The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-30
he total destruction Of property at S5o,-

Inc principal losses are IN the district
between Russell and Choteau avenues.
Jefferson avenue and the river. and the
fury Of the tornado is told mere graphi-
cally than in words by the tables show
ing that In this stretch OF territory alone.
no less than 1900 residences were either
totally or partially destroyed
The situation among the East SIDE
railroads, while very serious, might be
worse. The freight yards of every line
on the river front We're completely COW
cred with overturned cars and the wreck
age of the freight houses. but the su-
perintendents, with large gangs of work.
men, set TO work az an early hour yester-
cay morning TO clear the tracks, and
/ by evening the Wabash, the Glover Leaf,
the Ohio and Mississippi, and the Balti-
more and Ohio roads announced that
they We're in shape 10 receive freight
al their yards on the east side.
The Illinois Central, the Nandalia and
the Louisville and Nashville, and the
big Four were the chief sufferers on the
river front, but the Nandalia and Louis
vile and Nashville each have cOmmOdi-
Gus freight depots on this side Of the
river the capacity OF which is being
fully tested.
The Louisville. Evansville and ST. Louis
l-is receiving freight to-day.
The Illinois Central succeeded in clear
ing its tracks during the night.
The destruction in East ST. Louis was
mainly in the business portion. The fine
| residence sections on Pennsylvania ana
Baugh avenues and Eighth, Ninth and
Tenth streets, are comparatively un-
LOucneu. IneY are ElLuaLeu IN a lower
altitude than the island, which is en-
/ tirely covered by wreckage.
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 a half holiday, and therefore
arranged accordingly for the interments.
AS result, Undertaking business was
rushed to an extent unprecedented, and
the ambulance-shaped black vehicles en-
| ployed to carry the easkets We're at times
81 a n -
few blocks. So heavy was the pressure
upon the funeral directors that in many
cases IL was found absolutely necessary
to defer the interments until sunday. The
number of burials tomorrow, however,
| will exceed one hundred. The conditions
/ in East ST. Louis are precisely in accord
/ with those of this city The preparations
l and programme of the one are those of
! its namesake and nelghbor across the
/ river.
At a regular meeting of the municipal
assembly tonight Mayor Walbridge sub
mitted special message, asking that the
/ assembly appropriate 100000 for the re-
| lief of the storm sufferers. This propo-
sition was faVOrably received, but the eX-
/ igencies of legislation will delay conclu-
/ sive 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 il was agreed
/ that every appropriation for public inn
/ provements not pledged on contracts al
/ ready made, should be diverted to the re-
I
will be under municipal control and will 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 safely the recent financial gale
| and 1t should not be said that any dis
/ turbance, physical or financial, could
| make st. Louis mendicant, asking aims
| This independence of feeling seems uni
/ versal here. 1t does not appear to be
| braggadocio, but serene confidence in the
] Qign0gffiOn
care for the storm victims. From detailed
! reports received from official sources up
! to 1896. p. m, the following tabulated state
/ ment is prepared:
Dead in st. Louis ...................... 176
| Unknown dead in ST. Louis ........... s
Fatally injured in ST. Louis .......... IS
| Missing in st. Louis ................... 40
/ Identified dead in East st. Louis ... 142
4 Unknown dead in East st. Louis .... 3
Fatally injured in East st. Louis 80. 10
Total fatalities ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 406
! Total injured in St. Louis (estimated)1 900
| Injured in East st. Louis (estimated) 300
The lists of dead, which have been hith-
/ ertO printed, have Of necessity been full
| of errors. Men were reported dead who
/ were missing and have since turned up,
| We're confused by misinformation and
misspeling, so that there have been al
4 ready printed the names Of more than
| have really been found. There are still
many persons missing and some are un-
| doubtedly still in the ruins. The work of
| discovery IS now progressing somewhat
more slowly, owing TO the complete eX-
haustion of the workers and the necessity
| for repairs in their own shattered homes.
There are unquestiOnably many persons
| who have been killed, whose disappear
| aace has not been noted.
Forgetting every personal interest that
/ clashes with the work Of mercy, the people
| of this city who escaped the fury of the
! Storm have incessantly ministered to the
/ suffering luckless ones.
Since the dreadful twenty minutes of
! disaster Wednesday evening, no thought
| has been given 10 property losses. The
/ worst is now known however. and the
! work Of computing material losses has
| begun. AS the world knows, the greater
number of sufferers are Nhe smaller prop
! erty owners. These individual losses are
small, but they aggregated the larger part
| Of the whole. A survey Of the district,
made to-day, shows that over 1000 houses
! have been damaged or wholly destroyed.
! These were mainly residences of the mid
! die classes, small shop-keepers and me-
The damage to church property was
! particularly severe. Following are esti-
mated losses to churches:
ST John Omuka.................S 50 600
Lafayette Park Presbyterian ....... 5000
Lafayette Park Methodist .......... 10000
Lafayette Park Baptist ............. 5000
Church of the Unity .................. 10000
Mount Calvary Episcopal ........... 10000
Memorial German Methodist Epis-
! Holy Cross ............................ 1900
Compton Hill CONGREGATIONAL ..... 1000
Compton Hights Christian .......... 1000
/ St Pauls Evangelical ................ 21000
! trinity Lutheran ..s...s............. l6,UID
/ ST. Ninent Catholic .................. 5000
| St Peter and Paul ................... 2)O00
| St Johns Episcopal ................. 1900
/ Annunciation Catholic ............... 106009
| Henry Street Catholic -............. 10000
irresponsible correspondents and sensa-
| ton mongers have wired to the outside
/ world ridiculous estimates of losses here,
( some reaching the absurd figure of $780,
/ 900, ,000 The estimates Of good architects and
/ reputable real estate dealers place the
/ loss at about S22O00,000. An inspection
made to-day gives the following:
! In the territory along the levee, Main,
| Second and Third, from Washington to
/ Market street, the loss will figure up fully
! 81, 100000.
! From Main to Eighth and from O'Fallon
/ south to Franklin the loss is $500000. The
| class of hard-work!ng people occupy this
| territory. The damage here is pathetic.
! In the territory south from Market