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Louis, were carried everywhere.v Still others, after being torn from their moor­ ings, disappeared, and have not been heard from. As a rule the smaller craft was sunk, ^phis was particularly the case I with the smaller excursion steamers, most of whi^fhad a great many women on board. Houses were blown into the river, and at one time during the worst of the blow a section of the river was scoop­ ed out and the muddy bottom shown. The water was carried blocks away as • though it were a solid. Not while within j the city limits did the funnels rise and ; fall from the ground, as is ssually the I case in cyclones in small places. There was no rebounding. Consequently what­ ever was in the path of the wind was either destroyed, or badly injured. mad* torrent. All trains on the Pennsyl­ vania and Baltimore and Ohio railways were abandoned. Men, women and chil­ dren were pauic stricken. The fatality list exceeded 1,20$. The water reached a depth of fifty feet, and it required prompt, persistent and heroic action to rescue the inmates of a valley in which death rode through upon a wave of merci­ less water. The rain descended in torrents for sev­ enty-two hours. Hundreds of dead bodies floated upon the bosom of the river for a distance of fifteen miles from the scene of the disaster. Wires were down and all telegraphic communication temporar­ ily cut off. Collieries in the vicinity were forced to suspend. The damage extended find travel a mile or more before., again touching the earth. Beyond Macomb County the storm was lost somewhere in the Canadas. A terrific hurricane and cloudburst struc£ Cairo, 111., at 8:30 o'clock Tuesday morning. The extent of the destruction of property could not be ascertained,' but it is known that at least a dozen lives were lost through the capsizing of the steam ferryboat Katherine. The disaster occur­ red at the mouth of the Ohio river. As speedily as possible relief parties were or­ ganized to drag for bodies and rescue the ill-fated passengers arid crew from the mad fury of the waves. The captain, en­ gineer and clerk of the steamer succeed­ ed in keeping afloat until succor reached them and they were brought ashore. All attempts to save the other victims were unavailing. FIRST WORK OF DESTRUCTION. Schell, Mrs. Lucretia Whitney. Bondurant--Mrs. . Johri Bailey, Lizzie Bailey, John Bailey, jj., John Bailey, John Maxwell, Robert Bailey. McGregor--Mrs. Morg Burke, William Burke, John Godlet, Michael Havle, John Lavotch, John Moloney, Mrs. John Ma- loney, Michael Maloney, Lawrence Mey­ er, Mrs. Lawrence Meyer, Anton Meyrf, four Meyer children, John Nichols. Durango--Four Clark children* Thomas Griflin. brakeman. I Santiago--Peter Bolenbaugh, Mrs. Pe­ ter Bolenbaugh, Theophilus Milburn, or­ phan child. ILLINOJB. Rockford--Mrs. Isora Bird, Mrs. God­ frey Hildebrand, Elsie Hildebrand, God­ frey Hildebrand, daughter of Mrs. Isora Bird. Elgin--John Kehoe. Cairo--Captain Rittenhouse, Dr. Orr, Miss Orr, Miss --- Orn«*ichard Thur- ma.ii, Charles Gilhoffer, seven members of the crew of the Katherine. MICHIGAN. Ortonville--Mrs. T. G. Heaton. two A Cyclone Devastates Three • - States. Missouri's Largest City and Its Illinois Con sort Meet Terrible Calamity. DEATH IN ITS WAKE penetrated almost momentarily by flashes of vivid lightning, the ominous rattle and rumble of the thunder, the torrents of stinging rain and the raging and howling of the mad tornado created a panic that made the streets of the city resemble the corridors of a madhouse. Chimneys, cornices, signs, everything that came in the wind's way, were swept away and dashed among the frenzied people. Pe­ destrians were themselves caught by the wind and buffeted against the waHs of buildings or thrown from their feet like mere playthings. Overhead electric \vires were torn from their fastenings and their deadly coils, with their hissing 1 blue flames, joined In the destruction of life and property. People were killed bypthe score and the city hospital, which fortu­ nately escaped serious damage by the storm, was soon crowded to the doors with wounded and dying. Long before the tornado had spent itself many of the downtown streets of the city were •impas­ sible with the wreckage of shattered buildings and the Strands of broken elec­ tric wire which were sputtering and blaz­ ing everywhere and had it not been for the floods of rain the tornado might have been but the prelude <to the destruction of the entire. ei,ty by fire, '/' <• -On the river the destruction was even more complete than on land. Only one Iowa, Illinois, and Michigan the Sufferers. The Death Roll Will Pass the Hun­ dreds, and Hundreds More Are In­ jured--Terrific Downpour of Water ""•ifi Several Instances Completes the Destruction Which the Wind Began --Daihase to Farm Property Jfe Lit­ erally Inconceivable--Several Towns Are Wiped Off the Karth. f Hnrricane Came Like a Thief Upon Sleeping Iowa Families. In the Iowa region, where the storm started, Sunday had been a fearfully hot and sultpjf day, the air had been oppres- THE GREAT EADS BRIDGE OYER THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, And this destruction was done in thirty minutes. y.:','•?'-/ " The bells, of the city were pealing 6 o'clock when the worst, of the storm had passed. - . - . . '• - East S*. Louis Rnined. East St. Louis' tremendous shipping in­ terests have received1 a heartrending blow. The railroad tracks were literally torn up from the right of way and scat­ tered. Huge warehouses and freight de­ pots were piled on top of each other. LOng lines of box cars loaded with valua­ ble freight were turned upside down. The telegraph offices were destroyed and miles of wire blown down. to the . properties of the Lehigh Valley and Reading railways. A most fearful storm Originated Sixix-- day night, a little northeast of Des Moines, Iowa. \ Traveling ^Imbst dtie east, it devastated portions of.that State, Illinois and by, Monday evening had reach­ ed " the. eastern boundary of Michigan, culminating .in. Macomb Cotjnty. In Iowa it raged most fiercely in Polk and Jasper Counties, killing twenty-seven per- Bous, fatally injuring three,, seriously in­ juring nineteen and demolishing a large part of five towns--Valeria, Bondurant, Santiago, Mingo and Ira. The country between the towns was devastated and the crops utterly ruined. All the stock in the path of the storm was destroyed. In Bondurant five were killed; in Santiago, two; in Valeria, seven; near Mingo, four; and in the intervening country between Mingo and Ida, nine. Eighteen were in­ jured, several fatally. Besides the loss of of life the damage to farm buildings, fences and live'stock is fully $1,000,000. Drowned in the Flood, In eastern Iowa, a terrific downpour of water occurred, doing greatest damage at Dubuque and Durango. At the latter place, the depot was carried by the flood a mile arid a half, and Mrs. Clark, sta­ tion agent, four children, Engineer Grif­ fin. J. Dillon and P. Moss were drowned. The combined fury of wind' and tf"ater wiped out the family of John Maloney near Postville, numbering six, and near North McGregor fifteen bodies, unrecog­ nizable, were found. Miles of railroad track, several depots and eighteen bridges were swept away. Delaware County es­ caped with large property damage only. Passing into Illinois, the first effects were felt at Elgin. Engineer Keough, of the asylum, was killed. The bicycle fac­ tory was demolished, loss over $200,000 A wide farming territory was devastated. FOUR UNDER ARREST. Quartet of Chicago Totssrhs Charged with T,. J. Marshall's Murder. V The coroner's jury has charged Frank Carpenter, Charles Gurney, ' Clarence White and John Lang with the murder ot Thomas J. Marshall, " one.of the most pros- • \ porous young mer- flafe* A chants of Chicago, . and the quartet has ia) been held for trial. £ The murder was one of the most sen- sational which have occurred in the west- ern metropolis in j $ /y years. One evening / just before it was T- ,T' MARSHALL. time to close the general merchandise store known as the Golden Rule, located on West Madison street, owned and con­ ducted by Mr. Marshall, three men enter­ ed the store by different doors and ap­ proached the cashier's desk, where sat Miss Mattie Garretson. One of the men ordered her to deliver over the cash, em­ phasizing his demand by pointing two re­ volvers at her. She refused to comply with his demand, and closed the cash drawer, throwing off the combination. The would-be robber aimed a blow at lier head with one of his guns, which she barely managed to dodge. There were several lady clerks standing about waiting for the time to go home. They saw what was going on at the desk and began to scream. This attracted the attention of Mr. Mar­ shall. who was in another part of the store talking with his general manager. Just as he was about to start toward the desk one of the other men approached him and leveled two revolvers at ins head. Frightened by the screams of the girls, the burglar at the des^ started to back out of the store, guarding his retreat with his revolvers. Marshall advanced toward the man who was coming his way and he, too, started out of the store, keeping Mar- shalTcovered all the time. Seeing that the latter was bent upon his capture, the man fired both revolvers just as he reach­ ed the door. One ball struck Marshall in the temple and the other in the heart and he fell back dead. •VilHCL'MI.N* KtKMAN Huge Buildings in the City's Heart Destroyed. DEATH ON THE RIVER Excursion Steamers Are Blown Bottom Side Up. v-CI0.H.EM»i"S BilJ CfNCi IFiKSMl CHVftCH WORK OF THE CYCLONE IN NORWOOD PARK. sive and still and many people had re­ marked that there was danger of a cy­ clone. Most of the people were in bed. There was a rain and thunder storm just in advance of the cyclone, and while the wind' was whistling through the trees and the rain beating down in sheets suddenly the awful roar that every prairie farmer knows as the dread forerunner of the cyclone would be heard. Another instant and the storm would strike and1 then all was chaos. JK Those who heard it early saved them­ selves in some cases by getting into their cellars or caves. In* other places whole families were killed or terribly injured, and their property destroyed. A typical bit of destruction was at the Bailey home, northwest of Bondurant. In the' house were nine persons, four of whom were killed and the rest injured so badly that it is doubtful if any of them recover. Howe children, John Milty, William Mit­ chell, Mrs. William Mitchell, two Mitchell children, John Porritt, Abram Quick, two Quick children, Mrs. Henry Quick, Mrs. Seott and son, Daniel Thompson and son. Oakwood--Mrs. William Davis and child. W. M. Fifield, Charles Laird, Roger Werbelr, Mrs. Roger Werber and others. Thomas--Eleven were killed hereabout; names eould not be obtained. »• man Beings Swept to Instant Doom Steamers Arc Sunk, Buildings Blown Down, and Railroad Trains Over- turned -- Loss of Life Rivals That of wtlbe Johnstown Disaster -- Principal BuiM in srs in Kast St. Louis liestroyed ./--Fire Adds Its Horrors--Millions of Dollars' Property Damage. The city of St. Louis, torn and devas­ tated by a cyclone, floodedl by torrents •f rain and in many places attacked by &res> was Wednesday night the scene of such a carnival of death and destruction •s has seldoin^been equaled in America. Owing to the frightful havoc of the storm ratting off almost every line of communi­ cation with the stricken city, but little Information eould be had, and that of a very vague nature. It is estimated that as many as 500 lives were lost, while the damage to property is inestimable. Scarce­ ly ^ building in the city but has been in aftine. way or another damaged by the tornado. Ruin and desolation are upon St. Louis. For the first time in the history of a me- Minor Damasre of the Storm. Several houses at Laporte, Ind., w?re struck by lightning, but the damage was small. At Fowler, Ind., James MeDaniels' barn was fired by lightning. Four valua­ ble horses perished. Lightning struck the residence of Coun­ cilman Jackson and Emery Swett at Ko- koino, Ind., doing much damage. The VIEW OF ST. LOUIS, OVERLOOKING THE DEVASTATED DISTRICT. There was a short time after the storm when St. Louis could not communicate with the outside world. Nor could her own citizens communicate with each oth-" er by any electrical means. Such a con­ fusion and ruin in a large city was never witnessed since the Chicago fire. Breaking at the hour it did, and the night following, the work of rescue and relief was very slow. The firemen and police were immediately made aids to the surgeons and physieians of the city. Many people were buried under the ruins of their homes or places of business. The electric lights being out, searching parties in the ruin strewed streets could not go ROUTE OF THE CYCLONE THROUGH IOWA AND ILLINOIS. O MAD/SON M/IW/!UHE£ IBUQUE riMNt. d/iwHPOfrr Chicago iEn ton JOL'ET tropolis the terrors of a cyclone have come . opon its avenues and boulevards, ravaged . the business streets and brought death to knndreds. St. Louis, with its 700,000 people, passed through in one brief half- hour Wednesday night an experience ( paralleled only by the horrors of the Johnstown flood. Cyclone, flood and fire. This triple alliance wrought the dreadful havoc. --The grand stand at the race track was blown down, killing 150. The east end of the great Eads bridge was de­ stroyed and it is reported that an Alton train went into the river. Steamers on the river Were sunk with all on board. A Station of the Vandalia in East St. Louis was destroyed, and it is reported thirty- five lives were lost. The roof of the Re­ publican convention hall at St. Louis was taken off. The two top stories of the Planters' Hotel are gone. The Western Union and many other buildings are j wrecked. The city was left in darkness, j Fires broke out and threatened to destroy what, the wind spared, but rain finally checked the flames. . At Drake, 111., a school house is^lid%> have been demol­ ished and eighty pupils killed. Telegraph wires were down and it is difficult to se­ cure information. Heavy damage to life end property is reported from other local­ ities. After the wind and rain had done their work, fire added much to the storm's loss account. Down wires, wild currents of ctectricity, crushed buildings, all contrib- rted to this element of destruction. The • larm system was paralyzed. Approaches ..ore blocked; a $200,000 conflagration on tlie St. Louis side was supplemented by a dozen lesser fires. In East St. Louis a mill was burned and two other consid­ erable losses were sustained. To the enormous total the fires added at least 1500,000. Trail of Ruin Through the City. From where the storm entered St. Louis, out in the southwestern suburbs, to where it left, somewhere near the Eads bridge, there is a wide path of ruins. Fac­ tory, after factory wont down, and piles of bricks and timber mark the spots on which they stood. Dwellings were picked up and thrown in every direction. Busi- proft/fl £URL I NO TON Q> O BL OOrvrnrc TOrr M'GREGOR, WHERE SIXTEEN TERE KILLED, WAS NOT IN THE CYCLONE'S PATH, BUT WAS VISITED BY A CLOUD BURST. and railroad property suffered greatly. Near Rockford four were killed. In Chicago and suburban towns, scores of residences were utterly demolished; miles of street paving washed away; hun­ dreds of basements filled with goods flood­ ed, and over two hundred people injured'. Strange to say, not a fatality was report­ ed, though the ruin of many dwellings was so instant and complete that escape of many from death seems miraculous. Ev­ erything in the path of the storm was lev­ eled. The suburbs suffering most were Norwood Park, Niles, Niles Center, Edi­ son Park, Irving Park and Itavenswood. Churches, trees and dwellings were razed. One Hundred Die in Michican. Leaving Chicago, the next report of damage came from Ortenville, Oakland County, Mich. Seventeen lives were re­ ported lost and a half-hundred persop$ injured, while tlu? town is practically Wiped out of existence. From Oakwood, riprtheast of Ortenville, word was receiv­ ed that.^eight had been killed. The vil­ lages directly in the line of the storm were Thayer, Groveland, Austin, Brandon, Seymour hnd Davisburg. A message from Clarkston late'Monday night said that there had been a large loss of life there, and that Davisburg, Clarkston and Springfield had also a large list of Killed and injured. Mount Clemens, in Macomb County, was given a bad scare, and while much property damage was done and a few in­ jured, yet no loss of life resulted. Thirty [zjJ-IML- i£l>. STEAMER REPUBLIC SUNK BY THE CYCLONE. From them and the clouds above, a 1 strange, crackling sOund came. This filled i the air and at times was stronger than the incessant peals of thunder. The 1 funnels enveloped the western side of the : city, and in'thirty minutes were wreak­ ing destruction in the business heart. Men , and women, horses, all kind of fowl in the open, were picked up and carried hundreds of feet in every direction. So irresistible was the cyclone and so much greater in magnitude than any th> * country has ever previously known of. that some of the stanchest business blocks went down before it. Structures, the prid<- . of merchants and architecturally famous l'rom New York to San Francisco, were liKe tinder boxes when the wind was at ] its height. The massive stone fronts j caved in. Iron beams were torn from their fas­ tenings and carried blocks away, as if they had been feathers. Roofs, braced and held to their positions by every de- rows, not coming down one by one, but M-IJ1 sengers pUed up in a heap of injured1. ^ ^ ^ The east end of the Eads bridge, one w- / • • of the most solid and finefct bridges in ST. LOUIS CITY HOSPITAL, FILLED WITH INJURED. U the world, was destroyed. The other great ---- T- : -- : bridges spanning the Mississippi were all modern history. Many people were res- accept the offer of the University of Mich- i ihjured, some as seriously as the Eads. cu&! from their perilous positions In the igan. ® Scores of persons were drowned, or, after upper stories of their homes. ; -- i being killed on the land, blown into the The Cambria iron works were destroyed Henry Stefke, aged 40 years, was found • water. Steamers like the Grand Repub- and 2,000 men were thrown out of em-_ dead in Bloomington, Ind., the presump- > lie, the City of Monroe, packets which ployment. Five large bridges were swept tion being that he met death'in a run- i are famous between New Orleans and St. away. Cars and lumber floated upon the J away. , " bursting a reservoir covering a square mile located just above Johnstown. For weeks heavy rains had fallen in the moun­ tains, and the resultant freshet wrought ruin and death that appalled the country. While towns were washed away, bridges destroyed and industries forced to sus­ pend. Hundreds of people clung to their floating homes, which were swept onward a volume of T^ater unprecedented in MURPHY'S 8TOCK FARM, EDISON PARK. houses were blown down. The path cut by the cyclone from Oakland and Meta- mora on the northwest through Thomas, Orion, Goodison, Washington,. Disco and the country located between is filled with populous towns and it is feared that many of them have been wiped off the map. It seems that the list of dead a^d injured would pass 100, and no estimate can be given as to the property damaged. Storm Was a Twister. Actual details of the devastation caused by the cyclone were meager, but all of the witnesses agree that the storm was a regular Western twister. Its first appear­ ance at Thomas station was from the southwest in the form of a densely black funnel-shaped cloud, moving with almost incredible swiftness isnd seeming to take long leaps. It seemed to have the elas- tichy of a'gigantic rubber ball, and would strike the grojSHa, then, leaving a foot­ print of devastation, bound into the air FOSTOtnCK AND CUSTOM HOUSE. aess houses were flattened. There was no chance for the escape of the occupants. The ruins covered bruised and mangled todies that will not be .recovered until a systematic search is made. Thousands of families in South St Louis are homeless, practically, and the temporary hospitals sJfetter scores and hundreds. ° At the time the storm broke the streets <were thronged with crowds of people re­ turning from their work. Among these the sadden fail, of t. almost inky darkness Those Whose Lives Are Known to Have Been Blown Out. IOWA. Valeria--Two children of Douglass Aik- ens, Miss Monita Dickey, Solomon Dickey, Charles Phalan, Sr., Charles Phalan, Jr., Daniel Phalan, Dennis Pha­ lan, Susie Phalan, Michael Phalan, Mrs.