The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-12

adrift III the current HAN oI tIl'iii VIII
blown across the river and heached on the
Illinois side. The remainder drift"d down
the river but all managed TO keep ahoat
While the wind lasted. Which was not more
than fifteen minutes.
The s. H. II. Clark. n large towhoat-
which had lust brought in a fleet Of
barees for the Valley Transportation
Company. broke from its moorngs during
the storm and was for time in imminent
danger OF going down. The wind soon
subsided. however. and she rode safely
TIL she was tOwtd in by the tusboats sent
down from the harboT.
The steamer Dubuque was moored to
the Diamond Joe Lines wharboat. when
she went off.
As soon = report reached the harbor
ohics that the bargss had broken loose
thre" tuSboatS were sent down the river
To bring them to shore. II was found chat
none of the barges had sunk and that no
material damage had been done.
The wharfboat Of the Diamond 10 Line
at the foot of Washington avenue, broke
from its moorings, and for time it
seemed IN danger Of drifting out into the
current. one Of the cables at tn" bow
held. however. and the harbor boat Mark
Twain and two tugs soon succeeded in
bringing the vharfboat back 10 shore
STEAMERS SWEPT BY GALE.
The steamers Corwin II. Spencer. city
"f Providence. Spread Eagle and City OF
u. ;npuis were all on the river in the
vicinity of s.. Louis when the storm te-
gan. The Spread Eagle had Just left her
moorinEs on her "trip 10 Grafton. She was
at the foot of Franklin avenue when the
wind struck nor. Her captain thought for
a time TO outrde the storm and contin-
ued up the river to the foot OF Biddie
street Here the wind came with fresh
energy and she was compelled to anchor.
The City of Providence was returning
from an excursion trip to Montesano. She
had on board about fifty children from the
Fresh-Air Mission and small number OF
other excursiOnists. The wind struck her
about a mile below the quarantine and
she Iay-to at once The high cliffs in that
vicinity protected her from the storm.
The Spencer and the City Of Memphis
were each further down the river and felt
the full fury of the storm. The Spencer
lav-to a. Oncc and was seve rely beaten by
the waves. The Memphis was heavily
loaded and managed to weather the storm
without going to shore. She landed unin-
jured at her wharf at the loot Of Olive
street at I o'clock.
BIG STORE DAMAGED.
All of the windows and a skylight on
the third and fourth floors of the Globe
Shoe and Clothing Company's store at the
corner of Seventh street and Fra nkltn ave-
nue. were BLOWN in. Many shoppers were
IN the store when the storm came up and
a general panic was narrowly prevented
by Partolman Murphy of the Fifth Dis
trict. who stood at the front door and
forced the terror stricken crowd back into
the building with his club.
Eighteen or twenty houses on Twenty
first street. between Carr and Wash
streets. were completely unroofed
CHURCH STEEPLE DEMOLISHED.
The steeple of the North Presbyterian
Church at the corner of Eleventh and
Chambers street, was blown from the roof
across the street into the Widelmann
Grocery Company's store. tearing down all
the wires along the street In its descent
and completely wrecking the front of the
store.
The three plate-glass windows OF the
Hammond Grocery Company at the corner
or Park and California avenues were
smashed in by a falling telegraph pole
All wires from Olive to Wash streets
and from Grand to Claiming avenues are
down, as are also all wires In Compton
Heights.
A window In the southwest corner OF the
Jail was blown in.
At the corner OF Eighth and Olive streets
a delivery wagon of Chris F'reland of No.
$40 North Twentieth street was over
turned and the contents were scattered
in the street. The horse attached to the
wagon was so dazed that after kicking
itself free 1T did not run away
Wind demolished a portion Of the south |
wall of the Hotel Lott, at the northwest |
corner of Ninth and Chestnut streets, cav
ing in the roof and flooding the upper floor |
of the building.
Several large trees in Lyon Park. on |
South Broadway, were blown down and |
the lawns were damaged by flying debris
An iron pole at the south end of the
Grand avenue viaduct, carrying eight ca
bles. was torn loose and bent almost
double.
The large signboard at California and
Gravois avenues was blown out into the
road.
VELOCITY OF THE WIND.
Instruments on top of the Chemical
building. where the United States
Weather Observatory Is located showed
the winds extreme velocity to be sixty
1--WE miles hour. This velocity was
only about one minute. The
maximum velocity for five minutes was
forty-sx miles an hour.
AS compared with the record OF May q.