Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-04-20

nights and day have passed since the
cyclone tore its way through Missouri
from southwest to northeast, the re-
ports of damage and loss of life are
Still coming in. The towns which suf-
iered'most are comparatively small and
nearly all located in the northwest
part of the State on = strip lying to
the southeast of Kansas City A sum-
mary of the casualties shows the fol-
lowing result, the list of dead and in
jured being corrected and verified to
the best possible extent
At Hawkins Bank, Mo.-Dead: Will
liam Asher, with a baby in his arms;
Andrew Lay, Mrs. James Wilson, Mrs.
William Asher, John d. Lay, John
Dill, an unknown 3-months-old child.
Injured-David Williams, seriously;
Dr. 81. III. Brown, seriously; Clarence
Jacob, seriously; Mrs. Clarence Jacob,
fatally; Henry Lay, seriously;
John Condray and daughter
seriously; James Shumate, seri-
ously; David Williams, seriously; r.
Jerry, seriously; Mrs. B. Jerry, fatally;
Mrs. Win Condray. seriously; Ira
Lease, and her mother, seriously: Mrs.
John Dill, seriously; L. L. Dabney, Sc
riously; John Wilson, seriously, and
his two boys, fatally; Mrs. Joseph Shu-
mate, seriously; Mrs. Henry Brown
and child, fatally, Andy Handy, wife
and six children.
At Lexington, Mo.-Dead - Anna
Walker, Mrs. John Luke, Mrs. Luke's
brother, Farris Walker, and negro
boy. Fatally injured William Foun-
tain, Mrs. Joseph Hutchinson, A.
Walker, boy.
At Stanbury, Mo.-Dead-Mrs Ward,
two unknown women. Injured-John
Ward, fatally; Johnson Shelton, IA
tally.
At West Plains, Mo.-John Temp
kins and boy badly injured.
At Steelville, Mo.-Dead-C Charles
Adair, D. M. Green and five unknown.
At Page City, Mo.-Dea H-Daisy
Stanley, colored; A. II. Kelly and wife
may die. njured-Hugh McElroy,
fatally; Mrs. William Powell fatally;
Mrs. William Williams, terribly burned
lnder stove; Mabel Hutchinson, dy-
ing.
Houses, barns, stock, everything was
swept before the storms fury.
AT Hawkins Bank the scene was
most horrible About fifty citizens
from Salem, including all the doctors,
went down as soon as word reached
there of the disaster, and many of them
are there still, as they are needed to
nurse the wounded and care for the
dead. When the relief reached there
not a soul in the place had had a
morsel to eat for twentyfour hours,
as provisions, cook stoves, etc, were
all blown away. Farmers from the
surrounding coun ry came nobly
to their assistance, and many are
now being cared for in the immediate
vicinity Of the bank. At one farm
house there were thirteen persons
wounded. In one of these cottages
left standing sad scene was enacted,
Mrs. Wilson was lying in sight of her
dying baby and calling on the doctors
to save it's life, not thinking of herself,
or that when the little ones life went
out hers would so shortly join it.
Aspecial train from ST. Louis bring
ing w. II. Lee, president of the Mid
land Blast Furnace Company, and a
score of doctors from Steelville, ar
rived there last evening at o'clock
and are dong all they can for the
sufferers.
A call signed by the Mayor of Salem
has been issued asking the people to
meet to take steps toward aiding the
sufferers, and there is no doubt that
the people here will promptly respond.
News has reached here from Texas
County saying much damage has been
done and several lives lost there.
The story of the wreck at Lexington
has been told in these dispatches be-
fore. The wounded there are doing
well, though there may be additions to
the death-roll in one or two instances
At Higginsville, No, eight persons
werel killed outright and three
more will probably die from their
wounds and twenty-five were wounded.
Those killed outright were Mrs Mary
Lake and two brothers, two children
of William Walker, Hugh McElroy,
Mrs. A. FL. Kelly, Joseph Breuggen.
Mrs. John Breuggen is reported killed,
but no definite information about her
Is obtainable. The fatally injured
are: Mrs William Walker, Daisy
Stanford (colored) and Mrs. William
Williams.
In the vicinity of Higginsville the
storm swept a path $50 yards wide,
clean of everything, buildings, trees
and stock being like so much chaff.
To the southwest Of the territory al
ready covered is a large section with
out rapid communication and it is
feared that the mails may yet bring
stories of as great destruction as has
been detailed.
TWENTY-FIVE HOUSES WRECKED.
Mrs. Jacob Hiser Killed and Her Hus-