Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1896-05-29
II Is Conceded That the Death Roll
VIII Contain Fully Five Hun
dred Names.
About Seven Hundred Are Known to
Have Received Injuries of
Various Degrees.
Competent Authority Places the Dam
age to Property at Twenty
five Millions.

ST. Louis, May 29.--The awful sweep
Of last nights tornado is marked today
by devastated district in the south
western portion of the city, half milo
wide and four miles long, with wrecked
buildings, tottering walls, debris, choked
streets and rescuing parties to tell the
story of havoc and death.
st. Louis is dazed by the extent of the
calamity, and it will be days before the
total loss of life and amount Of property
destroyed will be known. Estimates of
the number killed vary from 200 to 800,
with general belief that the latter fig
ures are nearer correct. Coroner Waite,
at II o'clock, said the death list in St.
Louis proper would easily reach 200, and
that in East st. Louis it would be per
>haps as large. At police headquarters,
the dead in ST. Louis were estimated at
800 and in East st. Louis at POO
Extra editions Of the local raperg
place the total amount Of loss at 800 or
more. The storm left its path Uttered
with dead and dying, and patrol wagons,
amDulanCes and undertak5r8' cars were
busy all day long carrying identified dead
. to their homes and the homes Of rela-
tyes and friends, or leaving the uniden-
titled with the city authorities. The
property loss is terrific, estimates rang
;ag from $lO,0OOCG0 10 230OOO0OO The
storm which wrought the havoc, was a
mo~t peculiar one, aud scarcely two peo-
qa IN all the city agree is to just how
tho damage was done, I he wind seemed
g. take the form OF a hurricane, rather
toan that OF cyclone, the wrecked
.-l.diIgs showing none of the irons
aud girders which usually mark the track
Of rotary wind storm. The general
lieLd was from southwest 70 northeast,
.Ho center Of the business district Of the
ajty lying about mile north of
The storm 5 path, The heavy damage
Vas in the vicinity Of the lower grove
md Lafayette park, where handsome
residences were wrecked and many in
ured.
ne '"' swept iron" '''' p"FtheaSI
no i"' "T '''' 'i'''. ""'"' "Ilii d 7""o'h
'"''i ~ '.'' ''''' ''i' ~ 'l''''e" VHc 9l '7Sl7.
@FPi dn" loIe i'7 wa! 'h'" '''e heaft o.
t''et '2'' Louis one q lie most re-
naskab,c features was the destruction
" Wing "l tle cry hosptaa' carrying
1 Pal''nt7 Uo"h III th' "''Ht "h"
",,"H ""' one 'eIS"i''
ne Hl'aiIo'7 llll5puF9' ol tlIo H'H-
-'"" '"o Hii'' Niiy "I 'I'h5hure ana
N''y oi iFoF'oohoe' "i lhe columbian
-acufhIoh c"inpahy' NltS "I ""hroe, OF
1i' Ahc"Hf Ih", ana al SORTS "l small
~."'I were p''cie' ah" l"7s'o ABOUT uh-
." Hhai biaSI Sent then ifom lhrlf
""'rih9S' ih"y were swept across the
Fcr au" struck ih' iIiih"!S Pahk
"lhln fc" blocks of each other 1he
.17S OF NE on these boats is thought to
re FIight, as everybody was cautioned
oot 10 Jump ana th"y would be brought
@aieiy 10 Iaod' 1hc 'lfy "t Nlcksburg
Is almost total wreck. he City Of
ifoVldehce was blown upon the Illinois
nahk. her rudder IS gone and her
eaoih and smokes'acke were blown away
pelore she parted from her wharf The
ST. Lon's ana st Paul Packet company's
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