Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-20
ST. LOUIS TORNADO
Worlds Fair City Damaged
 by Windstorm.
SWEPT ONLY ALONG NARROW PATH

Exposition Buildings and Grounds
 Escaped - Two Lives Reported
 LOst-MRny Injured-PrOperty
 .- Damage s1OO,oOo.
 ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20.--A sudden gale of wind, lasting about three minutes, caused considerable damage in north St. Louis, and six men were injured by being caught beneath the smoke. stack of the Neidringhaus blaming mill, which. crushed through the roof under which the men were working. The wind came without warning.
 The police reported two persons kill ed and more than twenty injured in the residence sections surrounding the manufacturing district
 John Ellington is dead, Louis M. Mo Cullough had a leg broken, and w. Bigger was badly cut and bruised.
 The wind assumed the proportions of e tornado in small area, forming a narrow lane from point about five blocks west of the river to the waters edge.
 Witnesses say that the storm cloud came In the shape of a funnel and that when it reached the river it bounded across and that several houses on the Illinois side were seen unroofed and considerable damage was reported at Madison, Venice and at other small towns near the river
 Telegraph poles for distance of i've blocks on Broadway were moved down one after another as weeds be- fore a scythe.
 Roofs were blown from houses. Trol- ley and feed wires and smaller wires were blown down. Trees were up- rooted.
 The air was filled with flying tim bers and splinters and with debris and dust. The people were stricken with terror. As many as had time sought shelter in cellars.
 The storm passed almost as quickly as it came, leaving the people dazed from its suddenness.
 The residence of A. Albrecht at Twenty third and Palm streets was un- roofed. The house of family named Frazer on Palm street near Twenty third street was unroofed.
 The property damage is estimated at
 
 ten, was, it is believed, fatally injured.
 A shower had passed over St Louis earlier in the day, but there had been no rain in north St. Louis. The sky had cleared and the atmosphere had become very n1urky and hot when citi- zens in north St. Leuis noticed dark cloud approaching from the southwest Suddenly and without the slightest premoniti0R an arm seemed to shoot to the ground like gigantic cable, twist ing and turning. The end touched the ground at Nineteenth and Angelrodt streets and with incredible swiftness and force swept east along Angelrodt street for ten blocks, then turned north and swept three blocks along Broad way, when 1t jumped eight blocks northeast to the foot of Brennan street and the river, where considerable property along the river front was de- stroyed. The tornado then jumped to about the middle of the river and en- countered a ferryboat, which was turned and tossed about, but was not | sunk.
 Leaving the ferry, the tornado once more jumped and struck the Illinois shore near Madison, where 1t demol- ished several dwellings, the Leider- kranK hall and blew down portion of the Madison Cooperage works, killing John Ellington. Severe damage was done also to buildings in Venice and Granite City, which adjofn Madison, and number of persons were injured.
 So quickly did the tornado sweep through north St Louis that the citi- zens could scarcely comprehend what had happened, and in the stiffness that l followed the wind cries were heard on all sides as terror stricken people ran about the streets. Not telegraph, tel ephone or trolley pole was left stand ing along the streets swept by the storm.
 Not the slightest damage was done at the worlds fair grounds The expo sition is situated over i've miles from the seat of the tornado, and the wind l was not felt there.
 l "A Mukden dispatch says that battle is regarded as being imminent, as the ] Japanese on the Russian east front l are only twenty miles from Tiaovsng. i The adwa pre DOSES are not Ii,orn than four uiles apart and suall Seiruais h AS ar' of dxily ""rnrrNn"e, i'n the south tte .Iapanese have retired |" t4aichens. T"rnaGO Kssaea Two mt Venice, ysl.
 VENICE, H., Aug. 20.--Two were killed and ten injured by the tornado that swept from north St. Louis across the river to this section late last night. I VI a A
 STORM SWEEPS MANITOBA.