The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-05-28
THOUSANDS KILLED.
Terrific Cyclone at st. LouIs-The City
In Rulns-The MorRue RULED and
the Hospitals Crowded.

IN nOur struck 81. LOUIS at OLD TINS Z
afternoon and ragged for half an hour
with great fury. As n result hun
dreds of lives were lost on both sides |.
Of the river.
Many buildings were blown down I
and several river steamers sunk with Z
all on board. At present it is impos-
sible to estimate the number OF lives
lost. The hospitals are full of in
iured and the morgue contains many
dead, while numbers of the slain lay
everywhere among the ruins of the
demolished buildings.
A portion Of the east end OF the
Eads bridge was destroyed.
The grand stand at the fair grounds
and the women's portion of the Jail
we're blown down.
The Pierce oil works are
burning, and buildings in various
sections of the town are on fire.
The Plant -four mills, the St. Louis
iron and steel works were demolish-
ed and the immense Cupples Block
was partially destroyed.
The dead and injured arc being ia
ken from the Iuins.
At East St. Louis the destruction
seems greatest. II. c. Rice, the Wes-
tern Union manager at the relay de-
pot on the east side, climbed across
the demolished bridge and reported
the National hotel, fremont house.
Martell house, DeWolf cafe, Hazel
Milling Company, Horns cooper
shop and a great many dwellings
east of there as far as Fifth street,
were down and many people killed.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Van
dalia roundhouses, the Standard OIL
works at East St. Louis and the
Crescent elevators and twelve freight
houses on the levee were demolished.
This was sent from a suburban sta
tion. The sender SAYS the city is i'm
total darkness.
1t is reported that the limited
train from Chicago to East st. Louis
over the Alton road was blown into
the river with a section of the bridge
and 200 lives were lost.
The Great Republic and several
more excursion steamers with all on
board were reported to have gone
down, and there is but one now at
the levee of all which were there
before the storm came.
1t is difficult to estimate the num-
I -
rough estimate would place the num-
| Der at about 1000.
( Both the Western Union and the
Postal company lost every wire out
of the city.
After sending this brief dispatch
the telegraph wire failed. One Of
! the worst features of the disaster
seems to have taken place at the
race track at St Louis while the
races were in full swing and the
grand stand was crowded with peo-
| pie. Returns from St. Louis
arc received at the track at Lakeside,
and few minutes after O'Clock
the operator sending the report Of
the races stopped his work long
enough to remark:
There goes the grand stand, s"
and then his wire collapsed and
nothing more was heard from him.
In a few seconds the same message
was reported from Lexington, KY,
with the additional information that
fully $50 people were dead.
This information was subsequently
corroborated by the operator of the
Wabash road at Decatur, who said
that in his second message re-
ceived from East St. Louis it was
reported that the grand stand at the
race track was down and fully l5O
people were buried in the ruins.
The Vandalia round house, the
Vandalia freight house in which
thirty-fiye men are said TO have been
killed-the Baltimore and Ohio round
house, the Standard oil works, East
St. Louis elevator, Crescent elevator
and twelve freight houses on the
levee are destroyed.
LITTLE Rock, ARK, May 2S.-The
} operator at Kirkwood, ten miles
from St. Louis, says that a passenger
train was on the Eads bridge wher
the storm struck il, and that the
train plunged into the river.
500 pounds nice smoked hams at ,
> cents per pound. Will Pyeatt. Ia
Ike Thomas was arrested in the
city last night by Oficer Pulliam anC
taken to Ardmore, charged Will
fighting.
Tampa at the opera house Thurs