The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-01

ST LOUIS, May 91.-Every railroad
entering from the storm country ran
excursion trains today.
This brought scores of thousands of
people to view the wreck brought on
by the awful storm of Wednesday.
The streets of the ruined district were
thronged with visitors all day. They
came from almost every town and city
within radius of 300 miles. and nearly
all day a cold drizzling rain fell.
Lowering, threatening clouds covered
the sky and a more dismal scene than
the ruined portion Of the city could
scarcely be imagined. People were
in the streets all day long. Nearly
100 burial permits were issued by the
health committee. and every hearse
in the city was in constant use today.
carrying bodies 10 their graves. At
early day, people began to crowd into
the city morgue, and many came in
search of friends, but for the most part
the people who visited that place were
drawn by a morbid desire to
SEE THE MANGLED coRPsEs
of the victims. All day long the Of
ficers on duty were busy keeping the
people moving in line in and out of the
viewing room of the morgue. Every
few minutes some one would think they
had discovered some one whom they
knew among the bodies exposed TO
view The superintendent of the NOR
que had a trying time in answering
questions in regard to the bodies, and
taking names and descriptions of per-
sons who have not been seen by their
friends since the storm. There were
people there from all points in all di-
rections, far and near. Chicago, Gin
cinnati. Louisville, Indianapolis, Kans-
as City and a thousand small places
were represented and from each town
came anxious people inquiriDg for lost
friends.
Although four days have come and
gone since the tornado the labor Of the
city officers in clearing away the de-
bris is scarcely perceptible. The city
at night goes without street lamps,
either gas or electric. The only light
furnished is that of private electric
plants and the.
PRINCIPAL STREETS ARE IN
DARKNESS.
The street railway companies have
had hundreds of men working repair
ing the damage of their power houses
and trolley wires. and today nearly all
the principal lines were in operation.
But the work that has been done is so
meagre, when compared with that
which remains, that there is scarcely
any perceptible Improvement. The
telephone service is practically par
alyzed, although the telephone COM
pany has had hundreds of men at
work repairing the damage to it's
wires. Hundreds of demolished build
fngs have not been touched. No one
can tell if the ruins conceal the bodies
of victims Of the storm.
Some of the local papers have been
severe in their denunciation of the
mayor of the city for not being active
in restoring order in the storm-swept
district. Whether this is due to the
fact that the ruins conceal human
bodies or dead animals time alone can
tell. The work of
SEARCHING IN THE RUINS
of the old city hospital for victims Of
the storm began today with force of
Iaborers. Superintendent of the Work
House Carr, with gang of fifty negro
prisoners and an outfit of carts and
the necessary implements for a sue
cessfuI prosecution of the search ar
rived on the scene early in the morn
ing. Besides the force of work house
laborers, thirty laborerS from the
sewer department were also placed at
work among the ruins.
The Searchers were divided into sew
eral squads distributed over the
ground in the places that it was be-
leved would be most productive Of re-
suits. half dozen guards, armed
with double barreled guns, kept a close
watch over the work house prisoners to
prevent any attempt at escape The
work of searching for the bodies was
conducted in q thorough manner, and /.
with a pleasing absence of that slip
shod method so apparent in other To- =,
cations in the south end. Every pile OF
rubbish heaped upon the ground side
of the walls was first searched ane :
then the debris remaining upon the
floors that were stffl standing wa:
similarly searched and thrown aside
the entire space within the
walls. The whole place was gone over
without disclosing trace of a human
body.
The authorities at Jefferson Bar.
racks have notified the Central Relief
committee that force of troopers will
bring up to the wrecked districts
large number of tents tomorrow and
establish commissary for the purpose
of furnishing
COOKED FOOD FOR THE NEEDY.
The cavalry cooks and camp men
will do the work
The number of persons and families
who are still without home and with
out the means Of getting them is great.
In scores of Instances families of day
faborers had all their household goods
destroyed and they have no means Of
replacing them. Among people of this
class there has already been much
suffering and the relief furnished has