The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-19


/ the wounded and care for the dead.
not soul in the place had had
morsel to eat for twenty-iour hours. as
provisions cook-stoves. etc. were all
| blown away. Farmers from the sur
/ rounding country came nobly to their
/ assistance and many being
cared for in the immediate vicinity
OF the bnnk. At one farmhouse
4 there were thirteen persons wounded.
In one OF the cottages lett standing sad
scene vas noted Mrs. Wilson was lying
in sight OF her dying baby and calling on
/ the doctors to save its life, not thinking of
! herself, or that when the little ones life
/ went out hers would so shortly Join it.
\ special train from ~. Louis, bringing
| W. II. Lee, president Of the Midland blast
/ furnace co pany. and corps OF doctors
/ from Steelville, arrived there last evening
! and are doing all they can Tor the sufferers.
! a call. signed by the mayor of Salem. has
! been issued, asking the people to meet to
1 take steps toward aiding the sufferers, and
| there l. no doubt that the people there
/ Will promptly respond.
News has reached here from Texas
4 county, saving much damage has been
4 done and several ives lost there.
/ The wounded at Lexington srs do
/ ing we'll. though there may be al.
/ ditions 10 the death-rO!I in one or
4 two instances. Higginsyiile reports six
! killed, and many hurt. in that vicinity
! the storm swept q path 30 yards
/ wide clean of everything. buildings,
trees and stock being lied ike
so much chat. To the southwes
! OF the territory already covered
Is large section without rapid commune
cation and it is feared that the mails may
| vet bring stories of great destruction as
has already been detailed.
| At Higginsville. Mo-, eight persons were
! killed outright; three more will probably
| die from their wounds, and
twenty-five were wounded These
| killed outright were Mrs. Mary
| Lake and two brothers. two children
! OF William Walker, Hugh McElr0y, Mrs
| A. III. Kelly and Joseph Brenggen. Mrs.
| John Breuggen is reported killed, but no
| definite Information about her is obtaina-
] Bile The fatally injured are Mrs. Wiz
| lam Walker, Daisy Stanford lcolored) and
| Mrs. William Williams.
| LEXINGTON, Mo, April IA most De.
| structive cyclone passed through this city
last night accompanied by violent cleo
trio storm and "a fearful down-pour OF
| 300 yards IL width, everything
1 u
| about a quarter of mi e east OF Mayvlew,
where the house OF Mr.. Keller was de-
strCyed, but the family uninjured. The
| house OF Mr.. WentzeI was next demol-
] ished but no one injured W. ;. Foun-
! taine's house WAS torn into kindling wood,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Fountaine both serious
| ly hurt, the latter probably fatally. The
| house of William Walker county assessor,
a two-story brick, was but straw
| before the force of the wind.
Mr.. Walker. his wife. three children
| debris. Mrs. Walker succeeded in freeing
herself then went TO the assistance of her
husband, whom she succeeded in extri-
! eating from his periious position. The
! hired man had IN the meantime freed
himself, and together with Mr. and Mrs
| Walker snd Mr.. John Walker, his wife
and hired man, who lived near by and
had arrived to render assistance,
succeeded in extricating one of the chill
dren alive. but probably fatally injured
The other two were dead before they
! could be- gotten from under the immenae
pile OF brick, mortar and timbers with
which they were covered Mr. Walker
was badly cut about the head and much
bruised elsewhere, but Mrs. Walker and
the hired man were not seriously hurt.
The railway water tank az Page City
was next demol shed, then came the house
and barn OF Mr. Hutchinson, few hun
dred yards northeast; both are utterly de-
strOyed, and Mrs Hutchinson had several
! ribs broken and it is thought she NAV not
recover. The others escaped with
! slight injuries. 4 tenant house upon
the farm of Capt. Tod Hunter was next
In the path OF the storm. The roof was
. blown off and a small negro child killed
. / hNr "A hrf ha 81 H. T.
Luke, IN the immediate neigh bOrhood,
Was blown to atoms and Mrs Luke
and her brother killed. y barn on the
Josiah Dixon place came next. The
barn was blown down, but the three mules
| which IL contained were left uniniured.
The same was the result upon the Corhin
place, where a barn was demolished and
! the animals therein were not hurt in the
, least. Jnnumerable outhouses, fruit
trees and fences were destroyed.
| Chickens had ali their feathers pick ed
of, and at the Waller place
an iron pump was taken from thirty
eight.foot we'll and deposited in an adj
/ joining field. The storm. after arriving in
| the vicinity OF Dover. seems TO have risen
from the earth. a. no damage in this
county is reported east or north of that
place II was by far the worst and most
fatal storm which has ever visited this
| county.
STEELyILLE. Mo-, April IA cyclone
swept over the western part OF Crawford
and the eastern part of Dent county last
night. and besides doing great property
damage killed many citizens living i'm its
path At Hawkins bank William Ascher,
the engineer at the mines. and three men
| by the name of Lay were killed. Miss
Law was blown away and has not been
| found A SINAI child was blown away
| w. A. Wilson il seriously hurt. Superin.
tendent Coudray OF the mines was badly
hurt, and his wife is also badly hurt.
| All the dwellings and big store were
| blown down.
At Jadwins postofiice four men were