Richmond planet., 1896-05-30
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| ty of those passing on the excursion
boats which were on the river
when the storm broke. The steamer
City of Florence, with an excursion
party is reported lost below Caron-
delet. The steamer, Saint Paul
with thirty passengers, left for Alton
at O'Clock, and is believed to be
wrecked.
The levee is packed with people
cropping through the darkness and eag-
erly imploring information from loved
ones on the river.
The destruction to property in this
city will not be learned until daylight.
The plant of the flour mills and the
works OF the st. Louis Iron and Steel
Company were destroyed. The dead
and injured are being taken from the
ruins as fast as possible. The Waters
Pierce Oil-Works were burned, and
buildings in several parts of the city
have been burning all night.
III. q. Rice, the manager of the West
ern Union. at the relay on the East
Side, reports a wreck of terrible pro-
portions. He said the National Hotel.
the Martel House, DeWolf Cafe, Ha-
eel Milling COmpany's mill, Horns
cooper shop, and a large number of
dwellings east of that section were
swept into wreckage.
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Round-House, Standard Oil-Works.
East st. Louis elevators. and dozen
freight-houses were caught in the vor-
tex of the cyclone, and reduced to
debris.
A cyclone, destructive of much prop
erty and life, visited East ST. Louis i'm
June, 1872. The principal destruction
was along the waterway, the front, and
in the freight-yards. Between sixty
and seventy lives were lost.
The difficulty in getting information
from outlying districts is increased by
an order from Mayor Walbridge order
ing all electric light circuits turned
off. This is to prevent death to the
persons coming in contact with broken
electric light wires.
THE BODIES FOUND.
Later reports from the City Hospit-
al states that only two were killed and
six injured as result of the roof of
that institution being blown off. South
street, southwark as far as Carondelet.
the wind played havoc with the busi-
ness houses. The streets are filled
with the wreckage of demolished hous-
es over an area of fifteen blocks, The
number of bodies already found indi-
Gates that the loss of life in that Sec
tion will reach at least thirty.
The body of well-dressed man was
found at Marion street and Park ave-
nue.. Peter Diedrich was killed in the
collapse. of big mill at Ninth and
Marion streets. William Ottendale.
proprietor of a factory at Marion and
Eighth streets, and Benjamin Burgess,
an employee, were killed in the wreck
age of the building. An unknown
dead man was found under the bricks
L nf falr of
| and .Chauteau avenue, Fireman JOS
| eph Carpenter, of the st. Louis Rail-
| ing Works, on Mensrd street. togeth-
er with his wife and child, were crush
| ed to death in the collapse of the fac
tory. The body of an unknown man
was found badly mangled in a quarry
on Desoto street.
A dairyman was struck by falling
| tree and killed on Third and Marion
streets. Fred Wetts, age seventeen
and his sister Theresa, age thirteen
years, were found dead in the ruins of
their home, at No. l72S south Ninth
street.
st Paul's German Church, on Ninth
street and Lafayette avenue Lutheran
| Church on Eighth street, and the
| Catholic Church on Kansas avenue
were totally demolished. Epstiens
and Bernstein's wholesale liquor store,
at 229 south Broadway, collapsed in
| the force of the wind The power
house of the Sculling line at Jefferson
and Grier avenues, was totally destroy
ed and dozen employees received Sc
rious injuries. The Gem Theatre
building on Walnut street was badly
wrecked by the wind.
In the suburbs, dozens of frame
houses were blown down, but up to
IL O'Clock tonight no fatalities are re-
ported there.
RAILROAD NtEN NUMBERED WITH THE DEAD
i CHICAGO, May 27-Word was receiv-
} ed by wire at the Union Depot that
the Vandalia freight house at East st.
Louis had blown down and all the en-
: lplOyes at work inside except four
clerks were killed.
= At the Chicago and Alton telegraph
! office the operators were unable to
get line from the division office in
Bloomington, explaining that the Off
cials were no doubt too much occupied
, with serious business west of that city
to attend to the Chicago office. At the
: freight office of the road arrangements
, were made to send a special train &c
. st. Louis at - 80 with two carloads
! of Western Union supplies and a party
. OF hnemen to repair the wires east OF
st. Louis.
THINKS 1000 WE'RE KILLED.
t INDIANAPOLIS, IND, May 27- Railroad
officials say the best estimates on the
5 number killed at St. Louis put it in
g the neighborhood of 1000. The cv-
clone is moving rapidly almost due
!. east. The Vandalia road started :
e special train filled largely with sur.
# geons and newspaper men at 10 :3(
. o'clock.
THE EADs BRIDGE.
The Feds bridge, which crosses tn,
mississippi at st. Louis, and which
n was so badly damaged. has three mair
- spans OF 497 5l5, and 497 feet. respee
? lively, the central one being the larg
. est arch in the United States. In eael
\ of these spans are four arches, com
= posed of steel tubes nine inches in ex
- terror diameter and connected b,
y lateral bracing. Each section O
= tube between the joints is straight
and the joints being formed b,
! wedge-like plates, which give the nee
, essary curvatiOn. In the constructio,
of this bridge many difficulties wer
. encountered and overcome, particular
- ly in the foundations. The chief enei
neer was James b. Eads. The tota
length of the bridge including abut
\ mentss is LOO feet, and it carries tw,
= railroad tracks, together with high
way on the upper deck. When bull
this bridge. which is one of the laroas
= in the world, cost $1,000, 900, but sine
. that time there has been a great re
! duction in the price of the materis
y used in its construction.
l. 40 PUPILSREPORTED Killed.
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