Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-06-04
ST. LOUIS TORNADO.
THE DEAD ABOUT 400 AND
INJURED 5000.
Slow Progress Made in Clearing Away tho
Ruins-WOe and DesOlatIOn on All
sldes-Much Suffering by the Poor PeO-
PILE Clothing aud Food Needed.

ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, June The situa-
ton in St. Louis, as viewed from the
Republics standpoint, is as follows:
St. Louis-Identifie dead, 1876; un-
known dead, 10; missing, SO; fatally
injured, 10; seriously injured in hos
pitfalls, 4O1; estimated injured outside
of hospitals 1,OUO; property loss, esti-
mated, $50, 900.
East St. Louis-Identified dead, 10;
unknown dead, 6; dying, Il; missing, 10;
seriously injured in hospitals, 200;
estimated injured outside of hospitals,
1000; property loss, estimated, S., OOO,-
900.
It is believed that the deaths of the
injured and the future recovery of
bodies will bring the st. Louis death
list well up to 200.
In East st. Louis the city officials
declared that they have hope that the
death roll on that side of the river
will not exceed $50, but the ruins upon
which the rescuers have not yet begun
work may swell the total far beyond
that figure.
The wreck left by the storm at
tracted an army of piclSpocllets and
thieves, and they piled their trade all
day and all night, with but few ar
rests.
Many churches in all parts of the
city suffer from the storm. st. Fran
n IL ka1r
wrecked. The jacob Memorial
church at Almond and Jefferson,
while new and apparently well built,
went down at the first stroke. Mount
Calvary, at johnson and Lafayette,
was completely wrecked. The La
fayette Park Methodist church
South, corner of Missouri and La
fayette. is minus roof Portions of
the walls of the Lafayette Park Pres
byterian church, Albion and Missouri,
are missing. Holy Angels church, at
LaSalle and st. Ange, and Cracker
Castle, on the opposite corner, are
damaged several hundred dollars. st.
Patriclk's church, at Sixth and Riddle,
is total wreck.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, June Although
five days have come and gone since
the tornado, the labor of the city
officials in clearing away the debris is
scarcely perceptible. The city at
night goes without street lamps,
either gas or electric. The only light
afforded is that furnished by private
electric plants and the principal
streets are in darkness. The street
railway companies have had hundreds
of men at work repairing the damage
to their power houses and trolley
wires, and yesterday nearly nj! the
principal lines were in operation. But
the work that has been done is so
meager when compared with that
which remains that there is scarcely
any perceptible improvement. The
telephone service is practically par
alyzed, although the telephone COM
pany has had hundreds of men at work
repairing the damage to its wires.
Hundreds of demolished buildings
have not been touched. No one can
tell if the ruins conceal the bodies Of
victims of the storm.
Some Of the local papers have been
severe in their denunciation of the
mayor of the city for not being more
active in restoring order in the storm
swept district. In many localities
foul stencil arises from the ruins
Whether this is due to the fact that
the ruins conceal human bodies or
dead animals, time alone can tell
The work of searching in the ruins
of the old city hospital for victims of
the storm began yesterday with q
force of laborers, Superintendent of
the Workhouse Carr, with q gang Of
fifty negro prisoners and an outfit of
carts and the necessary implements
for successful prosecution of the
search, arrived on the scene early in
the morning. Beside the force of work.
house labOrers, thirty laborers from
the sewer department. were also
placed at work in the ruins.
The number of persons and families
who are still without homes and with
out the means of getting them is great.
In scores of instances families of day
laborers had all their household goods
destroyed and they have no means OF
replacing them. Among people of
this class there has already been much
suffering and the relief furnished has
been inadequate. Half dozen
wagons were in use yesterday dis
tributing food to the hungry. Over
100 teams were kept busy moving fur
niture from wrecked buildings for
those who did not have the means to
pay for a van. There were hundreds
of them. The most activity in that
direction was in the Soulard district.
There are hundreds of people who
need clothing and need it badly and
the supply on hand is meager.
The superintendent of the morgue
had trying time in answering ques-
tions in regard to the bodies and in
taking names and descriptions of per-
sons who have not been seen by their
friends since before the storm. There
were people there from points in all
directions, far and near-Chicugo,
Cincinnati, Louisville. Indianapolis,
Kansas City and thousand smaller
places. From each town came anxious
people inquiring for lost friends.