Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-08-15
TERRIFIC STORM
HITS ST. LOUIS
Gale Sweeps Through New
Fair Grounds and Does
Great Damage.
ONE MAN LOSES HIS LIFE
Eight Othesrs Were Seriously Hurt
laborers Were Whirled Off Scat
folding Around the New
Buildings.

st. Louis, Aug. 7.-One Of he heav-
lest storms of the year., though OF brick
duration, swept over st. Louis at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. being
preceded by a wind that in the west
ern part of the city developed into q
miniature twister, which tore through
the worlds fair grounds, killing Theo-
dore Richter of Kirkwood. a florist;
probably fatally injuring A. II. clark
a carpenter; seriously injuring seven
other workmen on worlds fair build
ings. and damaging other property
throughout the city to n extent or
slO,0 OC.
The greatest fury OF the storm was
| felt at the worlds fair grounds, where
the casualties occurred. =.
At the worlds fair grounds the wlnd
| swept from the southeast TO the north-
west in a miniature mad revolving
as it went. The agricultural DulldlnS
stood in it's path and six laborers Work
Ing on s~ca1olding We're hurried 10 the
| ground and nine sets of trusses n
timDeTs were razad.
Thomas Richter, a florist from Kirk
wood, a suburb, was on the ground
cumming 10 shelter when a flying plank
struck him. killing him instantly
Damage TO Buildings.
The wind next struck the machiner
! building, ard ore II the two towers,
500 feet high, Mas stripped or scar
| .uiliEy In n t~TinhiiNg and two Work
men hurled TO The ground III the debris
Both escaped with 5eN ere bruises. De-
| orls was blown against the statt-coV-
cred sides of the Completed electricity
| building and sections Cf the stan were
torn away. -.
The worlds fai. fire department.
turned out and lsusg,y dug the injured
! men from the uCD.Is II married. them
% the host lIal. =.
A.. Il. lark was so badly injured
that it is believed lie will die.
The Missouri state building, the
only one OF the six state buildings now
n course Of erection that Is not pro-
tected by trees, was damaged slightly.
Across the river In Il st. Louis
! considerable damage was done, and
Mrs. Margaret Riechman, aged A.,
tearing a repetition Of the 1886 tor
nado, dropped dead from fright.
AT Belleville, twelve miles east, a
funeral party was interring a body n
the cemetery when the storm broke.
Rev. Erich Becker, who was officiating,
| commanded all persons to lie down In
he grass, and none was struck by the
dying limbs of trees during the violent
wind.
1t Madison several small houses
were overturned, but no serious IN
mries to persons ave been reported.
Bad in Illinois.
Specials from small towns in Illinois
nre to the effect that the storm TINS
afternoon caused n death, seVeral
persons were injured n considerable
damage was done.
AT Golden a stranger was blown I'M
der a passing train and killed. Z. Z:
I~Crendelman was blown zoo feet and
LANDED against u railroad switch stand
causing painful Injuries.
At Carrolltown roofs were lifted
from many business houses and piled
i'm the streets. Several persons were
injured by dying timbers.
At Kimmundy great damage was
done TO the telephone system by light
ming.
At Trenton the wind was particular
ly severe, razing trees, and a humble
Of head Of cattle were killed by light
ming.