The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ssouri River and two across theMississippi River,these latter being the Illinois andSt. Louis or Eads bridge, and the Merchantsbridge, completed Dec. 31, 1889, at a cost of$3,000,000. On the afternoon of May 27, 1S96,one of the fiercest cyclones ever known in theAVest brought disaster upon the city of St. storm swept through the heart of the city,wrecking many buildings; crossed the river, de-molishing warehouse property and shipping andwrecking the upper works of the Eads bridge,and passed over E
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . ssouri River and two across theMississippi River,these latter being the Illinois andSt. Louis or Eads bridge, and the Merchantsbridge, completed Dec. 31, 1889, at a cost of$3,000,000. On the afternoon of May 27, 1S96,one of the fiercest cyclones ever known in theAVest brought disaster upon the city of St. storm swept through the heart of the city,wrecking many buildings; crossed the river, de-molishing warehouse property and shipping andwrecking the upper works of the Eads bridge,and passed over East St. Louis, doing a vastamount of damage. The fatalities for the twocities were estimated at 388; the injured in about 1,000, and a property loss for the lat-ter city of from $22,000,000 to $50,000, 1880, 350,522; 1890, according toUnited States census, 451,770; according tothe i2th census (1900), 575,238. ST. LOUIS, a river. See St. Lawrence,, pp. 177, 178. ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY, an educational in-stitution for men at St. Louis, Missouri; established. ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY BUILDING. in 1829, and maintained by the Roman CatholicChurch. In 1898 there were 440 students in ST. MARGUERITE ISLANDS —ST. PAUL 649 attendance, 30 instructors, and a library of 40,000Tolumes. The larger portion of the student bodyis enrolled in the preparatory department. In-clusive of the year 1898, the graduates from thefoundation of the institution numbered 1,091. ST. MARGUERITE ISLANDS. See Lerixs,in these Supplements. ST. MARTINSVILLE, a village and the cap-ital of St. Martin Parish, central southern Louisi-ana, 45 miles of Baton Rouge, on BayouTeche, and on the Southern Pacific railroad- Itis in a cotton, sugar-cane, com and rice produc-ing region, and has a cottonseed-oil mill, cotton-gins and sugar refineries. It has direct steam-boat connection with the Gulf of Mexico. Popu-lation 1890, 1,814; 1900, 1,926. ST. MARYS, a village of Auglaize County, west-em Ohio
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