New-York tribune., 1896-05-30

have been stories of loss of life and destruction
at places which were untouched by the STORM
while on the other hand. 1t is altogether prop-
able that there many deaths and injuries ia
the country districts not yet reported care
ful ecrutiny of the data at hand. however justi-
fies the statement that the following hgures
will be found to be approximately correct WIG"
full reports have been received:
cenraia. III. and Vicinity killed SS injured S H.
Mount Vernon. H.. and vicinity k'"eo' ~ III
New Madrid ILL.,. and vicinity. killed 80 injured
Richfeld H.. killed =. ,.,uoo
EEsshTlSS .S.n nj ill., sllsq R:d Is Il 'nInJsS InjSfea
HasmSny }fsfsGsSH cy Ill., Ili S.a ai'leo .,..,
BTnks1 ssstCn H. III klsd killed 80 '0'''e'
Fairfield. H.. and Mascoutah, H.. each Killed
Granot x,cd Mo- Mo- sps k'ei Vicinity killed 30 injured.
warsaw. MsTrSC; 'ifi; Ind. ~ killed { injured.
nh. ,oreyoinp figures are believed TO be authcn-
uc But there are besides. reports which may OF
NAV not be true Of two killed and eight injured
at Boyd III. one killed and five injured al irving
ton. Ill. and general statement of large num-
her killed and injured in Audran County. Mo- 1t
te likely that these reports are correct. but they
have not vet been satisfactorily verified
PROPERTY LOSS IN ST LOUIS.
rhs damage to dwellings is. of course. heavy,
but after ALL the chief loss will fall on the street
railways the electric light companies ana the
river and railroad interests. The municipality IT,
self Is perhaps as heavy an individual loser as
snv The damage to the poorhouse. insane asy-
lum pauper hospital and public school ouiid-
ings will reach S5OOO0O, and the injury to the
.treets damage 10 pavements and destruction
of telegraph and electric lighting systems Will
foot I'D S2JOO00 more. The street railway sys-
fem which operates cars over seventy-fve miles
of track IL also heavy loser. Its power-nouse
was DESTROYED. and its trolley-lines were wrecked
Probably $500 900 will not cover the loss
The steamboat men may be put down for an
other $500 900 and the steam railways for SJVo,-
600 more. The Meyers G. Ligget factory, which
was completely wrecked. represents loss OF
100000 and the ST. Louis Refrigerator and Gut
ter Company's factory Is a loss OF S22o,OO0. This
list really exhausts the heavy losers
THE DESTRUCTION IN EAST ST. LOUIS
In East ST. Louis the railroads and the river
interests were the heaviest losers by the storm
The former will not get off cheaper than *'oo'-
600 and the latter suffered to the extent Of per-
hsps S3OOO00 The loss 10 steamboat men was
not only in the vessels destroyed, hut in wharf
age. freight and material. The fire caused a
further loss Of 100000. and the individual losses
of property-owners will swell the total to be-
tween So, 500. 900 ard $4,0O0,OO0.
In the country and t5e various small towns
that were touched by the storm there is no
means Of getting at the property loss There Is
nc basis even for an ,stimate. 1t is probable
that the losses vii. aggregate large amount,
taking into consideration the wide area Of terri
tory covered. but any effort at giving figures
would be the purest speculation.
The serious feature Of nearly oil the damage
done Is that substantially all oi it is unpro-
tected by insurance. The damage in East St.
Louis by fire WILL Of course, be made good by the
insurance companies but where the damage was
done by wind. as ii was in almost all cases the
property is not protected by the policies and the
loss falls entirely Upon the owners. The In
mediate result OF this feature Of the disaster will
probably be boom in tornado insurance policies.
of which few were carried in this CITY, or in
deed anywhere else out Of the tornado belt in
Kansas and Nebraska.
THE BIG HOTELS SAFE AND SOUND.
None of the large hotels injured In any
way and the section of the city that fell the brunt
of the storm includes but a handful Of houses
that have been placed in the list of contingent ex-
ira accommodations for Visitors to the Conven-
tlon. More than nine-tenths OF the houses so
listed and covering radius from half mile to
two miles west Of the Auditorium are in district
entirely outside the path Of the storm.
JJp TO noon to-day Coroner Wait had held eighty
tnQuests. In each case a stereotyped verdict,
setting forth the fact that the deceased person
had come to his or her death by injuries received
as the result Of tornado. was returned. About
the same number of inquests have been held in
East ST. Louis, the verdcts being in similar terms.
Workmen busly engaged in clearing away
the wreckage OF the ST. Louis Refrigerator e.
Wooden Gutter Company. at Fourth-st. and Park
ave. in which 1t is believed twenty five
bodies lie beneath the ruins. The mass Of wreck
age is great. however. that II is not believed
the basement of the building in which the bodies
are will be reached for twelve hours.
The bodies Of Miss Isabella Horn and Miss
Emma Cheney. stenographers. employed by the
Sawyer Manufacturing Company, at Eighteenth
st. and Choteau-ave., who died clasped in each
others arms rest side by side mattress in a
boarding house awaiting advices from relatives
Miss Cheney had brother in Chicago, while her
mother lives In Montreal
wALBRIDGE's EARLY MORNING TOUR
Mayor Walbrdge Health Commissioner Stark
of and Chief Of Police Harrigan completed a
tour of the devastated streets at o'clock this
morning In addition to gathering data on suf-
ferers needing immediate relief. they made esti-
mates of losses. The Mayors tour of inspection
has been thorough, and without hesitation he
placed the property loss at $20.000,000. This
does not include the damage to shipping nor the
collateral loss by a suspension Of business but 1,
IS placed upon the property extinguished by the
storm. These losses in seven-tenths Of the cases
are irreparable. they fall upon those una BILE
to recoup tn ,mselves
Daniel Coffey, Of No 1919 South Jefferson.
ave. was seriously injured in stable at the
rear Of his home while attempting TO save from
injury two little girls wio had sought safety
from the storm in the stable where Mr. Coney
was at work, Seeing that the roof and beams
were about to fall he made a rush TO rescue the
children who were una BILE to move from fright
While carrying them forth the roof fell. He
threw the girls under him. made arch over