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The great cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896. Being a full history of the most terrifying and destructive tornado in the history of the world, with numerous thrilling and pathetic incidents and personal experiences of those who were in the track of the storm.
There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area.The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
Throughout St. Louis County, the tornado killed 10, injured 170, and caused $25 million in damage. The tornado then entered St. Louis City , devastating the area. It first damaged dozens of buildings and homes in the neighborhoods of Franz Park , Hi-Pointe , and Clayton-Tamm in Northern Benton before tearing part of the roof off the St. Louis ...
The Great St. Louis Tornado of 1896 is estimated to have killed at least 255 people and injured more than 1,000 on May 27, 1896, as it wreaked havoc across the St. Louis, Missouri, area.
After devastating the city of St. Louis, the tornado crossed the Mississippi River and struck the Eads Bridge, where a 2 in × 10 in (51 mm × 254 mm) wooden plank was found driven through a 5 ⁄ 16 in (7.9 mm) wrought iron plate. Uncounted others may have died on boats on the river, which could have swept their bodies downriver where they ...
The tornadoes formed ahead of a deep storm system in which several temperature records were broken [citation needed]. The deadliest and most damaging tornado of the outbreak struck Greater St. Louis at F4 intensity, killing three people and injuring 216. [nb 1]
Here’s a glimpse of the Great Flood of 1993’s effects on St. Louis and when else in history the Mississippi River has reached record-setting crests.
In such places as St. Louis, river levels were nearly 20 feet (6.1 m) above flood stage, the highest ever recorded there in 228 years. [6] The 52-foot (16 m)-high St. Louis Floodwall, built to handle the volume of the 1844 flood, was able to keep the 1993 flood out with just over two feet (0.61 m) to spare. [7]