The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-08-20
Three Persons Are Killed, Many Are Injured and Much
 Property Destroyed
TERRIFIC WIND AROSE
 WITHOUT LEAST WARNING
Passed Over North St. Louis, Crossed the Mississippi River and Inflicted Heavy Damage All Along
 the Route.

St. Louis August 1s.-A tornado of small proportions but of extreme fury, swept down upon the residence portion of North St. Louis today, resulting in the death of two persons, injury to probably fifty and damage to property estimated at $100000.
 l The dead:
 1 John Ellington.
 Joe -. a boy whose full name has not been ascertained. died at the city hos rital n'Pht from injuries received in new paper delivery wagon, which was 0 elturned by the storm. His skull was fractt1ed.
 One of the injured, Herman sauerwin, aged lo years may die. A shower passed over St. Louis early in the day but there had been no rain in North St. Louis. The sky had cleal'ed and the atmosphere had become V surky and hot when citizens in North St. Louis noticed dark cloud approaching from the southwest.
 Without Least Premonition.
 Suddenly, without the slightest premo- nition an arm seemed to shoot to the ground like gigantic cable, twisting and turning. The end touched the ground at Nineteenth and Angelrodt streets, and with incredible swiftness and force swept east along Angelrodt for ten blocks, then turned north and swept three blocks along Broadway. when 1t jumped eight blocks northeast to the foot of Brennan street and the river, where considerable proper ty along the river front was destroyed.
 The tornado then jumped to about the middle of the river and encountered a ferry boat, which was turned and tossed about but was not sunk. Leaving the ferry the capricious tor nado once more jumped and struck the 1 Illinois shore near Madison, where it de- molisheo several dwellings, the Leider- l krans hall and blew down portion of | the Madison Cooper works, killing John l Ellington. Severe damage was done also to the buildings in Venice and Granite | City. which adJoin Madison and number | of persons were injured.
 Terror-Stricken Crowds on Streets. So squickly did the tornado sweep throl gh North St. Louis that the citi- zens could scarcely comprehend what had happened and in the stiffness that followed the wind cries were heard on l all siees as terror stricken persons ran about the streets. Not a telegraph, tele- | phcne or trolley pole was left standing l or the streets swept by the twister and trees were piled In heaps The width of the l. nado was about a block and half and houses were unroofed. win dow panes were generally demolished, Ior "a otO tioIi Diolished and the streets filtered high with debris.
 A Broadway car containing eleven pas sengers was suddenly buried under six telegraph poles, which crashed into the top and wrecked the car. The passengers had remarkable escape from injury and only the motorman received slight bruises.
 Street Car Covered by Debris. Probably the heaviest loss suffered by a single concern was the destruction ac- complished at the Neidringhaus rolling mill. The plant covers two squares. The big smokestack was blown down and half the plant was demolished, entailing dam age estimated at s25,0OO Six emploves were injured in this place
 Panic Averted By Woman.
 A concert was in progress at Festival Hall at the exposition grounds during the heavy thunderstorm tonight when sud- denly there was a flash of lightning and immediately all the lights went out A panic was only prevented by a woman's voice, taking up the strains of America" and others joining in
 Other familiar songs followed and the audience left the building singing, but without excitement. In the Chinese vil- lage on the pike 36o Chinamen. just ar rived were being watched over by the immigration officers temporarily when the storm struck.
 The celestials became panic stricken, and the officers were forceu to draw revolvers to subdue the excitement. Lightning struck nearby and one China man was severely shocked, while an other jumped from the roof of the build ing and broke his arm. The band stand l in the plaza at St. Louis was struck by l lightning and was burned before the rain extinguished the flames.
 Damage in Illinois.
 Venice, H., August 1s.-The tornado | that swept across the river from North 1 St Louis late today killed one person | here, injured ten others and caused con- siderable damage to property. The tor nado was of short duration, but was re- markedly destructive in force The dead:
 Mrs Margaret c. Beal. Injured:
 l Mrs Thomas Mitchell, bruised. | Mrs Thomas Wheeless, crushed by a l tree
 | Mrs Nellie Schmidt, seriously injured
 John Bennett, son of city marshall, leg fractured.
 1 Weslie Bennett, daughter. cut and | bruised
 Minnie Bennett daughter, hip frsc- | tured
 l Mrs. Bennett, bruised | John Foster, struck by debris. Mrs John Foster. bruised.
 Tornado Jumps Across River. The tornado was seen jumping across the river' but almost before word of alarm could be given 1t swept into Illinois north of Venice, turned and the next moment was ploughing it's way through the streets.
 l Mrs Beal was killed by the falling debris of her home. which was blown to pieces. Mrs. Wheeless was the occupant \ of houseboat moored along the river, which was crushed by falling tree and l she was seriously injured. | The members of the Bennett family had