Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-28

NJ. F. Crawley, with three others. was
standing in the doorway Of st. Pauls
the building collapsed. They were bruised
| by falling brick, but escaped without seri-
GUS Injury.
THE DEvASTATED DISTRICT.
buildings at St. Loui. Destroyed or
| Damaged.
| ST. LOUIS. May 2s.-Among the buildings
destroyed or damaged are the following:
Srger Sewing Manufacturing Company,
building almost totally destroyed. four
| people injured. The Eden Publishing
| House, building unroofed and stock dam
aged.
| The Haycock Carriage CompaIy's build
| Ing unroofed and stock badly damaged.
| St. Johns Church on Hickory street lost
| its steeple. Liederkranz Hall. Choteau
avenue and 18th street. unroofed and en-
! tire building flooded with water. Brown
tobacco Co., lost top story. South wall of
nail department of St. Louis Wire Co
wrecked fire breaking out and destroy
| Ing it.
Winds swept up the river front and com
| pletely demolished the Merchants ele-
! rator. Engine No. y of the St Louis
Transfer Company was blown from the
track at Gratiot street. The Nilley foun-
| dry building was relieved of its roof and
| carried into the street, while the freight
house of the Burlington road suffered the
same fate.
al olH ana -hllidhpny streets the 'front.' or
the building occupied by the Allen Buggy
Company was blown down. while that of
Matthews < Son Rag Company, a block
east. was served in like manner. The
buildings formerly occupied by Reilly &
Walfert's sale stables, on North Broadway
Wore considerably damaged.
NOT a glass remains IL the building Oc-
oupicd by kupfcrle Brass Company at ID
AID Mo"nd street Louis Brock factory at
Broadway and Howard streets was COM
plctcly wrecked.
Along 2lst street, between Olive and Pa
pin streets, not a single building tela-
graph pole, tree or a sign escaped Street
ard sidewalks are almost a solid mass of
debris, bricks, broken telephone and tele-
broken glass and broken signs, while wires
lie over the whole in interminable net
ting.
At 40 South 21st street. where j. T. Swift
Cos fresh meat establishment is To-
Gated not a single window in the build
Ing remains intact, the whole place being
n'oded The stock of S;,o,U worth of meat
! is covered with water, bits Of broken glass
and flying mud ard sand. The building
occupied by Epstein Burnsten, whole
sale liquor dealers, DOS South Broadway
was blown down; Julius Call, bookkeeper
was killed, and Mr.. Epstein was internally
injured
No. ISIS Choteau avenue, occupied by
Sawyer Manufacturing Company was
blown down. Those under ruins are EN-
ma CLANCY and Isabella Howe Charles
Tandy is now buried in the debris of ST.
Louis Cracker Company. at 18th and Cho-
teau avenue; store at 2lO2 Clark avenue
wrecked.
Grone's brewery at o2d and Clark avenue
almost totally wrecked Scandinavian
Church, southeast corner ODD and Clark
streets. picked up and turned COM
pletely over. At Gates wire mill, 21st and
Gratot streets, scene Understandable was
met with An immense portion of the
roof of the building lies piled up
high on the south end of bridge, while
al around mass of wires, poles, roofing
and tons of other debris makes vicinity ut
terly impenetrative. Mr.. Lipps, who was
employed In Gates mill said that four
persons We're badly hurt, two fatally. Mr.
Lipps could not explain how it happened
that of 80 more boys and men who
were in the building only four We're hurt.
The old three-st Dry building on the south
east corner Of Main and Pine streets. oc-
cupie1 by East st. Louis Commission Co.,
is a total wreck. The fate of the employees
could not be learned, the place was
abandoned.
Wreckase Ten Feet Deep.
Pine street is filled with wreckage ami
goods to the height of ten feet.
The storm visited The store of Penny &
Gentles at the corner of Broadway and
Franklin avenue. The massive plate glass
windows and all sides were completely de-
molished and the windows on every floor
blown in, while the water deluged the
street in torrents. The firm estimates its
loss at $4,000.
The immunity from loss of life ard injury
to employees in the Iron Mountain railroad
yards is a little short of marvellous. The
contents of lumber yards in the neighbor-
mood were strewn over the yards like hail.
In some switch targets were struck by fly
ing timberS and blown down. Pianks We're
driven into the earth and broken, freight
cars were demolished and merchandise
sc altered in all directions.
The wind lifted the roof off Charles TT
Pecks new building to the. north Of the
Wall Paper Company, and blew down the
wall Of new brick building two doors
building of William Keonig & Co, agents
OF Aultman Co., agricultural implements
The roof and ceilings to the first floor were
wrecked and the occupants Of the office
vault.
The buildings Of the American Refriger
ator Transit Company at the Leyee and
Cedar street are demolished
The terminal elevator, Middle and Main
was robbed of the south end wall on the
first floor. The fourth story and roof Of
McPheeters dry goods warehouse of the
Levee, between Biddle and Cedar. was
blown Off. The front and roof of Fisher
q Davis three-story brick saw mill ma
chinery house. 1S24-26 North Main was
wrecked. The roof and smok stacks of the
Fulton iron works and machine shon EnI-
ton and Carr, were blown Off
The roof was blown off Of a yacant build
ing belonging to the DR.. ]. H. Mclean es-
tate, Collins and Biddle
About Levee and Carr STRAIT the wind
played sad havoc. The immense freight
shed of the Chicago. Burlington and Ouin.
ey railroad two blocks long and one Wide.
| avenue, is total wreck.
FIRST REPORTS EXAGGERATED.
Yet the List of Dead md In,r-., g..
Appalling.
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