The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-08-24
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Tornado in Residence Fart Of
North St. Louis.
TWO KILLED, FIFTY INJURED

Storm Jumps the River and Fatalities
Occur on illinois side--Poles Are
Leveled and Houses Unroofed.
Property Loss 10 100000.
st. Louis, Aug. 20.-A tornado OF
small proportions, but of extreme fury,
swept down upon the residence por-
ton Of North st. Louis, resulting IN
the death of two persons. injury to
probably fifty and damage to property
estimated at 100000.
Dead: John Ellington and Mrs.
Margaret Beal.
Injured: Jacob Harmeste. shoulder
dislocated; William H. Linham. cut:
Edward Patterson, badly cut; Grit
wood Powinski. burned by live wire.
serious; James Crosby, broken hip;
William Ditchauer, leg and arm brok-
en-; William Fouche. leg broken;
Louis McCulhn. leg broken; Herman
Sauerwine, aged ten. arm broken and
crushed. will probably die; William
Bigger bruised: w. H. Largan. cut
and bruised; T. A. Sommers. bruised.
Storm Leaps the River.
A shower 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 murky and hot, when
citizens in North st. Louis noticed a
dark cloud approaching from the
southwest. Suddenly, and without the
slightest premonition. 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 incred-
ible swiftness and force, swept east
along Angelrodt for ten blocks. then
turned north and swept three blocks
along Broadway. when it jumped eight
blocks northeast to the foot of Bremen
street and the river. where consider
able property along the river front
was destroyed. The tornado then
Jumped to about the middle Of the
river and encountered ferryboat,
which was turned and tossed about,
but was not sunk. leaving the ferry.
! the capricious tornado once more
tumped and struck the Illinois shore
near Madison, where it demolished
several buildings. the Leiderkranz
/ hall and blew down a portion of the
/ Madison cooper works, killing John
Ellington. Severe damage was done
also to buildings in Venice. Mrs. Mar
/ garet Beal was killed and ten persons
injured. The tornado was seen jump
ing across the river, but almost be
| fore word Of alarm could be given
it swept into Illinois north of Venice
turned and the next moment was
ploughing its way through the streets
Mrs. Beal was killed by the falling
debris OF her home, which was blown
to pieces. A pouring rainstorm del
uged Venice and added greatly to the
damage already wrought by flooding
unroofed residences and buildings.
Calm Follows Storm.
So quickly did the tornado sweeI
through North ST. Louis that the citi
zens could scarcely comprehend wha
had happened, and in the stillnes:
that followed the wind cries were
heard on all sides as terror stricken
persons ran about the streets. Not {
telegraph, telephone or trolley pole
was left standing along the street:
swept by the twister AMI trees were
piled in heaps. The width of the tor
nado was about block and hal
and houses were unroofed, window
panes demolished. several large manu-
factories partially demolished and th'
streets Uttered high with debris.
| A Broadway trolley car. containin,
eleven passengers. was suddenl.
buried under six telegraph poles
which crushed in the top ant
wrecked the car. The passengers hal
remarkable escape from injury.
The top story OF Sommers Bros
tailoring establishment was blow
away Probably the heaviest loss sui
fered by a single concern was the dc
struction accomplished at the NieG
ringhaus rolling mills. The plan
covers two squares in extent TIL
big smoke stack was blown down an
half the plant was demolished. entail
ing estimated damage OF $4,000. ST
employees were injured in this plan.
Woman Prevents Panic.
A concert was in progress in Fe:
tiva hall at the exposition, durin
the heavy thunder storm last nigh
when suddenly there was flash {
lightning and Immediately all tn
lights went out. Instantly the aud
: ence became panic-stricken and
panic was only prevented by won
ans voice taking up the strains {
America" in which others joine'
Other familiar songs followed and tn
audience left the building singin
: but without excitement.
8 The band stand in the Plaza OF S
Louis was struck by lightning an
( the roof burned before the rain exit
gushed the flames.
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Riot at Hammond, Ind.
Hammond. Ind Aug 20-Tv
thousand men, many of them employ
of contending parties, engaged in
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