The evening times., 1896-05-29
EARLY MORNING REPORTS.
Dead Estimated at 500 and
Property Loss 5000. 900.

Dead Estimated at 500 and
Property Loss s6,Ooo, 900.
Chicago, May o9.-2. a. m.-Rcports re-
ceiyed up to this hour by the United Press
indicate a loss of 500 lives in st. Louis and
East st. Louis-by Wednesdays cyclone.
with the death roll greater IN the missouri
city by fifty to seventy-fiye.
Nearly 100 injured persons were reported
by their physicians as fatally or Internally
injured in st. Louis. These victims went
or were taken to their homes and were not
in the police regards.
The numbe ~ kidentified deadin st. Louis
within the police observation is 123; In
East st. LouisSi fs, and 2Opersons reported
missing in city on this side are put in
the death colufnp. Many of the injured In
both cities Wilde. Hundreds have'already
been recorled,- From 500 to $50 East st.
Louis people areihomeiess and in dire need
The loss of property in st. Louis is re-
iably estimatediat $4,000, eco, aud In the
Illinois city at $2,O00,000, with much
higher estimates from other sources. The
work of distributing relief money has
already begun.
IN other Illinois and Missouri tOwns
the extent of the storms work is still in
doubt because 1f the broken telegraphic
communication IT is known that the storm
touched Breckipridgc, Pinckneyviiie, Irving
ton, Rich View, Drake, New Baden and n ew
Aiiuden. Ill, ant Rush Hill, Mo. AIuny
lives are reported to have been lost in
those places, but con firmatory, direct
newssis lacking as to fatalities.
Additional dispatches from Indiana show
the fury of the elements was not dissi-
patcd until Albany, Eenton and Princeton
had been attacked. doing great damage to
property by wind and water. Crops were
destroyed in the Intervening country.
- SCENES IN EAST ST. LOUIS.
The governor OF Illinois Is on the wOeful
scene a I East st. Louis, and two companies
OF National Guard are on duty to prevent
piiinge and keep order among the iawlessly
inclined. call for help has gone forth
from the stricken Illinois city. Both cities
were practically in darkness, except the
business center, while the work of re-
covering the dead from the wreck or
buildings is prosecuted under difficulties.
In Ea st st. Louis the track of the storm
is as clearly defined, after touching the
Illinois shore, as il plated by surveyor
Tearing dag onally through the city
from southwest to northeast II cut clean
swath of destructioia Bloody Island, the
river front of the city, is low, narrow
stripof land, now Joined TO the mainla nd, that
WA. i.ie teriEiiri III an tnt ialru;ids cell
tering there Large freight sheds were
strung along the river frunt. Nine or the
largest of these areinruins.
The greatest damage was done to the
Vandaiia, the Mobile * Ohio, the Big Four,
the Chicago & Alton, the Wabash and the
Louisville and Nashville sheds. At the
Vaudalia the loss of life was greatest.
There the structure seemed to lift up and
drop again over the foundations. Four
teen of the dead enumerated were taken
from these sheds.
Across Caihokia creek in the city proper,
the destruction was complete. The relay
depot. au abomination which even the cor
roding hand of time could not destroy, went
to pieces before the Storm Theswitch tow
er, upon the perfect working OF which de-
perds the movements or huHdredS of trims,
was made useless. Three small hotels In
the vicinity were destroyed.
RESIDENCE SECTION CLEANED UP.
North aud east of the relay depot wide
residence section, mostly small houses 90
cuped by mechanics, was cleaned up. 1t
Is through this part that the majority OF
the fatalities occurred. The Eigh dykes
tn the west .hil, s4ns of tue w;,iea-S tit the
Mississippi were no protection and the
frail houses went down like houses Of
cards. The viaduct across the mass or
tracks east of Caihokai creek was made
useless.
The new Marteil House, the McCusland
Opera Honsc.. the city hall. Fiannagan's g
Hall, three churches, the high school and
residences that covered fourteen blocks OF
rEround en- OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES demeiisneS's
Further on. TO the north and cast ip the
stock yards vicinity, everything was swept
away. The definite limits of the storm In
! dicated above INDY be clearly noted here.
The National Hotel was unin1ured, while
| two blocks southeast house was torn to
kindling wood.
| Passing on outside the city every subur-
| ban garden, orchard and field is razed of its
growth. In all this Gesolation death ran
| riot High above'th storm were heard the
! cries of the suffering and shrieks of the
people. struggling beiplessly against the
| storms fury.
The points of creates st disaster. the water
/ front and the vicinity of the relay depot,
! have not vet given up their dead. Scarcely
! a single person in the storms highway
escaped some Idjury.
! Sitting the struth from the exaggerated
| stories of fextitedtndividuals it seems prcb-
! able that the de ath list will be between
| 15O and goo. OF the injured any figures
| under 1 800 and over 600 may be named.
| Coroner Campbell today held inquests on
| forty-eight bodies and barely kept up with
! his work as the dead arrived.
pittsburg, Pa, May 2S The Pennsylva-
MIA Company suffered severely from the
| st. Louis storm.
General Manager L. F. Loree received
| the following message from supt. H.
| Miller of the Vandalia, or st. Louis division
| dated Venice Tower, H., a few miles from
/ East ST. Louis, at noon today:
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