Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-30
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
From St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS, May 30.-No accurate eS-
innate of the loss ofproperty can now Dc
made, but it is safe to say that the ioss'
as reported by the press outside OF 81.
Louis, has been greatly over. estimated.
DR.. Starkloff, health commissioner. IS
this morning forced to the conclusion
that the deaths at the city hospital are
far beyond first estimates. He states
that fifty patients of the hospital are
not accounted for. A number OF pa
tients fled to the commons about the
place and there is hope that many OF
the fifty missing will be found later.
There is strong probability that the
bodies of some of the missing patients
will be found in the ruins. Yesterday
hundreds of moving vans were backed
up against the doors of wrecked homes:
There were express wagons, coal
wagons, hand carts and contrivances OF
all sorts. The well-to-do people en-
Gagged all the means of transportation.
The poor were left to provide for them
selves. There were complaints even
from the rich of excessive charges.
There were curses and maledictions
from the poor. Some people had paid
s12 load for a moving van. Others
had paid SIS and some cases were re-
ported where 500 was charged. There
appeared to be no protection against
this extortion. In Benton Park 226
trees were leveled to the ground, all
the shrubbery, plants and flowers de-
stroyed, and tho lawns rooted up. The
greatest damage in Forest Park was
caused by the unprecedented sudden
rise in the river Des Peres.
A careful canvass of the situa-
ton in East St. Louis results in an es'
innate that the damage to property
within the corporate limits will exceed
s., 100000, while the number of fataIi-
ties may not touch the Citizens Execu-
tive Committee calculation of 200. The
damage to residence property in st.
Louis is estimated by real estate men
at nearly three million dollars.
LATER.
ST. LOUIS, May 30.-The thousands
OF men at work in the ruined district are
bringing order out of chaos and it will
be but few days before nearly every
trace of the material wreckage caused
by the tornado of Wednesday night
has been cleared away. At II O'Clock
this morning this table was completed
| for the United Press by the city coro-
ner: Known dead in st. Louis, 1876;
unknown dead in st. Louis, S; fatally
injured in st. Louis, IS; missing in ST..
Louis, Sc; known dead In East St.
Louis, 1873; unknown dead in East st.
Louis, 8; fatally injured in East ST..
Louis, /; total fatality, Ais.
Some mounds of ruins remain not
fully explored, but those best acquaint-
ed with the localities express conf
dence that all bodies have been re-
moved.
The injured are being well cared for
and St. Louis will not need the tents
offered by the government. There are
fifty jobs awaiting every carpenter,
bricklayer, roofer, plumber and glazier
in the city. The supply of material will
probably run short before the work Of
restoration is complete. A minimum
of crime is reported.
The relief fund is swelling and is now
nearly $50, 900, but there is disposition
among the people in the path of the
storm to help themselves. Fifty-five
patients were in the City Hospital when
| the storm blew down that institution.
But few of them are accounted for. The
report that the Warrensburg Normal
School was destroyed by the storm
Wednesday night and eighty students
killed, is wholly untrue. The storm
did no damage there.
The First Regiment M. N. g., was
out in full force last night guarding the
property of the south st. Louisians
whose homes were wrecked by the
storm.
The great railroads centeriDg at st.
Louis are rapidly getting into shape,
and business is being resumed again.
TrampIed tn Death by the Crowd