The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-06-02

| brick and debris Despite this state
| of gloomy affairs services will be held
as usual Sunday morning.
The emergency hospital at the old
| Good Shepherd convent on Hines street
| is running along in good shape, con-
| sidering that it was only instituted in
| its present capacity Thursday morn
| ing. Some of the doctors took their
| first rest after midnight Thursday. but
they We're all up and busy by o'clock
| Friday morning. There are nearly 800
sick at the emergency hospital who
were transferred from the city hospi-
| tai after it was demolished The clerk
| of the hospital has checked up his list
| He thinks that there are not more
| than four or five unaccounted for.
| Some patients, who were prisoners
| from the Jail, workhouse and elsewhere
! are known to have escaped during the
| confusion.
At st. Johns hospital on Twenty
| third street and Lucas, the wounded
| are being we'll cared for One patient,
| William Pletke, of 1908 Lafayette ave-
| nue., died. He was first sent to the
| Good Shepherd via the dispensary,
| and then to ST. Johns. He was badly
| injured internally and had several
bones broken. An unknown man is
unconscious and on the verge Of death.
The Dead.
There exists about as much uncer-
tainty as to the actual number of peO-
pie killed and the amount of property
damaged as on the first morning after
the disaster. Scores of dead have been
identified, but no one is willing to
venture a guess as to how many bod
les may be in the ruins of the hundreds
OF buildings as yet uneXplOred. The
/ total number of dead in st. Louis iden-
titled at present is 1872, and in East
st. Louis 127. In st. LukeS there are
81 bodies still unidentified, and in East
st. Louis ?. 1t is believed that the
deaths of the injured and the future
recovery of bodies will bring the st.
Louis death list up to 300. In East
st. Louis the city officials declare that
they have hope that the death roll on
that side of the river will not exceed
$50, but the ruins upon which the res
cuers have not yet begun work may
swell the totals far beyond that figure.
Guesses were made to-day upon the
property loss, and they were from 81
100000 to $4,000, 900 for ST. Louis and
IAOAu Pf,OOO,OOO W a@U,OOOOOO Lie
most popular estimate is in the neigh
borhood of $25,O00,00O for both cities,
including railroads and buildings dam
aged. The contractors of the city have
been overwhelmed with orders for re-
building, and the work of wiping out
the havoc of the storm will be pushed
with all energy. The committee in
charge announced to-day that the audi
tOrium will be used for the Republic
an national convention, and has been
repaired.
No Aid Needed
The restitution. misery and want
here has touched the hearts of the
people in all parts of the country, and,
as a result, ever since the storm Of
Wednesday,, offers of help and con-
tributions have been pouring in. Up
to a late hour $4,000 was the total
amount of donations received. The
following card in answer to hundreds
of kilograms of inquiry has been sent
out by Mayor Walbridge:
1T is not practical to make individ-
ual answer to the vast number of
friends who have telegraphed sympa-
thy and offers Of assistance. Through
the medium of the Associated Press l
sincerely thank the many friends for
the sympathy they have shown and
their proffers of aid. The people of our
city are confident Of their ability to
properly care for all the sufferers from
the recent tornado, and heroic efforts
are being made to that end No ac-
crrate estimate of the loss of property
can now be made, but it is safe that
the loss as reported by the press out
side of st. Louis has been greatly over
estimated &C. p. Walbridge.'
Corrected reports from various
sources along the river front material
ly reduce the estimate of the loss by
drowning. How many roustabouts
went down will probably never be
known, as they are generally of a class
i'll whose welfare there is little interest
most of them being negro nomads
who move from one port to another.
The steamer j. J. Odill, the Illinois
river packet which went to pieces at
the Pittsburg dyke after a tumultuous
trip from the foot of Cherry street,
dragged down five unfortunateS. The
victims were Morris Fisher we'll
known merchant of Hardin, ILL.,; Mrs.
Goodar of the same place; Sim Woods,
chief clerk of the boat. and the second
cook and chambermaid, whose names
are unknown.
ST. Louis, June ,. Every railroad
entering this Storm-stricken city ran
excursion trains yesterday. They
brought scores of thousands of people