Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-04

ucnccS ana business property II tSti-
mated at 81 ,O00, 600 Going north again
and taking in all the territory mp Ia
the city hospital the damage figures
81 900. 900.
In the immediate vicinity of the hos
pital another million is represented.
Northeast of the hospital property has
been destroyed To the extent of II 900
600, while Lafayette park and vicinity
gives as much more Westward
from Lafayette park and north l."
Choteau avenue the loss il 5000
I 600. Down Chotcau from J"h"r-
son avenue 10 seventh street
and north to the railroad tracks :, ou"'-
600 Is damaged Along Park aN"nn"
from Tenth to seventh and north On
Seventh To Market, 81. 800, 900 will about
cover the loss The distress and diNas-
ter through this section are appalling.
The remaining -, 10000 is scattered
through the central, western and
northwestern portions Of the city. IL
includes damages Ia crops and public
buildings
Damages Ia school property i Sloo, 900.
Nearly all south 81 Louis is practi-
cally destroyed. Wrecked buildings
and those partly damaged cah r"t toe
repaired Ii will Toe fully tive years
! before the effects of the hurricane are
efraccd.
Many hundreds of the homeless are
already receiving assistance from the
relief committee. The greatest demand
is for food and clothing, as those who
nave roofs over their heads are sharing
| their homes with their less fortunate
ncighborS.
Up To seven o'clock Friday night lbs
bodies have been identified and los I'M
identified dead are lying ON the slabs at
I the morguc. There are 80 dead bodies
lying upon the slabs at the city morguc
awaiting Identification.
At nine o'clock Friday night the list
of identified dead in East IT. Louis is
unchanged at %. There are IS I'M
identified bodies AT the mo;guc and the
latest reports at police headquarters
places the nunbcr of missing at 81
males and five females.
Coroner Waite has been constantly
on duty since Thursday morning The
procession of the dead. passing under
review before him like the last resur-
rcction, were passed upon in an official
and pcrfunctory way. The pathoS
usual on such occasions was redoubled,
intensified by the surrounding throng
of waiting relatives, waiting till UNI
sympathetic of1icialism had released
their dead. There were % unfortu-
s~Ratcs who assed under the ordeal of
ehis necessary inspection.
- TWO o'clock Saturday morning two
iu-ters were picked up at the foot of
, hystrahan street. which are supposed
to be members of the wrecked boat
crews.
A family of four lived at 7I6 Barry
street Wednesday morning. When the
cyclone had passed there was but one
survivor. The surviving daughter
stood on the street wringing her hands,
frantic with grief and refusing To he
led away. Neighbors told the story
Friday morning.
Shortly after midnight Father J. ].
Head. of Annunciation church, Sixth
and La Sale streets, died of the in iur.
les received by falling timbers in the
Head and his sister were sitting in the
parochial residence when the roof OF
the church WAS blown ON to the
house. a falling timber struck tho
pastors head aud he was otherwise ST.
riously injured. lie failed to rally.
Roy Claypool, son of Mrs Daniel
Claypool, who, with her two children
was killed 10y the storm. died at the
! Children's hospital Friday night
! aung Claypool was not injured 10y the
storm, but had been placed in the hos.
P,tal Thursday to bc treated for an all.
b.ent, but when he heard that his
mother and two sisters had been killed
the little fellow began to gricve. II
caused his death.
ST. Louis, May Set was possible
Friday to make an intelligent estimate
for all figures are as yet estimates
of the loss of life and property in this
city and vicinity by the storm on We'd
nesday night. 1t will be many day,
before the exact facts are
known, IL they are ever Lnowr
at all. II is true that in this city
and East st. Louis, the records of tn,
health department will show the mum
Der of intcrments, so that the number
of dead within the municipal limit
will be eventually ascertaihed, but NJ
such verifcation is possible in tn,
country districts where the loss of lif,
was undoubtedly greater than was o
first reported. The property loss o
course, is practically an unknown
quantity, and figures vary great
ly. The best that can be done i
TO average the estimates of competen
authorities. In St Louis the numbe
of dead reported to the authorities nj
to four o'clock Friday morning was 143
of which number ll6 were identifies
and % unidentified. OF course tn
larger proportion were at the morgu
or reported at the undertaken cstab
lishments But there are undoubtedl,
p,arv others awaiting burials at pri
vaue residences and il is still more Ger
tain. unfortunately, that the remova
II detTis-wili di.glosc the bodies o
other victims If the storm. - We
unaccounted for. still, there car
be no doubt that IL, frs
rumors of scores crushed beneath fall
: ing buildings were largely exagger
ated. and the number to be accounte,
5 for in this way will not be so large a
| was at first feared. A careful surye,
/ of the situation. therefore, justifies tn
belief that the unreported dead-thos
' in private houses and those unrecoy
: cred from wrecked buildings-will no
exceed 100. This brings the total dea,
: in St. Louis up to about two hundre,
E and fifty, and il is believed that event
= ual verihcation of the death roll vii
! not show q variation of more than ter
. The count of the wounded is a NOR
E diff1cult matter.
r Taking the hospital and police re
S ports as a basis for calculation, it is e.
{ timated that those who sustained in
e iuries which may be called serious
S that is, broken limbs, internal injurie:
e fractures of the skull and simila
| wounds-number about 400,
I The telegraph wires are still in a d,
e moralized condition, and, It may b
Y added, so are the country correspond
I ents All sorts of rumors have vet {
a be sifted and deliberate fakes" ru
e down. There have been stories OF los
e of life and destruction Mt places whic
!. were untouched by the storm, and o
S the other hand it is altogether probabl
that there are many deaths and injurie
!, In tsa country districts still unrepor
l. ed. A careful scrutiny of the data q
e hand, however, justifies The statemer
o that the following figures will |