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F»MGES 1 to 120 VOL. XIX.—NO. 152. BULLETIN OF THE ST. PfirUL GLOBE. SUNDAY, MAY 31. ISttO. Weather tor Today— Fair; Variable Winds. PAGE 1. Fatal Cloudburst in Missouri, Order Beinjt Restored at St. LouiM. Frightful DiaUMter at Mowcow. PAGE 2. A Typical Memorial Day. PAGE 3. Teachers and Their Vacations. Local Musicians' Inlon Disrupted. PAGE 4. Editorial. Democrat!) Are Not Divided, PAGE G. Social i.iikslp of England. Kruiter Pardone All but Fonr. England and Germany Friendly. PAGE 6. Outline Suits for Summer, , Queer Freak of a Hat. How to Handle the Handerchlcf. PAGE 7. In the WhUt World. Work of Methodists nt Cleveland. PAGE 8. Klfririn Ik Queen of White Bear. Marie \\ inn at Minnetonkn. Intercollegiate Athletic Contest*. .Mallet I and Pontel to Meet. PAGE 9. | Memorial Day in Minneapolis. The Day in Minnesota Villages. Watter*on Talks Jingoism. PAGE 10. St. Paul Defeated by Detroit. Rain Prevents. Grand Rapids Game. Results In National League. The Sunday Hall Question. diylor'M Base Ball Gossip. Western League Averages. PAGE 11. McCleory Breaks a State Record. Learning to Ride a Bicycle. PAGE 12. Railways Fighting hake Rates. A«ii fiiiisi.s in Camp. St. Louis Cyclone Described. PAGE 13. Carpenter Interviews McKinley. PAGE 14. , Books of the Hour. Theft of Transom Diamonds. PAGE 15. Suburban Social .Venn, PAGE 10. Young St. Paulites Betrothed. Social Aevrs of St. Paul. PAGE 17. The Quarrel Over Augshurg. In St. Paul Labor Circles. PAGE 18. Among the Secret Societies. Dull Week in Stocks. Real Estate and Rents. PAGE 19. Wants of the People. PAGE 20. Gossip About the Theaters. Lady Douglas in \ew York. Career of Chauneey I. Filley. EVENTS TODAY. Central Park Ch.—G. A. EL. Service. S. West Side—Pieketts vs. Capitals. 3.30 Every one of Mr. Cleveland's vetoes i.s a clean base hit. Beginning Monday morning the June wedding will be ripe. ng» . Rain prevented Detroit from beating St. Paul twice yesterday. Decoration day, 1896, was the bicy clists' greatest day on earth. Air. McKinley, the straddle bug, is quite as dangerous as the army worm. _ «o> The crop of faded orange blossoms is the smallest in years at Sioux Falls. Why don't you learn to ride a bicycle and get in my class, McKinley?—Tom Reed. ••» There are no gold mountings on the bicycle which Senator Wolcott, of Col orado, rides. The Prohibition candidate for presi dent trims his whiskers like a clipper of bond coupons. There is nothing but water in the platform on which the Prohibitionists are asked to stand. Dear Platt: Beware of the Demo cratic mule. I have been kicked by him myself—Dick Croker. Let us hope that Mr. Levering will not "challenge any of the other presi dential candidates to a joint debate. A Duluth company of the Third regi ment is arranging to go to Paris in a body in 1900. By that time a consid erable portion of it might go in a coffin. Democracy must have reached a low ebb in Kansas. A Democratic candi date for the legislature announces that he is for John J. Ingalls for United States senator. Chief Moore, of the weather service, has written a letter explaining why cy clones ;ome. He should supplement it with a letter on where to go when cyclones come. A part^ of Ohio gentlemen are going to send two trains together on a curve at the rate of fifty miles an hour to observe the results. It ought not to be hard to guess what will happen. The uses of electricity are not yet half discovei-ed. A Chicago doctor has found that with the subtle fluid as chief agent he can extract a molar without hurting his patient a particle. The spinal column of Thomas B. Reed, like that of William Henry Eustis, is a "riclge of Rocky moun tains." The Maineite refuses again to become a tail to the McKinley kite. __ Warner Miller is outside the breast works shouting about "harmony with honor." Miller is making a noise to rattle the pitcher of the opposition. He doesn't want harmony. He wants the pfflces. ■ ,v > THE SAINT PAUL $LOBE. SWEPT BY FLOODS CLOUDBURST ADDED TO THE DIS -1 ASTERS IX ILL-STARRED 3IIS SOURI. TWENTY-SEVEN DROWNED. NEWS OF TirE CASUALTY MEAGER AND IX SOME RESPECTS COX FLICTIXG. CONFIRMATION IS ONLY PARTIAL. Wo-lio. Seneca and Sarcoxle Saiii io Have Been Sweiit Away or Greutly l»n iiiu«i-<l. NBOSHO, Mo., May 30.—A great rainstorm and cloudburst swept Neosho and Seneca, twelve miles west of here, last night. Syl vester Woods was drowned and several houses were washed away. At Seneca twenty-seven people are reported drowned. The families are those of J. T. Williams, five; Carl Schmidt, five; H. Andreas, five; Mrs. Rob inson and child, and several, names un known. The office of the Seneca Dispatch was washed away, together with the Methodist church and half the buildings on Main street. The property damage Is estimated at $50,000. TAVENTY-SEVEX DROWNED. Town of Seneca Suffered Severely From the Flood. KANSAS CITY Mo., May 80.—A special to the Times from Neasha, Mo., says: Two cloudbursts occurred In this county at an early hour this morning, one at this place and the other at Seneca. One life was lost here and twenty-seven at Seneca. Dead at Neosha—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. Doeb ler, of Carthage, and her six children; H. Andreaux and family of five. Missing—Buchanan, George White, Mr. An derson and family, of the Dayton roller mills, Rev. Harry White and wife, of Seneca. Two buildings were swept away at Neosha, but the loss of life Is slight. The damage to crops and furniture is great, as many houses were flooded. The condition of Sene ca is pitiable. It Is a town of 1,200 inhab itants. The water extended from bluff to bluff and was from four to sx feet deep in every Itusl ness house. Many buildings were washed away, among them being the building of the Seneca Dispatch. The Methodist Episcopal church was carried several blocks. Rev. Harry White and wife, of the Methodist Episcopal church, were In the Dispatch of fice, and both are missing. Tht;y were mar ried only two weeks a^o. A Mrs. Pobinson, with her child clasped to her, was found in a drift, both dead. The family of T. J. Moore, consisting of five members, are mis sing, also Mrs. Doebler and three children, of Carthage, and the family of H. And^e^us, jeweler, five in all. George White and Mr. Anderson and family, of Dayton Roller Mills, six miles east of Seneca, are missing and supposed to be drowned. The wires are down and all information was brought by messenger. It is thought that twenty-seven persons lost their lives in and near Seneca. The 'Frisco lailroad has two bridges out between Dayton and Seneca and much track washed away. There will be no trains from either East or West until further orders. The Kansas City, Plttsburg & Gulf has washouts north of Neosha, but trains are running between here and Siloam Springs. A report has just been received here from Seneca that nine bodies have been recovered, but the names could not be ascertained. It is thought the flood is much worse than at first reported. Indications now point to an other stoi m, in which event the damage to life and property will be immense. The dam age to Seneca property will reach $130,000. ADDITIONAL DEAD Reported From Many Missouri and Illinois Places. ST. I,OUIS, Mo.. May 30.—Reports of dam age by the storm to neighboring towns in Illinois and Missouri continue to be received. Additional information received from New ttadon. Mo., the town near Lebanon that was almost obliterated by a cyclone, is that two liiiir of the injured have died and others are expected to die. The loss to property in New baden and the surrounding country is conservatively estimated at $100,000. At Neosho, Mo., a severe wind and rain storm covered the streets with water, and they resemble a river. Houses were re moved from their foundations hundreds of yards and left «; mass of ruins. People left their homes arid sought safety by climbing trees, and rescuing parties are going to them and bringing them ashore. The loss of life is unknown. The city is one sea of water, and the homeless are being provided for. The. dead body of a man by the name of Woods ha.5 been found. Reports received from the country districts surrounding Carlyle, 111., are distressing. Nearly all the towns in that vicinity suffered from cyclones. It Is rumored that Hazelton, twenty miles southeast of there, in Washing ton county, was visited and several persons killed. The farm house of J. Hilmes, two miles west of Germantown, this county, was blown to atoms. Hilmes was killed instantly and his daughter was badly hurt. New Min den, twelve miles south of here, was almost swept from the earth. Five people were killed and a score hurt. Of forty houses only three or four stand. Two more deaths have oc curred at New Baden, Jacob See and a daugh ter of P. S. Meyer are the latest victims. The number of injured at Harmony. Berkner, New Baden and New Minden will reach 100. PARTIAL CONFIRMATION. Senecn Whs Certainly Swept by a Flood. ST. LOI'IS. Mo.. May 30.—Inquiry at the telegraph office of the St. Louis & San Fran cisco railroad elicited the Information that Seneca, Mo., on a branch of that road, was entirely flooded with water this morn ing and seven people drowned. Springfield has been cut off from wire communication with the flooded districts, and no further in formation is obtainable from that source at present. Sarcoxie is on the same branch of the road, but no word of the reported flood in that city has been reported by the rail road officials at Springfield. If such a dis aster had overwhelmed the town it would have been known to them, they said. TWO TOWNS SWEPT. Washed Away or Damaged by Fatal Floods. KANSAS CITY, May 30.—1t is reported that the towns of Sarcoxie and Seneca, Mo., have been washed away or damaged by the floods which have prevailed in that vicinity. Sar coxie is a town of 2,000, while Seneca has half that number. They are situated !n Jas per and Newton counties. In the southwestern part of the state. __ _ - »_ Ladlea' Decorative Committee. Mrs. A. B. Johnson, chairman of the de corative committee of the G. A. P.., will call a meeting this week of the vice chair men Of her committee. Mre. Johnson re ports encouraging work done by her assist ants, and has in view many elaborate details for beautifying the city In Septembar, which ■be hope* to at ftliftbltf to c»rrjr out, , SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1896.—TWENTY PAGES. ORDER FROJH CHAOS | BY SLOW DEGREES ST. LOUIS IS RECOVERING FROM THE TER RIBLE BLOW. DEATH LIST IS GROWING. ADMITTED NOW THAT MAXY BOD IES ARE BI'RIED IX THE RUIXS. PROPERTY" LOSS SCALED DOWX. Conservative Estimate Now Fntu the Damage at Xot More Thau Fly« Million Dollars. ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 30.—At midnight the total number of dead, missing and fatally injured in the two cities was 424. This esti mate is made up as follows: In St. Louts—Known dead, 196; unknown dead, 11; fatally injured, 18; missing, 56. In East St. Louis—Known dead, 138; un known dead, 3; fatally injured. 2. Total, 424. This will undoubtedly be added to when all ! the ruins have been uncovered. At East St. j Louis the following names have been added I to the list of known dead, the bodies having I been identified today: Mrs. Brohan, Charles Collins. George Esher, I Michael Flynn, Henry Poss, Henry Vieth, Mrs. Trump, Ed Wirdley, William Walsh, | Baby Winthouse. This was Decoration day, but the recent ! griefs of the citizens of the town had for the i time being effaced from their minds the mem j ories of those who passed away in the War of the Rebellion and there were no serv ices of any kind, although elaborate arrange ments had been made during the early por tion of the week. Immense crowds of peo ple visited the ruins today, and it is expected there will be 75,000 visitors here, as excu sions will be run for 100 miles out by the twenty-three railroads entering the city. RESTORING ORDER. St. Louis Recovering From the Shock of Disaster. ST. LOUIS, May SO.—By slow degrees St. Louis is recovering from, the business paraly sis caused by the. awful storm. Some of the ! principal thoroughfares that were choked with wreckage have been opened, and a few of the street cay lines have been started, but the telephone system of the town is practical ly useless. The side streets through the storm-wrecked district are still in a chaotic condition. Telegraph and telephone polee, with a tangled network of wires, roofs of houses, uprooted trees, wagons and vehicles of all kinds, and the shattered remains of whole buildings are still strewn through most of them, so that traffic is, in many instances, impossible. It will require weeks to restore some of the streets to their normal condition. The number of dead is hourly growing great er, as the work of restoring the ruins pro gresses. The ruins, where at first it was thought there were no dead bodies, are now yielding them up. It Is said by the officials at the city hospital the day after the storm that no one was crushed in the ruins. They are now beginning to change their minds. It has been ascertained that sixty to seventy-five of the patients and four or five employes are missing. Until this morning, practically nothing towards explor . ing &g ruins bad been done, but a large num- THE SEA SERPENT AND THE DEMOCRACT. her of men were put to work at daylight to day. This was done only at the loud demands of the people who had |rlends at the hospital during the storm, and who have not been heard of since. Father Kendrlck, of St. Vin cent's 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. Dr. Sutter 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, J. Humphreys, F. A. Preis, William Rickey, William D. Walsh, Lena Wiuthouse. The Hallisby house ruin, near the bridge, in East St. Louis, is still supposed to contain many dead. WhT> they are there are no means of knowing. Not a brick of this wreck has been touched. It lies a 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 not known. That some of them were inside is almost certain, and how they could have es caped death or injury is hard to imagine. Owing to the lack of system, it is impossi ble to get a list of the missing. No record is kept of persons who have been asked for ai 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 la out of the question. Stories of bodies having been robbed of valuables are numerous. Several hundred suspicious characters were arrested by the police and militia last night, and, as the police station was crowded, they were placed under the care of the militia. Police Commissioner John A. Lee 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 Harrigari and examined the condition closely and intelligently. This morning he said: "I 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 it well deserving of general denunciation. Ths men who have, an nounced that we do not *eed outside aid do not know or appreciate '^the gravity of the situation, and represent oVily their own well 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 I claim that no sum smaller than half a million dollars will bs 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 sev 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 man's 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-Dispatch this afternoon prints a statement which very materially modifies all previous estimates' of the aggregate loss by the hurricane of Wednesday. The article says: "No estimate of the financial loss sustained by this city from the stcrni. approaching the right figure nearer that several- millions, can be prepared for at least a weak. But it is already evident that representations of loss equaling, and sometimes exceeding $.".0,000,000, are as little founded upon facts as the reports circulated by many foreign papers that the loss of life would reach thousands. Thes" 1 statements, made in the midst of the weird and imperfect impressions of the night of the Btonn and the succeeding day, might tempor arily be allowed to pass unchallenged, but now that St Louis hail partially recovered its com posure and set Itself to the task of restora tion, exaggeration should be done away, and measures of reliff fitted to aetuai conditions. With this end in view, the judgment and ad- vice of prominent citizens, with both knowl edge and experience in such matters, have been sought and obtained, with the result that the enormous total heretofore set up has been scaled down to • more probable aggregate. Very careful consideration of facts and figures justifies the assertion that the hitherto gen erally accepted figure, $i 0,000,000, must be divided by five to give the minimum loss sus tained. In fact, conservative and well-in formed business men regard $5,000,000 as being nearer the proper amount. In arriving at this conclusion, all the heaviest losses have been considered, and the figures have been obtained by persons in possession, In almost every case, of personal knowledge." The storm hae attracted to St. Louis an enormous crowd. The streets are thronged with strangers night and day. The hotcU are taxed almost to their utmost capacity to care for their guests. Some of the big down town hotels have had to put cots in the rooms to meet the extraordinary demand for accommodations. For the past three days all the railroad trains Into St. Louis from every direction have been loaded to the guards with passengers. The union station ia jammed constantly with a moving, eager, restless mass of humanity. In the rush of visitors there are about as many women as men. Ap parently all the towns within a radius of 100 miles of St. Louis have emptied their pop ulation here, and thousands have come from far beyond that limit. Most of the strangers were drawn here by morbid curiosity, but a Rreat many of them came to look after rela tives and friends. The devastated district in South St. Louis has a peculiar fascination for the visitors. Thousands of them ihronpr the Lafayette park region, and really im pede the work of rescue and repair by crowd ing around the wrecked buildings and climb ins over tottering walls and heaps of debris that the rescuing corps really fear to ap proach too near. The scene throughout the wrecked district last night was a peculiarly weird and dread ful one. Up to 10 o'clock It was in hroken darkness, near and here and there a dim lcrop sent gleams outward, indicating the few houses which had not suffered to such an ex tent as to be uninhabitable. These seemed bur to accentuate the gloom of the constantly passing to and fro of shadowy forms. The entire First regiment, to the number of 450 men, were patroling the district embraced by Choteau and Geyer avenues, from Grand j avenue to the river. They had received ex plicit orders to halt every one they met to ! demand explanations of their presence on the I streets, and if these were not entirely satis factory and above suspicion, they were a) rested as suspects. In the event of resist ance, they were then to use their rifle aifd | bayonets, and if that would' not suffice, then ! the cartridge. The demeanor and e.-ick'iit i resolution of these militiamen was impressive and encouraging. It was apparent that they felt the responsibility which had developed upon them and they were determined to prove worthy of their trust. Every nook, which I mifcht prove the hiding place of those on evil i mission bent, was minutely examined, and it v.-ould have gone hard with any one caught committing a crime. A large number of hard-looking characters, with appearances against them, were halted anc. given explicit orders to move on. But little marked disturbance was encountered but at Seventh and Park avenue, where a gang of hoodlums, headed by Thomas McDer molt. a notorious character, attempted to hold high carnival of bacchanalian roistering. They entered the home of William Dolphin, pi<l:ed up his lamp from the table and took ft across the street, where they proposed to have a revel. Dolphin reported to Firsi Lieu tenant F. S. Chariot, of Company A, who was in (barge at that point. He took a squad and proceeded at ence to the rendez\ous of the gang, where he rounded up fifteen. By this j time a very large crowd had gathered at j Eighth and Park avenue, intent upon res i cuing the prisoners. Lieut. Chariot was in- I formed of their design, and leaving two of \ his four men en guard, took the other two ! and prot-eeded to Hear the streat. The crowd j wae inclined to dispute this, but Chariot ■ gave his men orders to shoo; straight and j fast, if necessary, while he d.splayed his re i vclver at full cock. H was a cuestion for a ; moment whe her or not there was to be blood j shed, wiih chaos greatly in favor of it. Hut ' br : ly for a moment. Thtre was a surging j tack and for.!), and finally the mob broke and dispersed. DEfID BY THOUSANDS RECOVERED FROM THE SCENE OF A TERRIBLE DISASTER AT MOSCOW. TRAMPLED DOWN IN PANIC. MEX, "WOMEX AXD CHILDREN ARE CRUSHED I'XDER FOOT BY A CRAZY MOB. JOY IS TURNED TO -MOl RXIXG. Complete Damper Pat Upon the Fes tivltiex by the Unexpected Ca lamity of the Day. BULLETIN MOSCOW, May 30.—Latest ac counts received from the scene of the disas ter are that 2,600 bodies have already been recovered. MOSCOW, May 30.—The official report places the number of killed at 1,138. This includes those who were so severely Injured that they died after having been removed from Hodynskl Plain. MOSCOW, May 30.—Moscow, which for days has been gay beyond measure, as a result of the elaborate festivities attending the corona tion of the czar, was today plunged Into mourning by a disaster terrible almost be yond example. According to official reports, thousands were killed, and nearly as many injured. A great public fete and banquet had . been planned to take place on Hodynskl plain, fronting the Petrovsky palace. Arrangements had been made to feed 500,000 people, and to ] present to every person present a drinking mug adorned with pictures of fne czar and czarina. The banquet was to take place at noon, but early In the morning, before an ade quate police force was on hand, the hundreds of thousands of people present began a wild scramble for the food and presents. The confusion resulted in a panic, in which thou sands were killed. The passages between the various booths which had been erected were the scene of the wildest struggles. Here it was that most of the victims were killed. Despite the efforts of the Cossacks and of the police, who unfortu nately arrived too late to be of great service, the crowd constantly increased. It was a long ! time before the place could be cleared enough to allow the work of rescue to proceed. Many of the Injured ware carried to the various hos- j pitals, which were soon tilled to overflowing. > Hundreds of persons who were wounded, how ever, were removed to their homes or taken to private residences. Most of the victims were women and children. The disaster occurred between 5 and 6 o'clock this morning. It was not intended that the banquet should commence before noon, bat the immense throng which had gathered around the sheds, where the mugs were to be presented and the food distrib uted, became so denre that the attendants vire overpowered and thrown to the ground In the mad struggle which commenced for the food and the gifts many of the attendants being numbered among the dead. The small force of police present made desperate at tempts to control the people, but all their ef forts were futile, and men, women and chil dren were trampled uj.on by hundreds, the shrieks and groans of the victims being heard 1 afar. For a time the officials In charge of the ! banquet lost their heads entirely. The I crowds seemed to have gone MAD WITH RAGE I and excitement, shouting and cursing a* ' they pressed onward over a path strewn ! with dead and dying human beings. Even : tually, however, the troops and firemen, who were hastily summoned, restored order to '■■ some extent and then began the work of ex ! tricating the dead and injured, ranging them on the ground in groups of ten, twenty and thirty at every hundred yards or so, and : despatching to the city as speedily as pos sible in the military transport wagons, fur niture vans, and food wagons, the injured, giving preference to the women and chil j dren. Some terrible, heartrending scenes were wlt- I nessed among the survivors who were seeking I relatives among the victims. The latter were . mostly peasants, and few of them have as yet . been identified. They were lying in heaps, as they had been extricated, their crushed, blood ; stained and horribly distorted faces upturned j in the scorching sun. Gray-haired men and women Jay alongside children, and sturdy men, all crushed as if beneath heavy rollers, | seme of the heads being trampled into a I shapeless jelly. So immense was the con ccurse of people upon the plain that hundreds of thousands were not aware for a long time that a disaster had occurred, for there wa« ] noise caused by the excitement of the celebra ! tlons. by the music in the open-air theaters, ! by the bands drawing crowds to o'her amuse ments, all the entertainments provided for | the people being in full swing at midday, and yet the work of gathering up hundreds of ! crushed dead was In progress in another part ' of the plain, and the work of tending many ! hundreds of Injured, people was being carried J on by a large force. | Among the dead found were ladies, pvid' n j ly of high rank, dressed in the finest :-il!i , adorned with the richest jewels. The \>.A\ ■. ■ barrarks, to whi'-h the bodies of the dead were taken by the authorities, are he.-! i^ed i with persons beseeching for news c-f 'riends ' and relatives. The scenes at the barracks, where the process of identification is Koine ' on, are terrible in the extreme. The re ; mains of the dead will all b? conveyed dur | me the course of the ni?ht to the cemetery. ! where a large morgue is located. The disaster. It is explained, was due I mainly to the absence of *he poli'-o. who j had not arrived at so early an hour in the | morning at the scene where Iha festivities ■ were scheduled to take place. Fully 200.000 persons of ail grades of society had gathered on the plain at the tim?. Only about, a thousand attendants were In charge, and they seemed unable to control the mob. ■ Hoping to lesson the pressure of the as- ! I s3mbled hundreds of thousands, all moving toward a common center, they tossed the packages and pressnts Into the midst of the crowd. This se-?mlnely PRECIPITATED THE PANIC, since a scramble to obtain possession of the : gifts ensued and the hollow piece of ground I near the center formed a death trap for the ' thousands. j The buildings on all sides of the plain, I where, by the way, Napoleon concentrated ' his troops before moving upon this city, are in many cases being used as temporary hos -1 pitals and the soldiers have been rendering , great service in removing the dead and caring for the wounded. \ Fu"-:hrr time mu3t elapse before accurate : figures as to the number Actually killed and th- number of persons who are victims of the disaster, but who are only suffering from in juries, is ascertained: but there Is no doubt thar the official estimate of 1.000 victims can '■ not be fur from right, and the affair may be ! said to have put an end to all coronation fes i tlvitics. certainly so far as the general pub ! Me Is concerned. j It was not until nearly 10 o'clock tonight 1 to 12. PRICE FIVE CENTS. that the first official statement of the dlsa*rf ter was made public, some people . ialming that this was done in order to avoid putting a sudden stop to the festivities on the plain; which might have resulted in a panic and] still more serious loss of life. Even now th< people In this city refuse to believe that thd > disaster Is nearly as great as the officials dv clare. A bulletin given out about 10 o'clock sal* that up to 4 o'clock this afternoon 3.; i bi.dlerf had been recovered and that 470 persons had. been injured. But very shortly afterwards, at 11 o'clock exactly, an official noti.e wuj posted saying that th^> list of dead totaled up 1,138 persons, including those who died! from the injuries after having been re moved from the plain. The czar has blvera orders that the sum of 1.000 roubles be given to each bereaved family and tha: the vic tims be burled at his expense. The panic which resulted In the loss of so many lives occurred on Hodynski plalni where a great public feast was to be given! as one of the fetes attendant on the corona* tion. In anticipation of the grand holiday? and popular banquet TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE If began trooping toward the Petrovsky ia!ac<V' In front of which the plain Is situated dur-^ Ing the earliest hours this morning. In facl so much interest was taken in the open ait[ banquet that thousands reached the grmindi last evening and camped there or in the im.* mediate vicinity during the night, in orde* to make sura of obtaining good positions today. The majority of these people i am« on foot, but some came In the oddest kind of vehicles, country* cart* and turnout* ol the most primitive description, and other* traveled on horseback. On the plain long lines of rough tables, flanked by n.ugbei benches, had been erected. In the distance, those lines of tables looked like Immovable regiments of soldiers on tija trenches of some extensive series of fortifH cations. In view of the Immense crowd* am sembled In and about the city for the coronal tlon fetes, extra tables and benches wer« hastily erected, and every effort was made to provide seating room and a hearty meal for 400,000 people. Twice that number wera desirous of taking part In the feast, but tha authorities decided that there must be a liuiio to the number to be entertained, ami M tha figure was fixed at 500.iK)0. To feed this muU titude, an army of cooks and waiters waj( gathered together, the army bake houses were taxed to their utmost capacity. and 600,000 mugß,eac.h benrlng porlra.lt.s ol the ezaiJ and czarina, were ordered and mauufai turedi for presentation to the people taking part in, the great banquet. Thousands of cattle, tralu loads of provisions and ship loads of liquid) refreshments were sent to the Hodynskl plain during the week, and this morning ail wa* In readiness for the gigantic meal. In anticipation of Hi. assembling ol an im mense crowd ami the possibility ol disordeTjl strong forces of police were detailed for duty} on the plain, which, like the Petrovnky palaecl It fronts, is some three miles outside of this' city, and on tha road to St. Petersburg. In.l addition, several detachments of Infantrj adon cavalry were .stationed in the vleinit] in or-' der to support tha police,, should such a stepl be necessary. By dawn today the mats of prarant.s about' the tables was really enormous, und they wt?M all deplorably hungry, some of them having! fasted, by choice or Decesstty, for i... ; rlv twenty-fonr hours. The police present did] everything possible to keep back the ertm9» but, suddenly, the masses, controlled by sunw Inexplicable impulse, or Impatient to t-> > at the food, pressed forward, swept everything before them and overturned tables and bencfcJ , es as if mad.- .i grass, trampling hundreds] under foot ami crushing the lift- out i I number of them. The oldest and weal; nattnw | ally suffered the most. OUTSIDE ST. Loi is. News of Death* iirci-iveil FromOthev Storm Swppi I'liM-fN. ST. LOUIS, May :n>.~ Reports received from j other storin-vialtcd places outside St. Louis] add to the number of dead and Injured arid) I tell of great destruction of property. The section of Missouri that suffered is north-] west from St. Louis, while In Illinois tho' j tornado moved almost directly eas-t. Two, I mor" of the wounded at New Baden, in., aroj dead. Near Germantowu it has been learned] j that a farmer bus been killed. New Mln den. 111., is practically .swept away, five) are dead and a score are badly wounded* j Besides the six dead [ n Audraiu county, Mis-, souri, three we no badly hurt that thej will die. Late news from the parts of Audrnln i vim ' ty devastated by the terrible loruado of Wednesday afternoon is worse than the firsC reports. The total of dead is six, with three: who are fatally injured; probably will dla , within a day or two; making the numhei Of victims nine. Riley Hogan, twentj two yean old, who resided Dear Ladenla, died last night of injuries. Those who will probably die' are: Eugene Lou, seven years old; Pearl Hodge, eight years old; sou of Prank Erdcll, 1 eight years old. . ABOUT BOWLING Olti:i V \utli<-nti<- Report of tin- Danaila 'ihnt Wax Done. BOWLING GREEN, Mo., May 30. This place was not swept off the earth, a.-, reported In some quarters, by Wednesday oight'a storm, but has suffered great loss of property, and Injury to man and beam. Two ■ i . west of Bowling Green residences and barns : were blown to atoms. A house was i ■ I up with iv contents and occupants, carried! over tree tops a;id set down again, in one ■ instant without Injury to the family. In a strip of country a mile wide, and extending from here to Curryvllle, eight ra almost every house Is damaged, and i;;uny ' are utterly demolished. At Curryvllle not a single hoi: t damage. The r.-stdem-" of J. S. Avis was • rushed like an eg« shell and Mrs. Rebecca Reed Instantly killed; .Jack Emerson and, Henry Ka-sh and wife were injured. D , to property will aggregate many tiiuus.u.dii of dollars. Four miles went of here Miss Carrie Mrad-' bury had her ribs crushed and sui-raiix-d' internal Injuries; Louis James' boy had both ! arms broken and .Joe Smith had bis j torn off. and will die. T\\ Kl.\ X KILLED. ST. LOUIS, May 30. A special to the Post* ■ Dispatch from Belleville, 111., says: .'.: reports received hero from New Baden, just , over the Hue In Clinton county, Indli ate thai that village has been practically wij.*.; out of existence, only three or four T X maining. The dead number twelve, ah fol lows: Adam Peter, Jacob Malrlch, P. .«. Meyer and daughter, Mrs. Kust and little girl. Peter ■ Kranz and wife, Jacob Lee, J. ilurui-s, youujj daughter of J. Feui: loser. SILVER VICTORY. Democratic Mmmh Conventions in Kentucky Carried. CINCINNATI, O.May ».— The Commercial- Gazette haa returns from each of the 119 ' counties In Kentucky that selected delegate* ' today to the Democratic atate convention a* Lexington June ?,. .-.howing that the men have carried a Urge number of lh< gaies. The goUl men ca.rrled the Fifth, Tenth and Eleventh congressional districts, . and the stiver men the other eight dUtrlctH. Where the allver men predominated thn gold I men bolted in many cases, and where tha gold me-n predominated the silver man bolt ed, so that there will be very many contested delegations. The Enquirer claims ihat the silver men have made the most complete vlctor> in Ken tu. Ity that has been raade in any Btate.and that the result settles the Uemocratlc contest la ! Ohio on that Issue. LOUISVILLE Ky., May 30.— Returns to the. Courier-Journal of the Democratic county con- to elect delegates to the state con vention at Lexington, June 3, show that the latted body will be made up of 590' free silver, delegates and 809 gold men, with de\en to hear from. Thc3« returns give the sllym men a majority of the delegate* in every con. i B r^slonal dUtriot la l*e state except Uw 1 Jf'lHh.