The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-01
THRONGS COME.
Streets of st. Louis Packed
With Sightseers,
Who View the Miles on Miles of
Ruins.
DEAD BEING FOUND.
A Few More Bodies Are Found
Each Day.
DEAD BEING FOUND.
Two Bodies Float as Far as
Memphis. Tenn.

St Louis June livery railroad en-
tering ST. Louis was crowded with e7-
cursion trains Sunday. Thirty-tve
thousand people came on special trains
to view the ruins besides thousands
who came by the regular trains. Tx
cursion trains passed over the Eads
bridge from the east every FIVE min
utes for several hours in the morning,
bringing excursionists from southern
Illinois while fully as many more came
from Missouri. The Union depot was
taxed to the uttermost.
The streets of the ruined district were
thr0nged with visitors all day They
came from almost every town and city
! within a radius of 300 miles and near
ly all day cold drilling rain fell
/ Lowering, threatening clouds covered
! the Sky, and a more dismal scene than
! the ruined portion OF the city present
/ ed could scarcely be imagined. And
I through the crowded streets all day
Z long came funeral professions ~ early
/ 100 burial permits were issued by the
/ health department yesterday, and eV-
/ cry hearse in the city was in constant
I use today carrying victims of the storm
I to their graves.
AT early dawn people began to crowd
/ into the city nOrgue. Many came IN
/ Searcn Of friends, but for the most part
/ the people who visited the charnel
/ house We're drawn by a morbid desire
\ to see the mangled corpses Of the un-
I day long the officers on duty were busy
/ keeping the people moving in line in
( ana out of the viewing room of the
{ InOr9ue- Every lew minutes some one
/ would think they had discovered some
I one W h0m they knew among the bodies
! exposed for view
The superintendent of the mOrgue
/ had trying time in answering ques-
tiOns i'm regard to the bodies and taking
| names and descriptions Of persons who
/ nave not been seen by their friends
| since before the storm. There We're
people there from points in all direc-
l tiOns, far and near. Chicago Cfucin-
| natl, Louisville Indianapolis. Kansas
| City and thousand small places.
| From each town came anxious people
/ inquiring for lost friends.
Although four DAYS have come and
| gTne since the tornado, the labor of the
l city officials in clearing away the de-
/ bris lis scarcely perceptible. The city at
I night goes without street lamps either
gas or electric The only light afforded
is that furnished by the private electric
plants and the principal streets are in
darkness The street railway companies
l have hundreds of men at work repair
ing the damage to their power houses
and trolley wires. and today nearly all
But the work that has been done is so
meager when compared with that
| which remains, that there is scarcely
any perceptble Improvement. The tel
ephone service is practically paralyzed.
although the telephone company has
had hundreds of men at work repairing
the damage to its wires Hundreds of
demolished buildings have not been
touched No one can tell IL the ruins con
/ ceal the bodies of victims of the storm
Some of the local papers have been
severe ia their denunciatiOn of the
mayor Of the city for not being more
active in restoring order in the storm
swept district. I'm many localities a foul
stencil arises from the ruins. Whether
this is due TO the fact that the ruins
conceal human bodies or dead animals
time alone can tell.
Last week it was thought that 40 or
50 patients We're i'm the ruins Of the city
| hospital VS. hich was demolished by the
/ tornado Today every man, woman and
/ child who was in the institution. either
as help. nurse. doctor or patient has
/ been accounted for Michael T977rY ,,-ae
the only patient killed outright by the
storm some have died since, but only
a few from actual injuries received.
At St James hospital at Twenty
third and Locust streets the patients
are AN doing very Well except Anton
Gregory Of Second and Victor streets.
who has not yet recovered conscious
ness
At the AIexian Brothers hospital two
patients have died and three have been
discharged. The doctors at the differ
ent Institutions expect very few addi-
tional deaths now among their pa
TENTS
This morning there were eleven
bodies of tornado victims in the morgue-
, They were. Cora and Ethel Claypool.
Mrs. CahiH. Mary Talbot, William An
q dersOn, Charles AlcOrnerO. an unknown
white man supposed to be AdOlph
Cutrnan VIM. Plank and three chill
| dren frO~~-the Bethsada home. OF this
number three were removed by reIa-
tives later in the day They We're the
! ClaypOOIs and Mrs Cah1u. who We're
? killed at Jefferson and Papin. Unless
j there are claimants for the remains of
the unknown man. VIM. Plank and the
2 Bethsada victims they viii be Inferred
! | in the pOtter's field this afternoon
e The work of clearing up the debris
and repairing the damage left by
f Wednesdays storm continues with un-
abated vigor despite the drilling rain
that has been falling all morning max
ing it uncomfortable for workers and
] victims alike
2 a list of 12O persons missing in St
/ Louis since the storm is i'm the hands
, I Of the police. Many among them are
people from outside St. Louis who were
/ visiting here or had business in town
= these among the ruins of wrecked
Many of the thousands of people
from the surrounding country who came
to St Louis yesterday to see a great
e city partially destroyed by storm have
e left for their homes but hundreds still
D remain. In East St. Louis it is estirna-
ted that at least 100000 people visited
q the ruins.
There was a terrible crush at the de-
pots Sunday night when they started
to return home The trains were in
adequate to accommodate the multi
tude and many had to remain here over
night In East St Louis the work 81
u relieving the many homeless and destf-
q and everywhere buildings are being re-
paired and debris removed to facilitate
the reconstruction of residences. stores
etc. An official estimate of the loss tx