The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-30
SCORES Of
THE DEAD
IDENTIFIED
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At Missouri and Russell avenues is
the South Side race track. 1t was
SWEPTs CLEAN OF THE BUILD
INGS
that stood upon it. North of here is
n immense pile of brick and machlh-
cry and street cars. 1t is what re-
mains of what was Scullns eigttii is
street railway power-house. IL -
estimated that 100000 will scarcely
cover the damage done here.
East from this ruin half mile.
there is scarcely a building left stand
ing.
La Fayette park. one of the most at
tractive public grounds in the CITY
has not a single tree standing. Ii re-
sembles a thicket of underbrush, with
the trunks of great trees twisted ana
scattered throughout
The parochial school, adjoining St-
Vincent de Paul church, is also serl-
ously damaged. The huge tower or the
Saxon Lutheran church at Elghtn
street and La Fayette avenue was
blown off, as were also the towers anu
roofs of st. Peter and PauTs church,
Soulard street. The Soulard markeN,
covering nearly an entire block from
Seventh to Eighth street, and from
Carroll TO Julian streets, is demolished.
the cupola and roof of St Martins
E angelical church are gone and SOUL
ard street. at the corner of Fourth, is
completely blocked with what a few
days ago were the homes OF
THOUSANDS OF WORKING PEG
PIE.
II was was about this point that the
storm turned its way north. 1t swept
everything before it for two or three
miles from the rive. to Fourth street:
Among the important structures TO ran
were the roof and part OF the walls OF
the Saxony flour mill, the southern
White Lead works plant mill and ele-
vator; the ST. Louis Foundry and Ma
chine company's works, all OF Whlch
were more or less seriously damaged
The number of families left homeless
bv the devastation along the path OF
the storm will reach up into the thous-
ands In many instances these people
haye lost all of their earthly posses
sions Many will be for days depend
ent on charity and their more fortunate
neighbors for shelter.
There is a probability that one man
whose horribly mangled body was
taken to the morgue was not killed by
the storm. A gentleman who was IN
the neighborhood of the Union depot
power house Just after the storm, as
serxs that some of the crowd there as
saulted a ghoul caught thieving and
beat him to death. His story is that
while viewing the wreck he saw hall
a dozen men jump on q man who had
been loafing about in the crowd. Some
one hit the man with a club, telling
him to the ground. Then the crowd
Jumped on the man and kicked him
until he was unconscious. Some one
cried
ct VNCH THE THIEF
Then the crowd picked up his limp
form and carried it to Russell avenue,
where they put it in dirt wagon and
carried it off.
The Business Mems league issued
the following announcement tonight
with reference to the offers Of aid from
cities throughout the United States:
The league endorses the action of
Mayor WaIbridge in declining outside
aid. It feels grateful for the many
evidences of generosity in these help
offerings. but having made careful in
vestigasion of the storm-stricken dis-
trict. which, though extensive, is al
most entirely confined to the section
of the city outside of the principal
business area it is its deliberate judg-
rnert that the city will be amply able
to fully provide for all the needs of the
afflicted"
They further announce that not
single hotel in the city has been af-
fected or the wholesale manufacturing
district materially injured. The light
injury to the special building erected
for the Republican convention has al
ready tsen repaired and the building
is now ready for occupancy.