Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-06-04
DAY OF FUNERALS
EVERY HEARSE In ST. LOUIS Is
KEPT BUSY ALL DAY.
Nearly - Hundred Burial Permits
Are Issued by the Health Depart
ment-Mnny Visitors View the De-
s%truction wrought by the Storm
MANY People Drowned by q
CIoudbnrst.

81. Louis. June y. - Every railroad
entering this Storm-stricken city ran
excursion trains yesterday. They
brought scores Of thousands of people
TO view the devastation and ruin thar
was wTougEr by the akful storm OF
Wednesday. The streets OF the ruined
district were thronged with visitors all
day. They came from almost every
town and city within a radius Of 300
miles, and nearly all day a drizZling
rain fell. Lowering. threatening clouds
covered the sky, and n more dismal
scene than the ruined portion of this
city presented could scarcely be i'm
agined, and through the crowded
streets all day long came funeral pro-
c~essions. Nearly 100 burial permits
We're issued by the health department
Saturday, and every hearse in the city
was in constant use yesterday carry
ing the victims of the storm TO their
graves. AT early dawn people began
to crowd into the city morgue. Many
came in search of friends, but for the
most part the people who visited the
charnel house were drawn by n NOR
bid desire to see the mangled corpses
of the unfortunate victims of the tor
nado. All day long the officers on
duty were busy keeping the people
moving in line and out of the viewing
room of the morgue. Every few min
utes some one would think they had
discovered some n whom they knew
among the bodies exposed for view.
Searching for bodies.
The street railway companies have
had hundreds of men at work repair
ing the damage to their power houses
and trolley wires. and to-day nearly
all the principal lines were in opera
ton. But the work that has been
done is so meager when compared
with that whichremains that there is
scarcely any p~erceptible improvement.
The telephone service is practically
paralyzed. although the telephone
company has had hundreds of men at
work repairing the wires. Hundreds
of demoralized buildings have not
been touched; no n can tell If the
ruins conceal the bodies of victims of
the storm. Some of the local papers
have been severe in their denunciation
of the mayor of the city for not being
more active in restoring order in the
Storm-swept district. In many locali-
ties a foul stencil arises from the
ruins. Whether this is due to the
fact that the ruins conceal human
bodies oil dead animals, time alone can
tell.
The authorities at Jefferson barracks
have notified the central relief commit
tee that a force of troops will bring up
to the wrecked districts a large num-
Der of tents tomorrow and establish a
commissary for the purpose OF furnish
ing cooked food for the needy. The
cavalry cooks. stewards and camp
men will do the work.
The number Of persons and families
who are still without homes and with
out the means of getting them is great.
Many wagons were in use to-day dis
trihuting food to the hungry. Over a
hundred teams were kept busy moving
furniture from wrecked buildings for
those who did not have the means to
pay for n van. There are hundreds of
people who need clothing and need 1t
badly. and the supply on hand Is very
meager.
Many People Drowned.
Neosho, Mo-, Tune "a great rain
storm and cloudburst swept Neosho
and Seneca, twelve miles west of here.
Sylvester Woods was drowned and
several houses were washed away. At
Seneca twenty-eight people are report
ell drowned. The families are those of
j. II. Williams. 5; Carl Schmidt. 5; III.
Andreas, 5; Mrs. Robinson and child,
and several, names unknown. The Of
fec of the Seneca Dispatch was
washed away, together with the Meth
odist church and half the buildings on
Main street. The property damage is
estimated at $4,000.
Belleville, H.. June 2. - Meager re-
ports received here from New Baden,
just over the line in Clinton county,
indicate that that village has been
practically wiped out Of existence, only
three or four houses remaining. The
dead number twelve, as follows: Adj
am Peter. Jacob Malrih, z. s. Meyer
and daughter, Mrs. Rust and little girl,
Peter Kranz and wife, Jacob Lee, j.
Barnes, young daughters of j. Feck-
loser. The number of injured is not
known.