The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-30

ST. LOUIS, May 29.-Tonight forty-eight
hours after the tornado of Wednesday tore
its way through the city, there exists about as
much uncertainty as to the actual number OF
people killed and the amount of property
damaged, as on the first morning after the
disaster. Scores Of dead have been identi-
fled, but no one is willing to venture guess
as to how many bodies may be in the ruins
of the hundreds of buildings as yet unexplor-
ed The total number Of dead in St. Louis,
identified up to tonight, is 162, and in East st.
Louis 127. In st. Louis there are 50 bodies
still unidentified and in East st. Louis 2. 1t
is believed that the deaths of the injured and
the future recovery of bodies will bring the
st. Louis death list well up to 2o0 In East
st. Louis the city officials declared this even
ing 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 far
beyond that figure.
Guesses were made today upon the prop
erty loss and they are from $4,000, 900 up to
$50 900, 900 for ST. Louis, and from $4,15O, 600
up to 500 900, 900 for East st. Louis. The most
popular estimate is in the neighborhood of
s25, 900, 900 for both cities, including railroad
buildings damaged. The contractors of the
city have been overwhelmed with orders for
rebuilding and the work of wping out the
havoc of the storm will be pushed with all
energy.
There is probability that one man, whose
horribly mangled body was taken to the
morgue, was not killed by the storm. A gen.
tleman who was in the neghborhood of the
union depot power house just after the storm
asserts that some of the crowd there assault
ed a ghoul caught thieving and beat him to
death. His story is, that while viewing the
wreck, he saw half dozen men jump on a
man who had been loafng about in the
crowd Some one hit the man with a club,
telling him to the ground. Then the crowd
kicked him until he was unconscious. Some
one cried, Lynch the thiefl' The crowd
then picked up his limp form and carried it
to Russell avenue. where they put 1t in a
dead wagon and carted it off.
The Business Mems league issued the fol-
lowing announcement tonight with reference
to offers of aid from cities throughout the
United States:
1.-THE league indorses the action of Mayor
Walbridge in declining outside aid. It feels
grateful for the many
EVIDENCES OF GENEROSITY
in help offerings, but 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, it is its deliberate
Judgment that the city will be amply able to
fully provide for all the needs of the afflicted.
''They further announce that not single
hotel in the city has been affected, nor the
wholesale manufacturing district materially
injured. The slight injury to the special
building erected for the Republican conven-
ton has already been repaired, and the build
ing is now ready for occupancy
Although thousands of men have been at
work night and day clearing away the wreck
age in the path of the tornado, they have
scarcely made perceptible impression
towards restoring the chaotic confusion to
ANYTHING like order. Passageways have been
made through some Of the principal thorough
fares. it is true, but for the most part, the
streets are still ehoked with the battered re-
mains of homes and factories hospitals and
churches.
The path Of the storm is fully a mile and a
half wide. 1t starts away out in the sub
urbs OF the city where the beautiful homes of
the people of wealth are located. Taking a
zig-zas course it extends down Through