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WRECK AT ST. LOUIS.Missouri's Metropolis Swept’ bu Gudone.THE LOSS OF LIFE IS IMMENSE,Fully Five Hundred Said to Have Perished.FIRE AIDS THE DESTRUCTION.Union manager at the relay ■ depot, climbed across—the—demolished—tridge and reported the National hote , the Tremopt House, the Martel! House, the DeWolf cate, the Hezel Milling company's mill, Horn’s cooper shop, and a great many'dwellings east of there as ■fm-as-Fifth-street, gone and mapy people killed. The Baltimore and Ohio and Vandalia round-house, the Stand ard oil works, the East St. Louis and Crescent elevators, and twelve freight* houses., on the levee, are demolished.500 excursionists. An officer of the com-pany_.promptly_^de_niM_thls. He saidthe boat loft St. Louis at noon to go to Alton, where it was registered for an excursionatJEf o’clock1 that night. The storm might have blown the boat away, but in that case only the crew would have been imperiled, and these men could swim to safety. She is safe.ELECTRIC LIGHT AND WORKS USELESS.GASConvention Hnll Unroofed—Storm News from Other Points In Missouri—Elghtv School Children Reported Killed at Drake, III., and Fifty at the Village of Dye. .Death and destruction reign supreme In St. Louis and’vicinity as a result of the most terrible storm that ever visited that section. Buildings of every description' are in i;uins, and, as a result, hundreds of Reople are reported dead and injured, but, until order is restored; it will be impossible tp make -any definite statement.- Reports-are in circulation that seven steamers lying at wharf boats have been sunk, with all on board-The citx, was left in darkness, as the electric light's and trolley wires were •^blown down, iThe storm broke out about 5 o'clock Wednesday afternoon after a most oppressively hot day, and the rain began to fall. It soon developed into a fierce thunderstorm, with the wind from the east. A little later the wind had gained a velocity of,eighty miles an hour, driving the rain before It and tearing loose signs, cornices, chimneys, and everything in its way. Many buildings of every description were demolished, and others set on fire by ligtning and crossed wires.The streets were full of people going home from work, and. a panic ensued as soon as the storm broke. Men were buildings, horses and carriages were sent flying here and there, and falling wires, full of deadly fluid, added to the horror of the scene.Suddenly the wind veered around to the west and completed the destruction. It Is asserted by some of those who have traversed the uown-town partDisasters on Water.The steamer J. J. Odell of the Illinois River packet was blown from its wharf.at the foot of Morgan street, crashed into the second pier of the Eads bridge, and sank. ■ Her boilers blew up•before she .-disappeared. She had acrew of 12, and three women passen-gers, besides her captain, George I'tfWH2 send, an old riverman, who had his home in St. .Louis.Three of her crew, Jack Morrissey, Pat Milan, and a man named Moore, reached land 'safely. The two former jumped before the explosion and caugh t driftwood. Moore was blown overboard by the explosion, and was cut about the head, but-managed to swim ashore. Three btfiers of the crew clung to the pier and made their way up to the bridge proper. There is no way of estimating the number of lives that were lost on the river craft.Wild Race wnsb Death.While the _storm was at-tts'blghest the passenger train on the Chicago Alton railway pulled out on the bridge from the Missouri side. 11. was on its way~ east. Engineer Sdott had onlyIn an Interviewand after the storm.he said:For the past week the weatherin the-yiclnity of St. Louis has been characterized by low pressure, jhlgh temperatures,'excessive humidity, and prevailing southerly windsJ The pressure has also keen low throughout the west. At the same time it is relatively high In the south, causing the warm, southerly wihds laden wUh moisture, to blow from the gulHl? Mexlcor This mois^ ture has been held in suspense by .the w.arm aBnosphere, and the humidity consequently increased from day to day. The moan temperature averaged from 3 to 13 degrees above the normal eachHello of Raton Rouco Dost.The tug Belle of Baton Rouge, which was anchored up the river, waB carried far down the river, rolling over and over, and finally struck the raft of the Wiggins Ferry Company at the front Ht .Chateau avenue^ where it sunk.As the first evBence 'of the approach-ing storm began to appear every engineer on the river got up full steam, in ordbr to be able to combat the elements. Had it been anything but a tornado it is probable this would have aided the crews of the steamers in saving their craft. But the onslaught was so violent that the Crews found their efforts only sufficed to aid them slightly in directing the course of their boats.The steamer Pittsburg of the Diamond Joe line, the steamer City of Vicksburg and the Providence of the Columbian Exposition Company, the' Captain Monroe of the ADchor line, and many of the smaller craft were pitched and tossed about untilt'the final blafet rent them from their ancho’rage.,The storm, swept diagonally across-the river and struck the Illinois bank ■with increased fury. The loss of life in the water on.the.east side seems to have been light, as everybody was cautioned not to jump and everybody was carried safely to land.The Belle of Calhoun and the Libbie Condor, which were moored near Cho-Shrewsbury Park; Charles Nee, 406 South Seventh street; William Winkle, Eighth street and Park avenue; James Dunn, city hospital; unknown child, 944 Papin street; two unknown men, Twenty-seventh and St. Vincent avenue; unknown woman, Thirteenth and Soulard street; unknowq man, Dallman and Park avetfae; janitor St. Paul’s church; unknown man, Eighteenth street and Geyer.avenue; two unknown children, 1726 South Ninth street; Mai-achl McDonald, 30, single, 2745 Clark avenue; unknown baby, 2 years old, picked up at Twenty-second and Market streets; Robert Miller, Blair and Benton avenues; unknown, picked up at Third and Rutger; William Ottewad; John Burgess; Wallace T. C. Butler;Booker Elpstein; Bornsteln; FredZimmers, chief engineer union depot!Wmffli.SHOWING LOCATION OF THE FAIR GROUNDS AND EADJJ BRIDGE.power house, unknown child, about 5 years old, California and Ann avenues;J. Lemeke, manager St. Louis Barbers’ Supply Co.; unknown manr at A. B. Jones' broom factory; Josephine Martini; fifteen unknown men; one unknown woman; one unknown girl; John Rafferty; Harry Hess;-Mr. and Mr3. Da-,’id Sade; George Woods, clerk in Vandalia office; Henry Strieker, Vandalia railway; J. E. Keene, Vandalia railway; Dr. C. E. Neall, dentist; two children of Mns. Horace Trump, Litchfield, III.; Mrs. Richey; Joe Frank; Joe Mitchell; Phi! Strieker; Charles Carroll, barber; John Kent; Mrs. Scott Hayward; Frank Rose; Ed Kavanaugh; Jacob Kurtz, Vincennes, Ind.; Mrs. Clenden-ning; Mrs. Bruce; Mrs. Emma Sullivan; Robert Bland; John Reamer; Charles Maitz; William Suber; Henry Wlnter-man. - Anderson; -— Palmsley;Miss Conley; Mrs. Slide; Charles Waites, 1319 Colli'uS' avenue; William' Surber; Henry Winterman —«* Anderson; Peter Walmsby; Miss Conley; MrsTSTTd'e; John Hayes; Mrs. William Hayes; Mrs. Pat Bean; J. A. Porter, Broughton, 111.; flagman of air line, name unknown; John Hayes; Mrs. William Hayes; unknown boy; unknown traveling man; Mr. and ,Mrs. David S. Sage; George Woods, clerk in Vandalia office; Henry Sprlcker, Vandalia line; J. E. Heine, Vandalia line; Dr. C. E. Mull, dentist; John Kent; Mrs. Scott Hayward; F.rank Rose; O. Kavanaugh; Jacob Kurtz, Vincennes, Ind.; Mrs. Clendennin; fe,„ Bruce; Mrs. Emma Sullivan; John Brames; twenty employes of the Liggett Myers Tobacco company at Tower Grove Park; twenty men employed in the St. Louis Wooden Gutter and Refrigerator factory, at Second street and Park avenue.proceeded a short .distance when he realized the awful danger which threatened the train. The wind struck the coaches, at first causing them to careen. At. that time ho was about ..half JW_day, while the humidity ranged from 7 to 20 per cent each mean, for this season qf fhe year. ,“Wednesday morning, the weather map showed the low pressure still oVer-Ivimr tire west- with—the-eeivter-of-de—Dead at East St. Doni*.Great difficulty Is'being encountered at East St. Louis in the work of identifying the desKR'~*Thedatest advices give the following list:.and. wifed Philm Strick-fractured, otherwise Injured; T. A. Bfen-, son, skull fractured; George Boetz, head hurt and badly bruised yGeorge Seiper,-internally injured; Mlk'e Boyd, Internally injured; Kate Filsinger. suffers from a broken leg; Fechtenmeyer, a driver of Penny Gentle’s wagon, was thrown from his wagon at Chouteau and Jefferson, and had his skulb fractured; Tom Moss, the secretary of .the Are department, picked up unconscious; Tom Carroll and Joseph Ireland sought shelter In a-doorway at Bridge Beaches on Poplar street, and were Injured by flying wreckage; M. F. Crawley, with three others was standing in the hallway of ■ St. Paul's church, Ninth and Lafayette avenue, when the building collapsed; Abbie Burke, St. Louis; C. C. Kalb; Julius Skaffer, in jured internally, not expected' to live; 'Harry-SmlthrNokomigrlllrrbadly injured about body and head; serious Charles Street, Newport, Ark., head and arms cut; in a serious condition; Louise Miller, Burneville, Jefferson county, Mo., badly hurt; Peter Hall, Seriously injured; Maud H. Tinker, Danville, WIs., serious cuts on head and body believed to bu fatal; J. W. Tinker, M L. Tinker, J. L. Tinker, all of Waterloo, 111., more or less injured; Patrick McMahon, serious bruises on body and head.The following are at the City hospital;Harry Ottosson, - badly cut and bruised; Laurence Childress, badly cut and bruised; Mary Finan, badly cut and bruised; sixty paupers, more or less injured; H. C. Hall, engineer- Baltimore ajul Ohio; Mrs. Ellen Hennessy, 212 St. Louis avenue, chest crushed, will die; W. H. Williams, assistant superintend-enl...o£ St. Louis and East •St.....kouls Electric railway, right arm broken, head cut ami internally injured,- will-probably die; Patrick Kennedy, internal injuries; J. H. BuchananL Howell, Ind., internal injuries; H. H. McMan’n, hc-ad cut; T. P. Elam, blacksmith on the Vandalia road, internal Injuries: V. C. Van Meeder, B. O. road, timber through thigh, will probably die; Wm. Hopo, Big Four, legs badly fractured; Mayor H. F. Bader, badly injured about the head by flying timbers; Mrs. Horace Trump, internal injuries; Bert Far-relT, both legs cut off at thigh; Dan Kelfy, crushed by falling building; Joe Duffy, same; Baby Brower, 500 West Broadway, leg broken; John Block, internal injuries; Joseph Reed, internal injuries; Ambrose Mormon, both legs and left arm broken; James Ramsey, same; four members of Armour family; Frank Roff, Venice, 111., internal injuries; W. St. Hops, thigh fractured; Ed. Cull, thigh broken, and twenty otlie^ more or less injuredAn last Co is fo treat a poi heal the 1 ton ture that ■fontOf €whbumqNova sebleonewhcresupatlt;this.......AseeiEmscoigraNelderatriAanc•upcliciVteaiF.BUS'COhROCtie!3091Ottforwh ElsewTiorft* rn MWfliirl: rBaldwin, Mo., special; A hurricane Tppnnniiinied bv. a LcmficjaniA.^
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Fri, Jun 05, 1896
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