The evening times., 1896-05-28
CYCLONES LONG TRAIL
OF DEATH AND DISASTER
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and two ice barges were lying. None of
them was torn IRON its moorings, but the
Polar Wave had her pilOt-hOuse and part
OF her cahiu blown off. The Vihton b
cabin is gone.
Thc JACK Frost lost her smokestacks and
her CABIN ana the Charlotte Berkeler l0st
her stacks and part OF her CABIN The
roofs were blown from both OF the ice
barges, the Lone and the Snow.
A WATERMAN DROWN ED.
Below Cass avenue to the bridge all
boaIs Are gone except the Washington
avenue wharf-bOat, which hung TO Its
mooriugS.
Tnese we're above the bridge: The Lib
bic Conger, the City OF Quincy. the Dolphin
NO. z, tue Belle of Calhoun, the blId Eagle,
and the narbor boat, ana u tug, the Rescue.
There were also some sand barges and
wharf boats.
A j. Crane. watcbman on the Washing
ton avenue wharf boat, saw the Dolphin
No. = go do wn. He said that she struck the
middle pier or The bridge and huuS Tor mo-
ment. The COOK, chambermafd. Two deck
hands anu two engineers climbed ON the
pier. and the boat drIted away with he
Waterman alone on board About 100
yards below the bridge she turned SIDE
wise and Capsized.
Crane saw me watchman on the fore
castle holding to life line just before
the boat went down. and 1t is supposed
that he was drowned: Nothing could be
seen OF him on the water or the wreckage
after the boat. capsized.
STRUCK THE BRIDGE.
The Libbie Conger went down side
wise and missed the piers floating down
the stream, stripped OF her topsails.
The harDor boat struck the dump boat
and was thus kept from striking n pier:
1t passed through under the bridge and
was driven down the stream. botn or It's
chimneys were blown orr IN the storm.
The bald Eagle struck the middle pier
of the bridge as she went down. and all or
her crew. excerpt the watchman, climbed
OIL the pier and were pulled up by ropes
et.s. fand Aah
The watchman went ON down the river with
the boat.
The Washington avenue dump boat was
torn from its wharf boat. but was caught
at the foot OF Locust street. The wharf
boat came very near being blown Off, too,
and the men on board or her jumped over
board and swan ashore.
George s. DcrricRsou CT the eagle bird
store sa " the Dolphin go under the bridge
and helped pull tho people up who climbed
on the pier. He saw the boat turn over,
but said he 81 no one TN board her at the
time. His view was from be low the bridge.
SCHOOL CHILDREN KILLED.
Mexico, Mo-, May 20. "A cyclone swept
across Audrain county yesterday evening
doing great damage TO crops and wrecking
many buildings. The corresponden Mt re
ports that seven people have been kille'l
in the county and probably twenty-five
badly injured, but Is unable To give any de-
tails.
In the Bean Creek district school-
house was carried away. and daughter OF
Joseph q. Ware, one OF the pupils, was
kiiiei, and Lulu Eubanks and hilda Biase,
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 Bye schoolhouse, six or eight miles
further southeast, not a pupil escaped nn-
injured, and five children were killed,
three outright, two dying later, al this
place.
The schoolhouse was utterly demolished.
aud several of the children were blown Il
great distance away and were not found
until several hours after ward, and then in
mutilated condition.