The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-31

ST. LOUIS, May 30.-In the terrible
cyclone which struck this town on
Wednesday night, the Missouri Elec-
trio Light and Power company escap-
ed damage to the power house, but ON
Broadway, Sixth, Seventh. Chestnut,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first
Twenty-second and on Jefferson ave-
nue. the wires and great many of its
poles are down.
The estimate of poles down reaches
500. The company has sufficient re-
serve supplies on hand to repair its
loss, and 200 linemen are at work, but
fully three or four weeks will elapse
before all connections are made.
The loss is not possible to compute.
Mr.. S. NJ. Dodd, the president of the
company, and also president Of the Ed
ison Illuminating company, was seen.
but he refused to even guess at the
amount of the loss.
With the Edison company the poles
and wires in about geo blocks from
the levee to Durand avenue, and from
RUtger to Clark avenue, are down, and
every arc lamp is smashed.
THE POWER HOUSE IS A WRECK,
although the machinery was not great
~ injured. Some few OF the city arc
lights that are burning are supplied by
the switch feeder from the Missouri
conpany's power house.
The first mail to arrive in the city
since the storm broke was received
Friday, coming from the south.
Until this time, there had been abso-
side world.
Reports continue to come in from
points within a radius of 200 miles
of this city, showing that Wednesdays
storm was widespread. A special from
Bowling Green, Mo, says:
This city was not swept off the
earth, as reported, in some quarters,
by Wednesday nights wind storm, but
has suffered great loss of property and
injury to man and beast. Two miles
west of Bowling Green residences and
barns were blown to atoms.
A HOUSE WAS PICKED UP
with its contents and occupants, car
ried over tree tops and set down again,
in one instance, without injury to the
family. In strip of country a mile
wide and extending from here to Cur
y
house is damaged, and many are ut
terly demolished.
At Curryville not single house es-
capped damage.
The residence of ]. W. Avis was
crushed in like an egg shell, and Mrs.
Rebecca Reed Instantly killed. Jack
Emerson and Henry Cash and wife
were injured. The damage to property
will aggregate many thousands of dol
lars.
Four miles west of here Mrs. Carrie
Bradbury had her ribs crushed and
sustained internal injuries; Louis
James boy had both arms broken, and
Joe Smiths boy had his scalp taken
off and will die. In most of places the
wind was a tornado, but at others it
took a cyclonic feature, twisting off
eln1s three feet in diameter and whirl-
ing houses around on their founda-
tions
INSIDE OF THIRTY MINUTES
the rainfall was 81 inches, and from 8
to 6 O'Clock it aggregated seven
inches.
No such wind or rain was ever be-
fore known in Pike county. Creeks and
rivers are higher than ever known, and
I've oiiN9Oo Oh NoooIAou away, oiliIOSI
every one on the st. Louis & Hannibal
railroad from Hannibal to Gilmore, is
gone. This will not be ready for trains
for several days.
Reports received from other storm
visited places outside ST. Louis add to
the number of dead and injured, and
tell of great destruction of property.
The section of Missouri that suffered is
northwest of ST. Louis, while in Illinois
the tornado moved almost directly east.