New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-14
storm SWEEPS ST. LOUIS.
Eight Story Grain Elevator
Blown Into the Mississippi.
FRIGHT KILLS TWO WOMEN
Twelve Die in New Tornadoes--
Wednesdays Casualties Now
Placed at Nineteen.

s. Louis April 13--An eight story gram
elevator valued at 100000 In the extreme
northern end Of the city, on the Burlington
tracks, was blown into the Mississippi XIV
er BY a. severe windstorm Tonight.
The Bryan Hill public school. also In tne
north end. collapsed during the storm
Two women are reported to have dieo
from fright, making three deaths In -.
Louis traceable to the storm.
The damage was particularly heavy III
the west end north side and In 81 LOUIS
County. where many greenhouses were de-
molished by the hslstones which measured
more than two inches In diameter. the
CITY parks were denuded OF plants. ana
flowers I'm the city's greenhouses were de-
stroyed
The storm came as thousands were on
their way home from downtown. IL put "'
abrupt end to the American League game
between the local and the Cleveiand teams
when the steel flag pole was snapper W
the wind and the players driven from Tue
diamond by the storm.
Almost every manufacturing plant III ~.
north side was left without wihuo"'
the storm. a
Four negroes are known TO De ueau,
number injured, one seriously ana w,
missing following a tornado wnich "'e'n
Tho town OF Wales Mines. Mo- for'y i"'e
southwest of here, this afternoon
Five persons are reported dead an"
score injured at Cadet Mo. Town .. o."
,nhahitants. twelve miles south OF De oo'o
as the result Of tornado when Prao'
,lcallv demolished the town To-Day
wires are down In every direction. ana
,,..k hotu,een De Soto and Cadet Ia OUT OF
hanks cutting off assistan g from LIE SUN
Kansas city. Mo. April 13.--Although the
veatber ia fair tonight throughout the
tornado swept districts Of Kansas ohid
homa western Missouri and northern Ar
tsnsas the major portion Of the teIepnone
and telegraph wires are stu down anu oi'S
meagre reports Of the death ana des''uo
ton wrought by the storm YESTERDAY are
ob,ainable. II will be several days before
q couholete list can be obtained.
II now appears that at least nineteen
nersons are killed. The names OF twelve
If the dead are known. Four deaths re-
norted from Meeker. Okla, and three from
Ark, are OF unidentified per-
sons.
The list Of injured will number more than
hundred Several VINO were reported
killed last night proved to-day to be only
seriously injured. OF the injured, Few are
thought TO be fatally hurt.
The monetary loss in Kansas alone Is es-
timated 10 be in excess OF $4,000. IL IS
thought the damage in other sections VS.
fed bv the storm will bring the total to
more than 100000
The identified dead:
HAMMOND. Frank. Big Heart. Okla
KERN Fred Big Heart. Okla.
BROWN. Jennie. Big Heart. Okla.
SULLIVAN. Mrs. Joseph. Lawrence. Kan.
WHEELER Mrs. Ethel. Lawrence Kan.
MEIsENHEIMER. Miss Geraldine. Robinson,
Kan.
ELLIOT, Miss. Robinson. Kan.
STONE Mrs Fred Reserve. Kan.
PETToN Jane. seven years Old Hivatha, Kan.
ROsENBAuM. J. e. Germantown. Kan.
SHELLEY Mrs. Amefa. Joplin. Mo.
HAI,TERs: infant child Of z. d. Halters. Che
catch Okla.
STROUD Miss Evs. Mountain Kurz. Ark
Big Heart. Okla. suffered the greatest
damage. Three persons were killed. sixty