Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-04


their families since "Wednesday arc sup
posed to he stopping with friends or
detained from returning to thcir homes
by injuries that may not prove fatal.
Street car traffic, telephone service ant!
electric lighting facilities are entirely
suspended. Men stand mute and
aghast at the havoc that was wrought.
All business is virtually suspended.
Every one agrees that months will fail
to reveal the extent Of the tornado's
devastation in the Illinois town.
The officials of the Board of Educa-
tion are busily figuring out tho enorni-
GUS loss which the schools suffered. Ali
the south end schools bntween Chotean
avenue and Arsenal street were badly
damaged. Some had roofs blown away
and walls caved in and others got off
with ruined windows and Chlmneys.
The schools which suffered most are
the Clinton, Clinton Branch, Peabody,
Charles Hodgen. Pestalo2zi. Grant,
New Sheppard, L. Okverture, Froebel,
Lafayette. Longfellow ami Madison.
The Compton Marquette, Choteau and
Garfield also suffered. The school
board cannot repair the damage for lees
than $50, 600 and perhaps larger sum
will be needed. Several of the schools
will not be opened again until Septem-
Der.
ST. Patrick's Catholic Church, Sixth
and Biddle streets, was Damaged more
than was at first thought. A two.story
brick building at the corner of Sixth
and Biddle streets was destroyed. The
organ loft OF the church is wreck and
the organ covered with bricks and
debris. M
The emergency hospital at the old
Good Shepherd Convent,a Seventeenth
and Vine streets, is running along IN
great shape, considering that it was
only instituted in tho pfesent capacity
Thursday morning. Some Of the doc
tors took their first Test jsftdr midnight
Thursday but they weee all UP and
busy by O'Clock this morning. There
are nearly 300 SICK. persdns in The cmer-
goncy hospital, Transferred from the
City Hospital after vt was demolished.
The clerk of the hospital has checked
up his list. He thinks that there arc
not more than four or five persons un-
accounted for. SomeA patients who
were prisoners from the Jail w1rkhouse
and elsewhere are known TO have es-
capped during tho confusion. Tho mil
itiamen were on duty III night. They
have been of great assistance to the
police.
Local papers, to-day, tell of tho
sympathy offered by the whole country
to ST. Louis in its presentstate of woe.
| Offers have come to Mayor Walbridso
from commercial organizations all over
the United States and FROM tine mayors
of cities, large and small, to extond
| financial aid as the situation demands.
st. Louis, May 30 EXPERT workmen,
linemen, electricians, ground mon and
even laborera are being imported from
neighboring cities in large numbers TO
repair the broken telephone, telegraph
and electric light lines Gar loads Of
Telegraph poles, wires, lamps and other
electrical apparatus are arriving, and,
with the stocks constantly carried by
| the various companies, furnish material
for thousands of workmen.
The Bell Telephone 20. g wires along
tho course of the storm are total loss.
The company carries a heavy supply
and was enabled to start 800 men ut
work yesterday morning. A conaerva-
| tive estimate of the Boil Telephone
Co. g loss is S75,0OD
Tho Postal Telegraph Co. got off
with a loss of 81, 600
The Western Union has 300 men in
East st. Louis untangling wreckage
preparatory TO repairing losses. Another
gang Of workmon il on the line of tho
Missouri Pacific, where the loss is
great. Fully month will elapse before
| the damage is permanently repaired.
| Twenty first -class operators are eX-
pected from Chicago to relieve the
nearly exhausted force in the central
Office An estimate of tho loss ia un-
obtainable, aa the officers of the com
pany can form no idea what tho amount
may reach. Tho Western Union il fast
clearing up its business, both III and
out of the CITY. At this writing the
company has one quadruploX working
to New York, four to Chicago, one to
Omaha, three TO Kansas City and one
| TO Cincinnati. 1T also has three
Wheatstone circuits, two of which are
TO Chicago and the other to Kansas
City.
The Missouri Electric Light and
Power Co escaped damage to the powor
house, but in Broadway, Sixth, siov-
enth. Chestnut, Eighteenth, Nine
teenth. Twenty and Twenty-suc-
ond streets and jefferson avenue the
wires and a great many poles are down.
Tho estimate of poles down reaches 500.
Tho company has sufficient reserve cup
plies on hand 10 repair its loss and has
200 linemen at work, but fully three or
four weeks will eapse before all con .
nections are made. The loss is not
possible to compute.
With the Edison Co. the poles and
wires in about 200 blocks from the leveo
to Grant avenue and from Rutger to
| Clark avenues arc torn down and every
arc lamp is smashed. The power house
is wreck, but the machinery was not
greatly injured. Some few of the city
arc lights that are burning are supplied
by switch feedera from tho Missouri
Co g power house.
Tho first mail to arrivO in the city
since the storm broke was received yes
tertlay, coming south. Until this time
| there had been no communication with
tho outside world. Reports continue
| to come in from points within radius
of 300 miles of this city showing that
Wednesdays storm was widespread.
A special from Bowling Green, Mo-. :.
says: "This city was not swept oil the
earth, as reported in some quarters,
by Wednesday nights storm, but it has
suffered great loss of property and in
jury TO man and beast. Two miles wust
of Bowling Green residences and barns
were blown to atoms. A house. with
its contents and occupants, was picked
up, carried over tree tops and set down
again without injury TO the family.
In strip of country mile wide and
extending from here TO Curryville,
eight miles, almost every house is dam
aged and many are utterly demolished.
At Curryvile not single house escaped
damage The damage to property there
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