New-York tribune., 1896-05-31
CT LOUIS GOES TO WORK
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,beritv. those having the matter in hand are
,leased 10 note a strong and wides. read disposi-
zion among the people in the path of the storm
,o help themselves. Among 10000 families
.,o,v stricken there will be some hundreds that
must be helped
rho Is, Regiment y. G.. NJ, out in full
,oe las; night and its members did noble work
,r guarding the property of the South st. Louis
80 O,bo.e homes were wrecked by the storm
Ths S regiment consisting of nearly five hundred
~ assembled at the armory at Z p. m. Colo
nj Raldorf arranged the nine companies into
me- battaons. Each battalion marched sep
roteIv 10 South St Louis. and the companies
90 distributed Systematically, so as to cover
~ ,he territory between the river and Jeiierson
cboteau and Russell aves. The Branch GUARDS
are located on the levee. and the peerless tac-
,,cions had ra her tough time OF IT chaslng the
usnjc,ous characters that infested the river
ssront and hung about the ruins of the St Louis
Wooden Gutter Company's building, ana the
racks Of many other structures in that vicinity.
W.. west of them. Company A. Captain Schulz.
Jus stationed and its men did a good nights
work Companies and e. in the Lafayette
psrL neigh borhood. had all they could attend TO
Ira,chjng the scores Of unroofed and unwalled
Souses in that vicinity
TssTe have been inquests held over the bodies
=. .oisbtv-four tornado victims In East St Louis,
orS fhe Coroner's office this morning contained
st n nearly score Of the dead for the officials
20 hscn work on Last night East st. Louis was
W aIr IN darkness. there being little hope that
ss@i ,oric Illumination will be resumed in less than
.wsek Telephone communication and streetcar
sssssr are suspended. There have been no
changes in the situation with relation to them
.inrs wednesday night. Mayor Bader and the
rstizens Executive Committee are working inde-
ts,gably 10 relieve all suffering that can be over
come by physical assistance They are ably aid
Shv the Wonan's Relief Corps. Four companies
~ militia are patrolling the devastat ted district
and are protecting property from thieves and
vansals who have focked in on every train
East ST Louis will be for several days 10 come
civ OF funerals.
FUNERAL PROFESSIONS FILLED THE
STREETS.
In St. Peters St Henry's and the city ceme-
teries as we'll as the cemeteries Of adjoining
cities graves are being prepared for the victims
o, Wednesdays disaster and solemn professions
~ sad.faced people are traversing the streets Of
the devastated city. following their loved ones TO
their last resting place There are funerals on all
sides Hardly a street or block was there which
did not have one or more persons who were
claimed as victims by the storm. and many of
them were buried yesterday in order to prevent
rapid decomposition. This and the crowded
Morgue hastened many of the funerals.
In St Louis to-day there Is an almost unbroken
line Of funeral professions going to Calvary and
Beletontane cemeteries. Outside cities ana sur
rounding towns have been called upon 10 furnish
hearses and carriages to accommodate the de-
mand for conveyances. Extra gangs of workmen
are employed in preparing graves, and Memorial
Day is surely Gay Of mourning in the Mound
City.
phone and telegraph service in the city is prac-
tcaly useless. The streets in the southern por.
ton of the city are Uttered with Wreckage ana
broken and twisted wires. 1t will be weeks before
all the marks of the storm are removed from the
thoroughfares: months. even years. before the
hand OF time will obliterate them from the houses
the tornado met The PrOvident Association st.
Vincent de Paul Society and the Hebrew Rehef
Association are busy engaged in the WORK OF re,
lief. They will distribute food and clothing, ana
will ass st In bearing the expenses OF burying the
dead who have no relatives to care for them
The St. Louis Team Owners Company came
forward and placed its fifteen heavy wagons at
the disposal of the distressed. The noble
hearted dray will work all day Sunday
gratis TO relieve the distressed. The wholesale
grocers OF Cupplee Station sent out seventy five
wagons and trucks on the same errand of mercy.
BY Sunday night every in the wrecked dis
trict will be safely moved.
SOME ESTIMATES OF LOSSES.
The Bradstreet and Dun Commercial agencies
refuse TO make any estimate on the property
loss in 81. Louis. The folio wing list of principal
losses is furnished by representatives. of the
ponations. business firms. churches and institu-
tons named: Lutheran Trinity Church. 100000:
ST. Pauvs Church, Ninth-st., $4,000 st. John OF
Nepomuk Church. $4,000; other churches. S130.
600; Inland Oil Company. $4,000; St.-Louis Iron
Machinery Company, SIJ.OOO Laclede Gas
Company, SO 900: st. Louis Refrigerator Com
pany, S125.0OO; Louis Ottenad Furniture Com
pany, S65,000 SITS Peter and Pauls Church, 500
W0; Brown Tobacco Company, SJ0,0o0 Peoples
Railway Power House. $4,000; Union Railway
Depot 100000; United Elevator Company, SIo-
OOO; Llggett e. Myers. 100000; Vandalia Rail-
road 100000; Terminal Railroad Assodia tion.
$4,000; big Four" Railroad. S6o,0OOa other
railroads, 100000: city institutions. $2OOO0o;
steamboat losses S5OO0O0. damage to schools.
Sl50000; total S2.5j0.O00.
The damage to residence property In ST LOUIS
Is estimated by real estate men at nearly S3ooo,-
GEO.
dispatch from Warrensburg this morning
says that the report that the WarreLst = Nor
MAJ school was destroyed by the storm ''ednes-
cay night and eighty students killed. is wholly
untrue. The storm did no damage there.
seven more names are added TO the list or
osad at East ST. Louis. These died at the CITY
hospital between midnight and 10 a. m: Charles
Colline. aged flfty-twO; Fritz, aged sixty
hve saoonkeeper; Humphreys, aged thirty
tNo, r. A. Preis. aged twenty-siX; William