The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30
SCENES OF SADNESS
At The MOUND CITY.
roOasfnued .JrOm First Paoe,I

bury those beneath. The weather is fine.
The Business Mems League to-day issued
statement to the country to the effect
that the disaster will in no way interfere
with the arrangements already made for
the Republican Convention or the housing
and entertainment OF the delegates.
Despite the exaggerated stories that
were given circulation during the hour
| Immediately following the calamity, when
the impression was sought to be conveyed
that all st. Louis had been laid low and
| that the exposition and convention audi
| torium had been wiped out, it should be
now definitely known through the coun-
try that only narrow strip across the
Mill Creek Valley was devastated, and
that the principal business portion of the
city is unscathed. The damage to the
structure in which the convention is to be
held is much less than at first anticipated,
and will not exceed $500, and repairs can
/ be completed by the end of next week.
None of the large hotels have been in
jured in any way, and the section of the
city that felt the brunt of the storm in
cludes but handful of houses that have
been placed in the list of contingent extra
accommodations for visitors. More than
nine-tenths of the houses so listed and
covering a radius from half mile to two
miles west OF the Auditorium are in a
district entirely outside the path of the
storm.
| Coroner Wait held inquests all day. In
each case a stereotyped verdict setting
forward the fact that the deceased had
come to his death, or her death, by injuries
received as the result of tornado was
| haIH oil in
Louis, the verdicts being in similar terms.
The bodies of Miss Izola Horne and
Emma Cheney, ktenographers employed
by the Sawyer Manufacturing Company at
Eighteenth and Chouteau streets, who
died clasped in each others arms, rest
| side by SIDE on a mattress in boarding
! house awaiting advices from relatives.
Miss Cheney had brother in Chicago,
WHILE her mother resides in Montreal
Miss Minnie Conrad, % years of age,
daughter of Lieutenant Conrad of Jeffer-
son Barracks, is believed to be among the
killed. She left home Wednesday after
noon and has not been seen or heard from
since.
While workmen were digging in the
ruins of one of the tenements at Seventh
and Rutger streets, where so much havoc
"Please don't be so rough" An opening
was quickly made in the debris above the
SPOT whence the voice issued and
through its depths ten-year-old boy lead
ing three girls about the same age ap-
peared. Ali were uniniured, though they
were W eak from hunger and confinement
for nearly forty hours. A shout of Joy
went up from the crowd and then before
the police could ascertain any names the
little ones had been led away. Somebody
asked the little boy as he was disappear
ing how he came to be so lucky, and he
piped in childish accents: 1--WE just fell
on a soft place"
Among the missing reported are George
Howard of Minneapolis and Edward Ray,
stockholder of the Massilon Bridge
Company of Robinson, Ill. Their bodies
are not among the unrecognized dead at
the morgues.
There was a conference this afternoon
between Chief of Police Harrigan of this
city and Chief Badenoch and Inspector
Fitzpatrick of Chicago. the two latter of
whom had been instructed by Mayor
Swift of that city TO investigate the condi-
ton of affairs here and in East ST. Louis.
with view TO rendering any needed as
sistance toward protecting the devastated
districts against the criminal element. As
an outcome of the interchange of opinions,
Chief Badenoch telegraphed to Chicago
ordering the immediate departure for this
city of nine crack mem bers of the Chicago
detective corps, and who, on their arrival,
will be detailed to watch the operations OF
a number of well-known crooks from East
ern and Western cities.
According to confidential advices re-
ceived from various chiefs of police and
detective agencies, many crooks are head
ing for this city expecting to reap harvest
similar to that gathered in by the light
; fingered and burglarizing fraternity during
the days Immediately following the Johns.
town food.
1t is also arranged that the Chicago
detectives shall remain in this city until
the wind-up of the Republican National
Convention. While there has been no
systematic effort toward pillaging the
devastated district, Chief Harriean. as
matter of precaution, to-day swore in
l5O specials to assist the militia in pro.
tecting the property exposed in the ruins.
The Chicago detectives will be under the
command of Chief OF Detectives Desmond
and the local authorities will co-ouerate
with those of East st. Louis in keeping
the criminal element in check!
In the town across the river the business
men have organized vigilance commit.
tee. and on the telegraph and electric.
light poles written notices are posted to
the effect that ghouls and purloiners OF
properly from wrecked houses, business