Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-06-02
BURIES HER DEAD:
Moscow Lays Them in Trenches
Fifty Yards Long.
ELEVEN OF THE bitches REQUIRED

| For the Last Resting Place of the Victims
of the Plain Disaster-Many of Them Tn.
identified. Being Mangled Past Recog
milton by the Human Tornado That
Killed DEMONSTRATION ut st. Louis and
East st. Louis-Mound City Calls for
Assistance List of Missing Non-Resi.
dents-sIiss Gould's Gift.
MOSCOW, June 2.-There were 1277 vic
tins of the Russian horror buried
yesterday. The bodies of those who were
identified and claimed by relatives were
inferred in private graves, but at the ex
pense Of the municipality. The great mum
Der of the unidentified dead We're buried
in eleven great trenches, each fifty yards
long. The trenches were deep, and the
mutilated bodies had to be placed close to.
gether to find room for them all. There
were 800 workmen engaged all night long
ut the Vaganovskoe cemetery digging the
trenches. Many priests, prominent among
them being John of Cronstadt, famous for
his piety and his power to console and, it
Is believed by the peasants, heal, and
many military chaplains conducted the
funeral services. the friends crowding
around the graves
Pitiful and Terrible Scenes.
The surviving friends and relatives ara
sor the most part of the ignorant and
supplemented peasant class, and their
grief and terror at the sudden calamity
are expressed in very demonstrative
fashion. The scenes at the cemetery were
pitiful and terrible in the extreme Only
about half the bodies recovered have been
identified and the majority of these are
men, though there are many children and
several old people. Most of the private
graves of the victims have been marked
with wooden crosses placed there by rela-
tives and inscribed with texts of scripture
The people also strcwed twiss among the
graves.
A Huge and Gruesome Pile.
The clothes of the victims were heaped
in huge pile in one corner of the GENE.
terry, and in this the people rummaged all
day long seeking the slightest traces that
would afford a clue to the fate OF those
missing. The bcdraggled, torn, blood
stained heap OF confused tatters afforded
little material for identification. even if it
had been Systematically sorted out and
the appearance of the pieces preserved.
But after being pulled over few times by
the crowd of searchers there was no sem.
blance to the original appearance of tha
garments left.
Was q Sort of Human Tornado.
The survivors have the vaguest possible
idea of what happened to them or how
they escaped. They only remember a terri
BILE struggle in the vortet of conflicting
human muscular energy. Many of them
ascribe their escape to a direct miracle. 1t
Is touching to witness how these poor
ignorant people help to console each other,
to dress the dead and to care for the chill
dren.
Between Banquet and Bedside,
Last evening the ear gave banquet to
the representatives of all the estates in
his realm. The foreign representatives
were also present. In the afternoon the
car and czarina visited the Marie hospital,
where they spoke to and consoled the
patients injured in Saturdays crush.
Fright.ul Total of Dead.
LONDON, June "A dispatch from Mos.
COW to The Standard says that it is est.
mated that a total of 5000 persons were
killed and 1890 persons injured, the ma
jority of them fatally, by the disastrous
crush on the khodijnskoje plain Oh Satur.
day morning