The record-union., 1896-05-30

to Five Hundred When the Search
is Completed, and the Injured at
Thirteen Hundred.
ST. LOUIS, May 29-Memorial Day
of 1896 will hereafter be an anniver-
sary of saddened memories to the peo-
pie of the Mound City. "Old Glory's
innumerable will as of old float in the
breeze tomorrow, but instead or
proud procession at the head of the
column, they will be lowered to the po-
sition of mourning and sorrow at half
mast Beneath them procession after
procession will wind its way around the
principal streets and over Grand ave-
nue. to the last resting places of the de-
parted at the beautiful Calvary and
Bellefontaine Cemeteries. The strains
OF brass bands will fill the air as on
previous Decoration Days, but the pa
triotic Marching Through Georgia"
and Rally Round the Flag, Boys will
give place to funeral dirges and the
Dead March in Saul
The boys in blue, in accordance with
time -honored custom, will march to the
respective points where honors are to
be paid to the departed veterans of the
war, but before them, between them
and behind them will be heard the
steady tramp and witness the impress
sive spectacle of companies of Free
Masons, Pythians, Odd Fellows and
representatives of other secret societies
as they follow the funeral carriages
that bear the remains of some brother
whose life paid forfeit to the fury of
the elements on Wednesday night.
There will be flowers galore in the
cities of the dead, but the designs of
the square and compass, the cross and
the circle, the wreaths of evergreens
and forget t-me-nots, all tokens of
present burial. will be more numerous
than loose cut flowers and evergreens,
with which 1t is the custom in this 10
cality to decorate the abiding places of
those that have gone before.
There will be the time-honored ora
tions tinged with patriotic fervor, but
from spots by the score over the bury
ing grounds will be heard the voices
of the men of God as they pronounce
the last invocation, and mingling with
the solemn words the sobs and means
of the grief-stricken relatives and
friends of those whose mortal remains
are being consigned to mother earth.
And with the sunset and the Sabbath
will come the passing of the after
Inath" of the second great calamity or
the decade, and so, also, with the dawn
of a new week the metropolis Of the
southwest, relegating to history the
horrors and terrors of the past few days,
will grid herself anew and resume her
march of commercial and social pro-
gress.
There were a number of funerals to-
day. but relatives of the great ma
jority Of the victims preferred to take
advantage of the fact that tomorrow
will be Decoration Day, and a half
holiday, and therefore arranged accord
ingly for the interments. AS result,
the undertaking establishments were
rushed" to an extent unprecedented.
and the ambulance-shaped black vehi-
cles employed to carry the caSkets
were at times during the day to be en-
countered every few blocks. So heavy
was the pressure upon the funeral di-
Tectors that in many cases 1t was this
evening found absolutely necessary to
.hn anttl Saturday
The number of interments tomorrow,
however, Will exceed 100.
The conditions in East st. Louis are
precisely with those of this city. The
preparations and programme of the one
are those of its namesake and neighbor
across the river.
At a regular meeting of the Municipal
Assembly tonight Mayor Walbridge
submitted a report recommending that
the assembly appropriate Sl0o.ooo for
the relief of the storm sufferers. This
was favorably received but the exigen-
cies Of legislation will delay conclusive
action for several days This money is
to be Immediately available upon the
passage of the measure. The committee
report will be made tomorrow In
formal discussion was had and 1t was
agreed that every appropriation for
public improvements not pledged by
contracts already made should be di-
verted to the relief fund. The dis
bursement of this fund will be under
municipal control, and independent of
other relief measures.
Mayor Walbridge took occasion in his
message to point out that ST. Louis was
the only city in the country that had
weathered safely the recent financial
gale, and 1t should not be said that any
disturbance, physical or financial. could
make St. Louis a mendicant asking
aims. This independence of feeling