Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-30
Hundreds Hurt
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OF policemen kept terrified people
from injury or death from the live
wires.
With telephone service denoralized
1t took the city several minutes tc
learn what had happened. The news
Of the tornado was flashed over the
city by radio and mothers in parts
of the city unvisited by the storm
were in terror as they awaited word
from the schools in the ornado dis
trict.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 80 tP)-Forty-one
or more persons were killed, hundreds
were injured and heavy property
damage was done by tornado which
struck St. Louis and vicinity today.
The wind reached it's highest velocity,
80 miles an hour, at 1903 p. M, and
was accompanied by terrific rain.
The storm apparently hit the city
in the Cheltenham district in the
southeast section, moved northeast to-
| ward Grand boulevard, followed that
street to the vicinity of the major
league baseball park and cut across
the Mississippi river near the Nc
/ Kinley bridge, striking the tri-cities
of Venice, Madison and Granite City,
Ill.
| Except for hard blow and heavy
rain, most of the downtown section
was spared.
In the sections swept by the storm,
pedestrians were blown off their feet,
roofs were lifted off, numerous build
ings were crushed, automobiles were
blown about and trees were blown
down. Telephone and telegraph lines
were disabled
Anbulances were sent in all direc-
tions and soon city hospitals were
crowded with injured men, women and
children. Some were seriously injured
while most were only bruised or nerve
shocked
All 1,50O members of the police de-
partment and all firemen were called
out for rescue and relief work. The
138th infantry, ST. Louis national
guard regiment, was mobilized under
an emergency order. The Red Gross
began mobilizing it's relief forces.
The storm was the most destructive
Of any here since the tornado Of May
81, 1896, when 140 persons were killed.
-Four men were killed at the plant
of the Blackmer and Post Pipe COM
pany, 28O1 Hereford street. Three
men were killed at the Polar Wave
Ice company plant, Ducan and New
stead avenues. Three were killed at
the Hydraulic Press Brick company,
5100 Manchester avenue.
Three women, unidentified, were
killed in building at Prairie avenue
and Page boulevard. Two of the Wom-
en- were burned to death when the
building caught fire after its coll
lapse.
The dead:
william OWsley.
Joseph Simon.
Mrs. Mary POtee.
Detective. Sergeant Edward
Schaff. yuce
Joseph Barry.
Hubert Fertile.
Alvie Anderson.
Jules Audrc.
Calhoun CrewfOrd.
Everett Stone.
James OIeurie.
James Henry.
Earl White.
Abraham Parkman.
Alice Kindley.
Gertrude Zepf.
Mrs. e. j. Williams, negro.
Duchess Brooks, negro.
william Barker.
Mary DOnnelly.
Bridget Mathews.
Dash COtter, Granite City.
Nick RadicO, Grant City.
Chief of Police Michael Clifford,
! Venice.
| Mrs. Belle Fisher.
! Mrs. Catherine DOrsay.
Unidentified negro woman.
/ George A. Slattery.
! Mrs. Reba Blancet
Mrs. Thomas MatSOn.
| Patricia DOrsay.
Jones.
Mrs. MOllie Donovan
4. Prince BrOokman, negro.
Hattie Pearl, negro infant.
Thomas Oliver.
David Rhule, Granite City, Ill.
Charles Heft, Madison, Ill.
! Mrs. MiSabel Uriarte.
Mrs. HI. Harrison, negro.
Edward A. Dunn.
Herbert Turtle.
Mrs. Price.
Mrs. Manley.
George TOlle.
Orchard Blanks.
| Harry O'Leary.
ArviOl Phelps.
John Sohbeck, 65.
David BIanchette.
Joseph Schwendeman, go, Gram
ite City.
mrs. HaryOn, negro.
Mrs. Agnes Straumann, SS.
Mrs. Elsie VOeIker, 42.
Will Washington, negro.
Nellie Irwin.
The unidentified include one patrol
man, four men, six women, three negro
men and one negro woman, all of st.
Louis; one man at Venice, Ills, and
one at Granite City, Ills.
Detective Sergeant Edward Schaff
and an unidentified patrolman were
killed in collapse of building at 3700
EaSton avenue Two young women
y