The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-08-22
STORM DAMAGE 100000;
SIXTEEN PERSONS KILLED:
ABOUT FIFTY INJURED.
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| couta. occupied by the Economy depart
| ment store. was unroofed and the stock
| damaged. The fvc-story brick building
| occupied by the Schurmeier Wagon Com
| pany. Rosabel street near Seventh.
was badly damaged. the entire top story
being blown away. The Union Livery Sta
| bles. brick structure in the same vicn-
!ty. was wrecked. about half of the build
| ing being down. Along the north side OF
East Seventh street. every building was
| damaged. some being nothing more than
| heaps of debris Most OF them. however,
| fere small brick or frame buildings. and
| while the aggregate damage there will be
heavy. the individual Losses were COM
paratively small
TOP REMOVED FROM SCHOOL.
The Washington School building. at Lo-
Gust and Eighth streets. suffered consider
-.,.c damage. almost the entire top por-
tion being blown away. ST. Mary's Catho-
lie Church. on Ninth and John streets. was
unroofed. hut the school building across
the street escaped with only minor dam
age st. Sigfrid's Episcopal Church on
Eighth street. a frame structure. was lev
eled to tfs ground The storm at this
point seems 10 have lifted slightly and
for several squares the damage done to
residence property was of a minor char
acter only.
The storm dropped again at Lafayette
Park. corner OF Tenth street and Lafay-
cite avenue. and al, OF the magnificent
elm and other shade trees in this spot
were uprooted or twisted of.
From Lafayette Park the tornado swept
up Lafayette avenue to Payne avenue, the
principal business street OF East st. Paul.
wrecking many business structures and
unroofing and otherwise DANA ging resi-
dence property.
RoUNDHOUSE
COLLAPSES.
The Chicago, Minneapolis. 81. Paul and
Omaha Railroad roundhouse at Fast St
Paul collapsed. injuring one man and do
ing serious damage to number of loco
motives. Several freight cars in the yard
were picked up and tossed about by the
fierce gale and their contents s'rewn in
all directions. The tower and roof OF the
fre station at Payne avenue and York
street were blown off. striking man as
turies,. The Arlington Hills Presbyterian
Church. corner OF Case and Edgerton
streets. was unroofed and partially
The storm then veered about and skirt"d
along the eastern edge Of the town, stri6-
ing the House of the Good Shepherd. a
roofing and badly wrecking the dormi-
tory. killing one child and injuring sew
eral of the nuns
The damage to shade trees throughout
the city was enormous. Stately olms 3
feet IN circumference were either torn
up by the roots or twisted OFF like reeds.
Along Summit avenue. famous throughout
the country as beautiful residence
street. trees and shrubbery that lined the
boulevard were devastated. No consider
able damage was done to any of the
magnificent residences, however.
HARRIET ISLAND
DEVASTATED.
Harriet Island and the public baths
suffered far more from the fury of the
wind than could be learned during the
first hours following the storm. Nearly
all of the 800 trees comprising the
big groves on the island are either torn
Up By their roots. twisted off at the base.
or broken off half way up their trunks.
The damage to the city buildings at the
baths is not very severe but in the de-
struction of the trees the island has lost
one of its chief attractions, and 1t will
take a generation or more to replace the
beautiful groves which furnished shade
for the thousands of visitors on hot days
and were delight TO the eye in perspec-
tive from slightly points along the river.
The large dormitory Of the House of the
Good Shepherd. a two-story frame build
ing adjacent to the institution. collapsed
during the storm. burying fifty children
II. the runs ons cnlIO was hlJleu hIsu a
score of others more or less seriously
hurt. including one OF the sisters of the
house.
PANIC CAUSED
BY COLLAPSE.
The destruction of the building caused
panic among the several hundred in
mates Of the place. Just at the time OF
tained so many human beings the tele-
phone service to the institution ceased
TO work. City Physician A B. Anke-, on
went to the scene in a carriage. Inmates
Of the building and men who had gath
cred at the scene were pressed into work.
were In the dormitory had been taken
out
The roof of the dorniitory was struck
by lightning. which rent the roof. and
roof away. part of II falling into the
building. Then the top floor caved in and
carried the first floor and the. fifty chill
dren to the basement
AT the time of the storm there were
about 100 persons in the Tivoli Theater
All but five OF the spectators succeeded In
dresyint room at the rear of the stage or
in the barroom at the front Of the thea
ter. Five men in a corner Of the beer
garden were completely covered with
debris. II was here that the men who
were killed were struck by flying timbers
Others were injured by flying debris.
NINETY MILE WIND
DAMAGED MINNEAPOLIS.
Minneapolis. Mimi. Aug. 21.-The worst
wind and rain storm in the history Of this
place broke here last night about $50.
when three storms, from north, west and
east. gathered and broke over the city.
Hundreds of buildings were badly dam
aged all the great wire systems were
paralyzeG and thousands of beautiful
shade trees uprooteG. For three minutes
the wind blew at the rate of ninety miles
an hour and the rain fell in torrents
Several persons were injured, but none
seriously.
The center Of the storm seemed to hit
the business district at the corner of
Nicoilett avenue and Sixth street Here
the immcnse front of the Glass block was
blown out and a huge skylight WAS blown
OF. the rain doing damage to stock that
cannot be estimated. All of the stores In
this district had windows blown in and
all suffered more or less damage to stock.
The mammoth skylight of the Guarantee
Loan building fell twelve stories through
the interior court and great damage was
done by water to the Office. The street
car service was tied up until to-day,
trolley wires being down in all parts of
the city as the result Of falling trees.
FOUR KILLED
NEAR GLENCOE
Glencoe. Mimi. Aug. "A tornado
struck the township of Rich Valley and
Bergen Saturday night about s o'clock.
killing four persons. Mary O'Donnell. aged
Ii, daughter Of Patrick O'Donnell, and the
7-ynar-Old SON of Anthony O'DopueIl and