Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-06-02

Tabulated Statement of Fatalities.
Vandalia, ILL.,. and vicinity, 10 killed; Is
injured.
Centralia, Ill. and vicinity. 40 killed;
:. Mount Vernon. ILL.,. and vicinity. 6 killed;
New Madrid. ILL.,, and vicinity, Z killed /;
Rishfield, Ill, killed
Rushville. ILL.,. 4 killed: 26 injured.
Jefferson City, III, is Killed: Il injured.
Mascoutah, ill.,, 2 killed.
Brinker Station, ILL.,. 8 killed; 80 in
Breckinridge, Ill, 2 killed
Garfield CARTEL ~, H., killed.
Chamos. Mo, killed: injured
Mexico. Mo. and vicinity, killed; 80
wounded.
Andrian county, Mo. 6 killed: 30 injured.
Franklin county, Mo. killed. 8 injured
Rcnick, Mo-, killed.
The foregoing figures are believed to be
authentic. But there are besides reports
which may or may not be true of killed
and injured at Boyd, ILL.,, and killed and
injured at Irvjngton, Ill. 1t Is likely that
these reports are correct. but they have
not been satisfactorily verified.
Property Losses.
Coming to the loss of property, the esti-
mates, of course, vary greatly, but setting
dSlue lIle Natural ttllUeucN 10 eNdSSeTQIlOn
in the face Of a great calamity, 1t is pretty
safe to say that the damage in ST. Louis
will reach $5,G00,000. Other estimates have
been given out-among them one by Mayor
Wallbrdge, who places the figures It $50, :
100000, but they arc all too high. There
were no large and expensive buildings de-
stroyed outright. The big hotels any sky
scrapers were not in the path of the tor
nsdo. and the buildings of any consider
able size that suffered We're elevators,
freight warehouses and other structures
of comparatively cheap construction. The
damage to dwellings is of course heavy,
but after all, the chief loss will fall on
the street railways, the electric light COM
panies and the river and railroad inter-
ests. The municipality itself is perhaps as
heavy an individual loser as any. The dam
age on the poorhouse. insane asylum, pau
per hospital and public school buildings
will reach $500,000 and the injury to the
streets, damage to pavements and destruc-
ton of telegraph and electric lighting sys-
TENS will foot up s25GO00 more. The street
railway system, which operates cars over
IS miles of track, is also heavy loser.
Its power house was destroyed and it's
trolley lines wrecked. Probably 100000
will not cover the loss. The steamboatmen
may be put down for another 100000, and
the steam railways for 100000 more. The
Meyers & Liggett factory, which was
wrecked completely, represents loss of
100000. and the st. Louis Refrigerator q
Gutter company's factory is loss of $780,
600. This list really exhausts the heavy
losers. The other losses are in the thou
sands, or even in the hundreds, and while
their aggregate foots up large sum, there
is no justification of the stories of damage
ranging all the way from $40. 600 to $780,
100000.
Damage to Railroad Property.
In East ST. Louis the railroads and tho
river interests were the heaviest losers by
the storm. The former will not get off
cheaper than $3.50, 000 and the latter suffered
to the extent Of perhaps $500, 900. The loss
to the steamboat men was not only in the
vessels destroyed, but in wharfage freight
and material. The fire caused further
loss of 100000, and the individual losses Of
property owners will swell the total to be-
tween 81, 500 900 and 100000.
In the country and the various small
towns that were touched by the storm
there is no means of getting at the proper
ty loss. There is no basis, even, for an
estimate. 1t is probable that the losses will
aggregate large amount, taking into con-
sideration the wide area of territory COW
cred, but any effort at giving figures would
be the purest speculation.
Little Insurance.
The serious feature of nearly all the dam
age done is that substantially all of it Is
East st. Louis by fire will, of course, be
made good by the insurance, but where the
damage was done by wind-as it was in al
most all cases-the property is not protec-
ted by the policies, and the loss falls en-
tirely on the owners. The immediate re-
suit of this feature of the disaster will
probably be boom in tornado Insurance
policies, Of which very few We're carried in
this city, or indeed anywhere else outside
of the Cyclone belt" in Kansas and Ne
braska
The Search for Victims.
All through the night, without cessa-
ton, gangs of workmen piled their search
for victims of Wednesdays cyclone. Eight
bodies were found Thursday night and
1dentihed. Gov. Altgeld is in personal
command Of the militia companies called
out to assist in the work of rescue and
to protect the city from vandalism and
being looted by swarms of thieves who
are reported to be on their way to East
ST. Louis. One hundred special policemen
were sworn in Friday morning and are
now patroling the fire and wind-swept
territory.
Though the destruction in East st. Louis
was in the business portion, the fine resi-
dence sections on Pennsylvania and Baugh
avenues and Eighth, Ninth and Tenth
streets are comparatively untouched
They are situated in lower altitude than
lIle lSlullu, WHICH Is entirely covered by
wreckage.
Many of the families whose homes were
destroyed sought shelter Thursday night
in empty box cars. This was not easy OF
accomplishment as but few cars remained
in position to leave them comfortably
tenable.
Property Loss Growing.
The property loss in st. Louis is grow
Ing beyond the estimates of Thursday
,,it and ,t,,i,,
maximum respectively at si,000.000 and S.
100000. Bradstreet's agency figures, OBJ
tanned from all possible sources, state
that $10,0CO.00O will amply cover the finan-
cal loss. 1t is reported, moreover, that
Dun's agency officially denies the state
ment printed by the morning papers that
1t had placed the total destruction of prop
erty at $5O,00O,000
The principal losses are in the district
between Russell and Chouteau avenues,
Jefferson avenue and the river, and the
fury of the tornado is told more graphical
ly than In words by the tables showing
that In this stretch of territory alone no
less than 1000 residences were either total
ly or partially destroyed.
Death List Growing Fast.
The death list in ST. Louis is growing fast
Up to II o'clock Friday morning 1872 bod
les had been recovered from the ruins of
wrecked buildings. OF these 161 had been
identified, and Il remain unrecognized. In
East st. Louis at the same hour lat bod
les had been recovered. OF these 1879 have
been identified by relatives or friends and
are without Identification
In st. Louis 81 persons are reported ia
tally injured, and their deaths are mo-
mentarily expected. In East st. Louis 10
persons are suffering from wounds which
will prove mortal in a few hours.
The work of recovering the dead is be-
tod
corps of workers. a conservative estimate
of the loss of life in the city of st. Louis
places the number in the neighborhood of
GOO. In East st. Louis 1t is feared that
when the ruins are thoroughly explored.
the number of dead bodies recovered will