The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-06-01
MANY ARE MISSED
Examination of the st. Louis
City Hospital Ruins May
Reveal COrpSeS.
Notwithstanding First Reports
Said All Patients Were Ac-
counted For.
Some Think There Are as Many
as Fifty or Sixty in the
Debris.

ST LOUIS, June | by SLOW degrees
St. Louis is recovering from the busi-
ness paralysis caused by the awful
storm. Some of the principal thorough
fares that were checked with wreckage
have been opened and few of the
street car lines have been started. but
the telephone system of the town is
practically useless. The side streets
through the storm wrecked district are
still in a chaotic condition. Telegraph
and telephone poles with a tangled net
work of wires, roofs of houses, up
rooted trees, wagons and vehicles of all
kinds, and the shattered remains of
whole buildings are still strewn through
most of them so that traffic is in many
instances impossible. 1t will require
weeks to restore some of the streets to
their normal condition. The number of
dead is hourly growing greater as the
work of restoring the ruins progresses.
The ruins where it was at first thought
there were no dead bodies are now
yielding up.
Exploring the Hospital Ruins.
1t is said by the officials at the city
hospital the day after the storm that no
one was crushed in the ruins. They are
now beginning to change their minds.
1t has been ascertained that 60 to 75 of
the patients and or 8 employees are
missing. Practically nothing towards
exploring the ruins has been done, but
now large number of men have been
put to work. This was done only at the
loud demands of the people who had
friends at the hospital during the storm
and who have not been heard from since.
Father kendrick of St. Vincent 8
church, who has been attending to the
spiritual wants of the patients in the
hospital for years, says that so bodies
will be found, if not more. DR.. Stark.
loft says many are dead under the wreck
age. DR.. Sutter estimates the number
at 25, but would not be surprised if it
runs over that figure.
Haven't Houses Enough.
Demand for houses and fats by those
who were rendered homeless by
Wednesdays storm Is great and real
estate men think there are not sufficient
vacant houses in ST. Louis to supply the
needs of the people. More than half of
the available supply has been exhausted
and the real estate Offices are constantly
besieged by applicants for quarters. 1t
is estimated that 1000 homes were SO
damaged as to render them uninhabit-
able. Real estate agents say that the
number Of vacant houses and flats at
the time of the storm would not exceed
5000, and in any event, some families
will have to 60 temporarily without
shelter or depend upon their more for
tunate neighbors.
Strangers to See the Sights.
The storm has attracted to St. Louis
an enormous crowd The streets are
thronged with strangers night and day
The hotels are taxed almost TO their ut
Most capacity TO care for their guests
Some of the big down town hotels have
had to put cots in the rooms to meet the
extraordinary demand for accommoda-
tions. For the past three days all the
railroad trains into St. Louis from
every direction have been loaded to the
guards with passengers. The union
station is jammed with moving, eager,
restless mass Of humanity. In the rush
Of visitors there are about as many
women as men. Apparently all the
towns within radius of 100 miles of
st. Lonis have emptied their populations
here, and thousands have come from
far beyond that limit.
Curiosity Impellsd Most.
Most of the strangers were drawn here
by morbid curiosity. but great manv