The record-union., 1896-05-30

tives came to take away the remains
of their loved ones, and parties seeking
to identify some of the unknown dead
made the rounds of the silent forms.
Hundreds of furniture wagons carts,
and in many cases buggies and private
vehicles We're brought into requisition
this morning to move away whatever
personal property can be dug out of the
ruins
The weather is fine
The Business Mems League to-day is
sued a statement to the country to the
effect that the disaster will in no way
interfere with the arrangements already
made for the Republican Convention
orthe housing and entertainment of the
delegates. Despite the exaggerated
stories that were given circulation dur
ing the hour Immediately following the
calamity, when the impression was
sought to be conveyed that all st. Louis
had been wiped out, it should be now
definitely known throughout the coun-
try that only a marrow strip across the
Mill Greek Valley was devastated, and
that the principal business portion Of
the city is unscathed The damage to
to be held is much less than at first am
ticipated, and will not exceed S1,5OO.
and repairs can be completed by the end
of next week
None of the large hotels have been
injured in any way, and the section OF
the city that felt the brunt Of the storm
| includes but handful of houses that
have been placed in the list Of con-
tingent extra accommodations for Wis
itors. More than nine-tenths of the
houses so listed, and covering a radius
from half a mile to two miles west OF
the Auditorium, are In district en-
| tirely outside the path of the storm.
Coroner Wait held inquests all day.
In each case stereotyped verdict to
the effect that the deceased had come
to his death or her death by injuries
| received as the result of a tornado was
| returned. Inquests were also held in
East ST. Louis, the verdicts being i'll
similar terms.
The bodies of Miss Isabella Horne
| and Emma Cheney, stenographers en-
ployed by the Sawyer Manufacturing
Company, at Eighteenth and Choteau,
who died clasped in each others arms,
rest side by side on a mattress in a
boarding house, awaiting advices from
relatives. Miss Cheney had brother
in Chicago, while her mother resides in
Montreal.
Miss Minnie Conrad, % years of age,
daughter of Lieutenant Conrad of JEFF
ferson Barracks, is believed to be
among the killed. She left home We'd
nesday afternoon, and has not been
seen or heard of since.
While workmen were digging in the
ruins of one of the tenements at Sew
enth and Rutger streets, where so
much havoc was caused, an infant
voice cried out, please don't be so
rough" An opening was quickly made
III the debris above the spot from
whence the voice issued and from it's
depths ten-year-old boy and girl Of
the same age appeared. They were un-
injured, but weak from hunger and
confinement for nearly eighty hours.
a shout went up from the crowd, and
before they could ascertain the names
the little ones were borne away. Some
one asked the little boy as he was dis
appearing how he came to be so lucky,
and he piped in childish accents, I've
just fell in a soft place"
Al. ng the missing reported are Geo.
Howard of Minneapolis and Edward
Ray, a stockholder of the Massilon
Bridge Company of Robinson, Ill. Their
bodies are not among the recognized
dead at the morgues.
There was a conference this afternoon
between Chief of Police .Harrigan of
this city and Chief Badnoch of Chi
cago, the latter of whom had been in
structed by Mayor Swift of Chicago to
;,,.- =; 80 t1ra of Of oir-c nd
| report the needed assistance.
AS an outcome of the interchange of
views, Chief Badnoch telegraphed TO
Chicago ordering the immediate de-
parture for this city of nine crack men,
bers of the Chicago detective corps,
and who on their arrival will be de-
tailed to watch the operations of a
number of well-k known crooks from the
Eastern and Western cities. According
to confidential advices received from
various police and detective agencies,
many crooks are heading for this city,
expecting to reap a harvest similar to
that gathered in by the Hght-fingered
and burglarizing fraternity during the
days Immediately follwing the John
stown food. 1t is also arranged that
the Chicago detectives shall remain in
this city until the wind-up of the Re-
publican Convention.
While there has been no systematic
effort toward pillaging the devastated
district, Chief Harrigan, as a matter of
precaution, to-day swore in $50 specials
to assist the militia in protecting the
property exposed in the ruins. The
Chicago detectives will be under the
command of Chief of Detectives Des-
mOn6 and tha local authorities will cO-
operate with those of East ST. Louis in
keeping the criminal element in check.
In the town across the river the busi-
ness men have organized a vigilance
committee and on the telegraph and
electric light poles written notices are
posted to the effect that ghouls and pur-
loiners of property from wrecked houses,
business properties and railroad cars
will be given short shrift and an oppor-
tunity of diving from the Eads bridge
into the Mississippi River. Instructions
have also been given to the police of the
Illinois city to shoot on sight every in
dividual caught in the act of robbing the
ruins
Until tonight measures for the relief
and succor of the poorer classes affected
by the disaster had been lost sight Of
by the authorities in the press of duty
necessitated by the protection of the
district in the path of the storm. Urgent
demands for relief, however, can no lon
ger be evaded, and accordingly Mayor
Walbridge will early Tomorrow morn
ing summon the Board of Public I'M
provements to his office to devise imme-
date measures for the relief of those
who are suffering or are within a few