Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-30
ONE HUNDRED GRAVES TODAY Will Echo the CIanking of the
 CIodS. MANY EXPERIMENTS PUT OFF St. Louis Is Loth to Beg Alms-Fatalites in the Two Cities Now Put
 at 388.

| nOuudy, ana InefeIOT0 dIrdfiStu dCCOIu- ingly for the interments. As result,
 the undertaking establishments were l rushed to an extent unprecedented, and the ambulance-shaped black vehicles | employed to carry the caskets were at | times during the day to be encountered | every few blocks. So heavy was the | pressure upon the funeral directors that | in many cases it was found absolutely I necessary to defer the interments until l Sunday. The number of burials tomor- | row, however, will exceed 100. The con- l ditions in East St. Louis are precisely | in accord with those of this city. The | preparations and programmes of the one l are those of the namesake and neighbor | across the river.
 At regular meeting of the municipal l assembly tonight Mayor Walbridge sub l mitted special message asking that the
 assembly appropriate $100,000 for the re-
 lief of the storm sufferers This propos- tion was favorably received, but the exi- | gencies of legislation will delay conelus- | i've action for several days. The money
 is to be immediately available upon the | passage of the measure. The committee | report will be made tomorrow Informal | discussion was had and 1t was agreed | that every appropriation for public inn l provements not pledged on contracts al- | ready made should be diverted to the re- | lief fund. The disbursement of this fund l will be under municipal control and will l be independent of other relief measures.
 Mayor Walbridge took occasion in his | message to point out that St. Louis was | the only city in the country that had | weathered the recent financial gale, and
 it should not be said that any disturb ! ance, physical or financial, could make | St. Louis mendicant asking aims. This | independence of feeling seems universal | here. It does not appear to be bragga-
 docio, but serene confidence in the ability
 and disposition of St. Louisians to care | for the storm victims.
 | From detailed reports received from | official sources up to 9:30 D. m. the follow | ing tabulated statement is presented:
 Dead in St. Louis, 176; unknown dead in
 St. Louis. 8; fatally injured in St. Louis, 1 IS; missing in St. Louis, 40; dead in
 East St. Louis, 142; unknown dead in
 East St. Louis, 3; fatally injured in East | St. Louis, 19. Total fatalities, 38S. In- | jured in St. Louis (estimated), 1000; in- l jured in East St. Louis (estimated), 300. | The lists of the dead which have been | hitherto printed have of necessity been | full of errors. Men were reported dead
 who were missing and have since turned | up, false identifcations were made and | names confused by transformation and
 misspelling, so that there have been al | ready printed the names of more than l have really been found. There are still
 many persons missing, and some are uni | doubtedly still in the ruins. The work l Ol ulSCONcIy lS lOW pTDS TeSSlHS SOUle- | what more slowly owing to the complete l exhaustion of the workers and the neces- l sity for repairs in their own shattered l homes.
 There are unquestionably many per l sons who have been killed whose disap- 1 pearanee has not been noted.
 Forgetting every personal interest that l clashes with the work of mercy, the peo- | pie of this city who escaped injury of | the storm have necessarily ministered A~ k1.~ Since the dreadful disaster Wednesday | evening no thought has been given to l property losses. The worst is now l known, however, and the work of com l putting material losses has begun. As | the world knows, the greater number l of sufferers are small property owners | These individual losses are small but | they aggregate the larger part of the | whole. A survey of the district made to-
 day shows that over 5000 houses have
 been damaged or wholly destroyed. | These were mainly residences of the | middle classes, small shopkeepers and
 mechanics. The damage to church prop | erty was particularly severe. Following l are estimated losses to churches:
 St. John Nepomuca $50,o0o; La Fayette 1 Park Presbyterian, $16,000: Lafayette 1 Park Methodist, $10,000 Lafayette Park | Baptist, $S0OO; Church of the Unity. $10,- l 900; Mount Calvary Episcopal, s20,0OO; | Memorial German Methodist Episcopal, | $2OO00; Holy Cross, $12000; Compton Hill | Congregational. 5000; Compton Hill Christian, 5000; St. Henry's Catholic, | $10O00; St. PauTs Evangelical. $20.000; | Trinity Lutheran, $1S,000: St. Vincent Catholic, $3000; St. Peter and Paul S20.- 900; St. Johns Episcopal. $13,000; Annun- | ciation, Catholic, $106,000.
 Irresponsible correspondents and sen | sation mongers have wired to the out | side world preposterous estimates of the
 losses here some reaching the absurd | figure of $60,000,000. The estimates of | good architects and reputable real eS- | tate dealers place the losses at about | $22 O00 0O0 An inspection made today | gives the following:
 In the territory along the levee, Second | and Third from Washington to Market
 street, the loss will figure up fully s1 .O0O,- 000 from Main to Eighth and from l O'Fallon, south, to Franklin, the loss is | $500, ,OOO. A class of hard working people occupy this territory. The damage here I Is pathetic. In the territory south from
 Market street to Chouteau avenue, along
 Broadway and east to the river front, $1, 800, 900 will hardly cover the loss. This is mostly manufacturing and business l property Southward along Broadway from Choutaeu avenue to Lafayette ave- | nue, and embracing territory eastward | to the river property has been destroyed | to the extent of $750,000. This includes | mostly retail stores and manufacturing | plants. From Lafayette Avenue bank
 south to southward the storms fury | wreacked awful vengeance. The loss
 sustained was $65O.00O. Hardly a build ing on either side of Broadway was 1 spared. They were occupied by prosper | ous retail stores, representing the energy l and thrift of a lifetime. Embracing all the district south of Soulard from the
 rriver west to the city limits the loss | to residence and business property is es-
 timated at 100000. Going north again | and taking in all the territory up to the | city hospital the damage figures $1,000.-
 O00 In the immediate vicinity of the hospital another million is reached. l 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 LaFay- cite park and north to Chouteau avenue the loss Is $2,00O, 900. Down Choutaeu from Jefferson avenue to Seventh street and | north to the railroad tracks $3.00O,0 900 is ] the damage. Along Park avenue from Tenth and Seventh and north from Sev- enth to Market $4,50O,000 will about cover | ,ha