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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1896. 3 ferers are small property-owners. These individual losses are small, but they ag- gregate the larger part of the whole. A survey of the district made to-day shows that over 3000 houses have been damaged or wholly destroyed. These were mainly residences of the middle class, small shopkeepers and mechanics, The damage to church property was par- ticularly severe. Following are estimated iosses to churches: St, John, Nepomuka, $50.000; Lafayette Park Presbyterian, $16,- 000; Lafayette Park Methodist, $10,000; Lafayette Park Baptist, $8000; Church of the Unity, $10,000; Mount Cavalry Episco- pal, $20,000; Memorial German Methodist Episcopal, $20,000; Holy Cross, Saxon, $12.000; Compton Hill Congregational, $1000; Compton Hei hts Christian, $1000; St. Henry’s, Catholic, $10,000; St. Paul's Evangelical, $20,000; Trinity Lutheran, $18,000; St. Vincent’s, Catholic, $3000; Sts. Peter and Paul, $3000; St. John’s Episco- pal, §13,000; Annunciation, Catholic, $106,- Irresponsible correspondents and sensa- tion mongers have wired to the outside world preposterous estimates of the losses bere, some reaching the absurd figure of $60,000,000. The estimates of good archi- tects and reputable real estate dealers place the property loss around $20,000,000. An inspection made to-day gives the fol- lowing: s In and along the levee, Main, Second and Third, fropn Washington to Market, the loss will figure up fully $1,000,000. From Main to Eighth and from O'Fal- lon south to Franklin the loss is $500,000. A class of hard-working people occupy this territory. The damage here is pa- thetic. In the territory south from Market to Choutean, along Broadway and east to the river front, $1,500,000 will hardly cover the loss. This is mostly manufacturing and business property. : Southward along Broadway, from Chou- teau avenue to Lak\yelte, and embracing a territory eastward to the river, property has been destroyed to the extent of $750,- 000, This includes mostly retail stores and manufacturing plants. From the Lafayette-avenue Bank south to Soulard the storm'’s fury wreaked awful vengeance. The loss sustained was $650,- 000. Hardly a building on either side of Broadway was spared. They were occu- pied by prosperous retail stores, repre- senting the energy and thrift of a life- time. Embracing all the districts south of Soulard, from. the river west to city lim- its, the loss to residence and business property is estimated at $1,000,000. Going north again and taking in all the territory up to the City Hospital the dam- age figures $1,000,000. In the immediate vicinity of the hospitaP another million 18 reached. Northeast of the hospital property has been destroyed to the extent of $1,000,000, while Lafayette Park and vicinity gives as much more. Westward from Lafayette Park and north to Choutean avenue the loss is $2,000,000. Down Chouteau from Jefferson avenue to Seventh street and north to the rairoad tracks $3,000,000 is the damage. Along Park avenue, from Tenth to Sev- enth street, and north on Seventh to Mar- ket street, $4,500,000 will about cover the loss. Distress and disaster through this on are appalling. The remaining $4,150,000 is scattered through the central, western and north- western portions of the city. It includes damages to churchesand public buildings. Damage to school property is $100,000. Nearly all South St. Louis is practically destroyed. Wrecked buildings and those partly damaged cannot be repaired. It will be fully two years before the ef- fects'of the hurricane are effaced. R aa ey o ON THE RIiVER FRONT. Very Severe Loss Sustained Among the Shipping. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 29.—The following is a list of the losses on the river front. The estimated loss is based on the figures of an experienced steamboat man, who is in possession of the assessed valuation of most of the marine prooerties which suf- fered. Dolphin No. 2 (towboat) property of Sheehan Bros. & Loler, $35,000. Bald Eagle (Illinois River packet) Schwartz Bros. Commission Company, $32,000. Belle of Calhoun (Illinois River packet) Schwartz Bros. Commission Company, $25,000. J. J. 0dil, Gillis Bros. Commission Com- pany, $13,000. City of Quincy, River Club, being re- fitted, $10,000. Libby Conger (Missouri River packet) partially loaded, $10,000. Samuel Club (tug) Wiggins Ferry Com- pany, $6000. Baton Rouee Belle (tug), Crown Coal Company, $6000. The Austria (pleasure yacht) William P. Beink, $5000. The Mazelle (pleasure yacht) Hugh L. Patterson, $3000. Andrew Christy (ferry-boat) Wiggins Ferry Company, $17,000. Napoleon Mullikin (ferry-boat) Wiggins Ferry Company, $17,000. ~ H.'L. Clark (ferry-boat) Wiggins Ferry Company, $20.000. Pleasure yacht, Diana, Lucas Bros., Five Union Sand Company’s barges at |. $2500, $12,500. Three Crown Coal Company’s barges at $2500, $7500. Seven Wizgins Ferry Company’s barges, $17,000. H One barge loaded with grain of the Val- ley line, with cargo, $5500. City of Pittsburg, Diamond Jo line, partly lost, $15,000. City of Vicksburg, Columbia Excursior Company, $50,000. Gity of Providence, Columbia Excursion Company, $20,000. City of Monroe, Anchor line, $7000. Henry Sackman, Wiggins Ferry Com- pany, $20,000. George A. Madill, $23,000. City Harbor boat, $3000 Polar Wave, Huse-Loomis Ice Company, $800. Charlotte Boeckler, lumber boat, $5000, Jack Frost, small steamer, $3000. Ice barge, Huse-Loomis Ice Company, $2000. Steamer Benton, Gaptain 8ims, $500, Exporter, Valley Line, $8000. Harvester, Valley Line, $9000. Jay Gould (not sunk as reported, but al- most totally wrecked), $5000. “Gray Eagle and Cherokee, which floated down pelow Carondolet. $1700. Louis Houck, Henry Leyhe, $500. St. Paul and the D. H. Pike, $1500. Eagle Packet Company’s wharves, $1000. Total losses to marine property at St. Louis, $402,000. St e ROSTER OF THE DEAD, Revised "List of Victims of the Disaster. ST. 1.OUIS, Mo., May 29.—The revised P list of the .dead in this city as verified by official reports at midnight is as follows and may be regarded as absolutely correct: Alclays August, August Attenmeyer, Charles Allen, A. C. L. Husband, daughter. Berger William, Louis Boeckle, Her- man Bower, Fred Benwell, Mr. Beigust, Ulrich Becklin, Mrs. Augusta Bolm, Wil- liam Blanchek, Francisco Beligo, Henry Breisacher, Mr. Bolen. Crook William, Mrs, Claypool, Annie Claypool, Ethel Claypool, George H. Chap- man, Charles Craig, A. C. Campbell, Mar- tin Chaddock, George Cecil, Mrs. Carter, child of Mrs. Carter, Alexander Churin- ger.’ ° Deidrich Peter, Rose Duggan, Michael Dunn. Egloff Thomas, Miss Enders, Thomas Ervin, Joseph Esler, Theodore C. Eimer. Fiedler Caspar, — Frank, —.Fisher, child of Frank Fisher, Morris Fisher, Her- man Fuller. Gardner Mrs,, Charles Gallagher, James Goff, Amos Gage, Mrs. Gower, Emma Gardner, Henry Geagen, Mrs. Julia Gearce, William Gregory. Herbert George, D. Hassenleitz, — Hei- man, Mrs, J. P. Herman, Isabel Horne, Mrs. John Howell, John Howell, ida Howell, Maggie Hickey. Jones Richard, Thomas Jones, Samuel Jones, Birdie Jacobs. Kuehling Henry, George Keim, Labnon William, Samuel Lawhan, Anna Leva, William Lanamnear, child of Andrew J. Lienke. Mauerscheiner Mrs. Catherine, James Miller, — Morgan, child of Peter Mec- Givney, Thomas Monaghan, Joseph A. Mauner. Neimeyer John. Ottenead Louis, — O'Neil, Mrs. O'Neil, Miss O'Neil, Augusta Ottensmeler, Thomas Oates. Planck William, Charles Plancheck. Richardson John, Charles Renedeck, Tina Rux, — Rehrlemn. ¥ Scherbel John, Andrew 8mith, Thomas Smith, married daughter of Mrs. Spill- man, Charles Sudhoff, infant of Mrs. Ber- | nice Steinkoeller, T. J. Stephens, Charles | Schmidt, Christopher Steinburg, Samuel | Semile, Benjamin de Silva, Adam Stein- | ketta. Taylor William. Vignette Louisa. H Woodruff Sarah B., John Wagner, Theodore Wells, Terrance Wells, William | W.-Woods, Owen Walters, Michael Wool- sey, Robert Wilson, Mrs. Weinstacker, Miss Weinstacker, Michael Willis, Lon Zimper. The revised list of dead at East St. Louis at midnight: Anderson Richard, John Anderson, An- drew Anderson, Richard Andrees, Gay , wife and Catharine Proule, Avery, William Avery. Bladger Emma, J. C. Brown, Mrs. Barr, Mrs. Brewer, Mrs. Henry Bladger, Mike Brucker, Miss Butler, Mrs. Patrick Bean, Mrs. Brice, John Breen, Robert Blana. Gage Amos, Mrs. Robert Gage, Emma Gladshaw, Henry Gladdue, Emma Gladdue, Martin Ghibb, George Gerhart, M. K. Gilligan. Hearn John €., — Humphrey, Scott Hayward, William Hartigen, J. E. Heine, John Huran, John Hayes, Mrs. William Hayes, Julius H. Hughes, John Hawley, Mrs. Schilda Haywood, Mrs, Hardigan. Kildea Michael, John Kent, Ira Kent, — Kavanaugh, M. H. Keefe, Jacob Kurtz, C. Potter. John Reed, Henry Rose, L. Richardson, John Reams, Frank Ross, Mrs. Roof, W. A. Rice, Charles Rothe, George Rice, J. B. Richardson, Mrs. Belle Rickey. Stark William, Philip Stricker, John Snow, Amelia Sniber, William Suber, | David Sage, Mrs. Carrie Sage, Mrs. Stock, | Martin Spellman, William Sullivan, Mrs. Smocke, Mrs. William Sullivan, Spring, Henry Spricker, John Sullivan, Mrs. E. Sullivan. Connolly Trudy, Major Corrigan, Irene | Clendenin, George Chapman, Charles Car- roll Dilligan Mike, Joseph Duffy, Ed Duffy, Mrs. Mary Dean. Evans Mary. Franks Joseph, James Flanagan, Willie Free, H. Fleming, F. A. Fries, W. C. Far- Kumre Mrs., J. E. Keene, Jacob Kintze, Mrs. Kinnell. Lee Mrs. Mary, George Lucky. Morgan Clarence, F. Murray, J. W. Murray, John Mitchell, P. J. McCain, Francis McCormack, Jack McCaul, Frank J. Murphy, Miles Miichell, Joseph Mitcbell, M. J. Murray. Null Dr. C. E., F. A. Nicolls of Cincin- nati. O’Brien Edward, O'Leary. Porter I. N., 10-year-old son of I. N. Porter, J. A. Polter, woman aged 40 (Hannibal). Sullivan Mrs. J. F., child of Joseph Stevens, R. E. Simmons, W. F. Smith, George State, Mrs, George State, Stella Steper, Mrs. B. Sleser, John Stipel. Trump Daisy, Mabel Trump, Trump, Mr, Trease. Vogt Henry, Albert Volkman, John Valentine. Winterman Henry, Charles W. Wait, child of Charles W. Wait, Peter Walmsley, Mrs. E. Waldron, Captain James Whicher, — Windley, Benjamin Weis. Unidentified—A man about driver 25. e ST. LOUIS 15 THANKFUL. But the Missouri City Can Care for Its Own. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 29.—Mayor C. P. Walbridge gave out the following to-day: | “Itis not practical .to make individual answer to the vast number of friends who have telegraphed sympathy and offering | us assistance. Through the medium of the United Press St. Louis sincerely thanks the city’s many friends for the in- terest they have shown and their proffers of aid. ““The people of our city are confident of their ability to properly care for all the sufferers from the recent tornado, and heroic efforts are being made to that end. No accurate estimate of the loss of prop- erty can now be made, but it is safe to say that the loss as reported by the press out- side of St. Louis has been greatly overesti- | mated. “C. P. WaLBRIDGE, Mayor, Coroner Wait has been constantly on duty since Thursday morning. The pro- cession of the dead is passing under re- view before him like the last resurrections were passed upon in an official and per- functory way. The pathos usual on such occasions was redoubled, intensified by the surrounding throng of waiting rela- tives, waiting till unsympatnetic official- ism had released their dead, There were ninty-four unfortunates passed under the ordeal of this necessary inspection. The Coroner and assistants’ were merciful, even delicate, in their treatment of the dead before the livin relatives, When the unknown were reacvhes the Coroner ceased from his work, waiting for identification. There yet remain eleven bodies on the slabs. 3 At 2 o'clock this morning two floaters were picked up at the foot of Destrahan street, which are supposed to be members of wrecked boat crews. A family of four lived at 716 Barry street Wednesday morning. When the cyclone had passea there was but one survivor. Mrs. Matilda Rux (aged 56 years), her daughters Jennie (17 years) and Mary (16 child of ‘Arthur Mrs. ‘30. cab- but the roof fell and crushed them to . The surviving daughter stood on the street, wrin, lnf ber hands, frantic from grief and refusing to be led away. Neighbors told the story this moang.' e e DEATH OF FATHER HEAD. Was Fatally Injured by a Church’s Falling Timbers. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 30.—Shortly after midnight Rev. Father J. J. Head, pastor of Annunciation Church, Sixth and Lasalle streets, died of tbe injuries received by falling timbers in the disaster Wednesday night. Father Head and sister were sit- ting in the parochial residence when the roof of the church was blown onto the house. A falling timber struck the pastor’s head and he was otherwise seriously in- jufed. It was thought at the time that he was not seriously injured. He failed to rally. Roy Claypool, son of Mrs. Daniel Clay- vool, who, with her two children was killed by the storm, died at the Citizen's Hospital on Friday night. Young Claypool was not injured by the storm, having been placed in the hos- pital Thursday to be treated for an ail- ment, but when he heard that his mother and two sisters had been kil the little fellow began to grieve and this caused his death. e ALL KILLED BUT ONE. Sad Fate of the Munn Family of Lincoln, Nebr. LINCOLN, NEsR., May 20.—On the 16th of the present month 8. P. Munn and his family moved from this city to St. Louis, and all but one of the entire family were killed in the St. Louis tornado. There were thirteen children in the family. One son, Fred, was left here and is still in the city, and one of the boys, Frank, escaped death, but the father, mother and eleven other children met death in the awful catastrophe. This sad news was received by Fred Munn to-day in a letter from Frank, who had an almost miraculous escape from the fate ol the other members of the family. The -St. Louis address of the family is not given. S. P. Munn was a Lincoln contractor and lived here many years. o e SOME SMALLER CYCLONES. Houses Demolished and Several Per- sons Perish, KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 29.—A dis- patch received to-day from the agent of the St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad at Bowling Green, Mo., states that ‘the tor- nado struck eight miles from that city, unroofed the depot at Burryville, demol- ished several houses and killed one woman. PERRY, O. T., May 29.—Pawnee, thirty miles east of here, is reported to bave been struck by a tornado which killed and in- jured half a dozen citizens and smashed all window-lights facing north and west. Hailstones fourinches in circumference are said Yo have fallen and done great dam- age. Many houses and barns are reported wrecked in the country around Sheridan, but no one is known to be dead. -2 S A i ST. LOUIS SUFFERERS. Contributions Received by ¢ The Call” for Taeir Relief. The svmpathy for the sufferers by the recent terrible cyclone at St. Louis is evidently both deep and widespread. their relief the first contributions of San Francisco are now just beginning to come into the office of THE CALL. The sum of $11 was received yesterday from Cohl Brothers, Louis Cohn and H. L. Judell, accompanied by the following letter, addressed to the editor: Dear Sir: Having read in the columns of your valuable journal of the dreadful ealamity which has so recently befallen the inhabitants of the city of St. Louis, and realizing that { many of them are left in dire distress, we feel that all possible aid should be ‘given them. We accordingly inclose herein the sum of $11 to be applied to their relief. low, dea S GALLANTLY MET THE TEST. In Quickness and Accuracy the United Press Triumphed. HARTFORD, Coxx., May 29.—The Hartford Times yester said editorially : Yesterday and again this morning the press associations of the country were put to the test in a striking way., The terrible bridge disaster at Victoria, B. C., result- ing in a loss of over fifty lives, was covered by the United Press in a dispatch which occupied nearly 2 column in a!l the morn- | ing newspapers receiving its service in. the East. We find in the Baltimore Sun (Associated Press) of yesterday morning | eleven lines of rather indefinite reference yto the awful event at Victoria. The Philadelpbia Inquirer went to press with- out any mention of the news. The Phila- delphia Times covered it by means of a special dispatch. The Boston Journal, in its later edition, man- aged to publish an account, which was perhaps half as good as that in. the United Press papers. It was a re- markable failure for the Chicago concern in a field where it 18 supposed. to have irent advantages for collecting tke news; ut its failure is almost eclipsed by that of this morning in dealing with the great disaster at St. Louls. Last night, if ever, the Western Associated Press should have demonstrated its ability to surpass and overwhelm the rival association. The fact that it was unable to prepare and transmit to the morning newspapers a satisfactory story of the disaster, while the United Press papers were supplied | with a graphic account, crammed with facts and details of the injury done, shonld settle finally any question that may have | been raised in the mind of any newspaper- reader regarding the comparative effi- ciency and value of the two press asso- ciations. TORONTO, ONTARIO, May 29.—The To- ronto World, one of the most enterprising newspapers in Canada, has an editorial this morning lauding the United Press news service. Itsaysin part: The capacity. of the United Press agency for bandling live news may be seen from its report of the terrible disaster at Bt. Louis. The catastrophe occurred late Wednesday afternoon, and every iine wired by the United Press agency had to be carried to a tel_egnlzn office two iviles outside of St. Louis, all the wires in that city baving been disabled. The World must congratulate the United Press on the splendid and complete reports under such difficult conditions. As il was the details of the catastrophe came along as fast as the overator could take them from the wire, and the World was consequently en- abled to present its readers on' Thursday morninf with the whole story of the great 8t. Louis disaster. COLUMBUS, Oxnto, May 29.—The Even- ing Press to-day. says: The superior tele- fl:ph facilities of the Evening Press have n demonstrated on various occasions, with its magnificent United Press service, but never more thoroughly than in the complete and reliable reports of the St. Louis disaster in last night’s edition. The account was certainly without a rival in this cui‘ TOLEDO, Omto, May 29.—The Beo mays editorial to-day: e superior report in yenun;ny’l Bee of the St. Louis storm tragedy cannot have failed to escape the notice of the most casual reader, if he took the pains to make & comparison. In every way was the United Press report far better than that of the Associated Press, which years) and John Labiien (aced 44 years) occupied the dwelling. As the blast seized the house and partly lifted it Mary sprang from the door. The others started to fol- was beaten at every turn from the details 1o the grand unmminfi ug. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro., May 29.— The Gazette to-morrow will publish the For | following editorial, which is ‘self explana- l tory: Now, that the great cyclones are over, we think itisnot out of order to call special attention to the admirable way in which they have been reported By the United Press, whose service the Gazette enjoys. The night of the cyclone in St. Louis the Gazettereceived from the United Press and printed the next marning one of the fullest and most complete reports of the storm that has ever been made of anything of the sort. Lists of the build- ings destroyed, estimates of the loss, a particular account of the track of the storm and an excellent description of it were among the features of this report. It has been supplemented since with the most definite and particu- lar accounts of losses and the most ac- curate details of everything essential to be known. Of course it is the business of the United Press to gather news, but the excellence of its service can only be appreciated by a comparison of the ac- counts it has sent out of this disaster with the corresponding accounts sent out by the Associated Press, and printed in the Denver papers. This_latter organization seemed to be paralyzed by the size of the event; the United Press rose to meet the emergency, as it always does, and sent out the best report of it which has ever been given to a similar catastrophe. —————— WHAT CAUSES CYCLONES. These Terrible Storms All Form in- the Arid Southwest, WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29 —Tae CavLL correspondent had an interesting in- terview to-night with acting Chief of the Weather Bureau Dunwodie, anent the St. Louis tornado and cyclones in general. He said: “The St. Lounis cyclone—for tornadoes and cyclones are practically the same—was fortunately forecasted by the Weather Bureau as early as 10 o’clock yesterday morning. After the morning map had | been made up, conditions were discovered that gave rise to a suspicion that cyclonic | elements were forming in the very heart | of the region that has of late years been i marked by so many of these terrible yisita- tions. A storm of considerable magnitude and intensity was on its slow progress | from southwest to northeast with its cen- ter gver the greater part of the States of Nebraska and Kansas. s “The following telegram was sent at 10 o’clock yesterday morning by the acting chief of the bureau to Professor Garriott of Chicago, who is in charge of the district of the Mississippi Valley and middle States: | *Conditions favorable for severe Incal | storms in the States of the lower Missouri | and Mississippi Valley, southern and western Illinois and fowa this atternoon | or to-night. It might be well to announce dangerous conditions in special telegran®s | if you have not already done so.’ i “A duplicate of this dispatch was sent to Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of the | bureau, who was at that hour in Kansas City on an official errand. Professor Gar- | riott acted immediately on these instruc- tions, and shortly after 9 o’clock, Chicago time, he issued the following special fore- | cast to every station within his district: ‘Thunderstorms, severe in localities, fore- | casted this morning for the States of the | lower Missour:, middle and upper Missis- | sippi and lower Ohio valleys and this sec- | tion.” “These tornadoes need moisture in or- der to develop. The storms that give ! them birth are formed in the treeless | piains of the arid Southwest, and there | they -are severe sand blasts. The wind | blows straight ahead at a high rate for | bundreds of miles without meeting an | obstacle. rivers, however, they begin to draw m ure into them, clouds form, velocities in- crease and cyclone conditions gradually form. The wind sweeps down the slope of the Rockies from the northwest to feed the fury of the storm. At the same time | there floats from the gulf a moist wind, | supplying the voids formed on the south- ern section of the great whirl. These cur rents usually encounter each other on the southwestern edge of the general storm. A region of unstable equilibrium is formed. There breaks off from the main whirl a secondary twist of wind and rain, and the tornado is upon the people without warn- ing. “The cyclone area for the spring is bounded on the west by about the hun- dredth meridian, and on the east by about the eighty-fourth. West of the hundred line there is not sufficient moisture to create the tornaaoes. East of the eighty- fourth the disturbances meet the Alle- ghany mountains and are broken up. They often drift off, too, into the north- east, beyond' the reach of the influences that make the valley section so prolific of cyclones.” THE CALL correspondent was told how these destructive tornadoes occur. They usually follow the path of the general storm conditions that move slowly from west to east, or, as in this case, from south- west to northeast. At this time of the year these storms are quite frequent and cyclonic conditions may be produced | at any moment while such disturbance is | passing over the country. During April and May the cyclone area is subject to visitations of this character at almost any hour. It is notable that in each of the | four cases that have- occurred during the past few days, storms have broken in their intensity in the late afternoon or evening, just as it is common for sévere thunderstorms to develop in this section from 4 to 6 o'clock, after the heat of the day has become intense. The cyclone or tornado is caused by ‘the meeting of two currents of air coming from two different directions. Sometimes these fierce tornado-like storms occur in the South. That is be- cause the ordinary track of winter storms’| in eastern sections of the country is from the gulf northward or northeasterly. Fre- quently in July cyclonic disturbances take place in the middle Atlantic States, but not with the fury that characterizes the blasts of the real cyclone region, where | winds have a sweep of a thousand miles before meeting an obstruction. The ques- tion has often been asked, of late, whether these storms are not becoming more fre- quent, and whether they are not in some way due to an increase df city conditions. The answer given to these queries by Tue CArr correspondent’ was that, so far as known, thers are no more storms now than ever before; and the handiwork of man on the face of the earth is not of tne slightest account in the formation of the terrible disturbances. It has been thought that perhaps the heat of a great city, such as St. Louis, might be a factor in attract- ing violent conaitions. The scientific an- swer is that the difference causcd in the general atmosphere by the artificial heat of a great city is of the very smallest mo- ment when these gigantic riots of the ele- ments occur. They seem to be more fre- quent now than before merely because they are more fully and accurately re- | direction, but the center or axis of the Nearing the valleys of great | flows over the lighter air underneatn MANY TORNADOES IN ONE CYCLONE How the Swirling Angry Storm Is Born in the Atmosphere. FUNNEL-SHAPED CLOUDS Light, Moist Airs of the Surface Meet Cold and Dense Currents, ROTARY MOTION IMPARTED. Premonition of Peril in the Hush That Precedes the Tor- nado’s Burst. The tornado which wronght such dis- aster in'St. Louis last Wednesday evening was one of several developed by the cyelonic conditions which bave prevailed for the past two weeksin the great basin lying between the Alleghany Mountans on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west. A cyclone may have a breadth of 500 s, but the tornado, a fierce | storm often possessing rotary motion, is developed within the area of the cyclone. Sometimes a powerful wind attaining a velocity of seventy or eighty miles an hour and causing great damage is cailed a tornado, but it is not so in fact. Mr. Hammond, the United States ‘Weather Bureau in San Francisco, was stationed at St. Louis for many years and had ample opvortunity to study atmos- pheric disturbances in that region of the Mississippi Valley. His views concerning ihe development of tornadoes are interest- ing. He says: “Tornadoes always occur to the south of the storm center and almost always a little east of the general cyclonic storm. The { center of the storm is lightest and the air flows in all directions toward it, but owing to the effect of the earth’s rotation these currents are deflected to the.right as they move toward the ‘storm center. The air from the south and east is moving from the south and is warm and moist, both of which conditions tend to make it light. The air behind or to the west side of the storm is moving from the northwest. It is much colder and consequently denser. The whole storm is moving in an easterly storm about which the air is flowing in all directions drags behind, near the surface, thus causing the axis of the storm to lean toward the east. Consequently the north- west wind in the rear of the storm,ata considerable elevation above the ground, overlaps the south wind near the surface. Thus a coider, denser mass ot air iand forms a condition of unsta- Ible equilibrium. The lighter air 1s pressing upward to escave, but is confined under the mass of cold air above which is continually increasing. Ultimately the pressure of the warm air underneath preaks through above, and in the rush of | the escaping current a r 'y motion is {1mparted. The light air charged with moisture comes suddenly in contact with ! the dense, cold air and condensation of k the moisture ensues immediately. This | may account for the deluge which™ accom- | panies the tornado.” Mr. Hammond believes that the hail and rain and general friction of the air currents produce the electricity. . The barometic variations during a tor- nado have not been closely studied as the observers are not thinking of making ob- | servation 1n the midst of the roar and | swirl of the siorm. It issaid that a good barometic trace of the center of a storm has never been taken on iand. The best | ever obtained by the United States Signal | Service was at the Little Rock tornado. There the barometer registered a sudden fall of a half-inch. The depression was very great and rapid. In scientific parlance a hurricane and a cyclone are the same. One cyclone ex- tending over a great area of country may ! create as many as fifty tornadoes. The | funnel-shaped cloud, or what appears to | the vision as a cloud resembling a great funnel, is not so shaped. The condensa- | tion of moisture above gives the cloud | this resemblance, but as a matter of fact the swirl is no larger at the top thanat the bottom. Before the later dispatches were received, giving the exact movement of the tornado which swept over St. Louis, Mr. Hammon outlined its course, and the subsequent accounts by wire verified the correctness of his outlining. He traced the streets and avenues runming from the river— Lafayette, Chateau, Poplar, Clark, Elm, Market, Chestnut, Pine, Olive Locust and Washington. He_ traced also the streets running north and south, or following in some degree the course of the Mississippi River, to wit: Main, Broadway and the numbered streets to Twenty-sixth, Jeffer- son avenue, the numbered streets again to Thirty-ninth street and Grand avenue, out to Kings Highway and Fifty-second street. He pointed out the wharf- boat stations below the Eads bridge, where the steamers of the Jo Diamond line land, and- where the excursion-boats lay, and figured correctly that the tornado came from the southwest. In St Louis, Market street running from the river westis the central thorough- fare, from which streets running at right angles begin numbering. The storm, it appeers, wrought the greatest destruction south of Market, and must have swept down the valley of Mill Creek irom the southwest. The damage caused north of that street, at the racetrack and other places, was probably done by the fierce | northwest wind which preceded the tor- nado from the southwest. The accounts by wire from St. Louis distinctly refer to an east wind which blew for a short time, then the lull, followed by a roaring -blast from the northwest. After this veering of the elements there was a short season of calm before the great tornado came from the southwest in all its force and fury. Mr. Hammon contends that the tor- nado which crossed the Mississippi River in Pike County was wholly independent of the storm which struck St. Louis. He also inclines to the opinion that the tor- nado at Evansville, Ind., was a local tor- nado generated by almosp‘urte conditions, which then extended throughout the cy- clonic area A tornado soon loses its force after the warm, light air near the surface of the ground escapes. The temperature then falls and the winds subside. It is well known to all persons who have lived for -years in the Middle West —the region com- ported. Cyclones are by no means modern in- ventions, They have been as long as the world has existed, but when the country was a vast uninhabited waste, covered with great forests, they swept and toré and de- stroyed, without leaving their marks in niuuri. Perhaps the cutting down of trees has had something to do with the modern violence of the storms, but they would occur whether the face of the land ‘was wooded or barren. monly known as the.Mississippi Valley— that the tornadoes or so-called cyclones are preceded by a close, warm, sultry day. The lower strata of air becomes warm as the day advances, hence it is quite com- mon for the elements to be, at the close of the day, in a condition favorable to an explosion. R The theory of United States signll ob- servers that the electricity is produced by rain and bail is not borne out by inde- pendent observation. Often in the West one will observe the flashes of lightning before the clouds are formed into dense masses and before any rain falls. Attimes the storm will begin with a roar of thun- der, peal after peal, as if the elements were marshaling for an onslaught behind the cannonade. One of the most graphic pen pictures of ® tornado ever produced was contributed by Jobn J. Ingails to the Kansas Maga- zine, a publication which had a cyclonic existence in the early seventies. From that description an artist might paint a tornado, indicating the fury of the light- ning and the trembling masses of angry clouds. The hush or calm which imme- diately precedes the burst of a tornado is the most oppressive silence in the world— asilence that one can feel. Not only do men feel ii as a sort of premonition of disaster, but dumb brutes, by that sense which is called instinct in the absence of any other definition, seem to understand | that peril is im The United tie followin, in the Unites pex\dinz. record of deaths by storms States since 1890 SEIFERT HAS GUNE HOME, He Says He Does Not Intend to Live With His Wife. YOUNGSTOWN, Onro, May 29.—Henry | Seifert, the wealthy Youngstown (Ohio) farmer, has arrived here. He has been seen by only a few of his intimate friends. He said his second attempt at matrimony was a failure, and that after just three days of wedded bliss on the coast he sud- denly made up his mind to leave Mrs, Seifert No. 2, He said he tired of the love which was developed by the result of a matrimonial agency. Some time ago an agent for a Chicago matrimonial paper appeared at Seifert’s farm, near here, and solicited an adver- tisement, saying he would get Ssifert a rich young wife for $1. Seifert’s first wife died some time ago, and he seemed lonesome, and invested the dollar. Soon, he claims, a8 woman named Louise Fumfort appeared, and he after- | ward married her at Warren, a place four- teen miles from here. Seifert claims he never saw her before. The farm was valuable, and was sold for cash. A daughter claims her father got $16,000 for farm and stock. Since his mar- riage and departure West the children felt uneasy lest something would happen him. He was advised not to marry. To-night a letter was received by Chief of Police McDowell from A. Morganthal, an attorney, asking about Seifert and if he | intended deserting his wife. Chief Mc- Dowell has been unable to locate him, but a CALL man saw an intimate friend to whom Seifert said his second matrimonial venture was a failure, and he did not in- tend going back to his bride i the far West. MANLEY DENILS A RUMOR. Says the Convention Will Undoubtedlg Be Held at St. Lows. AUGUSTA, M., May 29.—J. H. Man- ley was seen this afternoon in reference to to a dispatch from Washington saying that Chairman Carter had called a meeting of the executive committee of the National Repablican Committee to settle the ques- tion whether the National Convention called to meet at St. Louis June 16 should be deferred or removed to some other city owing to the recent disaster at St. Louis. Mr. Manley said he had heard nothing of it; that he himself was chairman of the executive committee, and in addition was chairman of the sub-committee which had charge of all arrangements for the conven- | tion hall. He had received two dispatches from St. Loms stating that the conven- tion hall had not been injured; that it would be ready for the convention' on the 16th of June. “Mr. Manley added : “In my judgment the committee does not possess the legal power to defer the convention,or change it. I have no doubt that the convention wiil meet in the con- vention hall erected for the purpose in St. States Weather Bureau has | Louis on the 16th of June and proceed to transact the business which calls it to- gether.” SRl CANNOT BE BUILT. Not Enough Money for & New Torpedo Cruiser. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 20.—A Herald special from Washington says: Secretary Herbert has given up the hope of being able to build a torpedo cruiser in accord- ance with the act of June 30, 1890. By this act an appropriation of $350,000 was made for the construction of a vessel of 750 tons displacement, having a speed of not less than twenty-three knots. The department at the time was unable to find any one will- ing to build a ship in accordance with the provisions of this act, and the moaey has remained unexpended. Recently, Secretary Herbert gave con- sideration to the act authorizing the con- struction of this vessel. The matter was referred to the chief of the Bureau of Con- struction ana Repairs ana the chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, and it is their reportthat hascaused the Secretary to abandon the idea of building the vessel, unless Congress agrees to make certain medifications in the act authorizing her. e GOUD FOR SANTA BARBARA. | She Stands a Good Chance of Being Made a Sub-Port of Entry. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.—Har- rison Gray Otis, eaitor of the Los An- geles Times, with his wife, is among to- day’s arrivals. He will remain in the East until the St. Louis convention, which he will attend. The bill of Representa- | tive McLacnlan, to make Santa Barbara, Cal., a sub-port of entry, has been re- ported favorably to the House, and if Kem of Nebraska ceases his unreascuable ob- jections to calling up bills of this char- acter McLachlan hopes to pass it. M. Kinser was to-day appointed Post- master at Montpelier, Stanislaus County, California, vice Anna B. Cooper, resigned. Pensions—California: Original—Thomas Flynn, San Francisco. - Aditional (special May 20), Benjamin Keller, Clovis. Res- toration, reissue and increase—Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles. Original widow— Conception O. Valdez, Santa Barbara. RSN Must Produce Certificates. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.—Attor- ney-General Harmon has rendered two opinions construing recent laws regulat- ing the return of Chinese to this country. In the case of Chinese laborers he holds that, if they don’t return within a year, they must produce certificates from the Chinese Consul at the port of departure from the United States; that their delay in returning was beyond their control. This case arose from Burlington, Vt. In the case of Chinese merchants the second decision holds that they may pre- sent a certificate from the Chinese Govern- ment, or from the Government in which they last resided, showing theirright to re= enter the United States. | | | | e MOSCOW YET THRONGED, But Soon There Will Be a Transfer of Festivities to St. Petersburg. MOSCOW, Russia, May 29.—This morn- |ing the imperial regalia which was used |in the coronation = ceremonies in the | Cathedral of the Assumption last Tues- | day were tranferred from the throneroom in the Kremlin palace to their depository | in’the treasury. The ceremony attendin; | the transfer was similar to that employes | last Monday, when the regalia was taken to the throneroom. The regalia will llnter be taken to St. Petersbur: to be | used in_the ceremonies which will take | place after the return of the Emperor and | {‘impxess to the capital. | A reception was given to the distin- | gunished ladies "attending the coronation | festivities by the Emperor and Empress |at 1:30 o’elock this afternoon in the alace of the Kremiin. The weather con- inned bright and clear, and the streets are still filled with visitors. | NEW TO-DAY. join the A Pro e } ‘g o cesSion That’s moving toward the Columbian Woolen Mills, irresistibly drawn offered this week. by the alluring bargains Men’s All-wool Round-cornered Sack Suits, a bargain at $10, but this week only we’ re selling them at $6 50. Light-colored Trousers, stripes and solid colors, this week, $1 85. A few Overcoats, light weights, srpall sizes, 34, 35, 36 breast, made to retail at $12. This week, $5 50. A few Light Tan and Brown Clay Worsted Overcoats in small sizes, 34, 35, 36 breast, sold regularly at $15. This week they fo at $9. All above bargains are ending (this) Saturday night We have but one branch for THIS WEEK only, sale at 10 o’clock. in 8. F., 211 Montgomery st. Keep away from the frauds who imitate our name and methods. Y & V‘&Q SP b WOOLEN MILLsS S4.