The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-06-04
that the damage to property within
the corporate limits will ex-
ceed se.oOo,oOo while the NUM-

ber of fatalities may not
touch the citizens executive COMMITTEES
calculation of 200. However, promi-
nent citizens insist that the financial
lossess will aggregate s5,0OO,0 900, and
that the list of dead will reach fully
twice its presen known number.
There have Aeen inquests held over
the bodies of "a tornado victims in East
st. Louis, and the coroner's office Sat
urday morning contained list of
nearly a score of dead for the officials
to begin work on.
Four companies of militia are pa
trolling the devastated district and
are protecting property from thieves
and vandals who have focked in ON
every train.
East st. Louis will be for several
days to come city of funerals.
In st. Peters, st. Henry's and the
city cemeteries. as well as the cemeter-
les of adjoining cities, graves are
peing prepared for the victims of
Wednesdays disaster, and solemn cor
teges of sad.faced people are travers-
ing the streets of the devastated city,
following their loved ones to the last
resting places. There are funerals on
all sides. Hardly a street or block was
there which did not have one or more
persons who were claimed as victims
by the storm, and many of them were
buried Friday in order to prevent rapid
decomposition. This and the over
crowded condition of the morgue has
tened many of the funerals
In st. Louis Saturday there was an
almost unbroken line of funeral pro-
cessions enroute to Calvary and Belle
fontain cemeteries.
Outside cities and surrounding towns
have been called upon to furnish
hearses and carriages to accommodate
the demand for conveyances Extra
gangs of workmen are employed in
preparing graves, and memorial day is
surely day of mourning in the Mound
City.
Subscriptions to the fund for the re-
lief of the homeless are pouring in at q
gratifying rate, considering that the
extent of the calamity has partially
paralyzed the city. The Merchants
exchange funds amount to more than
$4,000. President Donovan called q
meeting of the Real Estate exchange
Friday and nearly 81, 900 was raised in
few minutes. Secretary Aull raised
$500 in two hours at theN fair grounds
Friday afternoon.
The street car system is crippled, and
the telephone and telegraph service in
the city is practically useless. The
streets in the southern portion of the
city are Uttered with debris and broken
and twisted wires. 1t will be weeks
before all the marks of the storm are
removed from the thoroughfares.
The st. Louis team owners came for
ward and placed their IS heavy wag-
ons at the disposal of the distressed.
The noble hearted draymen will work
all day Sunday gratis to relieve the
distressed. The wholesale grocers of
Cupples' station sent out rs war-
ons and trucks on the same
errand of mercy. By Sunday night
every one in the wrecked district will
be safely moved, difficulty has been
found in securing laborers for the work
of clearing away the wrecks, and those
who are able and willing to work are
demanding rate of so cents an hour
Wages of bricklayers have advanced
from 55 cents to 81. 10 an hour.
The damage to residence property in
st. Louis is estimated by real estate
men at nearly three million dollars.
A report from Warrensburg Saturday
morning says that the report that the
Warrensburg Normal school was de-
stroyed by the storm Wednesday night
and so students killed, is wholly untrue.
The only addition to the death list
Sunday was Carlo Alfonero, a peddler
who died at the Alexian brothers hos.
pital at p m. There are three un.
known corpses at the city morgue. The
stricken district was the mecca of 1OO,-
600 sightseers Sunday, and their SYM
pathies went out to the home.
less sufferers who clung to their
dismantled homes. The steady
mist of rain found hundreds of families
unprotected, save by hastily construct
ed 'lean-to's" against the few remain.
ing walls Some were provided with
tents. Three hundred of these were
sent up from the jefferson barracks.
The Provident association, the Bust.
ness Mems league and the public relief
committee have provided for $50 fam.
lilies, each receiving food sufficient for
two weeks, and such shelter as could
be secured. All the transfer and ex.
press companies have hauled free the
few belongings of the sufferers who
secured rooms
Attendance at all the churches was
unusually large and the services were
memorial in character. DIR. Schuyler,
dean of Christ church cathedral, held q
special afternoon service, at which a
large sum was contributed to swell the
relief fund.
The two services at Pilgrim Congre.
gational church yielded nearly 81 900.
Contributions were made in all the
churches and pledges made to continue
the relief until the need ceased Ar.
rangements have been made by every
society, church and guild, in the city
for benefit entertainments.
A panic was prevented Sunday night
| at Union station by the PROMPT worL