Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-06-05
ST. LOUIS NOW RALLIES
PROMPT AND EFFECTIVE MEAS
UREs FOR RELIEF.
East 81. Louis, However, Needs As
sistnnce and Pathetic Appeals
Have Been Made.

st. Louis, May 2e.-The thousands OF
wreckage in ST. Louis today have scarce
ly made an impression toward restoring
anything like order. The streets are all
choked with the battered remains of
houses. factories. hospitals and churches.
Starting near Tower Grove Park, in the
western part of the city. a quarter popu-
lated by wealthy people. the cyclone
moved its way toward the river. carry
ing death and destruction in its path.
Along California avenue, in Compton
Heights, the path of the storm Is strewn
with wrecked homes, roofs of houses,
timber and rubbish. The same is true
of other thoroughfares.
Lafayette Park Methodist church is in
ruins. as is nearly every other house in
that vicinity. Lafayette Avenue church
is mass of ruins The City hospital is
damaged to the extent of 100000. The
patients have been removed to the Good
Shepherd hospital. From the hospital
scarcely house within radius of a mile
and half escaped the ravages of the
storm. A pile of ruins on Thirteenth
and Sanlard streets marks the place
where formerly stood the church of St.
Paul de Vincent. Longfellow boulevard
with its beautiful residences was left with
scarcely house unframed. Scullins
electric street railway power house is
damaged to the extent of $500, 900. East
from these ruins for a half mile there is
scarcely building standing. In Lafay-
cite Park not single tree is left stand
ing. Sanlard Park, covering block
from Seventh to Eighth street, is demol-
lshed. Sanlard street. at the corner of
Fourth, is entirely blocked with debris.
The number of families left homeless by
devastation along the path of the storm
will reach into the thousands and Tor
ha 1aur-
ity.
The Business Mems League issued the
Following announcement tonight. with
reference to the offers of aid from cities
throughout the United States:
THE league indorSes the action of May
or Walbridge in declining outside aid 1t
feels grateful for the many evidences of
generosity in these help offerings, but
having made a careful investigation OF
the storm-stricken district which, though
extensive, is almost entirely confined to
the section of the city outside of the
principal business area. 1t is the deliber-
ate judgment that the city will be amply
able to provide for all the needs of the
afflicted"
They further aroounce that not a single
hotel in the city has been affected or
the wholesale manufacturing district ma
terially injured. The slight injury to
the special building erected for the re-
publican convention has already been re-
pared, and the building Is now ready for
occupancy.
Uncertainty Still Exists.
Tonight, 40 hours after the tornado,
there exists about as much uncertainty
as to the actual number of people killed
ana the amount of property damage as
on the first morning of the disaster.
Scores of dead have been Identified, but
no one is willing to venture guess as to
how many bodies may be in the ruins
Of the hundreds of buildings as yet unex-
plored.
The total number of dead in ST. Louis,
identified up to tonight is 1872, and in East
ST. Louis 127. In st. Louis there are %
bodies still unidentified, and in East ST.
Louis two. 1t is believed that the deaths
IT the injured and the full recovery of
the dead will bring the dead list here up
10 200. In East ST. Louis the city Off
,ials declared this evening that they have
hope that the death roll on that side OF
The river will not exceed 150 but the
'uins upon which the rescuers have not
yet begun work, may swell the total far
beyond that figure.
The estimates upon the property loss
have grown wilder and further apart
Guesses were made today all the way
from $2,000,0o0 to $50, 100000 for st. Louis
and $1,O00000 to S20,000,OO0 for East St
Louis.
The most popular estimate is in the
neighborhood of SIS, 100000 for both cities,
including the railroad buildings damaged.
The building contractors of the city |
nave been overwhelmed with orders for |
'ebuilding, and the work of wiping cut |
he havoc of the storm has begun with |
mercy.
Generous offers of assistance have been
received from numerous places, but all |
nave been refused. Henry Irving cabled |
rom London to the mayor that he had |
nailed a check for $1,000. A partial list
II the detailed losses in the residences |
II the stricken district foots up S4730 600.