Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-30

mere are nearly JOO Slck IN the ElueT-
ENJOY Hospital, transferred from tho
City Hospital after it was demolished.
The clerk OF the hospital has checked
up his list He thinks now that there
are not more than four or five unac-
counted for. Some patients, who were
prisoners from the Jail. workhouse, etc,
are known 10 have escaped during the
confusion.
At ST Johns Hospital, on Twenty
third and Lucas streets. the wounded
are being well cared for. One patient.
William p. Lenke, died. He was sent
first to the Good Shepherd via the dis
psnsary aud then 10 st. Johns. He was
badly injured internally and had several
bones broken. An unknown man is un-
conscious and or the verge of death.
Local papers to-day tell Of the SYM
pathy offered by the whole country TO
ST. Louis in its present state of woe.
Offers have come TO Mayor Walbridge
from the mayors OF citiss both small
and large and extend financial aid as
the situation demands. Chicago was
the first TO extend offers of assistance,
the city being represented by the Union
League Club, Commercial Club and
Mayor Swift. IL is not likely that Mayor
Walbridge viii accept these kindly Of
fers. for. while the losses are stupen-
dOus, local citizens are going down in
their pockets and have already estab-
IShed a large sized fund for the suffer-
ers.
Tonight. after forty-eight hours.
there is about as much uncertainty as
TO the actual number Of people killed
and the amount of property damaged
as on the first morning of the disaster.
Scores OF dead have been identified, but
no one is willing to venture q guess as
to now many bodies may be in the ruins
Of the hundreds Of buildings as yet un-
explored. The total number of dead in
s.. Louis identified up to tonight is
162. and in East st. Louis 127. In ST.
Louis there are % bodies still unidenti-
fed and in East St. Louis = 1t is be-
lieved that the deaths of the injured and
the future recovery of bodies will bring
the St Louis death list will up TO 200.
In East ST. Louis the city officials de-
clared this evening that they have hope
that the death roll on that side of the
river will not exceed $50. but the ruins
upon which the rescuers have not yet
begun work, may swell the total far
beyond that figure. The estimates up
on property loss have grown wilder ard
further apart. Guesses were made to-
day all the way from 100000 to $780,
000,0C0 for st. Louis. and from 81, $780,
coo 10 $4,000. 900 for East St. Louis
The mos, popular estimate is in the
neighborhood of $25, 100000 for both
cities. including railroad buildings dam
AGED. The building contractors Of the
city have been overwhelmed with or
ders for rebuilding. and the work of
wiping out the havoc Of the storm will
be pushed with al energy.
Two companies of the Illinois State
Militia from Greenville and Belleville,
patrolled the levee district of East ST
Louis all day. Dead lines were estab-
rshed and no one was allowed 10 pass
without a permit. Il wired Governor
Altgeld yesterday asking him to take
this action" said Mayor Bader to-day.
1T was done in order to protect the ex-
posed property. for our force was in
sufficient TO properly guard It." Over
sixty suspects have already been arrest
ed and were sent out of town or locked
up.
Late figures rather tend to reduce the
estimates Of the number killed and the
probabilities are that it will not run
much over $50
The railroad yards are gradually be-
ing cleared of debris, rendering the
moving Of trains possible. although it
viii be weeks before anything like or
der can be restored. At least 400 freight
cars were demolished, and many Of
these were loaded with merchandise.
Mayor Bader estimates that at least
500 families are left entirely. destitute,
and VIII need immediate assistance.
Many have not even sufficient clothing.
Although thousands OF men have
been at work night and day in this
city clearing away the wreckage in the
path OF the tornado, they have scarcely
made a perceptble impression. Pas
sage-Ways have been made through
some of the principal thOrOughfares. it
is true. but for the most part the streets
are still checked.
AT the extreme limits Of the city TO
the west is a quarter known IS Tower
Grove Park. 1t is populated by people
of wealth. and the houses were pala-
tial. with beautiful grounds and sur
rOundings. To the southwest OF this
city is another region Of wealth. The
storm moved its way through them
both. Magnificent residences in both
places we're wiped off the face Of the
earth in some cases, while in others
roofs were carried away. trees torn
from their roots. and all the picturesque
beauty destroyed
Lafayette Park, one os the most at
tracCive public pleasure grounds in the
city. has not a single tree left standing.
1t resembles a thicket Of underbrush
with the trunks Of great trees, twisted
and torn. scattered throughout.
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 asserts that some of the crowd
there assaulted a ghoul caught thieving
and beat MIN 10 death. His story is that
while viewing the wreck he saw half a
dozen men jump on a man who had been
l0aGng 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 uncon-
scious. Some one cried lynch the thief"
Then the crowd picked up his limp form
and carried it to Russell avenue. where
they put it in a dirt wagon and carted it
of
The Business Mems League issued an
announcement that the league endorses