Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-06-05
DESOLATE ST. LOUIS.
Mourning Her Dead and Counting
Her Lost Millions.
MONEY LOSS, $40, 900. 600.

st. Louis Nay 29,-The peopl,
who live through the great tornado
of Wednesday evening are jus
beginning to feel the effects of the
calamity that has befallen them
Tue list OF dead grows slowly but
steadily, and the wounded srt
dying hourly.
The Morgue Is hau tie | lay and
night by anxious relatives aud
friends, and the temporary hos
pitfalls are filed to Overlooking
With manned and dying vic'lms o.
the storm.
The financial loss to st. Louis is
placed a $4,000 900 to day by
persons familiar with the situation
md having knowledge Of the
rerritory that was devastated. II G
commercial agencies and real es'
tate men and builders seem TO
think that thcse are about the cor
rect figures.
The churches suffered severely
their estimated loss is over $500,
600. Most of the ministers are
aiding the Relief Committee that
has sent out urgent appeals for
ASSISTANCE.
The wounded must he cared tor,
the dead buried, and the living
clothed and fed. Many people
are homeless, aud last night hun
dreds slept in houses that had be, Il
partially demolished. Messages
have been received from sister
cities offering aid. Cnicago sent
down today a committee Offering
nearly 100000.
All the money that can be raised
can be used readily and legitimate.
~.
THIS evening an estimate was
made of the wounded. L Ie number
believed to have been injured in.
cludes 1 900 IN 81. Louis and 400
In EIst St. Louis. these figures
do not include those whose in
juries do not prevent them from
going out and attending to part of
their usual labOrs. Men and women
with bandages on heads aud arms
are met with at e, cry turn.
The East st. Louis people are
burying their dead and caring for
the wounded. No effort Is made
% clean away the wreckage, e1
crpt in isolated cases or around
The railroad yards. The tO@ is In
sore need of help, and monty IA
needed.
L At night there was a reign of
terror in the destroyed district.
Thousands had been unable to find
new homes or shelter.
When nIghtfell they were fore d
TO sleep in partially demolished
houses. They crouched 10 corners
and underneath caves.
Manufacturing establishments
were levelIed TO the ground, dwell
ings we're torn TO pieces, business
blocks were partly demolished,
scores of cars in the railroad yards
were overturned and dashed into
spIinters tracks were torn up and
rails were twisted and many per.
sous were killed.
Stone houses, as substantial as
any in the city, we're demolished.
They stood no longer than the
commonest frame building. Every
thing IN the path of the storm was
treated 10 the same manner.
BIeweries, churches, public and
charitable institutions were torn
and smashed together.
ODD STORIES FROM THE RUINS.
The bodies of Miss lola Horn
aud Emma CLANCY, stenographers,
employed by the Sawyer Manutac.
turing Company at Eighteenth
street and ChOteau avenue, who
died claspcd IN each others arms,
rest side by side on a mattress IN
a boarding house, awaiting IN
strnctions from relatives.
While UOrkmen were digging in
tue ruins of one of the tenements
a. Seventh and r tiger streets =
cbild's voice cried out:
"P ease don't be so rough
An opening was made quickly IN
the debris above the spot whence
the voice issued, and through it a
teD year.old hoy, leading three girls
about the same age, appeared. All
were uninjured, although they were
weak from hunger and confinement
for nearly forty hours. A shout Of
/ y went up from the crowd, and
before the police could ascertain
any names the little Ouss had been
carried away. Somebody asked the
little boy as he was disappearing
how he came TO be 20 lucky, and he
nj nod nm.