Show OLD ST LOUIS MORGUE VACANT AFTER 50 YEARS tragedies in the mound city are re called as building Is being razed st louis the old morgue or more than a halt a century st louis home of death has been abandoned to its ghosts the last scene in thousands of trag edlas the old building has gone the way of the victims it bloused bo used it will be razed to way for a new municipal ace building the morgue started ita grew some career in june 1875 as one of a of public buildings housing courts and a jail st louis as then a hardy river town where justice was rapid one cwm in the morgue housed the fallows an arrangement the Fal Told hns long since been removed but ni ni of the morgues 3 oldest ghosts bear the marks of hemp in those early dds the morgue might have been impressive now it Is a grimy little building crouched in the shadow of surrounding skyscrapers it look its part as a catch all for human even the of violence has been taken faoro it in recent icari its patrons were largely alie victims of traffic accidents occasionally the body of a slain gangster enlivened its routine but for cal an afred negro cm here was none to regret the abandonment of the morgue this spring II 11 alone seemed to enjoy the show in which death was al ways the star the bhoj now robbed of its old backdrop ive seen a lot of pro since I 1 came here ruminated rumina ted cal when the morgue moved to temporary quarterma qu artera in the city hospital ten thousand of them at least e used to have one a day at first but last year we averaged more alinn oliree there are a lot more accidents non adais ft ath automobiles so corn mon the biggest month for was june 1924 ve had 20 that month mostly eins they all end up here hardly one of em more than twenty four years old either the new municipal service building is part of an extensile program of construction started here virtually all public buildings are to be replaced |