Photograph of a seal playing a set of horns while its trainer holds out a microphone at the St. Louis Zoo. In the background is a seated group of visitors coming to see the show.
Lemay Pollution Case - This was the scene at the NL Industries DeLore plant at 4:30 p.m. Monday, 3.5 hours after the first air pollution red alert ever called in St. Louis County went into effect. The DeLore plant was one of the plants ordered to curb emissions.
Houses were reduced to rubble, trees twisted to stumps and streetcars to splinters by the 1896 tornado, as this photograph taken on Lafayette avenue, looking east from Jefferson avenue, reveals.