The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-29

Comprising SEO city BlOcks Dam
aged or in Ruins-The Number OF
Persons Injured Already known
To BE In Excess of I,5OO-The Fash
ionabIe Residence Section Known
as Compton Hin One of the Points
swept by the storm.
ST. Louis, Mo-, May 2S-A revised list
of the dead foots up eighty identified in
St. Louis, three unknown dead at 1888
South Seventh street, two unknown chill
dren picked up in the streets, and in ad-
dition there are at the morgue and uni
Identified, the bodies of seventeen men ana
fifteen women. This list of unidentified
is being added to hourly.
1t is reported that twenty-nine employees
Of the Liggett & Meyers tobacco factory
are in the ruins of the building.
Twenty-Five employees of the St. Louis
Wooden Gutter Company are missing and
are thought to have been killed when the
building fell and buried them.
In East st. Louis 113 dead have been
identified. Besides there are unidentified
bodies of thirty-nine men and sixteen wo-
men, most of these were workmen about
the different freight depots.
Twenty men, employees in the Van
daha freight depot, are missing and are
believed to have\ been killed when the
building fell.
A thorough investigation of the de-
struction is being made and when it is
known what the death rate has been It
will exceed 200.
Many injured on both sides of the river
are beyond hope of recovery. The list of
injured reported numbers over 1900 ana
a great many were located at home and
no report made.
Two school houses in East st. Louis
serve al temporary hospitals, while on
this side the armory does the same ser
vice. Every private hospital is crowded.
district in this city, bounded north by
Choteau avenue, west by Grand avenue,
south to the city limits and east to the
river is virtually mass of ruins. Not
an electric light has burned, nor a car run
in that section, comprising 72O city blocks,
since $40 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Withing this district scarcely a building
has escaped injury and thousands of them
are in ruins
On surveying the desolate scene, ,one mar
wells that the deaths are not much great
GT. beginning at the western boundary
of the scene is the handsome and exclu-
sive residence section, known as Compton
Hill, the home of the fourth generation
of the early French settlers of St. Louis.
This aristocratic home place is strewn
with debris. Just east lies Lafayette
park There the trees, shrubbery, foun-
tains and statuary that have been the
pride of the city, were caught by the wind
and the place is shaven bare as with a
giant scythe.
Further east and south to the city limits
were the homes of thrifty German-Amer-
leans who have given a distinct character
to the district Tonight thousands of
these men are homeless, many of them
like nomads amid the ruins or sharing
the roofs of their hospitabe or more for
tunate neighbors.
Interspersed in this latter section and on
east to the river are mills. breweries and
numberless manufacturing concerns
These were fair targets for the storm and
they suffered. 1t was this class of losses
that add much to the wiping out of what
Us conservatively stated to be S4oOO00o Of
invested capital. There are sixteen brewe-
ries within these boundaries, worth S4,00O,-
olo and while none are destroyed, all are
damaged. The losses fall heaviest on
those least able to bear them
After the storm had laid its heavy hand
upon the southern half of the city. fire
came TO complete the work of destruction.
Five columns of flame shot up. but thanks
to the deluge Of rain. the blaze was main
ly confined to its starting point. In three
instances engines were unable to get
nearer than a block from the fire.
Unsolicited, the work of relief began
here at once by the whole people. a meet
ing Of the citizens was held at noon at the
merchants exchange. After brief ad-
dresses by Rev DR.. W. W. Boyd and
Mayor C. P. Walbridge, contributions
We're asked for. Within forty minutes or
as fast as the sums given could be ac-
Nnowledged. $4,000 was in the secretary's
Aands. Contributions continued after the
adjournment. It is not proposed to go
outside the city for aid, though no offer
ing Will be refused.
=. H. Spencer, president Of the mer-
O-1hts exchange, was made chairman of