The San Francisco call., 1896-05-31

fifty, DR.. Sutter thinks most of them ran
away and are still alive. 1t is a hard mat
ter to get a correct list of the missing.
Records were destroyed and new histories
Will have to be made for every patient.
There is still a probability that some of
the 800 employees of the st. Louis Refriger-
ator and Wooden-Gutter Company, 100
South Second street, are in the ruins of
that firms immense plant. The loss of
the company will be at least $175, 900.
Four schoolgirls are reported buried be-
meath the ruins of Soulard Market. They
are said to have been passing the market
when it blew over. No search of the ruins
is being made.
Up to O'Clock tonight the relief COM
mittees report that $15l,000 has been sub
scribed toward fund for alleviating the
distress OF the tornado victims in st. Louis.
The condition of affairs in East St. Louis s
is growing alarming. The residents of
that territory located near the river and
known locally as the ''island" are facing
starvation. There is little to eat and no
money with which to purchase it. There
is only one store in that section that was
not totally destroyed by the storm. Here
bread and cheese are the only things
on sale. Bread is 10 and Is cents a loaf.
The storm claimed four more victims to-
day in East st. Louis. They were William
Welsh, Charles Coils, Christiana Wind
house and Henry Vitz. All of them died
at st. Mary's Hospital, where they were
taken Thursday morning.
Mrs. Anna Hennessy, William Goodwin
and man named Angel are hourly ex-
pected to die at the same institution. No
more bodies were taken from the "island"
during the past twenty-four hours, and
the work of searching for the supposed
dead in the ruins has been practically sus-
pended on account of the much more
urgent need of relieving the suffering of
the injured. feeding the hungry and af-
fording shelter to the homeless. Each of
the three local undertaking estabishme nts
buried about ten bodies to-day. Hearse
horses were not unhitched. The roads
leading to st. Peters, ST. Henry's, Cal
vary, Mount Carmel and the city cemete-
ries grew dusty with the passage of fu-
neral corteges this afternoon.
A large number of militia fonts expected
from Springfield will arrive shortly. This
will go long way toward furnishing
| shelter for the homeless. They will be
pitched on convenient vacant lots and
will bring the sufferers together in form
that will render their relief more easily
effected.
The members of the executive or relief
committee and the Woman's Relief Corps
are working like beavers. People on the
ISLAND are sleeping, the majority of
them, in the open street. The militia and
police together furnish little protection
against vandals, and they are guarding
their residences by night and searching
for their belongings by day. Out of the
many families rendered homeless some
200 have found shelter in freightcars.
These are the latest summaries corrected
to midnight: Known dead in st. Louis
1S7, unknown dead in st. Louis IL, fatally
injured in st. Louis 20, missing in st.
Louis 60; known dead in East st. Louis
las, unknown dead in East st. Louis 5, fa-
tally injured in East st. Louis 3. Total ia
talities 427.
Injured in st. Louis (estimated) 500; in
iured in East st. Louis (estimated) $50.