The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-31

and Messages Sent By Mail.
ST. LOUIS. May 3O.-There are. many
people missing in St Louis and anxious
relatives and friends are beginning to
mourn them as dead, as no Informal
ton as to their whereabouts has been
obtained.
The list is as follows:
Charles Aschol
| Bertha Jacob.
Maggie Hickey.
T. J. Stephen n
James Fl. Smith.
! James Evans.
! Jacob Wendt-
Harry Pence, Minneapolis, MINI.
Herman Schmalenbach.
| Mary Wagner.
| Walter Gruenwald.
| James Young.
James Mcclellan, Webster Grove, Mo.
| Adolph Goodman.
| John Roache.
! George Hesse.
| c. A Staufer.
WAS A WONDER.
| All Of the fifteen clerks in the Chi
cago & Alton freight office escaped
death, only one. ]. Brady, being at all
| injured.
Thieves were active last night and
although several hundred men are pro.
| tecting property, the thieves did con.
siderable stealing. Several hundred
suspicious characters were arrested by
the police and militia last night and
as the police station was crowded they
were placed under the care Of the
| militia.
Police Commissioner John A. Lee
is not one of those who estimates the
damage of the storm as light, and who
thinks that st. Louis is amply able
to relieve the distressed unaided. He
said today:
AZ think that the foolish false pride
which has prompted the announcement
that St. Louis needs no outside aid
and can take care of her own distress
and ruin is we'll deserving of general
denunciation. The men who have an
nounced that we need no outside aid
do not know or appreciate
THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION
and represent only their own well fed
and comfortable and we'll housed per-
sonal views.
L nave very luOIOuSllly tAplOIcu lllc
ruined district with the chief of police
and vice-president of the police board,
and know that the average of the esti-
. mates of the damages which are made
by the press are not exaggerated. If
the damage is s20,0O0,OO0. which is
about the lowest estimate made. and
the absolutely necessitous conditions,
such as positive lack of food, clothing
and shelter, are only per cent, it will
20 t7.oIf 70, roI
them. I have never known a call for
public aid to be made that ST. Louis
did not come promptly to the front and
L don't desire to see conditions either
underestimate or exaggerated.
'St. Louis does need, at present, all
the aid she can get. Our own people.
who can afford to do so, will help and
their aid will be liberal, but 1 claim
that no sum smaller than
HALF A MILLION DOLLARS
will be adequate to relieve the lack
of food, clothing, household equipments
and shelter.
1T should be remembered that hun
dreds of manufacturing plants have
been destroyed and many thousands of
people are to be out of employment
for several months Who, therefore,
dares to take the responsibility Of say
ing that st. Louis can and will take
care of her own sufferers and suffer
ing?
THE amount taxpayers will have 70
pay to repair and rebuild city property
blown down and damaged will n5t be
a small one. Mr.. Randall, commits
sioner of buildings, thinks about S110,-
900 will rehabilitate the citys build
ings. On the other hand President Nc
Math, of the board Of public improve
ments, thinks Mr.. Randalps estimates
exaggerated and leaving out the city
hospital which is almost destroyed, Gil
culates that $4,000 or $4,000 will be
sufficient to make all necessary re-
pairs"
No city in the world, in proportion
to its population, has better Geographic
facilities than ST. Louis. But the storm
has blown down the wires and
STILLED THE INSTRUMENTS
tually a world TO itself. Thousands
on thousands of messages were stack
ed I'D here TO be sent, and as great a
number were filed in other cities for
st. Louis delivery. Immediately after
the storm the companies began replac-
ing the wires. Thousands of linemen
were secured ard the work of recon
struction was pushed night and day.
AS fast S the wires were put in work
the wires. Operators were brought
from all available sources and mes
sengers by the hundreds, mounted on
bicycles, horses and messengers on foot
were employed. But the kilograms piled
up faster than they could be handled.
To deliver all the messages was an
impossibility and at night more than
10000 messages were placed in the
mails for delivery by the letter car
riers. The first deliveries Friday and
Saturday mornings contained thous-
ands OF the we'll known telegraph en-
velopes which the companies were IN
able to handle.
A CRAFT.
In addition to the private kilograms
/ inquiring about friends and in reply
to queries, many special newspaper cor
respondents had congregated in the
city and to a great extent they monop0-
lized the wires with specials to their
papers. Friday night nearly one mil