Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-29
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flee. the river boats warehouse ana the
humble abodes of workingmen. Nothing
is left standing. The places where form
erly houses and freight depot were being
literally swept by the fury of the storm.
In Vandala general Office alone there
were from 20 to % killed. The bodies OF
some of whom are still buried beneath the
broken rafters and bricks.
The monetary loss cannot be estimated,
but il will run into the millions.
The storm struck at the big elevators
800 yards below the Eads bridge, followed
the river to the Eads bridge. started dag
onally towards the relay depot and con-
tinued on to Collinsville avenue, then lift
ed and dropped at the National stock yards.
Nothing whatever remains of Broadway
from the river to the Niaduct, and on
East Side for width of probably 800
yards, there is absolutely no semblance to
a house. freight shed or car left standing.
Cars in the yards were thrown on their
sides, ends on top of each other into the
ponds Astounding on the island and every
thing was completely wrecked.
The Big Four, Vandalia and L. & ~
freight sheds are RACED to the ground not
so much as a stick remaining in an up
right position. The office force together
with the freight handlers at the latter
sheds sought refuge in box cars to the
north of the platform on the approach of
the storm. and owe their lives to that
fact. No one was hurt there beyond a
few slight bruises.
AT the Vandalia the loss of life and the
number of injured is very great Nothing
remains of the relay depot to mark where
il stood.
The National Hotel at the National
stock yards is wrecked the whole front
being torn out, the roof torn off and
every window on all sides blown in.
The Nelson Norris Packing Company
plant is minus its two upper floors, and
the new sales stables, which have only
recently moved over from st. Louis, are
levelled to the ground.
The river front for a thousand yards
is one great mass of wreckage. Steam
are piled up in an indiscriminate pile.
some partly submerged, others high
and dry on the shore. The very stone
masonry on the east end of the Eads
bridge was cut off clean with the rail-
road tracks, while the approaches are
twisted and wrecked, trains passing
over very slowly and carefully.
Every undertaking establishment in
the place is an improvised morgue and
the hospitals are full of inquired. At
st. Mary's there are probably sixty pa
tlents, with some so seriously hurt that
they cannot recover One little suffer-
er of ten months lay there moaning and
unconscious. She was picked up in
front of her house without a stitch of
clothing on her little body. She is in
jurel internally and will die. Her
mother lies in anothed ward badly hurt.
AT the police station nothing could
be learned beyond what could be seen
at the morgues, hospitals, and out in
the streets. 1t will be several days
before the exact situation is known.
The search for the dead is still going
on, but it is believed there is as yet too
much confusion to proceed systematic
ally. The only mode of travel be-
tween st. Louis and East st. Louis is
on ferryboat making hourly trips, and
it is loaded down to the waters edge
with people coming and going.
EAST ST. LOUIS DEAD.
The East ST. Louis dead are: Chas.
Wait; VIM. Surber; Mrs. Stock; j. A.
Porter, Bufflin; Richardson, flagman,
Vandalia; Amelia Surber; John Reams;
Scott Hayward; Peter Walsmley; John
Anderson; Mrs Bruce; Emma Sulli-
van; Jacob Kindee; H. j. Stricken; I'M
known woman and two chvildren near
Drurys ice house; messenger boy on
bridge; seven unknown dead in Dublin
house; Michael Kindea, chief way-bill
clerk, Vandalia; Thomas Keefer. Bert
Farrell; VIM. Farrell route, Vandalia;
Frank Mccormick, cashier, Vandalia;
Joseph Franks, general yard master,
Vandalia; unknown man about forty
years old; unknown woman, about 80
years old, on Broadway, near river; ex-
Policeman Thomas Griffin, and family
of three; Frank Rose, foreman at Ell,
liott's works; Robert Bland; John Val
entine, city collector; Davir Sage and
wife; Philip Stricken, Jr., and mother;
Judge Faux, of Vandalia, Ills; Mrs.
Martell; all OF the boarders at Martells
house, except Judge Hope, of Alton,
Ills: Mr.. and Mrs. John Hayes; VIII
Hayes; all boarders, estimator at six
teen, at fremont House.