VOL. XIX.—NO. 149. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1896.

THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE. 1

PRICE TWO CENTS—j F^»T&MS£

BULL?TIN OF

THE ST. PflrUL GLOBE.

THURSDAY, MAY 29.

leather for Today-

Local Rain*; Westerly Winds.

PAGB 1.Cyclone's Awful Work at St. Louis.Score of Steamers Go Down.Ruins at East St. Louis Ablaze.

Havoc «l the Race Track.Cyclones at Many Points in Missouri.

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Host of Teachers Transferred.Dlrney Sabln Safe.Cupid Kept Busy.News of the Courts.Adventlsts in Camp.

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Neves of Minneapolis.

Stanley Hall Commencement.Beer Tax Defeated.

Broad Gauge Prohibs Win*PAGE 4.

Editorial.

Cutchcon Will Not Be a Delegate

PAGE S.Rain Stops the Apostles.

Millers Beard the Tigers.Intercollegiate Field Day.

System of Paths for Cyslists.

PAGE «.Law of Railroads.Bar Silver, 68 8-Sc.Cawh Wheat in Chicago, 58c.Stagnation in Stocks.

PAGE 7.Globe's Popnlar Wants,

PAGB S.Problem in Cinch for Childs.Changes in Fire Alarm System.

Commencement at Stryker.

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS.

NEW YORK—Arrived: Schiedam, Amster-dam; Stuttgart, Bremen; Majestic, Liver-pool.

AMSTERDAM—Arrived: Edam, New York.LIVERPOOL — Arrived: Teutonic, New

York.BREMEN—Arrived: Bonn, New York.SOUTHAMPTON—Arrived: St. Paul, New

York.

Happily, the man who makes newbicycle records is conspicuously quiet

this year.

The fine old Southern dame, Tennes-see, is 100 years old, admits it, and isproud of it.

Matthew Stanley Quay is conductinghimself with circumspection outsidethe breastworks.

The Prohibitionist could hunt up Mc-Ginty and run him for president. Hedidn't mind water.

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The smallest man in Springfield, 0.,wants to be chosen mayor of the town.He has a great head.

The chief of the rainmakers, old Ju-piter Pluvius, is the most unpopularman in the Northwest.

The coupling of filled cheese and beerin the senate was so appropriate thatthe senators defeated the bill.

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Mr. Cleveland will address a letterto the fish of Buzzard's bay before heindites an epistle on third terms.

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Who said the times were hard? Cop-per has b';en struck at Mud lake, goldat Eau Claire and oil at St. Louis.

The czar of Russia has his crown.The czar of the house of representa-

tives hasn't, by a large majority._^_

Millions of bushels of wheat are inthe Chicago elevators, and yet a manwas permitted to starve to death atJoliet.

McKinley will make the mistake ofhis life if he attempts to let Platt,Quay and Clarkson under his um-brella.

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We have no objection to a McKin-ley-Reed ticket if people will refrainfrom calling them Tom McKinley andBill Reed.

The Methodist conference has de-cided to go into the fire insurance busi-ness, but will limit its operations tothis world.

The moon has been charged withworking up business for the stormking, but the astronomers have clearedthe skirts of fair Luna.

The Dunkards are plainly friendly to

the horse. They have decided in na-tional convention that it is not advisa-ble to own and use a bicycle.

-^An Indiana poet has sold a poem for

100 bushels of potatoes. Whether thepoet or the potato merchant got theworst of it is yet to be developed.

. *What might be known as "the cy-clone ticket" could be made up of Ben-jamin Tlllman and Mary E. Lease.

Platform —Our voice Is our fortune.,««»_.

If Gen. Weyler continues to wagewar by proclamations there will be anopportunity for those who desire totrade phonographs for machine guns.

<*»-Mormon agents are in New York. It

Is an evidence of the size of the Mor-mon caput that he selects the mostpromising field in the country for hisv/ork.

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The report from Pittsburg that theProhibitionists are drinking so muchwatf-r that other people have to drinkmilk and "other things" lacks confir-mation.

The war in Illinois is growing in In-terest. Ben Cable has called Altgeldan anarchist, and the next mail willno doubt bring the former a challenge

to a duel.—, «o-

The heads of the Democrats of Ver-mont are as solid as their maple sugar.

Their platform reads: ""We demandthe maintenance of a gold standardof values."

The appalling disaster at St (Louis isalmost exactly seven years later thanthat at Johnstov/n, Pa., which occurredMay 31. 1889. The loss of life in thelatter, the greatest in the "history ofthe country, was over 5,009.

ONE THOUSAND DEADOR DADLY MANGLED.

The Awful Work of Death-Done by a FierceTornado Which Swept Over

Doomed St. Louis.

DIRE RUIN WROUGHT ON EVERY HMD.

City's Streets Strewn With Debris, and Fire

Added to the Horror of the<

Sorry Situation.

EXCURSION ST&fIMERS WERE GfIPSIZED

Scores Drowned in the Black River With

None to Hear Their Pitiful Appealsfor Succor.

A cyclonic storm swept St. Louis at 5.15 last evening. Confirmed de-

tails arc meager, but It la estimate* that 1,000 were killed or injured.

Seven steamer* were capsized, among- them the excursion boat Big- Re-

public, and many drowned. The city hospital xvas wrecked, and it. Is

reported sixty bodies were recovered there. At the Vandalia round

house 35 are said to have been killed. The grand stand at the fair

grounds was wrecked, and it wo* reported thut 150 were killed there.

Wires of all kinds were blown down, and darkness, and in places lire

-were added to the horrors of the situation.

NEW YORK, May 28.—The following jmessage has been received at the NewYork office of the St. Louis Republic,

in the Times building:

"St. Louis, May 28, 3a. m.—To Re-

public Bure-au, New York: Impossible

to give more than a rough estimate of

the damage and loss of life here and

at East St. Louis. Probably 500 or 800

killed, and twice that number injured.

We have rumor of a cyclone at Mo-

berly, Warrens-burg and" other towns inMissouri. Thirty killed at Vandalia,

111. Local situation terrible."—The Republic."

CHICAGO, May 27.—One of the

greatest disasters of recent years over-whelmed the city of St. Louis tonight

in the shape of a cyclone, which be-

gan shortly after 5 o'clock, and forthirty minutes tore its awful way

through the city with a velocity of

over eighty miles an hour. Although

reports from there are very meager,

owing to the almost total destruction

of telegraph wires, it seems certainthat the number of dead and wound-

ed will reach fully 1,000, and the dam-age done to millions of dollars. Thecity hospital, which, fortunately, sur-vived the storm, is filled to overflowing

with mangled men, women and chil-

dren, and the morgue within two hours

after the end of the storm was so full

of corpses that it was necessary toprovide other quarters for the recep-

tion of the dead.

In addition to those who were killed

in the houses and in the streets, hun-

dreds of dead are beneath the waters

of the Mississippi river. Of all the

steamers on the levee when the storm

broke out but one is now afloat. All

the others have gone down, in many

instances every soul on board being

lost. Among the boats destroyed wasthe excursion steamer Great Republic,

one of the largest steamers on the

lower river. Not a man escaped from

her, and it is said she was crowded

with excursionists when the stormcame up.

The center of the city is a wreck.Many buildings have been demolished,

and others partly wrecked. The streets

are utterly impassable to street oars,md in many places progress on foot is

a matter of great difficulty. To add

to the horrors of the night, the electric

light plants were rendered Incapable

of service, and the gas lamps are also

shut off, leaving the city in total dark-

ness. Fire also broke out in several

portions of the city, and the fire de-

partment was unable to make an ef-

fective fight on account of the choked-

up condition of the streets, and the

large number of fireman who were en-

gaged in the imperative work of rescu-

ing the dead and wounded.

The only authentic information from

die stricken city tonight was seat out

by the agent of the Associated" Press,

who managed to reach an outlying tel-

egraph officevand send a brief dispatch,

as follows:A tornado blowing at the rate of over eighty

miles an hour struck St Louis tonight, andraged for half an hour with great fury, andas a result,

HUNDREDS OF LIVES WERE LOST,

on both sides of the river. Many buildings

are blown down and many river steamerssunk with all on board. It is Impossible at

the present time to estimate the number oflives lost, as the hospitals are filled with in-jured, and the morgue is filled with theslain, while great numbers of the dead andmaimed are lying among the ruins in alldirections. A portion of the east end of theEads bridge is destroyed, the grand stand atthe fair grounds is down, the woman's por-tion of the Jail is gone a<hd the immense Cup-pies block is partially destroyed. The Waters& Pierce oil works are burning, and otherbuildings in various sections of the city areon fire.

The Western Union Telegraph com-pany announced that because of itsinability to keep up its wires, it would

be impossible to send out any moremessages tonight from St. Louis or itsvicinity.

The reports regarding the durationof the storm are conflicting. About8 o'clock the -operator on the Wabashroad, at a small station not far fromEast St. Louis, managed to get theoperator at Decatur, 111., long enough

to send him word that the round houseof the Wabash road was blown down

and that the freight house of the Van-dalia was wrecked and thirty-five menwere killed in the ruins. After he hadtold this much, the wire failed him.Shortly after 5 o'clock the Wabashoperator at Decatur reported to themain dispatcher's office, at Forest, 111.,that a cyclone had Just passed through

the country to the south of Decatur,

and it was reported to have done great

damage. In a few minutes he sentword that a second storm had passedthrough the*country, almost exactly in ithe track of the first, and that he wasunable to get any more informationregarding it, but that it was thoughtto have done great damage in thecountry lying east of East St. Louis.

The operators on the Alton road wereunable to get any information fromtheir men in the neighborhood of St.Louis, but reported that just before alltheir connections with that city werebroken off they had received word thatthere had been a severe cyclone atRush Hill, Mo., which is a small townon the Alton road, not far from Mexico,Mo.

The dispatcher's office of the IllinoisCentral was unable all night to get

any information from any point en

the line south of Centralia. It was re-ported to them, however Nthat a

CYCLONE SWEPT THE COUNTRYsouth of that point.

At East St. Louis the destructionseems greatest. H. C. Rice, the West-ern Union manager at the relay depot

on the east side, climbed across the de-molished bridge and made his way intoSt. Louis. He reports that the Nation-al hotel, Tremont house, Martell house,De Wclf cafe, the plant of the Hexe-1Milling company, Horn's cooper shopand a great number of other buildingsare blown down. Many dwellings arewrecked and many of their occupants

are known to be dead. The Vandaliaround house, the Vandalia freighthouse, in which thirty-five men are

said to have been killed; the Baltimore& Ohio round "house, the Standard OH

works. East St. Louis elevator andtwelve other freight houses on thelevee are destroyed.

It is difficult to estimate the numberof dead and wounded, but a rough

estimate would place the number atabout 1,000. Both Jhe Western Unionand Postal companies have lost every

wire out of the city.

One of the worst features of the dis-aster is thought to have taken place

at the race track at St. Louis, whereraces were in full swing and the grand

stand was crowded with people. Re-turns from the St. Louis races are re-ceived at the track at Lakeside, Ind.,and a few minutes after 5 o'clock theoperator sending the report of theraces stopped his work long enough toremark: "There goes the grand stand,"and then his wire collapsed and noth-ing more was heard from him. In afew seconds the same message was re-ported from Lexington, Ky., with theadditional Information that fully 150people were dead? This was subse-quently corroborated by the operator

of the Wabash rdfcd at Decatur, whosaid that in his -^econd message re-ceived from East-St. Louis it was de-clared that the grand stand at theraces was down, and that fully 150 peo-ple were

BURIED IN THE RUINS.A few minutes after 5 o'clock the

operator of the Associated Press at St.Louis, who was taking the usual re-port, sent word that it was growingvery dark, and asked for a minute'sdelay, that he might provide himselfwith a light. In a. second more thewire snapped, and it was Impossibleto get any further information fromhim or out of the town.

The local weather office in this citywas unable to give any Informationregarding the storm, as theofficer,i in chargfe was informedearly in the evening by theWestern Union that it would not beable to send the usual weather bulle-tins from St. Louis. Itwas said, how-ever, at the local office that the condi-tions had been all day very favorablefor severe storms aH through Missouriand Southern Illinois.

It is thought that the storm sweptover St. Louis front the northwest tothe southeast, as it is considered prob-able that the storm which was re-ported in the afternoon at Rush Hill,Mo., would require several hours toreach St. Louis, and the storm at thetwo points is reported as having beenlong enough apart to enable the stormto cover the distance between RushHill and St.Louis. The storm which torethrough the country south of Centraliais said to have occurred at about 6o'clock, or an hour after St. Louis wasdevastated. These three points are ina direct line from the northwest to thesoutheast, and the weather officialsare inclined to believe the storm wasone and the samfe

The Eads bridg)|>Vhich is reportedas having been bttrlly damaged, wasbuilt in 1873, and was considered oneof the strongest arch bridges in theworld. It was built without a draw,and rose to an elevation in the centerand sloped down to the shore on either Iside. There was upon it a double rail-road track, which was used by thetrains of the Wabash and the Altonrailroads, a double passageway forwagons and a double pathway for pe-destrians. From the reports receivedit is not thought that it is so seriouslydamaged as to delay the train serviceof the roads which use it to any largeextent.

At midnight it was reported at thedispatcher's office of the Wabash roadat Forest, 111., that it was impossibleto reach any point further south thanNameokl, which is nine miles north-east from East St. Louis. The oper-ator at that point said that up to mid-night It had been impossible to obtainany definite Information from St. Louis,but it was certain tliat fearful damagehad been done. He said that the

RUINS WERE ON FIRE

at East St. Louis, and burning fiercely,

but he could tell nothing more thanthat. He had not been able to obtainany Information from any of the Wa-bash trains that had passed his sta-tion since 5 o'clock in the afternoon.The report of the damage to thebridge and the estimates of the numberOf the dead and wounded, he said, werenot confirmed with any accuracy.

11l IX KKIGVS SUPREME.

Death and Destruction to Be Seen oi

Every Hand.ST. LOUIS, May 27.—Death and de-

struction reign supreme in St. Louisand vicinitytonight as the result of themost terrible storm ttoat ever visitedthis section of the country. So wide-spread Is the destruction in both St.Louis and East St. Louis that it isimpossible to even estimate the amountof the damage and loss of life. Build-ings of every description are In ruins,and as a result hundreds of people arereported dead and injured, but untildaylight comes and order is restoredit will be impossible to make any defi-nite statement. Reports are in circu-lation that seven steamers lying atwharves on this and the East St. Louisside of the river have been sunk, withall on board. The city is nearly indarkness, as the electric light wiresare down. With one or two excep-tions all the street ear lines in the city

are at a standstill, and thousands ofpeople are compelled to remain down-town or walk home The storm brokeabout 5 o'clock in the afternoon, aftera most oppressively hot day, and rainbegan to fall. It soon developed into afierce thunderstorm, with the windfrom the cist. A little later the windhad gained a velocity of eighty milesan hour, driving the rain before It, andtearing loose signs, cornices, chimneys

j and everything in its way. Many

buildings of every description were de-molished, and others were set on fireby lightning and crossed wires. Thefire department responded to fourteenalarms.

The streets were full of people go-ing home from work, and a panic en-sued as soon as the storm broke. Menwere picked up and hurled against thebuildings, horses and carriages weresent flying here and there, and falling

wires ful' of the deadly fluid added to

the horror of the rscen3. Suddenly thewind vered arouia to the west andcompleted the destruction. It is as-

serted by some of those who have tra-versed the downtown part of the city

• that there are few buildings in St.

Louis that have not suffered in someway from the storm. Tonight the

STREETS ARE IN DARKNESSand travel in any direction is danger-ous.because ofthe fallen live wires anddebris lying- everywhere. The wagon-way of the Eads bridge, on the EastSt. Louis side, is a crumbling mass 01

mortar and stone, and parts of thetower and Pier No. 1 were also tornaway.

An outbound accommodation trainon the Chicago & Alton road waswrecked by a broken rail, but fortu-nately nobody among the fifty passen-gers were hurt. A trolley car loadedwith passengers, bound for the Westside, is said to have fallen through tothe railroad track below, but withwhat result Is not known.

The roof of the Republican conven-tion hall was blown off. and a twenty-four-foot section of the western wallof the city jail was torn down, expos-ing the interior. It was during exer-cise hours and 200 prisoners were ex-ercising in the building and werepanic-stricken. They were too fright-

ened to try to escape. Jailer Wagnerwa3 on the scene in a moment, andwith the aid of a number of detectivesand policemen, the prisoners wereplaced In their cells. The tanks of theWaters-Pierce Oil company, on Gra-tiot street, blew up, spreading destruc-tion on every hand.

Three stories of the Coe Manufac-turing company's building. Ninth andGratlot, and nearly half of the Wain-wright brewery were blown down. Thesummer high school, Eleventh andSpruce; McDermott's saloon, Eleventhand Chestnut; Jere Sheehan's liverystable, Eleventh and Walnut, were un-roofed. The engineer of the AetnaIron works, Twenty-first and Pappinstreets, was almost instantly killed.The walls were blown In and he wasscalded to death by steam. The Con-solidated Wire works, Twenty-firstand Papln streets, was almost totallywrecked. Seven people are known tohave been Injured seriously by thiswreck, and many more are said to havebeen hurt by falling walls.

The two-story building of the C. H.Sawyer Manufacturing company 1819Choteau avenue, was demolished.John Sawyer, a member of the firm,and Emma Chancy and Isabella Ham-den, typewriters, were crushed to deathunder the walls. H. H. Sawyer, amember of the firm, was injured fa-tally. The St.. Louis Refrigeratorand Woodenware company's factory atSecond street and Park avenue wascompletely destroyed by fire caused bylightning. A rumor was widely circu-lated that the gas tank near the Con-solidated wire works, at the south endof the Twenty-first street viaduct,had been blown over, and, crushing inthe walls of the wire works, killed fourmen to a certainty, and probably more.

The cyclone broke at fifteen minutes after5 o'clock, coming directly from the west,

DESTROYING THE CITY

proper, then crossing Mississippi to EastSt. Louis and there, after raging for halfan hour disappearing In the direction ofAlton. There was little warning for thehelpless people in the streets, the thousandson their way home from work, or the in-

[ mates in the great mercantile establishments! of the city who had not left their posts of

duty.Temporary hospitals abound In every part

of the city. The armory at Seventeenth andPine streets has been opened for the careof the wounded, and many Injured havebeen taken into private houses. The cityauthorities at midnight were sending mount-ed police through the city in an effort to as-certain, if possible, what the loss of lifereally Is. So far as absolute facts are con-cerned, nothing definite can be learned beforetomorrow.

Among the houses known to have been de-stroyed are the furniture store of FrederickCtteneds, at the corner of Broadway andSoulard streets, in the southern part of thecity, where six men are reported killed; asaloon at 604 South Seventh street, where ninemen are reported In the ruins; St. Patrick'schurch, at the corner of Sixth and Biddelstreets.

One thing that hinders the work of takingout the dead and rescuing the Injured is thefact that every electric light wire and tele-phone wire is down. This prevents commu-nication between the various parts of the cityand the town being In absolute darkness, thawork of rescue is going on with agonizingslowness.

Tc add to the dismal situation, the rainwhich fell shortly after the tornado passed,began again about 7 or. 7:30 o'clock and isnow coming down In torrents. It is impossi-ble to get reports from the police stations,where many of the dead and injured havebeen taken, and consequently statements inregard to the dead and wounded up to thepresent time are for the most part conjec-tures, but there is no doubt that the loss ofUfa is greater than anything the country hasknown since the disaster at Johnstown.

It is evident that the tornado pursued atrack of many miles in length, as reportsfrom various railroad stations show thatnothing has been received from any pointwest of here as far as Moberly. Scatteredbits of information show that between Mober-ly and this city variousSMALL TOWNS HAVE BEEN WIPED OUTand many persons.are 4ead in them. It wasat first thought that many had been killedat the Fair grounds in the western part ofthe city, where the roof of the grand standwas blown off while the last race was being

ran, but is Is now known that the people atthe track saw the storm coming and, rushing

out of the grounds, took refuge in the ad-jacent fields.

At the time the storm struck the town andcreated such havoc the accompanying noisewas terrifying. People were picked up in thestreets and dashed to the ground or against

the buildings as though they had been the

merest straws. One thing which aided thestorm in its course of destruction was the val-ley which separates North and South St. Louis,along which the railroads entering the city

from the east and west have their tracks and| yards, and through which they have access toj the union station at Twenty-first street. Thisi depression is some forty or fifty feet in depth,

a regular valley, In fact, and had the tornado

confined itself to this channel the loss of lifeand property would not have been so great.

A. W. Becker, of the big firm of J. P.Becker & Co., of East St. Louis, was among

the first persons to cress the Eads bridge

after the storm abated. His family was InI St. Louis, and in his eagerness to get to

them he climbed ovar the debris of the bridge

on his hands and knees, over wrecked cars,I dead horses and a mass of other debris. Hej informed a reporter that the condition ofj East St. Louis is almost beyond descxlp-

| tion. TheTOWN IS A WRECK

for blocks around and the loss of life in that! region alone is estimated at from 200 to 230.

The Vandaiia freight house, near the east! end of the Eads bridge, was completely de-j lEolishrd, a number of persons having gone1 down in the ruins. When Mr. Becker left; the scene men were engaged in digging out

! the dead and dying and several bodies had

I already beea removed. Meintz's grocery store

I and a whole row of brick buildings adjoining

! it were rased to the ground, but no person

Coo Coned us Tfclrd Pa»e.

ftPPftLJLJNG CUMftX OF TH-^ STORM KING'S WORK.STATE OF MISSOURI

SWEPT BY THE STORM.Reports of Accumulated Disasters Follow in

the Wake of the Blast That Wreckedthe City of St. Louis.

ALTON TRAIN BLOWN FROM A BRIDGE.

School House in the Path of the Storms-Eighty Children in the Structure

Said to Be Killed.

REPORTS IN FROM MANY OTHER PLACES.

Seven People Killed at Mexico, State of Mis*souri, and Damage Done at Various

Other Points.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 27.—Spe-

cials to the Times state that ten peoplewere killed in a tornado which struckthe village of Labaddie, Franklin coun-ty, this evening, and that the town ofRenick, ten miles from Moberly, inRandolph county, was completelywiped out. Nothing definite from eith-er place.

SEVEN KILLED.

Mexico, Mo., Among the PlacesStruck by the Wind.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., .May 27.—A spe-cial to the Times from Mexico, Mo.,

reports that a cyclone swept acrossAudrian county this evening, doinggreat damage to crops and wreckingmany buildings. The correspondentreports that seven people have beenkilled In the county, and probably

twenty-five badly injured, but is un-able to give any details.

EIGHTY CHILDREN

Killed In a School Mouse at Drake,111.

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 27.—Thetrain dispatcher at the headquartersof the Alton road here has a reportfrom the operator at Roodhouse, 111.,that at Drake, 111., Just south of thatpoint, on the Alton road, a tornado at \a late hour this afternoon demolished 'a big school house, and that eighty

children perished in the ruins. No con-firmation of the report can be obtained.At the Alton headquarters the reports jthat Mexico and Rush Hill, Mo., wereswept by the storm are discredited.The railroad wires through theseplaces are woklng, and no reports of se-rious damage have been sent in.

TWO HUNDRED DROWNED.

Alton Train Blown Into the River by

the Cyclone.

CHICAGO, May 27.—1t is reported

that the limited train from Chicago to

St. Louis over the Alton road wasblown into the river with a section ofthe bridge, and 200 lives lost.

ALTON TRAIN SAFE.BLOMINGTON, 111.. May 27.—The Chicago

& Alton limited Is afe at Alton, having re- jturned from East St. Louis. Two Alton ;

coaches loaded with passengers flew from the japproach to the Eads bridge, and were badly

wrecked, but no one was seriously hurt. The

Alton people know of no serious damage else-where on their road.

IN AUDRIAN COl 1 XTY.

Deaths and Injuries Reported ob*\ll

Sides.KANSAS CITY, May 27.—A special to the

Journal from Mexico, Mo., says: Audriancounty was vlßited by a terrific tornado thisafternoon at 3:80. The total number killed at

Bean Creek and Rush Hill is about eight.

More than twenty-six were injured. Houses,churches, barns and school houses were blowndown. The storm was preceded and followedby heavy rain and hail, which did incalculabledamage. Full reports cannot be obtained at

this hour, owing to wires being down, andhigh water.

In the Bean Creek district a school housewas carried completely away, and a daughter

of Joseph O. Ware, one of the pupil3, waskilled, and Lulu Ebanks and Hilda Blase,also Bchool children, were fatally injured.

Others along the route of the tornado in thisdistrict, whose names cannot yet be learned,are more or less injured.

At the Dye school house, six or eight milesfarther southwest, not a pupil escaped unin-jured, and five children were killed, three out-right, two dying later at this place. Theschool house was utterly demolished ani sev-eral of the children were blown a great dis-tance away, and were not found until severalhour 3 afterward, and then in a mutilated

condition.

WORK OP REPAIR

Already Detcvn by the Rjfrftread Com-

panies.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Moy 27.—GeneralSup*rinter.dei.» Miller, of t!io Pennsylvania,

anlTtd tonight by BpocUt trein trom hisheadquarters At Klchmoad. Ttto UtJn was

Trlpit i oi.ilun Home.

WASHINOTO.W May 27.—Bartlctt Trips

Irltcd States minister to Australia, wUii IfxiTrlpp. Is In Washington fir a few day«. «his way to Yankton. Mr. Trlpp U on hlB »anual leave and there is nothing »p«cUl li

his visit to this country at tbta time.

switched to the Vandalia, which Is a part ofthe Pennsylvania, and left at 11:30 o'clock forthe scene of the disaster. Mr. Miller carriedwith him a large force of linemen, so thatthe wires that were down could be Im-mediately put in order for service. Wreck-Ing crews will go over the line from TerreHaute. Before leaving this city Mr. Mlliersaid that his knowledge of the buildingswhich are staid to have been demolished ledhim to believe that flmt reports of liio loasof life were not exaggerated, lie believesthat there are at least K.o men In the freighthouse, and the reported loss of thirty-fivelives he believes to be true. His Informa-tion was that the Vandalla's propertyIn Easf St. Louis is very seriously damaged.General Superintendent Van Winkle, of theDig Four, left on the midnight train forSt. Louis. He will be joined by Supt. Ncal atMattoon. Mr. Van Winkle's staff of omVlnlsfrom here accompanied him, and at Mattoonthe wrecking train will be sent ahead of th«

j regular train with all of the working equip-i ments possible to put the line in shape forI handling its traffic. Mr. Winkle's Information

Is that all the shops, round houses and prop-erty in St. Louis were badly wrecked.

The BJg Four train, which left here thismorning at 11:43 and which was due at theUnion station In St. Louis at 6:56, passedover the bridge just a few minutes before thestorm struck It, but It is supposed to haveescaped injury. Train No. 9, which left hereat 7:30 and wan due at St. Louis at SdS, wasJust nine miles behind the wreck. It escapedby about 15 minutes the fate of the C. & A.train, which was turned over in the bridgewith a frightful loss of life.

DAMAGE AT RE.MCX.

Five People Sertoualy Injured- atThat Place.

STURGEON, Mo., May 27.—A cyclone passedthree miles north of here at 3 o'clock this aft-ernoon. At Renlck three men were seriouslyinjured and a family of people were carriedover a mile, two children being badly hurt.Friendship church, north of town, was demol-ished.

St. 1.0.iU County Swept.

BALDWIN, MO., May 27.—A hurricane, ac-companied by a terrific hail and rain storm,passed over St. Louis county about 4:30 thisafternoon. For three hours rain fell in tor-

\u25a0 rents and hall fell to a depth of several inches.| Great damage was done to crops throughout

i this section of the country. Several buildingswere blown down, but bo far as can be learnedno one was seriously injured.

People liiirr.iiiis Home.CHICAGO, May 27.—0n all of the roads be-

tween this city and St. Louis special trainshave been started for St. Louis, carryingthe officials of the roads and many natives ofSt. Louis. In a hurry to reach their homesand obtain better knowledge of the resultsof the storm and of the safety of their friends.Fully 100 men who are raeidentH of St.Louis left here tonight on the special trains.

Molterly Escaped.

KANSAS CITY, May 27.—A special to theJournal from Moberly, Mo., states that to-day's storm did no serious damage at thatpoint.

VICTORIA'S DISASTER.

Fifty of the Bodies Have Been Re-

covered.SEATTLE. Wash.. May 27.—0n the steamer

Rosalie, which arrived from Victoria this aft-ernoon, were 101 sorrowful looking excur-sionists, the horror of the catastrophe Tues-day being kept vividly before them by thepresence of a corpse. The steamer had two

bodies on board when she ttarie-J from Vic-toria. One was that of J. A. Van Bsfckelin,which wu left at Port Townsend, and thj

other that of B. W. Murray, of thi.s rity."People ud there don't seem lo know any-

thing more about the accident than they dodown here," said Capt. C. W. Aiabb, of ihcRoaalie. "The old building formerly cn%\l

; Market square, and used as a cental for farm*i ers coming in from the countiy with prod-

uce has been turned Into a morgue, and asfast as the bodies are taken from the water

they are carried into the incloaure. Up to tl>etime we left, about 9 o'clock this morning,fifty bodies had been recovered. All :hc peo-ple had been Identified when I left, and no onswas allowed within the enclosure whe.-e thebogie's had been laid out. A seine mlwretched across the river to keep tha ebbingtide from carrying out the bodies, and thoyare using the steam power oi the i-ilo driverto v/ork the draEs. Estimates made by ihoueopl" there place the numVer remaning Inthe water at from 7'" to 100. It v/IU prob-ably be some time befoie all are tnken outand probably some will nev-.r be iouud."