The record-union., 1896-05-31
ruins Of the demolished tenement
houses. It is certain that there are
more bodies under the ruins.

ruins of the demolished tenement
houses. It is certain that there are
more bodies under the ruins.
Rutland Arbuckle, an employe of the
Vandalia car shops, :. Gyms to~night at
his home on West Morgan street. He
had an awful experience on Wednes-
day. He was in the Vandalia car shops,
East st. Louis, when the building was
struck, heavy beam falling in, kill
ing two men and struck Arbuckle. Four
ribs and a leg were broken. In that
condition, amid the fury Of the storm,
he crawled to the east approach OF the
Eads bridge. Across this structure he
crawled in a manner miraculous and
managed to reach a drug store at Pen
dletOn and Olive streets, five miles
from the starting point. There he faint
ed and was placed on stretcher and
carried home.
The reports Of loss of life at the City
Hospital were greatly exaggerated. It
is possible that four or five bodies are
yet in the ruins of that institution. A
corps of firemen are making system
attic search of the ruins. Superintend-
ent Dr. Otto Suffer, who ought to know,
will be taken from the demolished
building. How the patients escaped
is a miracle. Although a liberal esti-
mate places the number of missing at
fifty, DR.. Suffer thinks most Of them
ran away and still live. 1t is hard
matter to get a correct list of the miss
ing. Records were destroyed and new
histories will have to be made for every
patient. There is still a probability
that some of the 300 employees of the St.
Louis Refrigerator and Wooden Gutter
Company, 1900 South Second street,
are in the ruins of the firms immense
plant The loss of the company will
be at least $4,000.
Four schoolgirls are reported buried
beneath the ruins of Soulard market.
They are said to have been passing the
market when it blew over. No search
Of the ruins is being made.
Up to 8 o'clock tonight the relie-
committees report that 1851 900 has
been subscribed toward a fund for al
leviating the distress Of the tornado
victims in st. Louis
IN EAST ST. LOUIS.
The condition of affairs in East st.
Louis is growing alarming. The resi-
dents Of that territory located near the
river, and known locally as the is
land" are facing starvation. There is
little to eat and no money with which
to purchase it. There is only one store
in that section that was not totally de-
stroyed by the storm. Here bread and
cheese are the only things on sale.
Bread is 10 and 10 cents loaf.
al iofi c
to-day in East st. Louis. They were
William Welsh, Charles Collins, Chris
tina Windhouse and Henry Wiz. All
of them died at st. Mary's Hospital,
where they were taken Thursday morn
ing. Mrs. Anna Hennessy, William
Goodwin and a man named Angel are
hourly expected to die at the same insti-
tuition.
No more bodies were taen from the
Island during the past twenty-four
hours, and the work of searching for the
supposed dead in the ruins has been
practically suspended, on account of
the much more urgent need of relieving
the suffering Of the injured, feeding of
the hungry and affording shelter to the
homeless. Each of three local under
taking establishments buried about ten
bodies to-day. Hearse horses were not
unhitched. The roads leading to ST.
Peters. St. Henry's, Mt. Carmel Cal
vary and City Cemeteries grew dusty
with the passage of funeral corteges
this afternoon.
large number of militia tents ex-
pected from Springfield will arrive
shortly. These will go long way to-
ward furnishing shelter for the home
less. They will be pitched on convenient
vacant lots. and will bring the sufferers
together In a form that will render
their relief more easily effected
The members of the executive or re-
lief committee and the Woman's Relief
Corps are working like beavers. People
on the Island" are sleeping, the ma
| jority of them in the open street. The
militia and police together furnish little
protection against vandals, and they are
guarding their residences by night and
searching for their belongings by day
Out of the many families rendered
homeless some 200 have found shelter in
freight cars.
These are the latest summaries cor
rected to midnight: known dead in St
Louis, 1S1; unknown dead in St. Louis
IL; fatally injured in ST Louis, 20:
missing in ST. Louis. go. Known dead in
East S. Louis, 145; unknown dead in
East st. Louis, 3; fatally injured in East
st. Louis, 3. Total fatalities-427.
| Injured in st. Louis, estimated
500. Injured in East st. Louis, esti-
mated 300