The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-05-31

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Der of men were put to work at daylight to-
day This was done only at the loud demands
Of the people who had friends at the hospital
during the storm, and who have not been
heard Of since. Father Kendrick, Of st. Vim
cents church. who had been attending to the
spiritual wants Of the patients in the hospital
for years, says that fifty bodies will be found,
If not more. DR.. Starkloff says many are dead
under the wreckage. Dir. Satter estimates the
number at twenty-five, but would not be sur
prised if it runs over that figure.
The list of dead at st. Louis was increased
by seven last night. They were unfortunates
who died in the hospitals Of injuries received
during the storm. They were:
Charles Collins, l.. Fritz, ]. Humphreys,
F. A. Preis William Hickey, William D.
Walsh, Lena Winthouse.
The Hallisby house ruin, near the bridge, in
East st. Louis, is still supposed to contain
many dead. Who they are there are no
means of knowing. Not brick Of this wreck
has been touched. 1t lies shattered mass Of
debris, all crushed in,, the four walls having
apparently given way together, all falling
toward the center. This hotel is said to have
contained at least forty boarders. Whether
they were there at the time of the cyclone is
almost certain, and how they could have es-
capped death or injury is hard to imagine.
( Owing to the lack of system 1t is impossi-
BILE to get list of the missing. No record is
kept Of persons who have been asked for at
the police station and none kept of those re-
ported as safe who were thought to have been
killed. The police are so overworked that
they have no time for such thing. That may
come in time but now it is out Of the question.
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valuables are numerous. Several hundred
suspicious characters were arrested by the
police and militia lastsnight, and, as the police
station was crowded, they were placed under
the care of the militia. M
Police Commissioner John AsLee is not one
of those who estimate the damage of the storm
as light; who think that. st. Louis is amply
able to relieve the distress unaided. Mr.. Lee
has gone carefully over the wrecked districts
with Chief of Police Harrigan and examined
the condition closely and intelligently. This
morning he said
Il think the foolish, false pride which has
prompted the announcement that ST. Louis
needs no outside aid and can take care Of her
own distress and ruin is well deserving of
general denunciation. The men who have an
nounced that we do not need outside aid do
not know or appreciate Ithe gravity of the
situation, and represent only their own we'll
fed, comfortable and well-housed personal
views. st. Louis does need at present all the
aid she can get. Our own people, who can af
ford to do so, will help, and their aid will be
liberal, but claim that no sum smaller than
half million dollars will be adequate to re-
lieve the absolute lack Of food, clothing house
hold equipments and shelter. It should be re-
membered that hundreds of manufacturing
plants have been destroyed and many thou
sands Of people are out of employment for sew
eral months. Who, therefore, dares take the
responsibility of saying that St Louis can
and will take care of her own sufferers and
suffering? If a mans home Is blown to pieces
and destroyed is he any the less entitled to
relief than the men who have no home or
family, and merely need food?"
The Post -Dis.atch this afternoon prints a
statement which very materially modifes all
previous estimates of the aggregate loss by
the hurricane of "Wednesday. The article says:
mo estimate of ethe financial loss sustained
by this city from the storm, approaching the
right figure nearer that several millions can
be prepared for at least week But it is
already evident that representations of loss
equaling, and sometimes exceeding $50 COO 900,
are as little founded upon facts as the reports
circulated by many foreign papers that the
loss of life would reach thousands. These
statements, made in the midst of the weird
and imperfect impressions Of. the night of the
storm and the succeeding day, might tempor-
arily be allowed to pass unchallenged, but now
that St Louis has partially recovered its com
posure and set itself to thes task of res.ora-
ton, exaggeration should be done away and
measures of relief fitted to actual conditions.
With this end IN view, the judgment and ad-