The news boy., 1896-06-06

NAolc't SidhiuB VI tuc DullulnS. WHICH
is one of the strongest and safest in
stitutions in the city. There came
near being dangerous mutiny among
the prisoners, but strong force of
police subdued the prisoners and quieted
them down.
The Union Club House a Ruin.
The magnificent Union club is
complete ruin. This building, COM
pleted but little over year ago, was
the meeting place of the elite of South
st. Louis society. 1t was an architec-
tural gem.
Along the River.
The levee was the scene of the worst
devastation on this side of the river.
Before the storm, a long row of steam
boats and wharfboats and barges were
moored from Biddle street to Chouteau
avenue. These were swept from their
fastenings almost in solid phalanx
and cast adrift. Some were overturned
and sunk, Others were blown across
and crushed against the Illinois side
The Anchor line wharfboat and the
excursion wharf were the only craft
left between the bridge and Spruce
street. Both We're showed up on the
bank, indicating that the storm had a
rotary motion, as all other craft were
blown in the other direction. Some
were seen floating when the brunt of
the storm had passed, but in nearly all
cases the upper works were torn away.
The damage to shipping alone will run
up into the hundreds of thousands of
dollars. =
ANCHOR LINE BOATS MISSING.
Three boats of the Anchor line were
in port. These were the City of Mon
roe, which was ready to leave for New
Orleans She had large crew and
about thirty-fiye passengers She was
badly wrecked in her upper works,
taken across the river. The passen-
gers and crew are reported safe. The
other two boats were the City of Cairo
and the Arkansas City. They were
moored at the foot of Chouteau avenue
and Carroll street respectively. They
were torn loose, and drifted across the
river. Being temporarily out of COM
mission, they had but few employees
aboard. This company also had a
number of barges torn away and prob
ably sunk.
The st. Louis & Mississippi Valley
Transportation Co. had two boats, the
Exporter and the Harvester, the best
Of the line, set adrifl, also the main
wharfboat and a number of barges
One of the boats was reported to be
sunk at the foot of Arsenal street.
The Henry Lourey, of this line, was
left at the wharf but little damaged,
also the wharfboat used for handling
cement.
The tug Rescue No. ., belonging to
the Wiggins Ferry Co., was sunk at the
foot of Olive street.
TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
The Dolphin No. 2, belonging to the
Dolphin Transportation Co., was
moored at the foot of car street She
was turned upside down and sunk in
midstream, nearly opposite the foot of
Olive street. The boat swung against
one Of the piers of the bridge, and
some of the members of the crew,
including the chambcrmaid, got off
on projection of the pier and We're
afterward rescued by one of the tugs.
ABOVE THE BRIDGE
At the foot of Cass avenue four
boats and two ice barges were lying
None of these was torn from its moor
ings, but the Polar Wave had her pilot
| and part of her cabin blown off; the
Vinton's cabin is gone; the Jack Frost
lost her smokestacks and her cabin,
and the Charlotte Boeclleler lost her
| 70 of.lyc on6 ri of Tln
roofs were blown from both of the ice
barges, the lone and the Snow.
| Below Cass avenue, to the bridge, all
boats were gone, except the Washing
ton avenue wharfboat, which hung to
it's mooring. There were above the
bridge: The Libbie Conger, the City
of Quincy, the Dolphin No. ., the Belle
of Calhoun, the Bald Eagle and the
harbor boat and tug, the Rescue.
There were also some sand barges and
wharfboats.
The Libbie Congcr went down side.
wise and missed the piers. floating or
down the stream, stripped of her tops.
The harbor boat struck the dump boat
and was thus kept from striking q
pier. 1t passed through under the
bridge and was driven down the
stream. Both of it's chimneys were
blown off.
BALD EAGLE CREW RESCUED.
The Bald Eagle struck the middle
pier of the bridge as she went down
and all of her crew, except the watch
man, climbed on the pier and were
pulled up by ropes to the bridge wher
the storm had passed. The watchmar
went ON down the river with the boat
The Washington avenue dump boat
was torn from its wharfboat, but wa
caught at the foot of Locust street
The wharfboat came very near being
torn of, too. and the men on board O
her jumped overheard and swan
ashore.
The City Of Monroe is reported t,
have had so people on board wher
blown from her landing below tn,
bridge. She is now lying on the Hi
nois side with her chimneys and pilo
house gone.
The tug Rescue, which was lyin,
near the foot of O'Fallon street, is ly
ing high and dry on the Illinois side
The Virgins Ferry Co.'S bardges ar
. believed by tho men on the leyee 4
AAvp bssA suak
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