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  1.   stlyesterday: An F4 tornado tore through St. Louis and East St. Louis on May 27, 1896 — 115 years ago today. This scene at the southwest corner of Seventh and Rutger streets (left foreground) was the deadliest spot along the tornado’s 10-mile path, which was roughly along today’s Interstate 44 and across the Mississippi River. Seventeen people were killed when a three-story tenement building collapsed. Frederick Mauchenheimer, who ran a tavern on the ground floor, was playing cards with two patrons when the storm hit; they were among the dead.  Across the street, another six died. In all, 225 people were killed in the Great Cyclone; it is still Missouri’s deadliest tornado. (Missouri History Museum) See more photos from the Great Cyclone »

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    stlyesterday:

    An F4 tornado tore through St. Louis and East St. Louis on May 27, 1896 — 115 years ago today. This scene at the southwest corner of Seventh and Rutger streets (left foreground) was the deadliest spot along the tornado’s 10-mile path, which was roughly along today’s Interstate 44 and across the Mississippi River. Seventeen people were killed when a three-story tenement building collapsed. Frederick Mauchenheimer, who ran a tavern on the ground floor, was playing cards with two patrons when the storm hit; they were among the dead.  Across the street, another six died. In all, 225 people were killed in the Great Cyclone; it is still Missouri’s deadliest tornado. (Missouri History Museum)

    See more photos from the Great Cyclone »

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    • Posted at 10:40 am on 5.29.2011