have not been in San
Francisco before for three years, and OF
course, notice number of changes and
improvements in the old town. My COM
ing is purely in social way, and so far as
my professional plans for the future are
concerned / have none that l care to dis
cuss."
There are some near friends of the
champion, however, who are not SO close
OF mouth as be has suddenly become.
They do not hesitate to say that Corbett
will put in the next five months in an
endeavor to force Fitzsimmons to entel the
ring with him. When the NAVAL Cadet"
company closed its season at Kansas City
month ago Brady, Corbett's manager, at
once departed for England, where Fitz-
simmons is shortly expected. The cham
pion himself will be in London within a
month and SO say his friends, forfeit OF
$1,000 will be Immediately posted for a
match with Fitzsimmons. The idea is
that If the Australian does not accept the
challenge he will not be able to do any
business on the other side of the Atlantic.
Jim is dead set on getting go at Fitz-
simmons" said one OF the champion s
friends, land he will do anything in reason
to gain that point The Naval Cadet does
not open again until November, and in the
meanwhile Corbett Will devote his whole
time to gaining his hearts DESIRE
The champion looks we'll, and says he
could not feel better. He weighs just 1876
pounds, and is apparently as quick and
wiry as when he gained his title. He is
stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. but
spends most of his time with his brother
Harry on Ellis street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02

made snug for the big blowout that the
captain nom entarily expected.
Gradually the wind increased and one
hour after the little craft had passed the
Island In question the Rover ran her nose
into miniature hurricane.
The captain and his crew of able seamen
mad seen many years of hard service on
the seas and thoroughly understood their
little boat. They had taken the necessary
precautions for storm, but never ex-
pected such rough reception from old
Bofeas as they encountered on this occa-
sion.
When the storm was at its height the
trim little yacht received fearful drench-
ing. Again and again the seas broke over
cabin.
Inc crew, realizing that hard work was
necessary TO keep the vessel ahoat, buckIed
down to bailing her out.
Inc sails were almost torn into shreds
and, indeed. the outlook for safe port
was anything but promising while the
storm was raging.
Captain Bruce by good management ran
the Rover under the lee of some point on
the coast, where the little yacht hove to
1or thirteen hours, until the storm sub
sided.
In the meantime Mcdonald and KILL
lea Kept on balling, and on Saturday after
noon the Rover headed for Santa Cruz
with dllapldated sails and crew that was
thoroughly exhausted and anxious to
reach the place of destination.
Inc Rover returned to this City on
Sunday night, and Captain Bruce says
that he hopes this will be the last time
ne VIII have the honor" of encounter
ing Ming Boreas on the high seas.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02
CoLoRLEsS CoRPUsCLEs.
DR.. Eisen's Discovery Welcomed
by Medical Men as of Signal
Import

1.-THE Importance of any new discovery
pertaining to the BLOOD" said Dr. Marc
Levingston, who, with DR.. William G.
Miner, has devoted considerable time
and study to this line of biological science,
''can hardly be clearly understood by nom
professional people.
when we realize that we can
positively foretell the approach of
of the blood, particularly with regard 10
that part known as the corpuscles it can
readily be understood with what eagerness
the physicians grasp at any new discovery
1.-THE blood is that medium through
which nearly all the nutrition is brought
to the various parts of the body and at the
same time it is the medium by which all
the destructive matter produced in the
body Is brought to the proper channels of
elimination. 1t is therefore evident why
DIR. Eisen's discovery is hailed with the
greatest delight.
ut is the white corpuscle of the blood
that devours and annihilates the poison
Gus germs which enter the body. Pro-
lessor Metschnikoff was the first to state
this power of destruction and called it
phagocytosis. He .inoculated under the
skin OF green frog small pieces of spleen
injected with anthrax-bacilli but the
frog did not show any symptoms of
anthrax poisoning. He could not find
even trace of anthrax bacilli after
a time, at the inoculated place. He
wanted to know why the germs could not
thrive IN such suita BILE medium For
this reason he made hollow globule of
reed-plpe marrow, inserted some anthrax
spores into the excavation and placed the
whole in the same way as before under
the skin of the green frog. In short while
the spores had grown out into long.
thread-liKe germs, negotiating and thriving.
Why? Because the white corpuscle could
not penetrate the hollow little reed globule.
Again, the number of corpuscles In
given quantity of blood is of great import-
ance in determining the future OF certain
diseases. In croupous pneumonia we are
able to predict fatal termination DAYS in
advance. Furthermore. microscopical in
vestigation of the blood will lead to a posi-
tive diagnosis in differentiating between
such diseases as typhus and miliar tuber-
culosis.
From these facts it can be seen how
important is any discovery regarding the
blood corpuscles, and therefore great
honor is due DR.. Eisen for his researches
in this matter. I've not yet had time
personally to review his experiments, but
shall take great pleasure n verifying them
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02
DR.. WINSLOW ANDERSON.
He Considers the Discovery One of
the Most Important of the
Nineteenth Century.

DR.. Winslow Anderson, who carefully
read the report in Sundays issue of THE
CALL, said: 81 consider this discovery by
DR.. Eisen as the most important OF the
nineteenth century, if it can be proven
that this micro-organic centrosome exists
IN the blood of other animals and in the
blood of man. Heretofore we have always
looked upon the nucleus or the nucleolus
as the vital principle of cell life.
Now, if it can be proven that the photo
plasmic substance of a cell surrounding
the nucleolus does in itself contain vital
/: organism sufficient to insure the life of the
cell to influence this metamorphis, and es-
pecially if it can be proven that other mi
croscopic particles can reproduce sister
cell, then the theory of cell birth, growth
and death will be revolutionized.
From medical standpoint l believe
the discovery of great benefit to mankind,
as many OF the diseases are caused by mi
cro-organlsm In the blood and IN the blood
corpuscles. Take, for instance the plas-
medium OF malarial fever. If the active
principle OF cell be resident in its cellu-
lar structure rather than in the nucleus
then knowledge OF the fact would assist
the physician in administering the
proper remedy. which could act more
quickly on the circumference of
cell than on the neucieus or nucleolus, ana
to administer such anti-toxines as would
destroy the micro organism of disease
because the future treatment of disease
seems to point toward the administration of
such ant1-toxlne remedies as shall DESTROY
the germs of the diseases.
And l sincerely hope that this dis
,covery made by one OF the most pains
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02
LIE CONTE HOPEFUL.
The Veteran Scientist, While Not
Arrogating Specialistic Author
ity, Bows to the Discovery.

The Veteran Scientist, While Not
Arrogating Specialistic Author
ity, Bows to the Discovery.
DR.. Joseph LIE Conte, the veteran geolo-
gist and zo-ologist at the State University,
was interviewed to-day with reference to the
Essen discovery and its Importance in the
world of scientific research. He expressed
himself as being only too hopeful that the
reports published would be substantiated
by scientists who stood equal in rank with
DR.. Eisen in his particular line of work.
But as for my expressing any opinion
as to the merits of the reported discov-
cry" said DR.. lie Conte, 81 cannot say
that can go so far as that.
81 am not an expert al all in minute cellu-
lar microscopic work, as in my zoology
studies l have been more closely confined
to general investigation than to the min
ute and purely technical. The study of
cytology has become almost a separate
and complete department within itself.
1t has been generally considered among
scientists recently that cytoplasm has
taken place OF primary importance in
the study OF cells, but up to the present,
so far as l know, no one has been able to
take the stand assumed by DR.. Elsen. He
must now publish his results in the scien-
tihc journals, so that they may be brought
clearly before those who have made a
study of the subject. and wait for their
veritication by his peers.
Il should be only too glad if Cali
fornia could claim such very important
discovery as the one of DR.. Essen seems to
be. 1t will be of world wide importance
and q broad step along the road of scien-
titic advancement. There is plenty of
talent and inventive genius in California
ii 1t can only be brought out.
II consider the statement of DR.. Ritter,
with reference to the Importance of the
discovery, as published in this mornings
CALL, to be careful and just one, and l
can indorse what he has to say. But, as
for my expressing an individual opinion
on the merits of the discovery, cannot do
it because the work is outside the limits of
my field of activity"