The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-06-04

losses are small, but they aggregate
the larger part of the whole. survey
of the district made Friday shows that
over three thousand houses have been
damaged or wholly destroyed. These
were mainly residences of the middle
classes, shop keeper RS and mechanics.
The damage to church property was
particularly severs
In the territory along the levee,
Main, Second and Third from Wash.
ington to Market, the loss will figure
up fully one million From Main to
Eighth and from OFallon south to
Franklin, the loss is half million. A
class of hard working people occupy
this territory.
In the territory south from Market
to Chouteau, along Broadway and east
to the river front, million and half
will hardly cover the loss. Southwark
along Broadway from Chouteau avenue
to Lafayette avenue and embracing the
territory eastward to the river prop
erty has been destroyed to the extent
of S750,000. From the Lafayette
Avenue bank south to Soulard the
storms fury wreaked awful vengeance.
The loss sustained was $3.50,
Hardly building on either side OF
Broadway was spared. They were oc-
cupied by prosperous retail stores, rep
resenting the energy and thrift of
lifetime. Embracing all the
district south of Soulard from the riv-
er, west to city limits, the loss to resi-
dences and business property is esti.
mated at s., 200, 900. Going north again
and taking in all the territory up to
the city hospital the damage figures
$1,000, 900.
In the immediate vicinity of the hos
pital another million is represented.
Northeast of the hospital property has
been destroyed to the extent of S1,000,-
900, while Lafayette park and vicinity
| gives as much more. Westward
from Lafayette park and north to
Choteau avenue the loss is $3,000,-
600. Down Choteau from Jeffer-
son avenue to Seventh street
and north to the railroad tracks So, ,000,-
900 is damaged. Along Park avenue
from Tenth to Seventh and north on
Seventh to Market, 81, 500, 600 will about
cover the loss. The distress and disas-
ter through this section are appalling.
|
through the central, western and
northwestern portions of the city. 1t
includes damages to crops and public
buildings.
Damages to school property is 500, 900.
Nearly all south st. Louis is practi-
cally destroyed. Wrecked buildings
and those partly damaged can not be
repaired. 1t will be fully two years
before the effects of the hurricane are
effaced.
Many hundreds of the homeless are
already receiving assistance from the
relief committee. The greatest demand
is for food and clothing, as those who
have roofs over their heads are sharing
their homes with their less fortunate
neighbors.
At two o'clock Saturday morning two
floaters were picked up at the foot of
Destrahan street, which are supposed
to be members of the wrecked boat
crews.
ST. Louis, May 3O.--It was possible
Friday to make an intelligent estimate
for all figures are as yet estimates
of the loss of life and property in this
city and vicinity by the storm on We'd
nesday night. 1t will be many days
before the exact facts are
known, if they are ever known
at all. 1t is true that in this city
and East st. Louis, the records of the
health department will show the num-
Der of interments, SO that the number
of dead within the municipal limits
will be eventually ascertained, but no
such verification is possible in the
country districts where the loss of life
was undoubtedly greater than was at
first reported. The property loss of
course, is practically an unknown
quantity, and figures vary great
| ly. The best that can be done is
to average the estimates of competent
authorities. In st. Louis the number
of dead reported to the authorities up
to four o'clock Friday morning was 143,
of which number 116 were identified
and % unidentified. OF course the
larger proportion were at the morgue
or reported at the undertaken estab-
lishments. But there are undoubtedly
many others awaiting burials at pri.
vate residences and it is still more GER
tain, unfortunately, that the removal
of debris will disclose the bodies of
other victims of the storm as yet
unaccounted for. Still, there can
be no doubt that the first
rumors of scores crushed beneath fall
ing buildings were largely eXagger-
ated, and the number to be accounted
for in this way will not be SO large as
was at first feared A careful survey
of the situation, therefore, justifies the
belief that the unreported dead-those
in private houses and those unrecov-
cred from wrecked buildings-will not
exceed 100. This brings the total dead
in St. Louis up to about two hundred
and fifty, and it is believed that event
ual verification of the death roll will
not show variation of more than ten.
The count of the wounded is more
difficult matter.
Taking the hospital and police re-
ports as basis for calculation, it is es-
timated that those who sustained in