{"product_id":"9780809321247","title":"The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortly 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 \u003ci\u003eSt.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLouis Post-Dispatch, \u003c\/i\u003ewho wrote the foreword for this historic reprint of a book originally published by the Cyclone Publishing Company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeavily illustrated by photographs of the damage, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Cyclone \u003c\/i\u003ewas compiled from stories in the city’s daily newspapers—the \u003ci\u003eGlobe-Democrat, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003ePost-Dispatch, \u003c\/i\u003eand, most notably, the old \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Republic. \u003c\/i\u003eO’Neil points out that \"the book’s compilers are not identified, but their glowing praise of the ‘superb descriptive composition’ in the \u003ci\u003eRepublic \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a good guess about where most of them worked.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031016882416,"sku":"9780809321247","price":21.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809321247_p0.jpg?v=1763741392","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809321247","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}