The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-02
MANY ARE STILL MISSING.
THE TOTAL FATALITIES At ST.
LOUIS NOW PUT AT 400.


mates the Loss at $4,000, ,OOO-The
Police of the Opinion That Many of
the 124 Persons Reported Missing
VIII Turn Up safe-Danger of an
Epidemic of Disease.
St. Louis. June lat ? o'clock this after
noon the Chronicle compiled the follow
ing table as the latest list Of fatalities:
Known dead in St. Louis.
Unknown dead IN st. Louis .............. 8
Fatally injured in St. LOuis............... IS
Missing in St. uis.......................118
Known dead in East ST. Louis............145
Unknown dead IN East St LOuis.........
Fatally injured in East st. Louis........ ?
Total fatality. ...490
The railroad yards on the east side or
the river are being rapidly placed in good
condition. On this side the damage to
railroads was considerably less and the
repairs are going on. Plans for the re-
construction Of the round and freight
houses which were blown down and crush
ed to pieces are being made. The foot
way over the Eads bridge Will be ready
for pedestrians tomorrow afternoon. 1t
is thought, and the driveway for wagons
by tomorrow or next day. The electric
line over the bridge will not be
ready for several days yet. but trains
will run over the bridge every twenty
minutes.
Prof. Bauman, an expert insurance ad-
juster Of Chicago, is in the city and after
looking over the field he said the total
loss will foot up over $20o0O,00o Prof
Bauman adjusted the losses caused by the
Louisville tornado about five years ago
A mass meeting of citizens has been
called for tomorrow evening to consider
the advisability of appealing for outside
help to aid the storm sufferers.
A peculiar feature of the storm is the
long list of missing persons reported at
police headquarters. Up to this morning
124 persons are reported missing. The po-
lice incline to the belief that many of
these will be found with relatives in
other portions of the city.
The situation in East st. Louis is one
df gloom and misery. There is some
fear expressed of an epidemic of disease
among the homeless near the river. Tn
der the ruins is a vast quantity of de-
which Is sending pestilential clouds up
ana out through the debris. The suffer-
ers are weak from exposure and exer-
ton, and are IN no condition to hght the
malaria that is breeding on the island.
Another problem is the almost unanimous
refusal Of the sufferers to leave their be-
longings and occupy the military tents
which have been pitched at Brighton.
In spite of the presence of the militia
they refuse to leave until they have pro-
teeted all their earthly belongings.
Chief of Police Ganey has taken ex-
IRENE precautions to prevent vandalism
and early this morning $50 tramps were
What is needed most is shoes, bandage
CLOTH clothing and ladies underwear. Fur
niture and cots, together with dry bed
tional damage Of continuous wet weather
resulted in the issuing of another order
prohibiting the operation of any electric
1fQrh n
and west of the levee.
The situation as to street car service IS
steadily improving. All the lines are now
running, except the Scullins,. Cherokee,
Lower Grove and California avenue
branches Of the Union Depot Railway
The convention auditorium has been re-
paired and was turned over to the Busi-
ness Mems League to-day
At the poor house temporary repairs
have been made. The ruined chapel Is
boarded up and the male paupers are quar-
tered there, and the female paupers have
been transferred to the mems ward. The
pauper hospital has been abandoned and
the sick transferred to the insane hospi-
tai
Much to the surprise of the police there
has been less crime in St Louis since the
tornado, than before, Notwithstanding that
the city has been in darkness and it was
reported that hundreds of crooks from for
eign cities had fiocked to St Louis.
Chief Detective Desmond, in an inter-
view to-day, said that during Saturday
night there was not one report of arrest
from the wrecked district.
The river gives up its dead slowly and
the statisticians at work on the list
of cyclone fatalities have not yet reach
ed an estimate of the number lost in
~ that five were lost on the steamer J.
J. Odil and know that others, whose iden-
tity remains a mystery, were positively
seen to disappear during the tornado. The
river captains and patrOlmen along the
leVee say that conservative estima te
of the number of the rOustabouts, shanty
dwelers and fiat boat residents, who
lost their lives in the storm, is less than
Shortly before o'clock this
morning the two stricken cities,
St. Louis and East St Louis, re-
ceived thorough scare. A storm came
up from the southwest, accompanied by
low rumbling thunder and almost con-
unuous flashes of lightning. Then few
minutes later big black clouds appeared
on the northern horizon, coming up till
siderable wind though nothing at all
approachfng a hurricane or tornado. The
elemental disturbance lasted nearly an
hour, and then became slow drizzling
rain, which had increased to a doWnpour
at 10 O'Clock this morning
The work of clearing away the ruins
is being carried on in more systematic
manner but the rain makes the work
more difficult.
New York, June Mayor Strong re-
ceived the following telegram from the
mayor of ST. Louis to-day: ITO Mayor
Strong, New York ST. Louis is grateful
for your offer of assistance. AT present
the situation seems well in hand. VIII
not hesitate to avail ourselves Of your
aid if it becomes necessary. G. 2. Wal
bridge, Mayor"
Memphis, Tenn, June 1.-The body Of a
white woman. clasping in her arms the
body Of an infant, was drawn from the
river tIpm in front of this city to-day.
Both are badly decomposed, and appear
TO have been victims of the st. Louis cy-
cyones, or to have been lost off. the ferry
boat Katherine, which was capsized and
sunk at Cairo, H., in a tornado last week.
OUTRAGED BY HER HOST.
A Posse After n JToonsbiner who A.