The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-05-30


night In the shape of a cyclone uh,ct
began shortly OTTER O'Clock and y!
thirty minutes tore It's awsui WI
through the city with velocity y,
over eighty miles an hour.
Although reports from there are
very meage owing to the almost to.aI
destruction of telegraph wires. Il seems
certain that the number Of dead iHI
wounded will amount to luIy 1909
and the damage dome amounts ID
millions of dollars.
The city hospital which fJrtUna.a,y
survived the Storm, is filled - over
lowing with mangled men, wDmal and
children, and the m0rgu9 wb.hla two
hours after the end Of he s'9rm uas
30 full of cOTpses th4s Il vas nsees-
ary to provide othe~ quarters for he
reception of the dead
In addition to those who unra killed
IN their houses ana in tue streets,
hundreds of dead are beneath the
waters of the Mississippi river. Of all
uhe steamers on the .evee when the
storm broke out but one is now
ahoat. All the Others have gone down,
IN many instances every soul On board
oeIng lost, and others, no. over Two
Or three, being able to reac. 4 place
OF safety.
Among The boats drs5ra~7I is the
excursion steamer Great Rap,:J,tc. one
OF the largest steamers on the lover
river. Not a man escaped from her
and it is said she was crowded with
exourSi0ntsts When the Storm CANA
The center of the city is a wreck
MANY buildings have been d,rn,,fs had
and others partially wrecked The
streets are utterly Impossible to street
cars and in many places progress on
1oat is a matter of great difficulty.
To add to the horrors If he night
the electric light plants were rendered
Incapable of service aud The gas lamps
are also shut off, leaving the CITY in
total darkness.
Fire also broke Out in severa, 3or-
IONS Gi The city and the fire daD2rt-
ments were unable to make an fec
tdve fight because of the cho,,ad y,
condition of the streets a1I the Eanga
number of fremen wac were engaged
IN the Imperative work OF r2.5~,i;Dg he !
dead and wounded
The only authentic information s~nn
he stricken city last night vas sent
out by the agent Of the Associated
Press, who managed to reach an out
dying telegraph office and send a. brief
dispatch as follows:
Tornado blowing at tha rate O.
over eighty miles an hour struck St,
louis last might and ragged for half
On hour with great fury, and as a
result hundreds of lives are lost on
both sides OF the river. Many build
tngs are blown down and MANY river
steamers sunk with all on board. It
IS impossible at the present time to
estimate the number OF lives lost, as
the hospitals are full with the injured
ard the morgue is filed with tine slain,
while great numbers Of the dead and
MANNED are lying among the ruins in
AL directions. A portion Of the East
M Of the Eads bridge is destroyed.
k grand stand at the fair grounds
Is down, the wOmanS portion OF the
Jail is down and the Immense Cupnles
hlook is partially destroyed. TIE Wat
erS-PierCe oil works are burning una
other buildings in various sections Of
Che city are on fire"
The Western Union Company an
nounces that because Of its inability
to keep up it's wires it would be impos-
s.ble to send out any more messages
tonight from st. Louis or its vicinity.
The reports regarding the duration
OF the storm are conflicting.
Little Rock, Ark. May 2S.-Charles
u. Brobst is the operator at Caronde-
jet He was swamped with railroad
messages last night, but found time to
render valuable assistance to the AS
ISOLATED Press in OH aiming news from
St. Louis.
Carondelet is seven miles from the
center of the city and is the nearest
point that has any Geographic COM
whatever with the outside
world
At 1:30 yesterday morning Mr..
ProbSt In conversation with an Asso-
Giated Press man at Little Rock said:
'You, nor |, have any idea Of the
awfulness OF the calamity which has I
befallen st. Louis. l have no definite
but from what l have
been able to learn from the few people ,
who have come out here from the
city I know that the result of the
storm is indescribable.
"a boy has just come into my Office
who went to the city 70 see the wreck.
He says that the streets are piled full
nf debris tnat in many nlacas tha ritv