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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 ten-mile 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 O'Neil of the St.Louis Post-Dispatch, 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 city's daily newspapers--the Globe-Democrat, the Post-Dispatch, and, most notably, the old St. Louis Republic. O'Neil points out that ""the book's 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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Author:   Julian Curzon ,  Tim O'Neil
Publisher:   Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint:   Southern Illinois University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 19.20cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780809321247

ISBN 10:   0809321246
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   30 April 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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