The Iowa Recorder (Greene, Iowa) 13 Jul 1904 TERRIFIC STORM AT ST. LOUIS. Wind and Hail Cause Considerable Property Loss. St. Louis, July 12, - A terrific storm of wind rain and hail prevailed in St. Louis Monday for a short time, causing considerable damage to property. A man Named O'TOOLE was killed by lightning, five or six others were injured, but not seriously, by flying missiles. The maximum reached by the wind was sixty-five miles an hour. Twelve barges were blown across the river and eighteen or twenty houses on Twenty-first street, between Washington avenue and Carr street, were completely unroofed, and other damage was done throughout the city. Some of the hailstones that fell during the storm measured an inch in diameter.