The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-06-06
Vicious Looking Clouds Remind the
People of Last Week Tornado
The Citizens May Ask for Outside
Aida List of One Hundred and
Twenty Names of People Who
Are Missing.

ing at all approaching a hurricane or
tornado. The elemental disturbances
lasted for nearly an hour and then be-
came a slow, drizZling rain. No dam
age resulted.
A mass meeting Of citizens has been
called to consider the ACCESSIBILITY of
appealing for outside aid. The call is
signed by a number of prominent Ger
mans, South Broadway merchants and
citizens of the devastated portions of
South st. Louis. 1t states that the loss
of property is estimated at S2O.0OO,0OO.
For this reason. the call continues. as
sistance is sorely needed. and the gen.
erous offers of numerou cities of this
and foreign countries should not be de-
clincd.
This morning a list of 100 names Of
persons who have been missing in st.
Louis since the storm was printed.
Last week it was thought that fifty
of sixty patients were in the ruins Of
the city hospital. To-day every man,
woman and child who was in the insti-
tuition has been accounted for. Michael
Dunn was the only patient killed.
Some have died since. but only a few
from actual injuries received.
At st. Johns hospital, at Twenty
third and Torist streets. the patients
were all doing fairly we'll except An
ton Gregory. of Second and Victor
streets. who has not yet recovered con-
seriousness. At the Alexian Brothers
hospital two patients have died and
three have been discharged. The doc
tors at the different institutions ex-
pect very few additional deaths nov
among their patients.
At the MOrgue.
This morning there were eleven
morgue. They were Cora and Ethel
Claypool, Mrs. Cahill, Mary Talbot,
| William Anderson. Charles Alcornero,
an unknown white man. supposed to
De Adclph Gutman; William Plank. and
three children from the Bethesda home.
OF this number, three were removed
by relatives later in the day. They
We're the Claypools and Mrs. CaEill,
| who was killed at Jefferson and Pa
| pin. Unless there are some claimants
for the remains of the unknown man,
| William Plank and the three home
victims. they will be inferred in the
potters' field this afternoon.
A drizzling rain has been falling all
the morning. making it uncomfOrta-
BILE for workers and victims alike.
Teams were donated to the S Of
! storm-sufferers to move from their dis
mantled homes to places of security
and shelter. and this work still goes on
| without cessation. Great numbers Of
people are receiving aid at the general
relief depots in the way of food. cloth
ing and household necessities that
have been donated by the citizens of
| st. Louis.
Many thousands of people from the
surrounding country have left for their
homes. but hundreds still remain. In
East st. Louis. where it is related
that at least 100. 1000 people visited the
ruins. there was a terrible. crush at the
depot Sunday night when they started.
to return home. The trairs were mad
eguate to accommodate the multitude
and many had to remain over night.
An official estimate of the loss. to
shipping has not vet been made and
will not be until the submerged boats
have been examined. The first esti-
mate Of $2,O0O.OOO has dwindled down
to less than half a million and the
chances are that these figures will be
reduced materially. Five persons were
certainly drowned ard possibly others.
Smaller Death List.
The loss Of life in East st, Louis,
which has been generally excessively
estimated. has assumed far less seri-
GUS proportions as the days have
passed. Instead of being nearly 200
as declared by many. the list of dead
numbers 100 identified, with two. a
man and a woman, unknown. In addi-
ton to these one man is missing and
eight are seriously injured and will
probably die. A very carefully revised
list Of dead to-day, taking as the basis
of his calculation. the cororer's rec
ords. the burial permits and the rec
ords of the undertaking establish
ments. The known list of dead to-
day in st. Louis foots up al names.
All of these bodies Fave been recov-
cred. Besides this, it is known that
thirteen other persons have been killed
in the storm. eight in the river whose
names are known. and five within this
city whose names are unknown. None
of these bodies have been recovered.
OF the III dead bodies recovered in
this city but M remains unidentified.
The list of missing persons has dimin-
isbed somewhat from the number re-
tains the names of lightweight persons
not including the eleven said to have
been lost from the. steamer Libbie
| Conger. This reduction is due to the
fact that a number of names included
in yesterdays list have been found
among those of the dead, while a num-
Der of reported missing have been
found alive and well.
Both houses Of the municipal assem-
by to-day adopted resolutions asking
outside aid for the cyclone sufferers.
Blaine's Last Resting Place.
Augusta, Me-, June 3.-The body of
the late Hon. James G. Blaine will be
| taken from Oak Hill cemetery. WASH