The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-05-30
One Hundred More Probably Buried
Under the Ruins of the De-
molished Buildings.
OVER THREE THOUSAND INJURED.

sands of men have been at work night
and day searching the ruins and clear.
ing away the wreckage made by the
tornado of Wednesday evening which
tore its way through the city, there still
exists about as much uncertainty as to
the actual number of people killed and
the amount of property damaged as on
the first morning of the disaster. Scores
of dead have been identified, but no one
is willing to venture a guess as to how
many bodies may be in the ruins of the
hundreds of buildings as yet unex-
plored.
The situation in st. Louis is as fol.
lows:
Identified dead, 1876.
Unknown dead, Is.
Missing, S3.
Fatally injured, 10.
Seriously injured in hospitals, 401.
Estimated injured outside of hospitals,
1000.
The situation in East St. Louis is as
follows:
Identified dead, 10.
Unknown dead, 6.
Dying, 6.
Missing, 10.
Seriously injured in hospitals, 200.
Estimated injured outside of hospitals,
1900.
1t is believed that the deaths of the
injured and the future recovery of bod
les will bring the st. Louis death list
well up to 200. In East st. Louis the
city officials declare that they have
hope that the death roll ON that side of
the river will not exceed 100, but the
ruins upon which the rescuers have not
yet begun to work may swell the total
far beyond that figure.
The estimates upon property loss have
grown wider and further apart. Guesses
are made all the way from 100000 TO
$50,000,000 for st. Louis, and from ST.
500, 900 to $50, 1000, 900 for East st. Louis.
neighborhood of $25,000,O00 for both
cities, including railroad buildings dam
aged. The building contractors of the
city have been overwhelmed with orders
for rebuilding, and the work of wiping
out the havoc of the storm will be
pushed with all energy
In cleaning away the wreckage the
workmen have scarcely made percept-
IDLE impression toward restoring the
chaotic confusion to anything like or
der. Passageways have been made
through some of the principal thorough
fares, it is true, but for the most part
the streets are still choked with the bat
tered remains of homes and factories,
hospitals and churches The path of
the storm is fully mile and a half
wide. 1t starts away out in the sub
urbs of the city where beautiful homes
of people Of wealth are located. TAX
ing zigzag course it extends 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 Lower
Grove Park. 1t is populated by people
of wealth and the houses are palatial,
with beautiful grounds and surround
ings. To the southeast of this is an
other region of wealth. The storm
moved it's way through them both.
Magnificent residences in both places
were wiped off the face of the earth in
some cases, while i'll others roofs were
carried away, trees torn from their
roots and all the picturesque beauty de-
stroyed. 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 timber beyond the
city limits. The same is true of the
other thoroughfares. Not a tree or a
house in the way of the Gtorm was loft
without damage.
From the corner of St. Vincent and
California avenues, away to the north
east as far as the eye could reach, was a
stretch of devastation and ruin. The
Christian church at this corner was an
almost unacceptable pile of brick,
mortar and timbers. A little. to- the