People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — ASK FOR ASSISTANCE. [ARTICLE]

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ST. LOUIS IN NEED OF OUTSIDE I AID. Municipal Assembly Adopts Resolutions to That Effect Distress Is Widespread Police Have a List of About 120 Missing Persons. Both houses of the municipal assembly of St. Louis adopted resolutions asking for aid for the cyclone sufferers. It will thus be seen that the house of delegates is not in accord with the position taken by the mayor that outside aid is not needed. It is estimated that in St. Louis at least 7,500 houses and in East St. Louis 500 houses are more or less damaged by the storm, and the estimates of property losses range from >20,000,000 to >50,000,000 for both places. General indignation is expressed by all classes of citizens over the conduct of Gov. Stone, who, the morning after the tornado, turned his back on a stricken people to go to Texas to make a political speech. His conduct is contrasted with that of Gov. Altgeld, who came by the first train to administer to the sufferers in East St. Louis. Inefllcfency, irresolution and lack of control of the situation are charged against Mayor Walbridge. MANY STILL MISSING. The list of persons missing at St. Louis since the terrible tornado of last Wednesday is appalling. At present the police have about 120 names, which are given below: Charles and Eddie Appel, 8 and 6 years; Louisa Arnica, John Brouthers, Henry Reichenbacher, C. ,M. Brown, John Bergeest, Carl Brandenberger, John Conelly, Springfield, III; Alphonse Cooning, Earlington, Ky.; William Crooks, Mamie Conrad, Charles Coles, William Cook, Joseph • Dorsey, Joseph Detzer, Mrs. Florence Davis, Stephen O. Davidson, P. Damat, Wheaton, Ill.; Jean Decker, F. Eastman, Teleph Ely, f Edward Felb, Hy. Forfit, Decatur, Ill.; Jere Fruin, Morris Fischer, Hardin, Ill.; Lizzie Keim, Charles Keifer, E. F. Kelly, Chicago; Gerhard Knoll, Sadie Knipp, James Klein, Charles Anthony, Cincinnati; Cal. McCarthy, J. McClellan, Webster Groves; J. McCarthy, Memphis; G. Meyer, Hamburg, Ill.; Joseph McLaughlin, George Mosher, Lora Myers, Chicago; A. J. Neisinger, Indianapolis; John O’Leary, William O’Mears, James O’Reilly, M. Parker, Millie Paulry, Andrew P. Probasco, Mary Ridley, Alton; John Rose, John Raack. Ida Richards, Charles Rutlege, John Scott, Sydney Foster, Mrs. Gogar, Hardin, Ill.; Nancy Gingels, Beaver Creek, Ill.; Odolf Goodman, Maggie Goodman, L. P. Goodline, Adolph Goodman, Walter Greunewald, Maggie Hickey, Jacob Harris, Isabel Horne, Charles Huss, George Hesse, Joseph Hesnan, G. Howard, Minneapolis, Minn.; A. Hardy, Logansport, Ind.; E. T. Jean, Bertha Jacobs, J. W. Johnson, Samuel Jones, Birdie Jacobs, Jeremiah Ray, Belleville, Ill.; D. X. Fenks, Mary Keiffer, R. Seitner, Peoria, Ill.; C. L. Symmons, St. Joseph, Mo.; James H. Smith, Charles A. Schoff, Kate Schulter, John Smith, Lena Sanger, Jane Sturgeon, C. Steinide, Cincinnati; Aug. Schmidt, D. Strudel, S. W. Thompson, Mollie Thurus, Mrs. M. Terrance, F. H. Wooddell, William Wind, Max Weis, William Ward, Louisville; Bertie Wetzel, Olga Weprfritz, Mary Wagner, George Watkins, St. Paul; Robert Wilson, Oscar Whetzel, John Wulfinger, Sim Woods, John Young, George Ziegler, Rose Whetgak, Frank Zalljigak, Lizzie colored, thought to be under the ruins at No. 2728 Russell avenue. Chambermaid of the steamer J. J, Odell. Eleven persons, names unknown, supposed to have been drowned on steamer Libbie Conger. Carpenter of the steamer. Citv of Vic.k»hnr«r.

rour scnool girls, supposed to be in the ruins of the Soulard market. MISSING IN EAST ST. LOUIS. > Transients Supposed to Have Been Killed by the Storm. The following list of casualties at East St. Louis is given out. Identified dead, 99; unidentified, 2; missing, 26; fatally injured, 7. Total, 134. The following is a list of transient people who are missing and supposed to have been killed in East St. Louis: Florence, Deming, Dexter, Mo.; Thomat Melsing, St. Louis, William Clark Janesville, Wis.; George Sharp, Denver Colo.; Ernest Bliet, Denver, Colo., William North, Peterboro, Ont.; L. and Caroline Meyers, South Brooklyn, N Y.; O. W. Fitch, Lincoln, Neb.; H. D Roberts, New Orleans, La.; B. A Critchlan, Homestead, Pa.; William Hoffe, Newport; B. Smith, Springfield Ill.; Pheodbe Clark, Granary, 111. Joseph Crome, Chicago; Frank Taylor Martin’s Grove, Ill.; Richard Maston Granite City, Ill.; William Kegel, Lancaster, Pa.; Walter Glasscock, Morse Kan.; Charles Gillman, Cleveland Ohio; Paul Mlchter, New York; William Hartigan, Birmingham, Ala.; W. H. W Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs Garner, Lincoln, Neb.; Frank MeConkle, Lawrence, Ind. CLOUDBURSTS IN MIBSOURL Twenty-Seven Person* Killed at Seneca and One at Neosho —Some Missing. Two cloudbursts occurred in Missouri early Saturday morning, one coming at Neosha and the other at Senaca. One life was lost at Neosho and 27 at Senaca. The list of victims is as follows: Dead at Neosho—Sylvester Wood,, drowned by the overturning of a boat while being taken from the flooded district. Dead at Seneca—Mrs. Robinson and child. T. J. Williams and family of five. Mrs. Doebler of Carthage and her six children. H. Andre and family of five. Carl Schmidt and family of five. Dead at Dayton Reynolds, drowned.

Missing Buchanan and family of five. George White. Mr. Anderson and family of the Dayton roller-mills. The Rev. Henry White and wife of Seneca. The loss at Seneca will reach $150,000. The town of New Baden, 111., is a wreck and the people in need of assistance. Mascoutah is badly crippled, but is fully able to care for the helpless here and is sending aid to New Baden. The storm came in three separate sections—first from the northwest, second from the southwest and third from the north, lasting in all forty minutes. A terrific rainfall accompanied the last section. The storm landed near here first about one mile west of Mascoutah. It worked destruction through the town and then jumped six miles, striking the little town of New Baden with such force as to completely demolish the place. It then gave another bound through space, and it was next heard of at New Minden, twenty-five miles east, in Washington county. DEATH AT NEW MINDEN. Village Practically Obliterated and Five Persons Killed. New Minflen, a village of four hundred population!, located seven miles north of Nashville, Illinois, was swept away Wednesday evening by one of the most terrific tornadoes ever known in the history of this county. Only one building in the little village is left standing without injury. There are from fifty to sixty buildings in the place and ail were wrecked except the creamery. Farmhouses, barns, fences, and orchards are now in ruins, growing crops and fruit trees are badly damaged. The track of the storm covered at least a mile in width, but the heavy

wind touched up much greater territory throughout the northern half of the county. The killed at New Minden are: Wren Smith, resident of Nashville; Mrs. Hendrick Myer and baby; Miss Tillie Blnnie, Fred Koch’s son. Seriously injured at New Minden: Fred Hoffman, will die; William Welhe and wife, Louis Vulbrock and son, Louise Vulbrock, Fred Koch and wife, Mrs. M. Wassell, William Vogt, William Rinnle, F. W. Ellerbuach and wife, William Bocks, Mrs. Moehlman, Mrs. C. Wlnte, son' and daughter; Ida Oexman, Mrs. A. Kraghoff, Henry Gerfen, Mrs. William Brinkman and daughter, Emilia Buckmoeller, Edda Buckmoeller, Mrs. Louis Horstman, Mrs. Russell, Simon Weiss and daughter, William Holstenberg, Martha Hasseman. The estimated loss in the property to the citizens of New Minden is $75,000 to |IOO,OOO, and to the farmers In the storm-stricken portion of this county the damage will not fall short ot 150,000.