The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30
Prompt Lynching of Ghoulish Tramp Who Was
Caught Robbng the Dead While Pretending
to Lend Assistance.
Revised List of Who Perished From Injuries Received
During the Ravages -of the Cyclone-Property
Estimated Twenty Million Dollars.

ST. LOUIS, No., May 29.-Memorial
day of 1896 will hereafter be an anniver-
sary of saddened memories to the people
OF the Mound City. Old Glories innumer-
able will as of late float in the breeze to-
morrow, but instead OF a proud position
at the head of the poles, they will be low
cred to the sign of mourning and sorrow
at half mast. Beneath them, procession
after procession will wind its way around
the principal thoroughfares and over
Grand avenue to the last resting-places of
the departed at the beautiful Calvary and
Bellfontaine. The strains of brass bands
will fill the air as on previous Decoration
days, but the patriotic airs of Marching
Through Georgia and "Rally Round the
Flag, Boys" will give place to funeral
dirges and the dead march instead.
The boys in blue in accordance with the
time-honored custom will march to the
respective points where honors are to be
paid to the departed veterans of the war,
but before them, between them, and be-
hind them, will be heard the steady tramp
and witnessed the impressive spectacle of
companies of Free Masons, Pythians, Odd
Fellows and representatives of other secret
societies as they follow the funeral car
riages that bear the remains of some
brother whose life paid forfeit 70 the fury
OF the elements on Wednesday night.
There will be flowers galore in the cities of
the dead, but the designs OF the square
and compass, the cross and the circle, the
vreaths of evergreens and forget-me-
nots-all tokens OF a present burial-will
be more numerous than loose, cut flowers
and evergreens, with which it has been
the custom in this locality to decorate the
abiding places of those who have gone be-
fore. =
There will be the time-honored ora
tons, tinged with patriotic fervor, but
from spots by the score over the burylng
grounds will be heard the voices OF the
men of God as they pronounce the last
invocation, and, mingling with the sol
emn words, the sobs and means of the
grief-stricken relatives and friends of those
whose mortal remains are being consigned
to mother Earth.
And, with the sunset and the Sabbath,
will come the passing of the aftermath"
of the second great calamity of the
decade; and so, also, with the dawn of q
new week, the metropolis OF the South
west, RELOCATING to history the horrors and
terrors of the past few days, will grid
herself anew and resume her march Of
commercial and social progress.
There were a number of funerals to-
day, but relatives of the great majority OF
the victims preferred to take advantage OF
the fact that tomorrow is Decoration day
and q half-holiday, and therefore ar
ranged accordingly for the interments.
As result the undertaking esta ablish-
ments were crushed" to an extent unpre-
cedented and the am mpulance-shaped black
vehicles employed to carry the caskets
were at times during the day to be en-
countered every few blocks. So heavy was
the pressure upon the funeral-directors
that in many cases it was this evening
found absolutely necessary to defer the in