The Portland daily press., 1896-05-28

80 passengers left for Alton at and is
believed to have been wrecked. The
levee is packed with people cropping
through the darkness and eagerly look
ing for loved ones on ths river.
The destruction to property in the city
will not be learned until daylight The
Catholic church on Laselle street la de-
stroyed. The middle span of the road =
way above the railroad tracks ON the
Eads bridge was blown completely away.
1t Is not known whether any person lost
, Gnelr lives when crossing the bridge.
The Plant Flour mills in the the works
OF the st. Louis iron and steel mills were
destroyed. The dead and injured are
being taken from various buildings.
The Waters Pierce Oil works were de-
stroyed by fire and buildings in several
parts of the city have been burning all
night. The manager of the Western at
the relay depot On the east side reports
a wreck Of terrible proportions.
He says that the National hotel, Tre-
mont house, Martell house, DeWolf's
cafe, Hazel Milling Co. g mills and a
large number of dwellings east of that
section we've swept into wreckage The
Baltimore & Ohio and Vandalia roun d
houses, the Standard oil works of Ea st
st. Louis and the Crescent elevators and
ae dozen freight houses were caught in
the vortex of the cyclone and reduced to
ruins. 1t is reported that the Grand
Republic and other excursion boats
with all the passengers and crew have
gone down.
i The difficulty of obtaining information
from the outlying districts is increased
by Mayor Walbridge's order that all cleo
trio light circuits be turned off. This is
to prevent death to persons coming In
contact with broken wires.
Later reports from the City hospital
state that only TWO persons were killed
and six injured as a result Of the roof of
that building being blown off. From
Pollard street south ward to Carondelet,
everything was havoc. The loss of life
St. PauPs German Evangelical church,
Trinity Evangelical church, ST. Hugos
Catholic church, were demolished.
| Epstein's g. Bernstein's wholesale liquor
store collapsed from the force of the
| wind. The power house of the street rail
way is totally destroyed.
| In addition to the river disaster all the
were swept away and sunk. The steamers
Medell, City of Pittsburg, Belle of CAL
houn and City OF Providence were driven
on the Illinois shore and wrecked.
| Eleven veessls crews who tried to
swim ashore were caught in the eddy of
Pittsburg dyke and drowned.
From lads bridge, south for two miles
OfOiJ OAAi0AhS 10 uCblL6Rou Uilttu lS uOG III
ruins. The loss TO shipping is estimated
at S400, 600. In East ST. Louis the loss of
life is now put at $50. Property loss,
50, 900, 900. The fire in East ST. Louis was
not under control at midnight.
In this city the building occupied as
ST. Vincent's asylum at So uthard street,
is entirely demolished. In the collapse of
the power house, Frederick Zimmerman,
chief electrician, was killed.
| The Lir9itt and Never Ciparatta factory
at Tower Grove was destroyed and seven
men engaged in placing new machinery
were killed. The story that 200 girls are
in the ruins is untrue. ALI the wires are
prostrated. Only three wires are working
out of the city and those are subjected to
| frequent interruption.
| WHERE THE CYCLONE CAME FROM
Itinerary of the Death Dealing Tornado
! So Far As Known.
Chicago, May 2S.-Reports received by
| the United Press UP to / O'Clock this
morning from Missouri, Indiana and
Illinois cities show the great destructive.
ness and extent of the cyclone. The
storm began it's work Of devastation and
death near Moberly in Randolph county
in the northeastern part of Missouri. 1t
then passed. southeast into Adrian coun-
ty where the school house at Rush Hill
and Its occupants were victims.
The cyclone moved slightly north into
Pike county, Missouri. and then jumped
the Mississippi river into southsrn I'LL
nois. The ladies' seminary at Darke IN
Green county, Ills, was stricken by the
tornado which then passed north and easi
following the Illinois river until it joinsf
| the Mississippi.
The greatest point of destruction reach
ed was at ST. Louis.
The direction of the wind storm from
that cluster of stricken cities then ap
pears to have been in southeasterly di
rection through Illinois but no news OF
| the destruction has been received from
| Illinois towns east of the big river.
| The cyclone reached the Ohio river snd
struck Evansville in the southwestern
corner of Indiana.
| Later news indicates that the great
storm is tearing path through the heart
of Indiana In q southesterly direction.
The latest reports compiled on the scene
OF destruction in the three states point {
the loss of over seven hundred lives and
the probabilities are that later reports
will swell the total death list to enormous
proportions.
According to places the death roll IL
divided as follows: In St. Louis, 300
East t.Louis. 300; Drake, ILL.,, 80; Rush
| Hill, 90; Labiddle, Mo-, 10 the mum bel
injured is estimated to be in the hun
dreds.