The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1896. i L] { MAP SHOWING THE PRINCIPAL PORTIONS OF S 0 Carondent 0O0S 0000 0E000EE I. LOUIS, MO., AND EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL., SWEPT BY THE CYCLONE. The greatest loss of life occurred on the south of the railroad track that divides the city. The section of the town from which the worst casualties are reported is filled with old buiidings, many of them having been built half a century ago. MISS BULLER, EMMA GLADSHAW, Ruff's Hotel. L. ICHARDSON, 319 North Sixtn street. SCOTT HAYWARD. AMELIA SURBER. PETER WALMSLEY. JOHN ANDERSON. MRS. BRUCE. MICHAEL KILDEA: THOMAS KEEFER. BERT FARREL. WILLIAM FARREL. FRANK McCORMACK. JOSEPH FRANKS. EX-POLICEMAN THOMAS GRIFFIN and family of three. FRANK ROOSE, foreman at Elliott’s works. ROBERT BLAND. JOHN VALENTINE. CITY COLLECTOR DAVID 8. SAGE and wife. PHILLIPSTRICKLER JR.and mother, JUDGE FALK of Vandalia, 111 . MARTELL. D MRS.JOHN HAYES. WILLIAM HAYES. MITCHELL. WILLIAM MITCHELL. IRENE CLENDENNIN. WILLITAM SULLIVAN and wife. MRS. JOHN REED. PATRICK DEAN and family of six. JOHN BUCHAREZ. EDWARD O'BRIEN. JQHN BREEN. IDA GLADDUE. MRS. ROOF. ALBERT VOLKMAN. J PH MITCHELL. JOHN SULLIVAN. WILLIAM RICKEY. HENRY WATERMAN, Park. JACOB KURTZ. MAY CORRIGAN. FRANK J. MURPHY., JACK McCAUL. DEAN, SS MARIA EVANS. Child of Arthur O'Leary. —— WINDLEY. ANDREW ANDERSON. FRANK ROSS. - GEORGE WOODS, clerk in the Vandalia line. HENRY SPRICKER, Vandalia line._ . H. E. HEINE, Vandalia line. CHARLES CARROLL. JOHN KENT. ED KAVANAUGH. JOHN BEAMS. MISS CONLEY. MRS. SLADE. Flagman of Air Line, name unknown. MRS. WILLIAM HAYES. J. A. PORTER, Broughton, I. MIKE DILLIGAN, Vandalia line. . CON FRAWLEY, Vandalia iine. ALBERT VOLKMAN, Vandalia line, —— FLEMING. WILLIE FREE. v MRS. TRUMP and two children. MIKE BROOKER. BILL STARK, pilot of the Andrew Christy. BEN WEISS. WILLIAM AVERY, yardmaster of Big Four. GEORGE CHAPMAN, B8t. Louis. GAY AVERY. J. 8. WICHER, Wicher’s Hotel. JIM FLANNIGAN, cook at Wicher's Hotel. WILLIAM HORTIGAN, Hannibal, Mo, MISS SMOCKE. MARTIN SPEELMAN. W. H. KEEFE. . HAYWARD. MRS. KINNEL. GEORGE ESHER. W. J. MURRAY. RICHARD ANDRESS. The unidentified in East St. Louis are- thirty-niue men and sixteen women. Most of these were workmen about the different freizht depots. Twenty men employed in the Vandalia freight depot are missing and are believed Winstanley | | | | | | | are designated the condition of the viciim | Boetz; when the death list isknown it will exceed e AMONG THE INJURED, Over Fitteen Hundred Persons Hurt in the Storm. yond hope of recovery. The list of in- jured reported numbers over 1500, and a great many were treated at home and no report made. The schoolhouses in East St. Louis serye as temporary hospitals, | whiie on this side the armory does the same service. Every private hospital is crowded. The following is the most correct list of injured obtainable. Where no injuries 1s not serious. Injured in 8t. Louis City—Frank Ander- son; Henry Althaus, crushed; Henry Abtor, serious; George Benal, fataliy; Katie Bennett, both arms broken; George T. A. Benson, skull fractured; Henry Bittner, slight; Mrs Jacob Bauer, both arms broken; H. C. Barlow, bruised; Robert M. Burton, scalp; William Brink- meyer, Albert Barrett, compound fracture of thigh; Ben Brennan, John Bilkins, Frank Benson, Joseph Boyd, right leg| broken and back hurt; Lawrence M. Brus- ter, scalp; Joseph Brown (colored), legs | sprained; Mike Beck, internally; Minnie | Beck, internally; Mrs. Frank Basker, Harry Brender: Charles Brockmeyer, left leg broken; Dennis Boehn, arm crushed and his skull fractured, his wife terribly mashed and bruised; James Campbell, Thomas Carroll, fractured leg; J. Cle- ments, scalp wound ; Mrs. Castle, serious; David Clanzey, John Cummings (lives in Houston, Tex.); Charles Craig, Cbarles Cunningham ; Eliza Claypool, ribs broken; Daniel Coffey, James Conway, Donald Dreff, Patrick Dougherty, ternal; J. Davis, John Dougherty, William Daily, Hans Ericeson, Lawrence English, Thomas W. Frye; W. Flint, fractured leg; Abe Friedman, internal injuries; Joseph Frank, probabiy fatal; H. Ferney, hips, | shoulder, head. William Frankie, wife and two children were dug out 8 the wreck of their home, all badly hurt; Thomas Griffitbs and Mr. Galvin, fractured skull; William Gregory, concussion of the brain; Charles Garing, aged 61, Martin R. Gratz, aged 24, Edwin Grady, aged 22; John H. Gunther, both legs broken, his wife received several scaip wounds; David Hienter serious; Mrs. D Hienter, severely injured; Mrs, Hamiiton and infant, fatally; James Hall, Edward Horsed, Joe Heik, H. Hollen- camp, W. Hike, Rev. Father Head, head cut; Miss Head, hips and internal in- juries; Robert Hall, Miss Clara Herman, fatally; — Holkamp, Albert Hardy, bead badly lacerated; William Johnston, frac- tured skull; Jessie Jackson, Fred Jon- dack, James Kane, badly hurt; Charles Kamper, Harry Kamper, back, knee and shoulders; August Klaes, Wm. Koch, Geo. | Keyser, William Kelley, Mrs. Kate Kil- | lian, wife of Thomas Killian, who was | killed, leg broken, internal injuries; Jacob | Klos, wife and child: Michael Lloyd, in- ternally; James Lahen, James Labey, in- ternally; Gregory Laventus, Danijel B. Legg, Gustave Leitner, — Leinthein, scalp wound, both eyes destroyed; James Lenniban, John Leahy, Will Lynn, James Lenahan, internally; J. H. McCord. John Midaleton, Pat Meyer, G. Meyer, J. McQuarters, John Metler, Robert Mo- land, — McMahon, Pat Moran, George Meyer, — McGentiss, Louis Mohr, Louis Miller, Michael Mulrooney, internally; H. H. Mabes, leg broken; Mrs. Mahes, leg Peter masbed ; McGivens, wife and ‘two children, fearfully hurt; two- year-old baby, fatally; N. E. Nel- son, leg fractured; Otto Noll, Arthus Nicolson, J. J. 0’Connor, James O'Toole, Mr. O’Brien, both arms broken; John O’Connor, Professor Pnarl, leg fractured; Loma C. Poole, George Peiper, internal; George Poper, internal; G. C. Popitz, fat- ally burt; P. Penriss, Newton Palmer, Patrick Rainey, Charles Ramast, Joseph to have been killed when the building fell. | Ramag, John Rueges, burned. \ | No thorough search of the wrecked dis- | trict has been made and it is believed that injured on both sides of the river are be- | 1racy, William Thompson, George Teil- | John | Thompson; Kate Tracey, badly crushed, | skull fractured; Charles Ventula, Richard | | ebitdren of John McKenzie, K. Koch, left Theodore Reiss, fatally, skull fractured; Patrick Rooney, internal; S. Max Stark- liff, Chris 8mith, Wiiliam Swanett, Ben- | jamin Strauss, Mrs. Josephine Steading, James Scott, Peter Sbarp, R. A. Summers, | August Sears, Allie Storey, H. A. Sawyer, internal; W. H. Shaw, Joseph Shried, 27, | fatal hurt. | Emil Sportman, wife and three chil- ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 28 —Many of the | dren, dug out of ruins of home; Pat and, J. Taylor, Maud H. Tinker, | Danville, Wis.; J. L. Tinker, Danville, | Wis.; M. T. Tinker, Danville, Wis.; Toomey, internaily; Tootsey, internal; John Timmons, Thomas Votet, John Watson, internal; Robert | Wiison, Mike Walish, Mary Walsh, Da Washburn, Miss Josie Walter, ter, Bertha Wefling, William V hington (21), John Williams, B. T. Walker, both | arms broken and bruised; James Warren, | head and neck cut and crushed, dying. Following are some of the injured at East St. Louis. In each case where the nature of the injuries are not designated | they consist of either a fractured limb or shoulder or severe scalp wounds or other lacerations, all serious but none neces- sarily fatal: Joseph Duffy, skull fractured; Henry C. Givens, Joseph Adley, W. T. Falk, head and face cut, leg lacerated; T. J. Doud, cut on head, right arm paralyzed; Martin Price, Judge Hopeof Alton, Ill.; Mary Johnson, W. H. Williams, assistant superintendent St. Louis and East St Louis Railway, right arm broken and badiy cut head; John Malloy, Pat Ken- nedy, Thomas Dougherty, John Kelly, right hip lacerated and abdomen punc- tured, caught in the ruins of Lynch's boarding-house ; Ellsworth Tucker, fatally, residence Hamilton, Ohio; Pat McCor- mick, Frank Barry, Nancy Pierce, Albert Pierce, Roy D. Mocre, J. D. Roe- mer, ankle, right hip sprained, right arm dislocated; James Cull, James King, Amelia White, Patrick Tracey, Casmir Hartwich, will die; John McMa. hon, rib fractured, shoulder-blade broken, back hurt; Robert Bland, Edward Bland, Peter Harris, railroad fireman, Karsas City, Mo., left shoulder broken; Michael Bannan, John Thompson (colored), Frank Kroft, William D. Walsh, injured inter- naily. A.Anshel,T.P. Elam,W. H. Keefer, James Burke, Thomas Jacksor, Chatta- nooga, Tenn., right collar-bone broken and cut on head ;- John Berger, William Haps, W. C. Van Meter, Miss Eva Hamburg, John Sullivan, Miss Lizzie Haintel, Mrs, Elien Hennessy, chest crushed, will die; Bridzet Morrissey, Fred Niede, W. Price, Baby Brower, Ambrose Harmer, both legs and left arm broken; James Ramsey, Frank Ross. Venice, IIL., internally; Wil- liam Stickney, Mrs. Warner and two chi dren, Litchfield, I1l.; John Stock, Charles Kenny, Lows Johnson, Maria Mitchell, William Cogan, serious; H. K. Vail, Joseph Burke, Dennis Bender, wife and five leg and arm broken; 8. J. Harmon, A. L. Baird, John Bewiger, D. Bender, internal ; H. A. Buchanan, Powell, Ind., internal; J. H. McCann, Bert Farrall, both legs cut off at the thigh; Dan Kelly, Fred Buhle, left arm broken, spine injured ; Miss Mollie Parrott, Heory C. Hall, Olney, IiL.; Miss Mamie Evans, Mrs. E. L. Whicher, Mrs, Horace Trump. S Y, DELVING FOR THE DEAD, Men Work Heroically in the Ruins of Buidings. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 28.—A district in this city bounded north by Choteau avenue, west by Grand avenue, south to the city limits and east to the river is vir- tually a mass of ruins. Not an electric light has burned nor a car run in that sec- tion, comprising 720 blocks, since 5:20 p. ar. vesterday. Within this territory scarc:ly a building bas escaped injury and thou- sende of them are in ruins. On surveying the desolate scene one marvels that the deaths are'not trebly greater. Beginning at the western boundary of the scene is the handsome and exclusive residence sec- tion known as Compton Hill, the home of settlers of St. Lows. This aristocratic home-place is strewn with debris. Just east lies Lafayette Park. There the trees, shrub- bery, fountains and statuary that have been the pride of the city were caught by the wind and the place is shaven bare as with a giant scythe. Farther east and south to the city limits were the homes of the thriity German- Americans, who have given a distinct character to the district. sands of men are homeless, many of them tramping Ifke nomads among the ruins or sharing the roofs of their hospitable and more fortunate neighbors. Interspersed in this latter section and on east to the river are mills, breweries and numberless manuiacturing concerns. These were fair targets for the storm, and they suffered. 1t was this class of losses that added most to the wiping out of what is con- servatively stated to be $4,000,000 in- vested capital. There are sixteen brewer- ies within these bounds worth four mil- lions, and while none are destroyed, all are damaged. The losses fall heaviest on those least able to bear them—business men of smallcapital and owners of humble homes. After the storm had laid its heavy hand upon the southern half of the city, fire came to complete the work of destruction. Five columns of flame shot up, but, thanks to the deluge of rawm, the blaze was con- fined to the starting points. fn three in- stances the engines were unable to get nearer than a block of the fires. Unsolicited and without prompting, the work of relief began here at once by the whote people. ‘A meeting of citizens was held at noon at the Merchants’ Exchange. After brief addresses by Rev. Dr. W. W. Boyd and Mayvor Walbridge, contributions were asked for. Within forty minutes, or fast as the sums given could be ac- owledged, $14,000 was in the secretary’s hands. Contributions continued after ad-., journment. It is not proposed to go outside the city for aid, though no offering will be refused. President C. H. Spencer of the Merchants’ Exchange was made chairman of the com- mittee of distribution, and set to work at once to place the relief money. The storm was most destructive in force when it crossed Seventh street going east. The eddying currents of wind returned again and again to make that street a wilderness., At least forty people were killed along this thoroughfare and the streets immediately adjacent. House after house was totally demolished, and the wonder grows with extended investigation that the number of deaths is not far in ex- cess of what it now appears to be. Daly’s saloon at 604 South Seventh street was a total wreck. When it fell it was full of men wno had taken refuge there, and from fifteen to twenty were killed. Many of them are of a character who have few friends and would net be missed. One poor fellow has been taken out dead,and ten others seriously in- jured. 1t is thoughbt that others are still in the brick-choked basement, and a gang of men are busy digging into the debris. The force of the wind was so frightful along here that the iron trolley-supporting poles of the Southwestern electric line are bent over the ground. They did not break, but bent like copper wire. Of course all the telegraph poles are dowrn, and many of them snapoed in twain with the topheavy heads hanging over the street, held aloft by the wires which still cling to them. » At the Vermont Marble Works, at 1125 South Seventh street, the wreck was com- plete. It was here that Huarry Hess, a driver for the concern. was killed. He was buried beneath tonsof the great blocks of stone which were Lurled about by the wind. . The saddest place of this frightfully des- olated street was on the southeast corner of Rutger street. Here had stood the three-story brick -saloon and boarding- house of Fred Mockenheimer. It was oc- cupied by twenty families, the full num- ber of souls reaching at least ealculation eighty. When the storm struck it it went up like a dry pufi-ball, bm-yian‘f dozens. No one knows how many dead its ruined brick To-night thou- the fourth generation of the early French and mortar conceal. Eleven persons have been taken out desd and more than a dozen injured. The body of a gray-baired woman was discovered and removed, but her name cannot be learned. A company of firemen was assigned to the work of rescue and they kept at it manfully. They were assisted by rela- tives of those who are supposed to be be- neath the debris. Henry Plauchek was there hunting for his father. He was pale and sick, but he kept at it. His father, William, had been in the saloon, he said, when the building fell. The crowd about the corner was enormous and hard to handle. The curi- ous throng pushed in over the broken bricks and shattered timbers, hemming in the rescue corps and taking desperate chances of breaking their own legs. Even the policemen’s clubs could not keep them back. Across the street the wreck was as bad, but the number of people in the building was not so large. Several dead bodies and a hali-dozen sorely wounded have been re- covered and others are still thought to be there. One block below this the house of the Sattigs was crushed in and August Sattig and his wife badly hurt. Up Barry street, a half block, at 715, Mrs. Rux, her daugher Tina and her brother, John Loefing, were crushed to death in their home. Mrs. Clara Fiesecke and her two dangh- ters, Stella and Edna, at 1335 South Seventh street, were mashed out of shape by the fall of their home. Fred Stalman, Mrs. Schmidt, Millie and Harry Killian and their mother were dangerously hurt, and James Killian, the father, was killed at 1303 South' Eleventh street. The Soulard Market was blown to pieces, killing George Hubert with the falling bricks and another man whose name has not been learned. So it ran along this ill- starred street. The excursion steamer Grand Republic, with its load of several hundred children, reached its dock safely this afternoon. It had not been within the storm limit. i IN EAST ST. LOUIS. Havoc of the Torpado in Its Mad Career. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 28.—In East St. Louis the track of the storm is as clearly defined, after touching the Illinois shore, as if platted by a surveyor. Tearing di- agonally through the city, from southwest to northeast, it cut a clean swath of de- struction. Bloody Island, the river front of the city, is a low, narrow strip of land, now joined to the mainland that was the ter- min1 of all the railroads centering'there, Large freightsheds were strung along the river front. Nine of the largest of these are in ruins. The greatest damage was done to the Vandalia, the Mobile and Ohio, the Big Four, the Chicago and Alton, the Wabash and the Louisville and Nash- ville sheds. At the Vandalia the loss of life was greatest. There the structure seemed lift- ed up and dropped again over the founda- tions. Fourteen of the dead «enumerated were taken from these sheds. Across Cai- hokia Creek, in the city proper, the de- struction was complete. The relay depot, an abomination which even the corroding hand of time could not destroy, went to pieces betore the storm. The switch tower, upon the perfect work- ing of which depends the movement of hundreds of trains, was made useless. Three small hotels in the vicinity were de- stroyed. : North and east of the relay depot a wide 'residence section, mostly small houses occupied by mechanics, was cleaned up. Itisthrough this part that the majority of the fatalities occurred. The high dykes to the west that shut off the waters of the Mississippi were no pro- tecticn, and the frame houses went down like houses of cards. The viaduct across the mass of tracks, eastof Cailhokia Creek, was made useless. The new Martell House, te McCausland Opera-house, the City Hall, Flannigan’s Hall, three churches, the High Schoo! and residences that covered fourteen blocks of ground east of the viaduct were demolished. Farther on to the north end east to the stockyards vicinity everything was swept away. The definite limits of the storm indicated above may be clearly noted here.. The Natioral Hotel was un- injured, while two blocks southeast a house owned by H. D. Sexton was torn.to kindling wood., Passing on outside the city every suburban garden, orchard and field is razed of its growth. In all this desolation death ran riot. High above the storm were heard the cries of suffer- ing and the shrieks of people struggling helplessly against the storm’s fury. The points of greatest disaster, tle water front and the vicinity of the relay depot, have not yet given up all their dead. Scarcely a single person in the storm’s highway escaped some injury. Sifiing the truth from the exaggerated stories of excited individuals, it seems probable that the death list will be between 150 and 200. Of the injured any figures under 500 and over 600 may be named. Coroner Campbell to-day held inquests on eighty-four bodies and barely kept up his work as the dead arrived. One morning paper will to-morrow give the losses 1n East St. Louis and on tte river as follows: River losses, $750,000; by storm, $3,000,000; by fire, $250,000; total, $4,000,000. Sy DISASTERS TO VESSELS. Boats Blown From Their Moorings and Sunk. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., May 28.—The track of the storm across the river was prac- tically the same as that of the great storm of August 4, 1878. The trend of the main volume of the wind was from south- wesl to northeast, leaving the Missouri shore at the center of the southern half ot this city and striking the Illinois shore in a path whose northern edge was the Eads bridge and extending south three-quar- ters of a mile. Within this path were moored twenty- five steamers, large and small. The storm fell so suddenly that none of the vessels were prepared. In all ten large passenger steamers, five ferry-boats, two transfer- boats, two tugboats and half a dozen small pleasure barges were driven to the opposite shore or s‘i’ k outright. The steamer J. J. Odill was loosened from its moorings and blown against the second pier of the Eads bridze, where it sank. Just before the hoat struck her boi'ers blew up. Nine of her crew of twelve, besides three women passengers and her captain, George Townsend, are re- ported as missing. Those of tke crew who reached land in safety are John Morrissey, Patrick Milan and a man named Moore. About the same time the Oaill struck the pier the towboat Dolphin No. 2 was blown from her wharfboat at the foot of Morgan street, dashing her up against the first pier. She struck the pier with a force that crushed in her starboard side. She drifted down the river for about three blocks and then sank, only leaving her prow above the water. There were eleven persons, three of them NEW TO-DAY SN it o e ) T s - 7z oSS B 7 YOU OWE It to yourself to det to the| Big Store to-day early.| These are the {“inal days of | our Hidh-Class Sale of Gentlemen’s Suits at $8.50. 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The Bald Eagle was blown down the river for a considerable distance, when the boat was capsized and went to the bottom. About twenty persons were on board, but nothing has been seen or heard of them. A great many lives were lost by the sinking of barges and smaller craft. In most every case there were at least ten men on board of each of them, and in many cases several of them are still miss- ing. The Baton Rouge Belle, a tugboat, was forced from its hawser out into the middle of the river. When it reached there it began to roll over and over down the river till it reachod the foot of Choteau avenue, where it was forced against the wharf of the Wiggins Ferry Company by the wind and sunk in fifteen feet of water. The City of Monroe was dashed against the shore, but did not go down. Captain Zeigler exhorted his passengers and crew not to jump overboard. His last words were: “There is no danger.” He was blown into the river and drowned. The following boats are reported as dam- aged or missing: Pittsburg, City of Vicks- | burg, City of Providence, Belle of Calhoun, the Madill, the Elm G. Smith, the Louis Houch, Dolphin No. 2, Bald Eagle and the J. D. Oaill. SRl REPORTS OF DISASTER. Great Loss of Life and Property in Nlinois Towns. CHICAGO, Irn, May 28.—Telegraph offices and the depots of railroads which run to the stricken St. Louis cities were crowded to-day with relatives and friends ofi people who live there, or who happen to have been visiting either of the cities when the tornado came. The anxious men and women wanted information about the safety of those they were inter- ested in, or eagerly scanned the bulletin- boards of the railroad companies to learn< abont the expected arrival of the first trains from the storm-swept center. Be- tween 600 and 700 Chicago pecple were registered at the hotels of St. Louis and East St. Louis, Tuesday night. 'Three times as many families reemed to be rep-( resented in the crowds at the terminals of{ the Chicago and Alton at the Union depot, of the Wabash road, at the Polk-street sta- tion, and at the Illinois Central statfon, on the lake front. The railroad tehgraph! operators and the officials of the passen- ger departments could give littie informa- tion to' the public. Prostrated wires formed a'gap which could not be bridged i in a few hours. An emergency train, which was made] up at Carlinville on the Alton road just| outside the tornado center at 9 o’clock! last night, was the only train from the St. Louis region to arrive in Chicago this morning. Shortly after the arrival of this special the Kansas City limited, which crossed the outskirts of the waste left by the storm at 1i o’clock last night arrived at the Union depot. Terminal Superintendent Reeves of the Alton road received word from Bloom- ington this morning relating the hair- breadth escape of the accommodation train from being blown off the Eads bridge into the river. He said: “The train was almost on the bridge, drawing slowly, when the bridge was wrecked and two coaches derailed. No one was injured on the train, but the crew say the engine was #imost hovering over tie brokea span.” Reports received over the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad wires brought news of great destruction of life and property in the ueighborhood of Centralia, east and south- east of St. Louis. A telegram received at Centralia said: “Several reported killed at Irvington, Richview and Ashley.” Later information is that th cyclone