Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-05-28
A THOUSAND KILLED
By O Cyclone That Sweeps Down Upon
81. Louis.
FIRE ADDS HORROR TO THE SCENE.


CHICAGO. May u -ono Of the great
eat disasters Of recent yoats over
vhelmed the city OF ~. Louis tonight
In the shape Vt cyclone which be.
gan shortly after o'clock and for
thirty minutes tore It's awful way
through the city with a velocity Of
over eighty miles an hour. Although
reports from there are very mefgor
owing 70 the almost total destruction OF
the telegraph wires, II seems certain
the number Of dcsd and wounded VIII
amount 10 fully 1000 and the damage
done 10 millions VI dollars. inc city
hospitaI, which fortunately survived
the storm, IN allied to oyorllowing with
mangled men and children, nud tue
morgue within two hours after the
end OF tho storm whs ~ full OF cofpsCp
that IL was nsueasaFy "a provide other
quarters for the reception OF the dead.
In addition 10 thoaU who wosv killed
In their houses and streets, hundreds
arc beneath tho waters Of tue MisHia.
sippl river. OF all the steamers on the
leyro when the storm broke but one Is
now afioAt. All tho others have gone
down, iu many instances every soul on
hoard being lost anu In othofs not over
two or three being able 10 reach place
OF safety.
Among lho boats destroyed Il the ex'
cufsiou steamer Great Republic, one
OF the largest steamers on the lower
river. Not a man escaped from her
aud IL N said she was crowded Win
exoufsionlrta " non the storm came.
The center oil the city IL wreck.
Many buildingb have been demolished
aud others partially wrecked The
ttreels nro utterly impassablo TO street
cars, and In many places progress on
foot IL n matter Of great difficulty 10
add 10 the horrors OF the night, Tho
electric upht plnnts were rendered In.
capabls IL service aud this gag lamps
are also shut d. leaving the city IN
Total darkness.
Fire ALEC broke out In several por.
lions Of tho city, aud the IRE depart
ncnt was uuubip 20 make any effective
fight because OF the choEed up cOudi'
ton OF tho atferts and tho large mum.
bsg of fifomen who were engaged In
the work OF sesouing the dead and
wounded.
Al East ~. Louis the destruction
arema greatest. II. q. Rice, the West
eTn Union manager at Inu relay depot
on the east SIDE, climbed across the
damaged bridge AMI made his way In
TO 81. Louis. He reports great num-
bel Of buildings are blow n down. Many
dwellings are wrecked aud many Oi
their occupants gte known TO be dead,
The VandaliR round'house, the Van
dalIa ffeight.houss, In which thirty
i've men are eaid to have been killed
Tho Ba tmore a Ohio rOuud'housu, the
standard on Works, East ~. L0ui'
ii yatpT, Crescent elevator and twelve
lthor freight houses on the lovec ART
destroyed,
one Of tue worst features Of the die
Aster ~ thought 10 have taken place al
the race track at ~, Louis, where the
races were In full swing and the grand
stand was crowded,
Returns from the ~. Louis races are
received at the track ~ Lakeside. Ind,
and few minutes after D O'Clock IN,
operator sending tho report OF the Eacel
stopped his work long enough 10 70
marx! "rheTe goes tho grand stand
and then his wire collapsed anu moth
Ing more WAS heard from him.
At midnight n was reported at the
dIspatcheT1 tflcH OF thu Wabash roaJ
at forest, H., that II was impossible &,
reach any poigt further south thai
Nameoki, which Ia nine miles north
past from H. Louis. The operator q
that point said that up TO midnight
had ssgn impossible to obtain any den
uite Information from 81. Louis, but /
was certain that fearful damage bal
been done. Hotald the ruins at Eas