Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-06-06
ST. LOUIS NOW RALLIES
PROMPT AND EFFECTIVE MEAS
UREs FOR RELIEF.
East ST. Louis, However, Needs As
sistance and Pathetic Appeals
Have Been Made.

St. Louis, May 29.-The thousands o
men who have peen working at thu
wreckage in ST. Louis today have scarce
~ made an impression toward restoring
anything like order. The streets are al
choked with the battered remains o
houses, factories. hospitals and churches
Starting near Tower Grove Park, in the
western part of the city, d quarter popu
lated by wealthy people, the cyclone
moved it's way toward the river, carry
ing death and destruction in its path
Along California avenue, in Compton
Heights. the path of the storm is strewI
with wrecked homes, roofs OF houses
timber and rubbish. The same Is true
of other thoroughfares.
Lafayette Park Methodist church is ir
ruins, as is nearly every other house II
that vicinity Lafayette Avenue church
is a mass of ruins The City hospital is
damaged to the extent of 100000. Inc
patients have been removed to the COCO
Shepherd hospital. From the hospital
scarcely a house within radius OF a mile
and q half escaped the raVageS OF the
storm A pile of ruins on Thirteenth
and Sanard streets marks the place
where formerly stood the church of st.
Paul de Vincent. Longfellow boulevard
with its beautiful residences was lett with
scarcely a house unframed. SCulllns
electric street railway power house IS
damaged to the extent of $3OO,OOO. East
from these ruins for half mile there Is
scarcely q building standing. In Latay-
cite Park not a single tree is left stand
3ng Sanlard Park. covering a block
from Seventh to Eighth street, Is demol-
ished Sanlard street, at the corner or
Fourth is entirely blocked with DEBRIS.
The number of families left homeless by
devastation along the path of the storm
,oI, int hn 1,)1
time they will be dependent upon chaf-
ity.
The Business Mems League issued the
following announcement tonight, with
reference to the offers of aid from cities
throughout the United States
The league indOrSeS the action OF May
or Walbridge in declining outside aid. 1t
feels grateful for the many evidences OF
generosity in these help offerings, pat
having made careful investigation OF
the storm-stricken district, which, though
extensive, is almost entirely confined to
the section of the city OUTSIDE OF the
principal business area. 1t is the deIiber-
ate Judgment that the city will be amply
able to provide for all the needs OF the
afflicted"
They further augounce that not single
hotel in the city has been affected, OF
the wholesale manufacturing district ma
terially injured. The slight injury to
publican convention has already been re-
paired, and the building is now ready toI
occupancy.
Tonight, 40 hours after the tornado
there exists about as much uncertainty
as to the actual number OF people killed
and the amount of property damage as
on the first morning of the disaster.
Scores of dead have been identified, but
no one is willing to venture guess rs &c
how many bodies may be in the ruins
OF the hundreds of buildings as yet uneN-
plOred
The total number of dead in ST. Louis
identified up to tonight is 1872, and in East
St Louis 127 In st. Louis there are =
bodies still unidentified, and in East st
Louis two. 1t is believed that the deaths
of the injured and the full recovery OF
the dead will bring the dead list here uE
to 200 In East st. Louis the city oth-
Gals declared this evening that they have
hope that the death roll on that side OF
the river will not exceed $50, but the
ruins upon which the rescuers have not
yet begun work, may swell the total fan
beyond that figure.
The estimates upon the property loss
have grown wilder and further apart
suesses were made today all the way
from 81, 100000 to 100000 OJ for st. Louis
and 100000 to $20000,000 for East st
Louis.
Generous offers of assistance have beer
received from numerous places, but al
have been refused. Henry Irving CableC
from London to the mayor that he haC
mailed a check for $1,000. A partial lis
OF the detailed losses in the residences
of the stricken district foots up $4,000.
ST. LOUIS WILL HELP HERSELF