The Anaconda standard., 1896-05-29

| lT the ruins. Wnen Int
was at its height the gas holder at
18th street collapsed. columns of burn
| ing gas leaping high in the air.
The poor house, situated at the eX-
| treme southeast limit of the city. suf-
fered severely from the storm. The
| entire roof of the female building was
| torn off and flung yards away. A large
| post was twisted away from the walls.
! The main damage was done by the de-
struction of the tower on top of the
central building. 1t crashed entirely
through the building down into the
basement. There were eight columns
| supporting the roof and the falling of
! these carried the floors of the building
beneath. Eighty inmates received nu-
merous wounds from flying glass and
( bricks. Incredible as IL sounds, with
1,S0S patients in the building. $50 of
whom are insane, not a life was lost
at the poorhouse. The damage to the
buildings is estimated at 100000.
| Wires in the city are dangling from
the poles. Every electric light circuit
is shut Off The storm. after working
chaos and destruction in South st.
Louis. moved westward into the coun-
try.
II. w. Frankenfeld. local weather
officer, said: For the past week the
weather in the vicinity of st. Louis
has been characterized by low pres
sure, high temperature, excessive hu-
midity and prevailing southerly winds.
The pressure has also been low
throughout the West At the same
time IL was relatively high in the
South, causing warm southerly winds
laden with moisture to blow from the
gulf of Mexico. This moisture has
been held in suspense by the warm at
! mosphere and the humidity conse-
quently increased from day to day.
The mean temperature averaged to
Ia degrees above normal each day,
while the humidity ranged from to
20 per cent. each day Wednesday
morning the weather showed low
pressure still overlying the West with
a center of depression extending in an
| irregular line over from the Texas
panhandle through West Kansas and
| Nebraska. Throughout the state of
Missouri high temperature and humid
tiles prevailed with south winds. The
day would be popularity termed warm.
| hazy. muggy.'
although reports are missing, owing
| to the widespread destruction, IL is ev-
ident the storm moved in an area slow
ly east during the day. The barometer
| commenced falling and at / o'clock 1t
had fallen one-thirteenth Of an inch.
| About this time the Sky became over
cast with dark, thickly cumulated stra-
ia which, by o'clock, formed a cloud,
which commenced to assume a light
1
| cloud slowly advanced from the north
| east, spread more to the west and north
| and the temperature commenced to
fall. The normal cyclonic circulation
thus brought winds of different temper
atures and humidities INTO the upper
position, with the result that decided
instability was produced in the atmos-
phere and a violent secondary storm
created. The barometer continued to
| fall rapidly and by p. m. il had fallen
| two-iifths of an inch since noon. The
| winds were becoming variable, with
| tendency toward a northerly direction,
until lightning and thunder commenc-
| ed, at 4:30.
AT 5:04 p. m. the storm broke forth
in its fury: the wind changed suddenly
| to the northwest with rapidly increas-
ing velocity and the rain fell in tor
rents. The green cloud remained in the
west and north, but the storm moved
| toward the east with large angry de-
tached masses of cumulous clouds
crossing each other.
| AT AIS p. m. the wind changed
from the north, having the greatest We
locity in the history of st. Louis. About
| 5. p. m. the wind had reached about 62
miles and later on it changed in its di-
| rection to southeast. From 5:04 p. m.
| to 6:04 D. m. 1.33 inches of rain fell.
When the rain ended. at 9:05 p. m, 1.53
| inches had fallen in all. The electrical
storm was of unusual volume. The sky
was almost one continuous blaze of
light, and the cloud extended far into
| the south"
The dead in St Louis are:
| Benjamin Densilla; Alexander Chu-
| bringer; James Dunn; Francis Corrid-
geuez; Fred Wells, 3 years old; Sarah
| Wells, months old; Mrs. Carter and
child Peter DIETRICH; Max Weiss; Ma
| lachi Mcdonald, superintendent of the
1 xvat
engineer of the Aetna Iron Works;
Frank Fisher; Emma Cheney; Isabella
| Horn, of the Sawyer Manufacturing
company; Charles Handy Zimmerman,
| killed at the Union Depot car house;
| Katie Claypool.
The East st. Louis dead are:
Charles Wait; William Surrer; Mrs.
| Stock: j. A. Porter: l.. Richardson, flag
man for the Vandalia; Amelia Surrer:
| John Reams; Scott Hayward; Peter
| Walmsley; John Anderson; Mrs. Bruce;
Emma Sullivan; JACOB Kintze; p. j.
Stricker; Michael Kildea; Thomas
| Keene; Bert Farrell: Frank McCor-
mack; Joseph Franks; ex-Polceman
| Thomas Griffin and family of three;
| Frank Rose; Robert Bland; John Val
entine: City Collector Davis S. Sage and
wife; Philip Strickler. jr.. and mother:
Judge Faulk, Vandalia, Ills; Mrs. Mar
tell; all the boarders at the Martell
house. except Judge Hope of Alton.
Ills: Mr.. and Mrs. John Hayes; William
Hayes; all the boarders at the fremont
house, estimated at 16; Myler Mitchell:
| William Sullivan and wife; Mrs. John
Reed; Patrick Dean and family Of six;
| John Buchart; Edward O'Brien: John
/ Breen; Ida Claddue; Mrs. Roose; AL
bert Volkman; =. Mitchell; John Sulli-
van; William Rickey: a son of Mrs. Ida
Keen; Henry WATERMAN; Jacob
Koerbe; IL unidentified dead.
Among the injured are: Tom Carroll
and Joseph Ireland sought shelter in
doorway and were injured by flying
J wreckage: Abbie Turk, st. Louis; Jul
ius Skaffor, injured internally and not
| expected TO live; Harry Smith. Noko-
mis-. Ill. badly injured; Charles Sweet.
/ Newport, Ark, serious condition:
| I.nnise Miller RnrneVille No badly