The San Francisco call., 1896-05-30

properties and railroad cars will be given
short shrift and an opportunity of diving
from the Eads bridge into the Mississippi
River. Instructions have also been given
to the police of the Illinois city to shoot
on sight every individual caught in the
act of robbing the ruins.
Until tonight measures for the relief
and succor of the poorer classes affected
by the disaster had been lost sight OF by
the authorities in the press of duty neces-
STATED by the protection of the district in
the path of the storm.
Urgent demands for relief, however, can
no longer be evaded, and accordingly
Mayor Walbridge will early tomorrow
morning summon the Board OF Public I'M
provements to his Office to devise imme-
diate measures for the relief of those who
are suffering or are within a few days
likely TO suffer as result of the calamity.
Meanwhile the theatrical profession is
placing itself very much in evidence.
William ]. Baker, exalted ruler of the
famous No. 8 Lodge OF the Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks, has ISSUED call
for meeting at headquarters tomorrow
afternoon of all local members of the or
ganization and members of the theatrical
profession temporarily resident in this
city. at this meeting steps viii be taken
toward making a handsome contribution
for the purposes of a general relief fund
As soon as the intention of the Mayor to
convene mem bers of his cabinet became
known tonight, the managers of Hagan
Theater, Olympic and Grand Opera-house
united in advising the executive that their
playhouses were at the disposal of the re-
lief committees.
Similar action was taken tonight by the
managers of the summer theaters
In East st. Louis there are hundreds of
persons with no homes, no money and
even withouta stitch of clothing of their
own to be provided for, and assistance
from other cities will be required.
Mayor Bader said to reporter of the
United Press:
There are at least $500 persons in this
city that are utterly without shelter, food
or clothing. And what adds to the dis
tress of the situation the majority of
them are very poor people and can barely
manage to live tolerably when they have
ordinary good fortune.
'As near as we have been able to count
up there are nearly 800 houses destroyed,
with not less than from three to six people
in each of them. Their clothing was de-
stroyed-blown away-so was their furni-
ture and bedding, and few of them have
money to buy any more.
"We have been obliged to appeal through
the United Press TO the outside world for
aid, and 1 hope it will be responded to
readily for the emergency is pressing"
At meeting of a few representative
citizens last night the sum of $4,000 was
subscribed toward slIeviating the suffering
of the cyclone victims.
| Scores of tornado sufferers will owe their
lives to the tender care and medical aid
| that was so freely given them at st. Mary's
Hospital. Upward OF 100 men, women
and children, victims of the wrath of the
winds OF Wednesday, have been treated in
| the hospital. Three persons have died
there, but their condition was hopeless
when they were borne in on stretchers.
The good sisters have been untiring in
their attention to the wounded and for
thirty eight hours not one OF the twelve
Good Samaritans has thought of sleep.
President Henry D. Sexton of the Work
ingmen's National Bank of East st. Louis,
who has large property interests all over
that city, has made a thorough tour of the
city. He aggregates the losses at So, SOC, 900,
as follows: Property loss in city, 81 SOC, 900;
losses to railroads, $1,000, 900; Virgins
Ferry Company losses. $1.O00, 900; total,
! So, 500 900.
The large losses OF the Wiggins Ferry
Company are upon ferry-boats, wharves,
barges. every ferry approach and cars and
locomotives. Mr.. Sexton believes that
while the demolition is an irreparable loss
to the owners, it will ultimately prove of
benefit, as modern buildings will replace
the wrecked structures that were two de-
cades behind the age.
The following st. Louis schools were
damaged: Clinton School and Clinton
branch, roofs and parts of walls gone;
Peabody, roof and rafters blown off and
part of wall destroyed; Charles, tower
gone; Chouteau, windows blown in; Hod-
gen, northwest corner gone; Pesialozzi,
walls and roof damaged; Grant, roof and
parts of four walls gone; Garfield, smoke
stack and parts of the roof destroyed;
New Shepard, roof and walls damaged
L'Overture, roof and rafters and northeast
brick wall blown away; Marquette, walls
around smokestack carried away; Froebel,
roof off, northwest side gone; Wheatley,
part of new addition wrecked; Longfellow,
northeast and northwest walls blown out;
Compton, slate roof off; Madison, both
rnofs GONE