Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-06-03


been destroyed TO the extent OF 81. 900. :
600. while Lafayette park and vicinity
gives as much more. Westward
from Lafayette park and north to
Choteau avenue the loss is 81. OoO.-
900. Down Choteau from Jeffer-
son avenue to Seventh street
and north to the railroad tracks &. ooo.-
600 Is damaged. Along Park avenue
from Tenth to Seventh and north on
Seventh to Market, 81. 500. 600 will about
cover the loss The distress and disas-
ter through this section are appalling.
The remaining 81, $50, 600 is scattered
through the central, western and
northwestern portions of the city. II
includes damages TO crops and public
buildings.
Damages TO school property is 500. 600.
Nearly all south IT. Louis is practi-
cally destroyed. Wrecked buildings
and those partly damaged can not be
repaired. 1t will be fully two years
before the effects of the hurricane are
cffaced.
Many hundreds of the homeless are
already receiving assistance from the
relief committee. The greatest demand
is for food and clothing, as those who
have roofs over their heads are sharing
their homes with their less fortunate
neighbors
Up To sew o'clock Friday night ias
bodies haveSeen identified and los un-
identified dead are lying ON the slabs at
the morguc. ~6bere are so dead bodies
lying upon tSc Slabs at the city morgue
awaiting Identification.
~ nine o'clock Friday night the list
OF identified dead in East st. Louis is
unchanged ut %. There are a3 un-
identified bodies at the morgue and the
latest reports at police Headquarters
places the number of missing at 81
males and five females.
Coroner Waite has been constantly
on duty since Thursday morning. The
procession OF the dead, passing under
review before him like the last resur-
rection, were passed upon in an official
and perfunctory way. The pathos
usual on such occasions was reCioubled.
intensified by the surrounding throng
OF waiting relatives, waiting till un-
sympathetic ofiicialism had released
their dead. There were % unfortu-
mates who passed under the ordeal of
this necessary inspection.
At two o'clock Saturday morning two
Heaters were picked up at the foot of
Destrahan street, which are supposed
To lie members OF the wrecked boat
crews.
"A family of four lived at ZIG Barry
street Wednesday morning. When the
cyclone had passed there was but one
survivor. The surviving daughter
stood on the street wringing her hands.
frantic with grief and refusing 20 be
led away. Ncighbors told the story
Friday morning.
Shortly after midnight Father j. j..
Head, of Annunciation church. Sixth
and La Sale streets. died of the in iur-
les received by falling timbers in the
disaster Wednesday night. Father
Head and his sister were sitting in the
parochial residence when the roof of
the church was blown on 10 the
house. n falling timber struck the
pastors head and he was otherwise Sc
riously injured. He failed TO rally.
Roy Claypool, son of Mrs. Daniel
Claypool, who, with her two children.
was killed by the storm. died Mt the
Chiidren's hospital Friday night.
Young Claypool was not injured by the
storm, but had been placed in the hos
pital Thursday TO be treated for an all
ment' but when he heard that his
mother and two sisters had been killed.
the little fellow began to grieve. 1t
caused his death.
ST Louis, May 30.-It was possible
Friday to make an intelligent estimate
for all figures are as vet estimates
of the loss of life and property in this
city and vicinity by the storm on We'd
nesday night. II will be many davs
before the exact facts arc
known, if they are ever known
at all 1t is true that in this CITY
and East st. Louis, the records of the
health department will show the num-
Der OF interments, so that the number
of dead within the municipal limits
Will be eventually asccrtained but no
such vcritication is possible in the
country districts where the loss of life
was undoubtedly greater than was at
first reported. The property loss. of
course. is practically an unknown
quantity, and figures vary great
ly. The best that can be done is
to average the estimates of competent
authorities. In ST. Louis the number
VI N''h' ~ bpibtN W lDt authorities M
TO four o'clock Friday morning was 14S.
of which number 11G were identified
and % unidentified. OF course the
larger proportion were at the morpue
or reported at the undertaken estab-
lishments. But there are undou btedlv
many others awaiting burials at p-i-
vate residences and it is still more GER
tain, unfortunately. that the removal
of debris viii disclose the bodies Of
other victims of the storm as vet
uuaccountcd for still there can
be no doubt that the first
rumors Of scores crushed beneath fall
ing buildings were largely exapper-
ated. and the number 10 be accounted
for in this way will not be so large as
was at first feared. a careful survey
of the situation. therefore. justifies the
belief that the unreported dead-tbose
in private houses and those unrccov-
cred from wrecked buildinps-will not
exceed 100. This brings the total dead
in 81 Louis mp TO about two hundred
and fifty. and it is believed that event
ual verifcation Of the death roll win
not show n variation Of more than ton
The count Of the wounded is a moro
difficult matter
Taking the hospital and police re-
l.. Il