The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-05-30
THE ST. LOUIS HORROR
The Dead Continue TO Be Taken From The
Ruins to Receive a Coroner'S Verdict.
HUNDREDS OF HOMELESS PERSONS

Debris, Yet He and Three Little
Girls Who were HIS Companions
Were Not IpJured-Doctors Busy.
Msns League this morning Issued q
| statement 70 the country to the effect
mat the disaster will IN no way inter-
fere with the arrangements already
made for the Republican Convention or
the housing on entertainment OF ttle
delegates. Despite the exaggerated
stories that were given circulation dur
ing the hours Immediately following the
calamity. H. should b. now definitely
known through the country that only a
marrow slip across the Mill Creek Valley
was devastated and mat thu principal
business portion of the city is unscaah ed.
| Ihc damage To the structure in which
| ths convention Is TO be held is much
not exceed $500 ard repairs can be
completed by the end of next week.
None OH this large hotels were Injured
In any way and the SECTION of the CITY
that felt the brunt of the storm includes
| but g handful of houses that have been
placed in the list of contingent exura
accommodations for visitors.
| More tEan nine-tsnths of the houses
so listed and covering radious from half
a mile to two miles west OF the Audlto-
| rum are in district entirely utside the
| path of the storm.
| Up to noon to-day Coroner Wait had
hsld eighty inquests. In each case a
|stereotypcd We; dict, setting forth the ia ct
| tslaG the deceased had come to his, or
| her. death by injuries received as the
result of a tornado, was returned. Abou .
| the same number of inquestS have been
| held in East ST. Louis, the verdict being
| in similar terms.
| While workmen were digging In the
| ruins of one of the tenements at Sew
enth and Rutger streets, where SO much
havoc was caused, an infant voice cried
out: please don't be so rough!" An
lopening was quickly made in the debris
above the spot whence the. voice is
sued. and through it's depths a ten-year-
old boy leading three girls about the
same age appeared. All were unin-
| jured, although they we!e weak from
hunger and confinement for nearly 40
hours. y shout of JOY went up from the
crowd. and before the police could as
certain any names the little ones had
been carried away. Somebody asked
the little boy as he was disappearing
how he came to be so lucky. and he
piped in childish accents: We just fell
| in soft place"
General Manager F. p Bryan. of the
Terminal Association, announced al
noon that all trains are running az
usual over the Iads Bridge. and that
the upper or pedestrian roadway will
be in shape by Wednesday next
Ma fault in construction. but purely
the f!ishtful velocity of the wind at
| that particular point. was responsible
for the damage occasioned East St.
Louis is waking up from its stupor of
terror, and things are beginning now
TO shape themselves to the ameliora ton
OF the condition of the afflicted and the
preservation of the property left after
the work of the hurricane
L a rnlipf mi hos n
with an auxiliary womans corps. Money
is being subscribed. the town is thor
loughly policed with local constabulary,
and two companies of militia. streets
aye being cleared. homes made habita-
ble. and feeble effort is being cheer
tully made by the townspeople
Thee are two companies of National
Guard In the city, one from BcllviNe
company d, under Captain Rogers, ar
| rived at a. IN. y company from Green
VILE. under Captain Harris. arrived this
morning. Thursday the latter body was
at Birkner helping remove the dead and
| in1uted in that place TO the county farm
About fifty extra policemen were
sworn in by the Ch!lc, and these with
the regular police force and the militia
are ample to guard all the exposed prop
erty.
Hundreds of homeless persons slept in
the open air last night. The public build
| lngs were thrown open for the accommo-
|
were crowded to their capacity Food
for the hungry was furnished literally
by citizens and keepers of res:aura nit :
In the neighborhood OF these temporary
shelters. The property loss in this city
| !s growing. Brads.rce S agency on fig
ur.s obtained from reliable sources re-
nor's that s10.0c0,00O viii! amply cover
| the financial loss. Tt Is ported more
over that Dun's agency Of New YORK de-
nies the statement printed by The morn
ing papsrs, fhat Il had placed the total
destruction OF prop; rty at $50 600. 900
| The principal losses are in the dis trict
between Russell arh Choteau avenues
| Jefferson avenue and the river and the
fury of the tornado Is told more graphi-
cally than in words by the aables show
Ing that in rhis ST. .etch of territory alone
no less than 1000 residences wers eiaer
totally or partially destroyed The death
lisr inI st. Louis is growing fast Up 10
| noon 1872 bodies had been recovered from
the ruins of wrecked buildings OF these
l6l had been identified and 2l remain nm
recognized.
In East St. Louis. at the same hour
l4T bodies had been recovered and are
| without dertification.
The situation among the east side ra T.
roads. whEe very serious. might, he
worse. The freight yards OF every line
on the nVer front were completely cover