Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-04-20
DEAD AND DYING.
a Horrible Roll of Victims OF the
Cyclone in the state OF
Missouri.
Michigan Towns Also Feel the
Effects of a TOrnrdO---SOme
Sad Scenes.


reports of damage and loss OF. life by
the recent severe storms are still com
ing in. The towns which suffered
most are comparatively small, and
nearly all located in the northwest
ern part of the state on a strip lying
TO the southeast of Kansas City. A
summary of the casualties shows the
following results, the list of dead and
injured being corrected and verified
to the best possible extent:
AtHawkins Bank, Asher,
dead. with a baby in his arms: An
drew Lay. dead: Mrs. James Wilson,
dead: Mrs. VIM. Asher, dead; John
d. Lay, dead: John Dill, dead; an I'M
known three months-old child, dead.
The following injured: David Will
liams, seriously: DR.. H. III. Browne,
seriously: Clarence Jacob, seriously;
Mrs. Clarence Jacob, fatally; Henry
Lay, seriously; John COndray and
daughter, seriously; James Shumate,
seriously; Mrs. David Williams, Sc
riously: B. Jerry, seriously; Mrs. B..
Jerry, fatally: Mrs. Win Condray,
seriously; Ira Lease, seriously: Mrs.
Ira Lease and her mother, seriously:
Mrs. John Dill, seriously; l.. l.. Dab
ney, seriously: John Wilson, seriously:
his two boys, fatally: Mrs Joseph
Shumate, seriously: Mrs. Henry
Brown and child, fatally; Andy Ham
by, wife and six children.
At Lexington, Mo.-Anna Walker,
dead; Mrs. John Luke, dead: her
brother, dead: Farris Walker, dead:
a negro boy, dead: William Fountain,
fatally injured: Mrs. Joseph Huthin-
son, fatally; a Walker boy, fatally.
Stanbury, Mo.-Mrs. Ward, dead;
John Ward, fatally: Johnson Shelton,
fatally: two unknown women dead.
West Plains, Mo.-John Tompkins
and boy, badly injured.
Steelville, Mo.-Charles Adair,
dead; ID. NJ. Green, dead; five I'M
known.
Page City, Mo.-Daisy Stanly, col
ored, dead: A. H.. Kelly and wife, may
die: Hugh Elroy, fatally injured; VIM.
Williams, terribly burned under a
stove: Mabel Hutchinson, dying.
As if this horrible roll were not
enough, the storm left little for the
survivors TO begin life over again
with. Houses, barns, stock, every
thing was swept before the storms
fury.
Al Hawkins Bank the scene was
most horrible. Ahrat 80 citizens
from Salem, including all the doctors,
went down as soon as word reached
there OF the disaster, and many Of
them are still there, as they are
needed there TO nurse the wounded
and care for the dead. When the re-
lief reached there not a soul in the
place had had a morsel to eat for "a
hours, as provisions, cock stoves, etc,
were all blown away. Farmers from
the surrounding country came nobly
10 their assistance, and many are now
being cared for in the immediate
vicinity of the bank. AT one farm
house there were IL persons wounded.
In one Of the cottages a sad scene
was enacted. Mrs. Wilson was living
in sight Of her dying baby and calling
on the doctors TO save its life, not
thinking that when the little ones
life went out hers would shortly Join
1T. a special train from st. Louis.
bringing Wm. Lee, president of the
blast furnace company, and corps of
doctors from Steelville, arrived there
that evening at 6 o'clock and are
doing 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 there will promptly
respond.
News has reached there from Texas
county saying much damage has been
done and several lives lost in that
place. The story of the wreck az
Lexington has been TOLD i'm these dis
patches before. The wounded there
are doing well, though there NAV be
additions to the death roll in one az
two instances.
At H~igginsyille. Mo-, eight persons
were killed outright and three more
VIII probably die from their wounds
and % were wounded. Those killed
outright Were: Mrs. Mary Lake and
two brothers, two children of VIM.
Walker, Hugh McElroy, Mrs. A. II.
Kelly. Joseph Breuggen. Mrs. John
Breuggen is reported killed, but No
definite information about her is OBJ.
tainable: The fatally injured are
MIS- William Walker, Daisy STAN
ford lcoloredl and Mrs. VIVA. Williams.
DEATHS HARVEST.
A most destructive cyclone passed
through Lexington, No, ACCOMPANIED
BY violent electric storms and a fear