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CRAZED BY GRIEF
A pathetic incident of the awful calamity came to the notice of the police when a patrolman took to the Soulard Street police station a young woman who, after viewing the ruins of the house where her sister met death, came temporarily insane. She was found on the piles of the wreckage on B street, between Seventh and Eighth, calling out to in His goodness to bring back to her her sister. The sight of a prettily-formed woman of not over 20 years, dressed in deep black, with clasped hands lifted up to the sky, wailing at the fate the elements had visited upon her sister and in an insane moment crying for her resurrection, drew a crowd about the place. She tore the planks and rubbish aside as if to build again the wrecked home, but in this she was stopped the policeman, who took her to the station. An hour later she bad regained her senses and was allowed to depart after leaving her name as Martha Wendell. She said she had come from Terre Haute attend the funeral of her sister.
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