Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 6, 1896, Page 6

4 t } — Che Herald. BY E. C. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS. - MINNESOTA Spain is looking around to borrow $200,000,000, which is a good deal of tmoney to invest in bull-headed cruelty of the sixteenth century stamp. Ohicago papers admi€ that the city census of 1894 was padded to the ex- tent of 5 per cent. The fact that Chi- cago has a 95-per-cent conscience when it fixes up figures will be a pleasant surprise to the outside world. The New York board of health has added a new section to the sanitary code prohibiting spitting on the floors of public buildings, railroad cars and ferryboats. As offenders are subject to arrest the reform will doubtless be carried through promptly. Every time Uncle Sam tests a new warship the Castilian temperature goes down about 2 degrees. The Mas- sachusetts and the Oregon are a splen- did investment simply as peace pre- servers. The United States has shut out of its mails all matter relating to two for- eign gambling concerns. Lottery men have a large supply of cunning, but the time has passed when it avails with Uncle Sam. Italy’s present purpose to abandon the Abyssinian campaign proves that she sees the hopelessness of the situa- tion. Let us hope that she may also see that the greatest glory lies north instead of south of the Mediterranean. It is just as well, perhaps, that Mr. Edison is incapable of making a speech in public. It is difficult to run the ma- chinery and talk, too, and the world is quite satisfied with her perform- ance of the former duty. German critics claim that the father- land has a story-writer who stands at the head of living novelists. Her name is Marie von Eschenbach, and her works are being translated into all the Huropean languages. i me, ‘ One of the Boston high schools has had a procession in which its oldest | graduate was a prominent figure in the ranks. As he is eighty-eight years od, his presence was a reminder that the Hub began to take an interest in public schools a long time ago. 4 st ett Ps A man is said to have committed suicide in Chicago the other day be- cause he did not want to return to the opium habit. If the truth were known it would no doubt be found that his real reason was that he was unable to get out of the city. As Li Hung Chang is about to visit this country, it may interest Mr. An- thony Comstock to learn that the em- peror has restored to the aged states- man the yellow jacket and others arti- cles of apparel which he took away during the Japanese invasion. Mexico is at last to abolish interstate taxation. Every one of its twenty- seven states and its two territories has hitherto paid custom duties on all in- terstate traffic. The policy has been a singularly blind and stupid one, con- sidering the example which the Mexi- ean government has had on its north- ern boundary. = The bicycle is impartial in its influ- ences. If it keeps people away from church it also interferes with the at- tendance at the theater; if it damages the business of the liveryman it also stops betting on horse races; if it causes a falling off in the sale of fine clothing, it also cuts down the sale of fancy drinks. The Russian sceptre made for the coronation of the Emperor Paul in 1797, is the most wonderful thing of its kind which has ever been known, for the famous Orloff diamond sur- mounts it. The orb also dates from the reign of the Czar Paul, and is of solid gold set with three rows of bril- Mants and a huge almond-shaped dia- mend. The diamond cross is supported by an exquisite sapphire worth a for- tune. In Corea the pigtail has for many generations been regarded as a sacred thing. When the king, in deference to Western customs, sacrificed this tradi- tional ornament and issued a proclama- tion commanding all citizens of his cap- ital to follow the royal example, there was great consternation. Several of the high public functionaries resigned their offices, and many fied from Seoul, the seat of government. But at the city gates they were seized by consta- bles and compelled to have their hair cut off. The country people, hearing of the proclamation, kept away from the capital, and there was a dearth of veg- etables and other rural supplies. The situation is complicated by the fact that the manner of wearing the pigtail bas distinguished married from unmar- ried men. The former have worn it standing up straight on the head; the latter have allowed it to dangle grace- fully 4owu the back. THE NEWS RESUME. DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports—The Notable Events at Home and Abroad That Have Attracted Attention. The Na/sion's Capital. The river and harbor bill has gone to the president, who is expected to veto it. The contest from the Ninth Ala- bama district has been decided by the house committee in favor of T. H. Aldrich, the Republican-Populist can- tlidate. "The postmaster general has issued lottery orders against the New Orleans Debenture Redemption company and A. C. Pickins of Mobile, Ala., for op- erating a bond investment scheme. Mr. Linton (Rep., Mich.) has present- ed to the committee on rules a petition signed by 321 members asking for time for the consideration of his bill for the reclassification of railway mail clerks. People Talked About. The largest woman in Rhode Island was Mrs. Ann Fox of Central Falls, who died lagt week. She weighed a° little less than 400 pounds. The fifth anniversary of the acces- sion of the Shah was to have been celebrated at Teheran May 6. The Czar’s gift was a Krupp battery. It is said that President Kruger of the Transvaal republic has been of- fered a large sum to come to America to lecture on South African affairs. Mrs. Ann B. Whitman of Marlboro, Mass., who died recently at nearly 94 years of age, was present at the lay- ing of the cornerstone of Bunker Hill mnonument. John Brahms has received the medal of honor for arts and letters from the Emperor of Austria, being the first musician on whom the distinction has been conferred. Only seven new pieces, one of them Berlioz’s “Faust,” were performed in twenty-one concerts at the Leipsic Ge- wandhaus last season under Mr. Ni kisch’s management. Taine’s only daughter has married M. Dubois, son of the late director of the Beaux Arts. Though broughtup as a Protestant, Mile. Taine was mar- ried in a Roman Catholic church. A “cafe chantant and May day revel, at which Princess Edward of Saxe- Weilmar opened the proceedings,” was ihe method by which money was rais- ‘For a children’s hospital in London lately. ‘A Routh Paris (Me.) solid man—400 pounds in his stocking feet—tried to get excused from jury duty on account of his size. But the judge ordered him an extra broad chair and told him to sit; and he sat. The Czarewitch of Russia, who has spent the winter in the south of France still continues to improve in health, and hope is now entertained that he will recover from his lung trouble eaitel 8 \ 1 M. Charles Lamoureux, the renown- ed French orchestral conductor, will visit London shortly to give three con- certs at Queen’s hall. He will bring with him his orchestra of 120 instru- mentalists. Lieut. Gen. George Digby Barker, the new governor of the Bermudas, is 64 years of age. He served in the Persian campaign of 1857, was at the refief of Lucknow during the Indian mutiny, and has commanded the British troops in China. Accidental Happenings. Indianapolis suffered from a severe’ wind storm during the early hours of this morning. Two inches of rain fell. Fire, which started in C. Ott’s gun store, Dallas, Tex., burned out two other firms and the American express office. Loss $100,000. During a fire at the Westerly Gran- ite works at Lima, Ohio, Edward Cun- ningham and Timothy Daley, firemen, were badly burned. About $10,000 damage was done. Mys. J. C. Crogin of Kalamazoo, Mich., was bitten by a tarantula which came out of a bunch of bananas and became a raving maniac, but hopes of her recovery are éntertained. About midnight the Norwegian bark Brodence, from Avonmouth for Mira- micha, was wrecked half a mile from the Whistle, on St. Paul’s island, N. 8, Five men were drowned. Mrs. George Rickett and Bird Cas- sady, well known society ladies of Lacynge, Kan., while out boat riding on the streets of that place were drowned by the overturning of their boat. The forest fires threaten to destroy the entire cottage property at Grand Beach, Me., where Speaker Reed’s cot- tage is located. One hundred men from Old Orchard were sent to fight the flames. Mr. Reed’s house is reported to be threatened by fire. A supposed accidental poisoning oc- curred at a meeting in Web. » Prairie, fil., in a very peculiar manner. Will- iam Mace gave George Lumsford a piece of colored stick candy, of which be ate.a small portion and died in about forty minutes thereafter with his little babe in his arms. The Pintsch gas department of the Indianapolis Gas company at Indian- apolis, Ind., burst into flame while Alfred H. Somerville was preparing gas with which passenger coaches are charged for lighting purposes, and be- fore he could be rescued he was burned from head to foot. His death is cer- tain. Somerville is a noted athlete. Crimes and Criminals. A-family of three, from Iowa, were murdered in Missouri. An ex-postmaster was arrested at Bozeman, Mont., for embezzlement. In a row over a game of baseball at Winslow, Ind. William Thursman struck a 13-year-old boy named Bow- ers on the head with a club, fracturing the skull. q At Cleveland, 0., August @senther, feerty-five years old, shot his wife Min- nie and then turned the weapon on himself. Both are |. The was the result of a family quarrel. Frank Hupman of © » while -beating. his way on a Lake Shore freight train, was murdered at Huron, O., by Frank Tierney because he re- fused to give up his watch and money. Chester W. Cross, the defaulting teller of the Palmer National bank, was arraigned in the United States circuit court at Boston, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to serve five years in Pittsfield jail. Ed. W. Perry, the murderer of the Sawyer family, father, mother and son, at Ava, Mo., has made a written confession in which he says the deed was done by himself, Arthur Douglas of Springfield, Mo., and a member of Sells Bros. and Forepaugh’s circus. Gov. Bradley of Kentucky has been indicted by the grand jury for failing to file a description of his lands un- der the recent tax law. It is believed that the lands are not very valuable and the governor overlooked the fact that the lands were in his name. In the United States court at Hanni- bal, Mo., the grand jury has returned an indictment against Crockett Rags- dale, formerly bookkeeper in the First National Bank of St. Louis, for embez- zlement of $15,000. His plea was not Peed and a continuance was asked ‘or. A trio of supposed swindlers occupy cells in New York. They are William Matzver, alias Blank, alias Williams; Franz Zeelig, alias Bauer, and Henry Zeelig, all of this city. According to Capt. Cross they have swindled manu- facturers and canyassers from Maine to Florida out of more than $100,000 worth of goods by using the name of a reputable grocer and commission agent of Greenwich street. Two men were fatally shot during a row on the barges which carried the first “tough” Sunday excursion of the season down the Bay at New York. Joe Harmon, said to be a Chicago pugilist, quarreled with a man named Solisky when the excursionists were off Perth Amboy and shot him in the abdomen. As he fell Solisky seized the revolver, and turning it upon Harmon shot him in the abdomen in return, Both will die. Foreign Gossip. Edward Armitage, the painter, fs dead at London. Louis Frederick Manabrea, Marquis del Val Dora, is dead at Chambery, aged 87 years. An inscription has been put on the Matterhorn reading: “Notice. This hill is dangerous for bicycles.” A train rans now between Paris and St. Petersburg in forty-eight hours, the only change of cars being at the Russian frontier. Physiological uses of the Roentgen rays have so increased that the pub- Ugation of the Archives of Clinical grapby has been begun in Lon- don. Paulus, the cafe concert singer, whose singing did much to start the Boulanger boom, has just died near Hyeres, where he was living on his fortune. Keiser Wilhelm has made the chief kettledrum player of the Berlin opera a “royal chamber musician,” in honor of his having filled the place for fifty years. England proposes to reform its Sun- day laws; a committee of the Lords has been appointed to amend them, the lord chancellor and archbishop of Can- terbury at the head. Burglars broke into the barracks of the 180th Infantry regiment in the Rue de Babylone in Paris recently, carried off the safe with $25,000 bodily, and forcing the -colonél’s safe, stole his private valuables. For letting his dog go unmuzzled the bishop of Litchtield has been tined 5 shillings and sixpence in the police court. Among the other persons fined with him were a prebendary, two of the city vicars and a town councillor. Igady Ulrica’ Duncombs, the most beautiful of the Harl of Faversham’s daughters, has entered Newham col- lege. Her older sisters, the late Du- chess of Leinster, Lady Vincent, and Lady Graham of Netherby, were all famous beauties. ~ Otherwise. There is much inquiry throughout the Yakima country for beef cattle. The Kentucky court of appeals has pronounced benevolent and education- al institutions exempt from taxation. Chinamen counterfeit American sil- ver dollars in their own country and put them in circulation on the Pacific coast. Sir Henry Deering, the English min- ister to the Mexican republic, arrived in San Francisco from the City of Mex- ico. Gen. John Echols of Louisville died at Staunton, Va. He was ©. P. Hunting- ton’s Southern representative, and was vice president and receiver of the Ches- apeake & Ohio railroad. The American Congregational asso- ciation held its annual meeting in Bos- ton. The association has reduced its debts from $146,000 to $142,00 during the past year. As the result of the death of D. M. Steele of St. Joe, the federal court ap- pointed Dudley Smith, president of the Steele-Smith Grocery company of Oma- ha, and S. C. Woodson of St. Joe re- ceivers for that company. The Sherman statue commission se- lected as the design for the statue the design submitted by Carl Rohl Smith of Chicago from the four models pre- pared in enlarged form by direction of the commission. Gen. John Coffey, one of the largest and wealthiest planters in Alabama, died at his home in Winnville, Ala., aged 84 years. He was a distinguished man in his day, ranking as brigadier general of the militia previous to the Mexican war, which he entered as col- onel. His death was due to paralysis and old age. Regarding the wholesale: destruction of mail matter at the Cripple Creelx postoflice, Inspector Mechen says that Postmaster Rose had authority to burn only old papers which were uncaked for. He adds that the failure to dis- tribute mails properly in ths Crippfe Crek postoffice is due chiefly to the in- competency of the postmaster and that he has frequently reported the facts to the department at Washingt. HUNDREDS KILLED THE ST, LOUIS C) CLONE THE WORST EVER KNOWN. Several Hundred Lives Are Lost but the Exact Number May Never Be Known, as Many People Are Thought to Have Been Drowned in the River and Many Others Are Burned in the Ruins of Buildings—The Property Loss Is Variously Estimated at From Ten to Thirty Million Dollars, St. Louis, May 30.—It will be several days before definite information can be obtained as to the loss of life, aud injury of unfortunate people who hap- pened to be in the path of the cyclone which swept over portions of Missouri and lllinois Wednesday afternoon. In addition to the killed and injured in St. Louis and East St. Louis, the cyclone mowed down many people who ad- vanced before it. Dispatches received to-day by the Associated Press gave accounts of serious loss of life and maimings in quite a number of places. Death and Destruction.. St. Louis, May 30.—The awful sweep of the tornado is marked to-day by a devastated district in the southwestern portion of the city a half mile wide and four miles long, with wrecked build- ings, tottering walls, debris, choked streets, and rescuing parties to tell the story of havoc and death. The general irend was from south- west to northeast, the center of the business district of the city lying about a mile north of the storm’s path. The heavy damage was.in the vicinity of Tower Grove and Lafayette Park, where handsome residences were com- pletely wrecked snd many injured. One of the remarkable features was the destruction of a wing of the city hospital, carrying 200 patients and nurses down in the wreck, and killing but one person, Ruin and Disaster. When the sun rose on St. Louis and vicinity this morning it showed a scene of terrible ruin and disaster. Wind, rain and fire had combined in a mis- sion of destruction. The greatest dam- age on this side of the river was in- flicted within a three-mile strip along the mighty stream. Hours of depress- ing sultriness, puffs of wind coming by turns from all points of the compass, piling up in heavy clouds around the horizon, the flying hither and thither of light, mist-like formations across the dull, dark-colored masses—these were the characteristics of an afternoon which brought to St. Louis the most disastrous storm in the city’s history. For hours the currents shifted, the wind blew hot and cold, and the storm center developed. In the west a thunder storm devel- oped. The early mutterings indicated nothing more alarming than a down- pour with the ordinary electrical ac- companiments. This rain cloud came up slowly at first, from the west, be- yond Forest Park. As the black rim mounted higher above the horizon its are embraced more territory to the north and south. A strong wind from the east began to blow right in the face of the storm. It was a lower cur- rent. It raised the dark cloud and brought it forward faster and faster. Suddenly the wind stopped blowing from the east and there swept from the northwest A Terrific Gale which made the best built structures tremble. With the hurricane—for that was the first form the storm took when it broke over the western part of the city--came a deluge of rain. For half an hour from a few minutes before 5 until 5:30 this hurricane blew from the northwest. Then there came a lull. The currents shifted. In the south- west there came into existence a storm cloud with the essential features of the cyclone—funnel-shaped.. This second storm burst upon the city from the southwest. It came in on the south side of Lafayette Park, struck the city hospital, and from there tore its way through the city to the river by a northeasterly course. It wrought such havoc as will long leave traces in that part of the city which lies east of Seventh street and north of Cerre street to the Eads bridge. Enough is known to show that more lives have been lost on the East side than on the West side. Perhaps the most impressive evidence of the storm cloud’s force is to be seen in the wreck of the eastern portion of the hig Eads bridge. There the tornado dealt with stone and masonry. It tore off and tumbled down tons upon tons of ma- sonry. Beginning with the big eastern pier and extending to the foot uf ihe incline, a storm cloud cut off the upper part of the structure as if it had been a flimsy trestle instead of a structure of werld-famed masonry. What the tornado did to the Eads bridge will not be believed unless the eyes see it. Death in the River. Of all the craft that lined the river for miles, but one remains to tell the story of the disaster. It hung steadily to its moorings throughout. When the tornado struck the light of day van- ished in a moment, and those at work could barely discern the forms of the steamers as one after another pitched and tossed and finally, with a crash, was blown out into the dark waters and disappeared. ‘The scene was one of wild uncertainty and chaos. No one knew whither to seek safety. After the tornado had passed it left a scene of desolation where ten minutes before steamers had rocked quietly at their docks, some just arrived and discharg- ing their passengers, others preparing for departure. . ‘Trucks and baggage had been tossed hither and thither. Plows and agricul- tural implements had been distributed up and down the levee and the whole appearance was one of waste and wreck. Steamer J. J. Odell, of the Illi- nois Packet company, was blown out from its wharf at the foot of Morgan street, crashed into the second pier of the Eads bridge, and sank. Her boilers blew up before she disappeared. She had a crew of twelve and three women passengers besides her captain, George ‘Townsend, an old river man. ‘Three of her crew, Jack Morrissey; Pat Milan, and ——— Moore, reached land safely. The two former jumped before the ex- Plosion occurred and caught on drift- wood. Moore was blown overboard by the explosion and cut about the head, but managed to swim ashore. Three others of the crew clung to the pier and made their way up to the bridge. There is no of estimating the number of lives -on river craft. Hundreds of barges were moored all along the river bank. In some in- stances as many as ten or twelve per- sons were on board when the anchor- age gave way. St. Louis, May 31.—Desolation still reigns supreme in the tornado-stricken districts of East St. Louis and this city. The day opened up clear and cool, and everywhere could be seen gangs of men delving into the ruins for buried victims. clearing the streets of dismantled poles, wires and general debris, repairing the damage done to thousands of buildings and relieving the injured and homeless. As fhe time goes on it becomes more and more evident that. the tornado is the worst that ever visited this or any other city on the North American con- tinent. Horrors multiply every hour and the list of dead is appalling. More than 130 dead bodies have been recoy- ered in St. Louis and over 400 persons are known to have been injured. Mangled cadavers are still found along the path of the storm and are taken to the improvised morgues. It will be weeks before a complete list of those killed can be made, but the list of dead in St. Louis alone is climbing up to the 200 mark. Only mere guesses can be made as to the property loss on both sides of the river, but mercantile agencies say that it may reach $50,000,000 in this city alone, while in East St. Louis it will be several millions. In East St. Louis The Disaster Was Complete, the western section of that railway town being one vast charnel house. Only a single dwelling was left stand- ing on what is called the “Island,” and 600 families are homeless. Citizens es- timate the dead at fully 200 on the Hast side. In the wake of the tornado came grave problems. To meet one of them—the protection of the city in the absence of electric lights—the First Missouri regiment has gone on duty for patrol service and the police com- missioners will add 160 men to the force. The business men of St. Louis have taken up the work of relief. An ear- nest meeting on ’change yesterday was the beginning. There are thousands who can pull themselves out of this trouble. There are other thousands who have lost all and must be helped. A partial resumption of the street car service has been effected. The east and west roads north of Market street are in operation and also the Broad- way and Grand avenue division of the north and south lines, Within the southern division the Scullen system is the most badly crippled, owing to the destruction of the power house, and the officers. venture no prediction as to when cars will be running. A partial restoration of the electric light service is promised in forty-eight hours, but it will be a couple of weeks before all of the circuits are in order. The destruction of poles and wire along the path of the storm was com- plete. Inquests on the bodies of 42 of the slain in St. Louis have been held. A verdict of “shock and injuries; accidental,” was rendered in each case. East St. Louis has issued A Touching Appeal for Aid, and the committee which prepared the manifesto estimates that 200 persons were killed and that the number of in. jured will foot up in the thousan It is known that a number of persons are still buried in the debris on the southwestern end of the island and in the ruins of Halsey’s hotel, the Mar- tel house, the Relay Retreat and the Durant house. Conservative people as- sert that the list will not reach the es- timated total of 200, though enough persons are now missing to create a fear that the fatalities will approach that number. Many of those who have not been seen by their families since Wednesday are supposed to be stop- ping with friends or detained from re- turning to their homes by injuries that may not prove fatal. Street car traffic, telephone service and electric lighting facilities are entirely suspended. All business is virtually suspended. Every one agrees that months will fail to reveal the extent of the torna- do’s devastation in the Illinois towns. From the surrounding country thou- sands of men, women and children flocked into the city to view the scenes of ruin and death. The officials of the board of educa- tion are busy figuring out the enormous loss which the schools suffered. All the South end schools between Cho- teau avenue and Arsenal streets were badly damaged. Some had roofs blown away and walls caved in and others got off with ruined windows and chim- neys. The schools which suffered most are the Clinton, Clinton branch, Pea- body, Charles, Hodgen, Pestalozzi, Grant, New Shepard, Lokverture, Aroe- bel, Lafayette, Longfellow and Madi- son. The Compton, Marquette, Cho- teau and Garfield also suffered. The school board cannot repair the damage for less than $50.000, and perhaps a larger sum will be needed. Several of the schools will not be opened again until September. Churches Damaged. St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic church, Sixth and Biddle streets, was damaged even more than first reported. The spire was entirely demolished ané in falling destroyed a two-story brick building on the corner of Sixth and Biddle. The organ loft of the church is a wreck and the organ covered with brick and debris. Despite this state of gloomy affairs services will be held as usual Sunday morning. The emergency hospital at the old Good Shepherd convent on Hines street is running along in good shape, con- sidering that it was only instituted in its present capacity Thursday morn- ing. Some of the doctors took their first rest after midnight Thursday, but they were all up and busy by 6 o’clock Friday morning. There are nearly 300 sick at the emergency hospital who were transferred from the city hospi- tal after it was demolished. The clerk of the hospital has checked up his list. He thinks that there are not more than four or five unaccounted for. Some patients, who were prisoners from the jail, workhouse and elsewhere are known to have escaped during the confusion, . At. St. John’s hospital, on Twenty- third street and Lucas, the wounded are being well cared for. One patient, William Pletke, of 1008 Lafayette ave- nue, died. He was first sent to the Good Shepherd via the dispensary, and then to St. John’s. He was badly injured internally and . had several bones broken, An unknown juan is } ing cooked food for the needy. The | hundred teams were kept bfisy the verge of death. There exists about as much uncer- tainty as to the actual number of peo- ple killed and the amount of property damaged as on the first morning after _ the disaster. Scores of dead have been identified, but no one is willing to venture a guess as to how many bod- 4es may be in the ruins of the hund, of buildings as yet unexplored. \e total number of dead in St. Louis iden- tified at present is 162, and in East St. Louis 127. In St. Luke's there are 52 bodies still unidentified, and in East St. Louis 2. It is believed that the deaths of the injured and the future _ recovery of bodies will bring the St. Louis death list up to 200. In Hast St. Louis the city officials declare that they have hope that the death roll om that side of the river will not exceed 150, but the ruins upon which the res- cuers have not yet begun work may swell the totals far beyond that figure. Guesses were made to-day upon the property loss, and they were from $7,- 000,000 to $50,000,000 for St. Louis and from $4,000,000 to $20,000,000. The most popular estimate is in the neigh- pborhood of $25,000,000 for both cities, including railroads and buildings dam- aged. The contractors of the city have been overwhelmed with orders for re- building, and the work of wiping out the havoc of the storm will be pushed with all energy. The committee in chargé annouiced to-day That Me audl- torium will be used for the Republic- an national convention, and has been repaired. No Aid Needed. The destitution, misery and want here has touched the hearts of the people in all parts of the country, and, as a result, ever since the storm of Wednesday, offers of help and con- tributions have been pouring in. Up to a late hour $45,000 was the total amount of donations received. The following card in answer to hundreds of telegrams of inquiry has been sent out by Mayor Walbridge: “It is not practical to make individ- ual answer to the vast number of friends who have telegraphed sympa- thy and offers of assistance. Through the medium of the Associated Press I sincerely thank the many friends for the sympathy they have sbown and their proffers of aid. The people of our city are confident of their ability to properly care for all the sufferers from the recent tornado, and heroic efforts are being made to that end. No ac- curate estimate of the loss of property can now be made, but it is safe that the loss as reported by the press out- side of St. Louis has been greatly over- estimated. —C. P. Walbridge.” Corrected © reports from various sources along the river front material- ly reduce the estimate of the loss by drowning. How many roustabouts went down will probably never be known, as they are ponatelle of a class in whose welfare there is little interest —most of them being negro nomads who move from one port to another. The steamer J. J. Odill, the Illinois river packet which went to pieces at the Pittsburg dyke after a tumultuous trip from the foot of Cherry street, dragged down five unfortunates. The victims were Morris Fisher, a well known merchant of Hardin, Ill.; Mrs. Goodar of the same place; Sim Woods, ehief clerk of the boat. and the second cook and chambermaid, whose_names are unknown. ad St. Louis, June 2. — Every railroad entering this storm-stricken city ran excursion trains yesterday. They brought scores of thousands of pcople to view the devastation and ruin that was wrought by the akful storm of Wednesday. Th2 streets of the ruined district were thronged with visitors all day. They came from almort every town and city within a radius of 300 miles, and nearly all day a drizzling rain fell. Lowering, threatening clouds covered the sky, and a more dismal scene than the ruined portion of this city presented could scarcely be im- agined, and through the crowded streets all day long came funeral pro- cessions. Nearly 100 burial permits were issued by the health department Saturday, and every hearse in the city was in constant use yesterday carry- ing the victims of the storm to their graves. At early dawn people began to crowd into the city morgue. Many came in search of friends, but for the most part the people who visited the charnel house were drawn by a mor- bid desire to see the mangled corpses of the unfortunate victims of the tor- nado, All day long the officers on duty were busy keeping the people moving in line and out of the viewing reom of the morgue. Every few min- utes some one would think they had discovered some one whom they knew among the bodies exposed for view. Searching for Bodies. The street railway companies have had hundreds of men at work repair- ing the damage to their power houses and trolley wires, and to-day nearly all the principal lines were in opera- tion. But the work that has been done is so meager when compared with that which remains that there is scarcely any perceptible improvement. The telephone service is practically paraiyzed, although the telephone company has had hundreds of men at work repairing the wires. Hundreds of demoralized buildings have not been touched; no one can tell if the ruins conceal the bedies 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 more active in restoring order in the storm-swept district. In many locali- ties a foul stench arises from the ruins. Whether this is due to the fact that the ruins conceal human seit or dead animals, time alone can ell. The authorities at Jefferson barracks‘? have notified the central relief commit- tee that a force of troops will bring up to the wrecked districts a large num- ber of tents to-merrow and establish a commissary for the purpose of furnish- cavalry cooks, stewards and camp men will do the work. The number of persons and families who are still without homes and with- out the means of getting them is great. Many wagons were in use to-day dis- tributing food to the hung Over a moving furniture from wrecked bpildings for those who did not have tlie means to pay fora van. There a of ap who need clot! and the supply meager. sts