The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-30

day and Will Farrell were recovered
from the ruins of the Vandalia general
offices last night and this morning an
unidentified body of middle aged man
was found by workmen, while remov-
ing the debris from the location of the
old fremont house. One more corpse,
that of George Luckey, was found
| about noon.
One feature of the storm, and one Of
! the after effects which was some
what feared, were the large number of
/ horses killed. On every side could be
seen the mangled bodies of these ami
mails. Tn police department was busy
/ all day removing the carcasses and
none too soon, for the warm weather
of the past two days has already start
ed decomposition. The railroad yards
are gradually being cleared of debris,
rendering
THE MOVING OF TRAINS
once more possible, but it will be weeks
before anything like order can be re-
stored. At least 400 freight cars were
overturned and either wholly of par
TALLY demolished and as many of these
were loaded with merchandise, the
work of clearing the tracks will neces-
sarily slow. A ladies' relief corps has
been organized of which Miss Louisa
Gross, of East st. Louis, is president
and Mrs. Ira Sweet, of East st. Louis,
ice-president. Committees have been
appointed from all churches of the city
and are actively at work soliciting aid,
and are meeting with good success.
The new library building has been
made the general relief headquarters.
Tickets will be distributed to the needy
ones for food, clothing and shelter.
Mayor Bader estimates that at least
500 families are left entirely destitute
and will need immediate assistance.
Many have not even sufficient clothing.
Among the
TELEGRAMS OF SYMPATHY
which have been received by Mayor
Bader is the following:
Chicago, May 2S.-The members of
the Hamilton club tender their heart
felt sympathy to the people of your
stricken CITY in the awful calamity
that has visited them and we offer
every aid and help in this hour of
affiiction. Let us know what is need
ed.
Hamilton Club,
Fl. G. MoULTON,
president"
A message of the same purport from
President Frieburg, of the Cincinnati
chamber of commerce was received:
Although thousands of men have
been at work night and day clearing
away the wreckage in the path of the
tornado, they have scarcely made a
perceptible impression toward restoring
the chaotic confusion to anything like
order. Passageways have been made
through some of the principal thor
oughfares, it is true, but for the most
part the streets are still choked with
the battered remains OF homes and fac
tories, hospitals and churches.
THE PATH OF THE STORM
is fully a mile and a half wide. 1t
starts away out in the suburbs of the
city, where beautiful homes are To-
Gated. Taking a zigzag course, it. ex-
tends down through where the densely
populated tenement houses are located,
fully six miles, and crosses the river.
AT the extreme limits of the city to
the west, is quarter known as Tower
Grove park. 1t is populated by people
of wealth and there are palatial houses.
beautiful grounds etc. To the south
east OF this is another region of wealth.
The storm moved its way through both
of them Magnificent residences in
both places were wiped off the face
OF the earth in some cases,
while in others, roofs were
carried away, trees torn from their
roots and all the picturesque beauty
destroyed. Along California avenue.
in Compton Heights, are strewn
wrecked homes, roofs of houses. trees
and masses of rubbish, whirled into
the city from the farms and wild tim
Der beyond the city limits. The same
is true of the other thoroughfares. Not
a tree or a house in the way of the
storm was left without damage. From
the corner of st. Vincent and Califor-
MIA avenues, away to the northeast
as far as the eye could reach, was
stretch of
DEVASTATION AND RUIN.
The Christian church at this corner
was an almost unrecogniza BILE pile of
brick, mortar and timbers. A little to
the south stands the Missouri Pacific
railroad hospital A greater portion ed
the roof was torn off and the whole
building was so badly wrenched that
the superintendent, DR.. P. F. Vaster-
ling, says it will take at least $500
to repair the damage. There were
nearly one hundred patients in the hos
pital and they were thrown into a
state of panic. The Hodgens school,
still south of the hospital, is wrecked
to the second floor, while a row Of resi-
dences across the street were not
harmed. The Chouteau school, half a
mile north, was so badly damaged
that it will probably have to be re-
built, while nearly every dwelling in
tervening was unroofed or demolished.
The La Fayette Park Methodist
church, facing the park, is in ruins,
as is
NEARLY EVERY BEAUTIFUL
HOUSE
in the vicinity. At La Fayette and
Missouri avenues is mass of debris
which was formerly the La Fayette
Avenue Baptist church North from
La Fayette park, on Mississippi ave-
nue., are the ruins of c. A. Schneider's
beer garden.
Nearly every house on the east side
of this street for a mile is either blown
down or badly injured Browns to-
bacco store, siX-story structure at
Eighteenth street and Chouteau ave-
nue.. was almost wholly demolished,
and to the north of it is what remains
of Evans Bros tobacco warehouse A
sort distance east of the warehouse is
the wreckage left from blown I'D
gas house.
A short distance south of Chouteau
avenue on Seventeenth street is the
Fulton grammar school, or the ruins
of it. From here can be seen the re-
mains of the city hospital. This struc-
ture, according to Adolph Berliner. the
7"pSA IA IclANSHl, has Dt6u damaged to
the extent Of 100000. The stab,I of
the hospital have been RACED to the
ground. while the building itself is so
badly wrecked as to be almost use
less. The patients have Or the most
part been removed to the Good Shep-
herds hospital. Devastation and ruin
is seen on every side from the hos
pital- Scarcely a house in the radius
of half mile
ESCAPED THE RAyAGES