The Great Cyclone At St Louis And East St. Louis, May 27, 1896 (Shawnee Classics),Used

The Great Cyclone At St Louis And East St. Louis, May 27, 1896 (Shawnee Classics),Used

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Shortly after 5:00 P.M. On Wednesday, May 27, 1896, a Herculean tornado shattered the St. Louis Area. Within twenty minutes, 137 people had perished in St. Louis, with 118 dead across the river in East St. Louis. Along a tenmile swath of devastation, the tornado destroyed 311 buildings, heavily damaged 7,200 others and caused significant harm to 1,300 more. Even today, that powerful cyclone of a century ago 'remains the single deadliest incident to befall the St. Louis area,' according to Tim ONeil of the St.Louis PostDispatch, who wrote the foreword for this historic reprint of a book originally published by the Cyclone Publishing Company.Heavily illustrated by photographs of the damage, The Great Cyclone was compiled from stories in the citys daily newspapersthe GlobeDemocrat, the PostDispatch, and, most notably, the old St. Louis Republic. ONeil points out that 'the books compilers are not identified, but their glowing praise of the superb descriptive composition in the Republic provides a good guess about where most of them worked.'

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