New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-02
STORM CLOUDS SCARE THEM.
NERVOUS CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE OF
ST LOUIS.
NO MORE BODIES FOUND IN THE RUINs-MANY
PEOPLE REPORTED MIssiNG-THE DEAD IN
THE RIvER-FEAR OF DISEASE.

NO MORE BODIES FOUND IN THE RUINs-MANY
PEOPLE REPORTED MrssiNG-THE DEAD IN
THE RIvER-FEAR OF DISEASE
St Louis June Shorty before o'clock this
morning the two stricken cities. st. Louis and
East St Louis. received another scare storm
came up from the south accompanied by low
rumbling thunder and almost continuous flashes
CT llghtr, ing. Then. a few minutes later. big
black clouds appeared on the northern horizon
and rolled up until they covered the city. There
was considerable wind. though nothing at all
approaching a hurricane tornado. The ee-
mental disturbance lasted for nearly an hour
and then became a slow drizzling rain. which
increased to a downpour at 10 o'clock this morn
ing
The local relief fund is now far beyond the S1OO-
600 mark. This does not include the 100000
which will b. given by the Municipal Assembly
President Warner Il the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way received the following telegram from New
York to-day:
Am sending 1900 as a subscription to the fund
for relief OF 81 Louis sufferers from cyclone Inc
'''' = HELEN NJ. GOULD.
The Bell Telephone Company sustained great
damage and the repairs cannot be made quickly.
To-day there were 1000 instruments in working
order and 300 silent.
The continuous rains are a great drawback 10
the vigorous effortG that are being made TO start
the street lights. After working night and day.
all the streetcar systems in the city except one
are running on schedule time. The Scullin sys-
TEN power house at jefferson and Geyer aves.
was completely wrecked. and 1t will be several
weeks before cars will run.
Pity aroused by the suffering In st. Louis Is
d.cnenei 70 despair when the Of East 81.
i,t,, ebI Of q
rain MAIDEN air was poor comforter to-day to the
thousands ~ homeless ones there who made shitt
to shelter themselves amid the ruins Of their
homes or bvouacked In empty freight cars
Along the river the mist and fog and malaria are
following In the wake of the storm. S)ggy and
soddan the piles Of splintered hC and the box
cars are their miserable abiding places Foul
odors rise from the decaying carcasses OF dead
animals Possibly human beings are buried be
heath the ruins out Of the reach OF the wrecklnY
crews II is still too soon for any thought or re-
building the homes " the island poor The de-
vastation was 81 terrible and complete that this
c,nno, come for some time The Short Line.
Vandalia and relay depots are almost completed
again. and the East 81. Louis Cold Storage plant
which was damaged to the extent Of S5O,Vo. has
100 men working on 1t. All the East St Louis
schools opened this morning except the Howe and
the Dougass The latter was on the Island ana
was completely blown away
TIL. chairmen OF the four relief districts estab-
lshcd in the southern portion Of St. Louis each
received from headquarters $1,000 this morn
INK FOR immediate distribution. Such clothing
and supplies as were at hand were divided among
the wagons and sent to the district headcuar-
;.rs there 10 be doled out as called for. What
II needed most Is shoes. bandage cloth, chill
dr.n's clothing ard women's underwear. Neces-
-ary furn.ture and cots. together with dry bed
ding are also much called for.
The additional damage Of continuous wet
weather resulted In the issuing OF another order
PROHIBITING tho operation Of any electric lights
IN H.. districts south Of Em-st and west OF the
lcvec
The work = recovering bodies from the ruins
f. being pushed by the police Every district
captain has or lcrs. where he has reason 10 be
lev, bodies arc buried = employ men 20 prose
cute the search and report results Immediately
20 headquarters A. several points In the ruined
district tho people 4 the neghboltood asser,
that there are bodies under The ruins but no
work is being done because the c.ty authorities
d, not ihiuk the reports ar" well founded. AM
,h~ owners u the property arr slow in clearing
70 the ruins
Tho situation "a - st-cetcar service is steadily
s.u.il's Cherokee. Tower Grove and California
aye branches Il the Union station Railway
e. mpin>
The Convention Auditorium has been repaired
,rI WIS turned over 10 the business Mems
I>ngue to-day
" aidhl,all bodies had been recovered from
the ruins up - o'clock this afternoon. either
her. or ia East ST Louis The death rate AT the
h,.pi,als I'm both cities has rot been increased
since Yesterday. and the Injured are reported
doing ne we'll as could be expected.
Tn. funerals or ~ tornado victims in st.
Louis have trken place So far.
At noon today the gang II nifty workhouse
rrs,n, rs practically abandoned the search for the
dead I'm the Cliy Hospital ruins. Not body was
,aken from the wreck and every part OF the
ruinsd structure was thoroughly overhauled. The
only missing patlenis from the city Hospital un-
accounted for are william Bleirher. Patrick
O'Co~ncu ami Arthur Stetterman. These may
have escaped IN safety and do not care to return
Corouer Waite has held no lnquests over the
bodies OF the tornado victims In St. Louis. HIS
verdict WIS rendered as Death due to shock: ac-
cldent" There were eight bodies In the Morgue
AZ noon to-day awaiting an inquest The only
daa,ha from Injuries since Sunday are those or
Thomas O'Neu and julius Kancey. Both are in
fants
Much ,o the surprise Of the police. there mas
been less crime In st. Louis since the tornado
than before notwithstanding that the city mas
been in darkness and that II was reported that
hundreds ~ crooks from foreign cities had
nocked 70 St Louis. Chief Of Detectives Des
mond. In an interview to-day. said that curing
Sunday night there was not one report OF thef'
| in the wrecked district
The river gives up It's dead slowly. and the STA
tsticians at work the list OF the fataiites
have not yet reached an estimate OF the numper
,os, IN the great waterway. They know GER
tainly that hve were lost on the steamer D. j.
odIle apd Tow that others whose Identity re-
mains n mystery were positively seen 10 disaP-