The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-06-04
Over Three Thousand Houses DAM
aged and Wrecked in St. Louis.
The List Of Dead in Both Cities Num-
bers Nearly Four Hundred.
Ihe Great Eads Bridge Badly Damaged
0houls and Thieves at Work-Meas-
ures of Relief for the Sufferers
Iuaugurated-Many Steam
ers Wrecked.

ST.. LOUIS, May 2s.-Fifteen hundred
men, women and children of this city
were killed or badly injured by cy-
y clone Wednesday evening. Ten mil
lion dollars worth of property has
been destroyed, and the desolation now
prevailing words can not portray.
East st. Louis is mass of ruins.
/. Some of the finest business blocks in
4 the world have been literally taken
from the face Of the earth.
The electric light service is gone, the
4 Telephone system destroyed, and for
hours there was practically no commu-
nication with the outside world.
The main streets are under water,
4 the sewers choked, passage from one
point of the city to another is next to
impossible and the relief work, which
f. being attempted by thousands is be-
ing done with the greatest difficulty.
The dawn must come before ST. Louis
can act for her stricken people
EAST ST.. LOUIS, May 30.-East st.
Louis is waking from it's stupor of terror
z and things are beginning now to shape
themselves to the amelioration of the
condition of afflicted and preservation
Of the property left after the feast of
the hurricane.
h A relief committee has been formed
with an auxiliary woman's corps
Money is being subscribed, the town is
thoroughly policed with local con-
stabulary and two companies of mill
tia, streets are being cleared, homes
made habitable and feeble effort at
being cheerful to the distress is being
made by the townspeople.
The bright sunshine has served to
tighten somewhat the load of sorrow,
but now in their sober moments this
completeness of the disaster appears
the more appalling.
Nothing had been done to clear away
the wreckage which still lay piled as
the elements had thrown it indiscrim-
inately. Dead horses abounded, and
already sickening odors arose into the
night air. With the appearance of the
sun this feature became more obnoX-
ious and the stencil was frightful, but
% busy and exhausted are the citizens
that it is impossible to tell when the
carcasses will be removed.
Mayor Badger and the rest of the
Etownspeopie here feel that they are in
most urgent need of all assistance they
can get. The rich have suffered with
the poor. and the resources of those
who could ordinarily extend helping
fhand to their more unfortunate broth
Eers will be SO strained in recovering
their own positions that it will be diff
cult for them to do much more than
help themselves.
The Eads bridge is once more open.
ETrains began running Thursday night
md by Friday morning great long
Hines of cars were putting across
khe dismantled structure, giving
&the imprisoned East st. Louisans
- chance to get out of the
eity. The tracks from the relay depot
hp the bridge incline were badly clut-
4ered up with all sorts of stuff, but
Were not damaged With the earlier
ttain loads the passengers were pretty
usrvous, for fear that some of the piers
night have been weakened by the
ombardment of wind and water, but
they were safe enough.
There is probability that one man
phose horribly mangled body was
61ke storm. A gentleman who was in
HE neighborhood of the Union depot
lkreet railway house just after the
otorm asserts that some of the crowd
<1iere assaulted ghoul caught thiev-
lnR and beat him to death.
The lists of dead which have been
H1therto printed have of necessity
zen full of errors. Men were reported
ond who were missing and have since
6xued up; false identifcations were
odo, names confused by misinforma-
Non and misspelling, SO that there
~ been already printed the names
more than have really been found.
here are unquestionably many per-
- Who have been killed whose dis
<eoyapce has not been noted. As
very meager reports of the awful
~ done by the cyclone in Missouri
"a Illinois have reached this city.
daeh Il known, however. to show
- many lives were lost and thou.
nds Of dollars damage done.
~. LOUIS, May 80.-Forgetting every
I1oaal interest that clashes with the
~ of mercy. the people of this city
= eacsped the fury of the storm
- jncsssantly ministered to the suf.
- pf the luckless thousands Since
1SoadfnI 70 minutes of disaster
fDcsdsy evening no thought has
a eivon TO property losses The worst
tcow known, however, and the
~ of computing material Losses
- beGnp. A. the world knows. thl