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
