3' ST. LOUIS STJtICKEN. JPnrrul DoBtruotlon of Llfo and Property by a. Tornado. At Tunt Knur Hundred Killed nnd Mnny Hundred Injuroil Vt'irili Wrncliuil ' , Jiml Million of DntlnrV Worth of 1'roiiBrtjr Dontroyod. 'St. Louih, May 28. When tlio sun xoso on St. Louis and vicinity tills anorulug it showed n scene of terrible wnln and disaster, wind, rain and llro having combined In n mission of de struction. At lonnt 300 lives wore lost in thin city and as many mora In Hast 5U Louis, whllo thousands wore in jured, many ho severely that they cannot recover. Tlio exact nuinbor of dead and Injured will, however, not bo iVuowti for mnny days for tho debris ot' ruined buildings undoubtedly covers oros of people. The damage and de struction of proporty will aggregate canny millions of dollars, but the ex act amount cannot be estimated with nny degree of certainty. Tho tornado, which caused this do Htruction, atruclt tho city yesterday afternoon at r:r o'cloolc and soon mvept to Bust St. Louis. The greatest damage on this side of tho river was inllicted within a three mile strip .along tho Mississippi. Many buildings wcro totally wrecked by tho force of the wind and others wcro unroofed, while very few escaped noma injury. Signs and cornices were torn oil", shndo .trees and everything else suffered. Health Commissioner Stark loft, two liotirs after tho tornado had passed, feared that the dead would reach 200 auid that not fewer than 1,000 per.sons had fcustalned serious injuries. Uy midnight reporters of thu Associated press had visited all of tho stricken portions of tho city nnd suburbs xind Dr. Stnrklqff's estimates wero InUy confirmed. Tlio dead wero found in all parts of tho devastated section, while crushed be neath falling walls, hurled against tho -fiides of buildings, struck by Hying 4lmborB, cut by tho shattered glass, 'shocked by tho network of down wires, Immunity suffered in ways innumcr--able and tho names of all thu injured will never bo known. Enough woro recorded at the dispensaries last night to show how widespread wero the tor nado's effects. In the Hashes of lightning last night the city hospttal looked like a ruin. 'The now surgical ward was partially -demolished. Portions of tho other liuildlngs woro unroofed. Wajls woro -cracked. Kven In the darkness tho physicians began tho removal of pa tients to temporary quarters, fearful 'that the strained structure would go down in a goneral collapse. The city hall and the Four Courts ivoro In tho patli of tho cloud as it jinsscd from tho city hospital toward "tlio river, and both wero damaged. 1'art of tho jail wall was demolished. Convention hall lost a part of the roof on the eastern end and tho oast end was punctured In sovci'al places by fly ing missiles, and sustained some de rangement of tho Interior. Ton days' work and tho expenditure of g.'i.OOO will make the hall good again. ' In iho district between Sixth street Tand tho river northward from Chouteau avenue, tho tornado tore a diagonal 'path. The district comprises business houses, many of them of tho older type. Every building within tho ipath sustained damage. Smokestacks .and chimneys wero toppVed ovor, 'walls were leveled and roofs wero "lifted. Thousands of windows wero lirokcu and miles of telegraph and 'telephone wires wero left in a network the ground. Through this district Ahe trocts are impassable. . Wo words can do justieo to tho hor--rorsof tlio scene at Seventh and Itut tcr streets. In one wreck alono it is Zctioci'ii that moro than 20 bodies aro -till burlod. Fivo mangled forms wore uncovered and removed just before .midlife lit, Of-ull tho crafts that lined tho rlvei for miles, butono remains to tell the story of tho disaster. After tho tor nado had passed it left a scone of dos -olatian whero ten minutes before steamers bad rocked quiotly at tho docks,somo just arriving and discharg ing their passengers; others preparing lor departure. Trucks and baggage 'had been tossed hither and thither, anost of It into tho rlvor; plows and ag ricultural Implements had been dis tributcd up and down tho loveo as far as could bo seen, and tho whole up jvenrunco was that of waste und wreck. The death dealing cloud crossed tho ariver at such an angle as to strike and -wreck the upper works at tho east and of tho Lads lirldgo und to sweep a part -of East St. Louis. In comparison to Its s'.c thu futilities and losses in East tit. Louis greatly exceed those on t))h jsida of tho river. Tho largor part of the. central portion of tlio cltv is razed lo tho ground, whllo on tho lUts along lio river back to tho north of thu Kadi iJuridgo not a house Is left staudln , Sfira mldcd much to the lossuocount, fDown wires, wild currents of electric 3ty, crushed buildings, all c mtributod o this olomont of destruction. Tho ninrm system was paralyzed. Ap proaches wero blocked. A S'.'OO.OOU eoniugrutlon on thu St. Louis side was jfiiippleaiented by a dozen lesser llres. Jn East St. Louis a mill win burned -und two other considerable losses wero aubttilued. To the enormous total fires .raxldad at least 8500,000. S'ich another .night of horror may St. Louis novel JiiUOW. THE ST. LOUIS HORROR. I,fUrr Itnportn Fully Confirm tho Terror or thfi Htorm "nnriililnir for tlin llond tiot llnu nt tlio Fnntn. St. Louis, Mny 29. When darkness temporarily Interrupted tho search for sWm victims last night, 31fi peoplo wore known to bo dead on both sides of the river, and although tho coin ploto death list will nevor bo known, It In believed that it will approxtmuto 400 In tho two cttlos. Tho number of tho Injured is oven largor and mnny of tho maimed cannot survive. Tho proporty loss will roach well into tho millions, but lusuranco people, fire men and police alike rofuso to hazard ovon a guess at accurate figures. The miles of wrecked buildings, as yet un explored, and tho numerous collapsed factories, toward tho investigation of which little has been made, may hide almost any nuinbor of bodies, as tlio police have boon unable to secure any thing like an accurate list of the miss ing. In tho factory districts many of the employes on duty at tho time the storm broke wero without relatives In tho city, and their disappearance would scarcely bo noted, even though they bo buried in the rnlns. It Is believed by the police, too, that, owing to tho suddenness with which tho crash came, many tramps and homeless ones sought shelter among tho buildings which were leveled, and that nothing will bo known of their death until per haps weeks honco their bodies aro found. The list of known deail in St. Louis Is 109 and in Hast St. Louis HO. Hundreds of homes aro in ruins, doz ens of manufacturing plants and doz ens of business houses nro wrecks, many steamboats aro gone to the bot tom of the river and others aro dis mantled. Railroads of all kinds have suffered great loss and wire ami pole using companies have weeks of toll and largo expenditures of money to face before they will be In satisfactory shapo again. Tho most furious work of tho storm was along Hutgor street, Lafayette and Chouteau avenues and tho contiguous thoroughfares cast of Jefferson avenue. Thu houses are in tho streets, wlthtlwi roofs underneath, buried by brick and mortar. Under thu brick and mortar aro household goods of every description, and on too of all aro uprooted trees and tangleil masses of wires. Thcro is not a tree nor a building standing in Lafay otte park. The wreck of tho city hos pital Is so surrounded by wreckage that it is barely possiblo to reach it. Mnny of tlio handsome residences on Fourteenth street and about Lufayctto park arc ruined, but the most duma?a was done on Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Ninth and south along Chouteau avenue, in tho tenement house dis trict. Many churches also sufferod from thu storm. The path of tho storm is about a half mile wido und over four uiilos longr.sweeping through tho thickly populated southwest por tion of Eastlund ami across the river into East St., Louis. Col. Watmprc, manager of tho Lig gett & Myers tobacco plant, which was wrecked, estimates tlio entire proporty damage at S2."i,0!)0,0()0. which will be, ho says, almost a total loss, owing to tho lack of cyclor.o insurance. Othor estimates range from 31.1.000,000 to 530, 000,000, but tho majority of thorn aro closo to that made by Col. Wotmorc. Tho following official statement has been furnished the Associated press: 'The convention auditorium was practically uninjured by the great titorm, the only damngo boing that some of tho light roof covering on the southeast corner of tho building was blown off. Tho damage can all bo re paired in a very fow days. There is not thu slightest doubt but that the building will be perfootly restored and in first-class condition long boforo the day tho convention is to meet." ACKOBS THIS 1UVKK. East St. Louis, May 29. This city Is in ruins. Tho tornado which swept down upon tho city Wednesday night obliterated block after block of business houses and dwellings, and left behind In Its red trail of death frcores of human beings buried buneath tho walls of flattened buildings or crushed to death in tho streets by tho Hying debris. Tho improvised morgues and hospitals aro fairly choked with dead, some crushed and bat tered out of all human shape, and through thorn flow a steady stream of hysterical women and grim faced men looking for tlioir missing ones. It is almost impossible to mako accurate estimates of those killed. At the various morgues and at St. Mary's hospital thoro are .10. Six aro In tho lllg Four' freight house ruins. How many moro there aro scattered about the city in private houses it is impossi ble to toll, but a conservative estimate would place tho total number at at least 150. Tho sceno is simply appalling. From tho river bank to tho National stock yards, a distance of over a mile, scarcely a building is loft standing. Tho greatest slaughter was dona on the Island, so called. Hera woro lo cated the Vandalla freight houso, and goneral ofllee. Of tlio river boats' warehouse and humble abodes of worklngmon nothing Is left standing. Tho place whero formerly houses and freight depot wero standing wero lit erally swept by tho fury of the storm, j An appeal for uld has been mado by the East St Louis relief committee, j who stato that It is safe to say that ( 0,000 families aro rendered homoluss. I Mr. Paul W. Abt, president of tho First national bank of tho city, will recoiva , all contributions sunt DEATHS OUTSIDE ST. LOUIS. J.Ut of 1'iitnlltloi nt Illinois mill Mlmonrl town Now linden loinollhod. rr.NTltAMA, 111., Mny 29. Southern Illinois was tho scene of destructive tornadoes Wednesday ovoniug. Tho first did much damage at East St. Louis and vicinity. Tho second, al though no loss terrific In force, fortu nately spent itself in a district less densely populated. Tho latter storm came from tho northwost, striking tho village of Now lladon, 20 miles wost of this city. Only flvo buildings woro loft standing nnd tho list of killed is reported all tho wny from 18 to 33. Tho storm covered a strip about a milo wido and swept everything in its path. Ernest llrlnk, who lives six miles southwest of here, and three members of his family, wero badly injured. Tlioir home was destroyed. Near by, a man and two children, strangers, wero killed. Near Irvlngton, Robert Foster was killed in his bed and his wifo barely escaped death. The dam ago to fruit and outbuildings is very heavy. A tornado struck tho southern por tion of Mount Vernon, III., at 10 o'clock Wednesday night, wrecking 19 buildings, numerous outhouses, trees, etc. Mrs. Margaret Carroll, Hobert Foster and three children and their mint wero killed near Jefferson City, this county. A sou of Mrs. Car roll was also killed. Ton peoplo were Injured nluo miles northeast of here, and Miss Minnie Hoyt was struck by lightning in her house, but a brother within two feot was uninjured. At least fiO houses woro destroyed in dif ferent parts of the county and in some portions tho crops are totally ruined. At the following places It was re ported that tho number killed were: At Hreekinridgc, 111, two; at Jefferson City, 111., six; at Dye, III., font-; at Muscotitah, 111., five; in Audrain coun ty, Mo., five; at High Hill, Mo., one; at Washington, one SEVEN YEARS' RECORD. Tormtiloo Aro ns l'rrqnont In tho Kiist as in tlio Wont. St. Louis, May 29. In a record of tornadoes kept for soven years by the weather bureau It appears that the United States suffered from an average of 00 a year. In tho course of seven years the. funnel shaped cloud was seen In Ii0 different states. This is con trary to tho Impression which many havo that the west suffers from a tor nado monopoly. In tho seven years New York stato nveragod two torna does a year and so did Now England. Kansas and Illinois, at first glance, seemed to be tho champion tornado stato by this record, with Missouri a closo third. Kansas and Illinois had un average of nearly seven tornados a year for tho soven years the iveord was kept, whllo Missouri had five. Hut when differences in urea was taken into consideration and tho percontago of tornado clouds to each 10,000 square miles of territory was worked out, it did not appear that Kansas, Illinois and Missouri woro ontitlcd to so much reputation as breeders of these pe culiar storms. During tho seven years tho percentage of tornadoes to area placed Massachusetts and Illinois sido bj- sido at the top of tho list. Indiana in tlio frequency of tornadoes led Kan sas. Georgia, Iown, Missouri, Now .Tersoy and Ohio woro closo behind Kansas in their percentages. ARMOUR TROUBLES ENDED. The IJoyoott on tho romp-wiy l'roilnct Ofllrlxlly Declared HIT. Kansas Citv. Mo., May 29. Tlio grievance eonnnitteo of the industrial council held a conference with Super intendont G. W. Tourtollot at tho Ar mour Fucking Co.'s oilico this morn ing. When the conference was over it was announced thut tho boycott on tho Armour company's products had been olllcially lifted and tho fight was practically at an end. Tho Armour company assured tho mombers of tho committee thut ovory man who had been discharged would bo put to work. It was stated that of 192 Anchor Fed oral union men who had not beon re instated Monday, 70 had slnco been taken back and thoro woro only 128 out. FOUND WATERY GRAVES. Schooner Lincoln, with 30 on Ho ml, Thought to lln l.ot. San Fiianoibco, May 29. The schoon er Albion brings news of tho probable loss of tho schooner Lincoln in Alas kan waters. The Lincoln had on board about 30 persons, all of whom have undoubtedly lost thoir llvos. Most of the passengers wero gold scokors. Month from n Mnn'a Hlto. Yankton, S. I)., May 23. Commo dore Coulson died yostorday from tho effects of a man's bite. In u personal encounter on the street Dr. Coney got Coulson's finger In his mouth and bit it to tho bone and blood poisoning fol lowed. Commodore Coulson was a re tired steamboat owner, and had accu mulated a fortune transporting gov ernment supplies on tho upper Mis souri river. His assailant is under ar rest for mayhem, but will bo prose cuted for manslaughter. rtMiiiM'lvnulii Town VMItori, L.ncasti:ii, l'a., May 29. A tornado struck Columbia about ten miles from here this afternoon. Tho mill of tho Columbia Kolllug Mill Co. was blown down and thus far 15 men have been taken out, ono being fatally hurt. A number of others aro In tho ruins. John Hughos, onglnoer ut tho olectrlo light station, was instantly killed, ST. LOUIS LOSSES. Ilortln Still Dntnc lotiml nnil tlin Death lUt Inori'ncl Proporty I.isn, St. Louis, Mny 31. There still ex ists about ns much uncertainty as to the actual number of people killed and the amount of property damage as on tho first morning of tho disaster. Scores of dead have boon identified, but no ono is willing to vonture a guess us to how mnny bodies mny bo in tho ruins of tho hundreds of buildings as yot unexplored. Tho total number of dead in St. Louis, Identified up to tho present, Ih 102, and In East St. Louis, 127. In SU Louis thcro nro 22 bodies still unidentified, nnd in EnstSt. Louis two. It Is believed thut the deaths of the Injured and tho future recovery of bodies will bring tho St. Louis death list well up to 200. In East St. Louis tho city oillclals declared that they have hope that tho death roll on that sido of tho river will not oxceed 150, but tho ruins upon which tho rescuers have not yot begun work mny swell tho total fur beyond that figure. Tho estimates upon tho property los? havo grown wilder and further apart. Guesses woro mndo yesterdny all the way from 52,000.000 'to ?..0 000,000 for St. Louis, and from 81,500,000 to &20, 000,000 for East SL Louis. Tho most popular estimate is in tho neighbor hood of S25.000.000 for both cities, in eluding railroad buildings damaged. Although thousands of men have been at work night and day clearing away the wreckage in tho path of the tornado, they have scnrooly mado o perceptible impression toward restor ing the chaotic confusion to anything like order. Passageways have been mado through some of tho principal thoroughfares, it is true, but for the most part the streets are still choked with the battered remains of homes nnd factories, hospitals and churches. The number of families left homeless by the devastation along tho path of the storm will reach up into tlio thou sands. In many instances these un fortunates havo lost all their worldly possessions. Mnny will for duys be dependent on charity and their more fortunate neighbors for shelter. Two companies of tho Illinois state militia from Greenville and llelleville, 111., in nil about 100 men, patrolled tho loveo district of East St. Louis all day. Dead lines wcro established, and no ono was allowed to pass without a per mit. Tho effect of these stringent measures was soon seen in the greatly decreased number of peoplo in tho devastated district. Over 00 suspects havo already been arrested and were sent out of town or locked up. Tin: r.iM'uiu.ic'B summauy. St. Louis, May 31. Tho situation in St. Louis at present, us viewed from tho Republic's standpoint, is as fol lows: St. Louis Identified dead, 130; un known dead, 18; missing, 33; fatally injured, 19; seriously injured in hos pitals, 101; estimated outside of hos pitals, 1,000; property loss, estimated, S'.'O.OOO.OOO. East St Louis Identified doad, 110; unknown dead, 0; dying, fl; missing, 10; seriously injured in hospitals, 200; esti mated injured outside of hospitals, 2,000; property loss, estimated, S5.000, 000. DEAD AT BOWLING GREEN. Sovurnl 1'ernoun Worn Kllloil nntl n Nuinhor SorlonMy Injurcil. Howi.inq Gkken, Mo., Juno 1. For the first time slnco tho storm tho West ern Union wires are now working. This town suffered great loss of prop erty and injury to man and beast. Two miles wost of Howling Green resi dences and barns were blown to atoms, houses wero piclced up with thoir con tents and occupants and carried over tree tops and set down again, in ono in stanco without injury to tho family. In a strip of country a milo wido and ex tending from hero to Curryville, eight miles, almost every houso is damaged and many aro utterly de molished. At Curryvillo not a single house esenped dnmuge. The residence of J. W. Alvis was crushed like an egg shell, nnd Mrs. HobeccaRccd instantly killed. Jack Emerson and Henry Cash and wifo wero injured. Tlio damago to property will aggregate many thousands of dollars. Four miles west of bore Mrs. Carrlo Uradbury had her ribs crushed and sustained internal in juries. Louis James' boy had both arms broken nnd .Too (smith's boy had his scalp taken off and will die. KATE FIELD DEAD. Tho Spoclnl CorroRiouilont of tho Chicago Times-llorulcl Succumb to I'nouinoiiln. Chicago, Juno 1. W. II. Kohlsnnt has recelveda cntrlo message dated Yo kohama and signed by Lorin A. Thurs ton, ox-minister to tho United States from tho Sandwich islands, which said: 'Kato Field died at Honolulu May 10 of pnouinonln." Miss Fiold wns in the Sandwich islnnds ns tho spoclal cor respondent of tho Tlmos-Herald, and tho last heard from her was n letter dated May 4, in which bIio in formed Mr. Kohlsaat that sho had been doing a gront deal of horsoback riding, and that tlio exorcise in tho open air bad completely restored her health, which boforo she wont to tho Islands had been badly shattered. IiiiIIiiii Territory llimUs. Wa8IUNOtn, May 31. Tho eight na tional banks of Indian territory havo aggregate roserves of SI, 553 1,271, as shown by an abstract of reports to tho comptroller of the currency. Their total loans and discounts nro SS39.193 und the total reserve Is S93.151, of which S32.SS2 is in gold coin, with, nearly ns much silver coin. FOURTEEN LOST. Ferryboat Clinch t In n Harrlcuno at Cairo, 111., and tho I'nMontrorii Dro'nrneil, Cairo, III., May 27. Tho steamer Kathorino, used as a ferry boat, was caught nt tho mouth of thu Ohio river by a sudden hurricane at 8:80 o'clock yesterday morning nnd capsized, nnd all on board, except tb.o captain, engi neer and clerk, wero drowned. Tho tlcud, ns fnr ns can bo learned, number 14, among them Cnpt Illttonhousc, su perintendent of tho Cuiro City Ferry Co.; Dr. Orr's two dnughtcrs, Mr. nnd Miss Stanley, of Wlckliffe; Mrs. Wil llain Shannon and baby, of Ilird's Point, Mo.; Mrs. Mury Jones, of Jack son, Tonn.; Richard Thurinnn, of Wickliffe, nnd Chnrlcs Gilhoffcr, a merchant of this city. Only thrco bodies thoso of Thurman, Miss Orr and n deck hand have been recovered. Tho opera houso and Union depot wero unroofed, a number of trees de stroyed and signs blown down, but no houses wcro destroyed or lives lost In tho city. Five miles of telegraph , poles wero blown down on the Mobllo & Ohio railway. It is impossible to tell tho extent of tho damago south of here, but it is believed to bo very great, Tho storm came up very sud denly from tho northwest, just ns tho ferry boat had started from Cairo and whllo it was still In the Ohio river near the Illinois shore Tho rnln was very heavy nnd tho peoplo wero nil in tho cabin with the door shut. Tho boat turned over whon tho squnll first struck It. Tho captain und tho clerk wero at the pilot wheel nnd wcro thrown out of tho pilot houso into tho wntcr und tho bont turned over on thorn. They happened to be so far away that they caught tho guard and pulled out from beneath her. Of thoso in tho cabin only Dr. Orr und Joseph Curry got out. At Ilird's Point, Mo., a church nnd ten othor buildings wore partly wrecked. WORK OF DEATH. Tho Cyrlono Victims In .Michigan Xunihor 44, nml Thcro Mny Ilu Others. Dkthoit, Mich., May 27. Full re ports of tho C3clono which swept over Michigan have not yot been received. First reports of tho disaster wore over drawn, but -14 persons are known to have been killed and nearly as many more havo received injuries which nay provo fatal. From reports that con tinue to como in from adjacent points tho full forco of tho fierco wind that swept Oakland county is beginning to bo appreciated. Everywhere is devas tation. Villages that were Monday the homes of contented citizens aro to day desolato sites, and maimed and bruised fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters mourn for those who mot death in tlio twisting, grinding, resistless wind. The denth roll in the vicinity of Ox ford may ruu up to tho hundred mark, for many homes that wero on tho edgo of tho cyclone suffered from its fury. At Oakwood, a hamlet a few miles from Oxford, having a population of about 200, not n houso is left standing. Tho path of tho storm was between half and three-fourths of a milo wido, and it extended in a nearly straight course eastward for a distance of over 30 miles. A remarkablo circumstance is that tho buildings in closo proximity to each other wcro blown In opposite directions, some being swept uorth- westwurd nnd others southward. WENT INTO THE RIVER. Awful Accident to a Lomlcil Truiii Curat Victoria, II. '. VicToniA, 11. C, May V. The Point Ellice bridge ovor Victoria arm col lapsed yesterday afternoon precipitat ing a tram car heavily loaded with human freight into tlio water 100 feet below. All tho passengers in tho car, probably 50, were drowned. A sham fight and review was to tuko placo at Macauloy Point, near Esquimalt, in tlio afternoon and crowds wero making their way by every route All tho tram curs were pneked. Two cars left Government street with moro than 100 people. Tho first got ovor Point Ellico bridge, which crosses Victoria arm, safely, but when tho other was about half way over tho middle spau of tho bridge, about 160 feet in length, gave wny and tho car plunged into tho water some 100 feet below. Tlio car was completely subraorgod and all on board wero drowned, with tho excep tion of some of ttioso who wero stand ing on tho platforms, and who, escap ing injury from tho falling timbers, managed to savo thomBolves by using the floating ruins of tlio bridge and thus got ashore. Numbers of tho bodies have already beon recovered, and thu work of identification is pro ceeding, but it is a difficult matter as a great many of tho bodies ure thoso of visitors. FIGHT WITH CIRCUS MEN. Flvo Hoportml Killed nnd Sovoml Mortally Wounded In tin Indiana Vlllacn. Vincknnkh, Ind., May 27. At Fort Brunch, a small village south of here, last night a circus steamboat landed. Liquor was sold on tho vessel and all woro drunit and disorderly. Tho sale was ordered stopped, but little atten tion was paid to tho orders of tho town marshal. A posso of citizens was deputized nnd marched to where tho boat was moored und mado nn nttempt to arrest tho circus men. A prolonged fight ensued, in which it is reported that sdvcral woro mortally wounded and five killed, . . J. 4 i y A