People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Appalling Cyclone at St. Louis. [ARTICLE]

Appalling Cyclone at St. Louis.

This morning’s early editions of the Chicago papers contain indefinite reports of an awful loss of life and property at St. Louis at 4p. m. yesterday. It is thought that 1,000 lives were lost. A large fleet of river boats,-including a loaded excursion bOST, are said to have been sunk with all on board. The grand stand filled with people at the race track was wrecked: the great Eads bridge was swept away with a train loaded with passengers; the big convention hall was destroyed and hundreds of other buildings in the city. All telegraph communication was cut off.