The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-04-18
MISSOURpS MISERY.
Details Of Tuesdays Frightful
Storm Still Coming In.
Dwellings Wrecked and Hu.
man Life Lost at Licking
ton, MAYHEM and
Other Points.
sALEM's DREAD FATE.

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SALEM, Mo-, April 13.-The people
of this city were startled Tuesday eve
ming by an Ominous looking cloud
coming from the southwest, but which
missed this city. passing about four
miles to the west on Dry Fork, where
the storm struck, completely demol-
ishing everything in its track.
Among the losers from the cyclone
are : John Thompson, house and barn;
Marcus Player, house unroOfed and
barn blown away; Mary johnson,
houses and barns unroOfed; Jack
Welch, stables and hay stacks de-
>troyed; David Davidson, house and
barns wrecked; Manly Mitchell, house
and barn and granaries blown away
and stock killed, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Mitchell were injured by fall
ing timbers; Jas. Wafard, house,
barn, farming machinery destroyed
was badlv injured. Andy ALI and H.
A. BeI.ne,t both lost houses and
harms: j. y. Pearman, house and
barns destroyed and Mrs. Pearman
badly injured; Geo. Thomas. Bart
Luster, Mrs. Motslnger and Thomas
Plank all lost houses and barns.
From here the storm seemed to
travel in a northeasterly direction and
the honse of j. NJ. Redwine was RACED
! 10 the ground and Mrs. Redwine
badly injured, as was also Mrs.
Brailes, who was visiting there.
The houses and barns of Sam Tune,
John Frank, Mrs. Julia, johnson,
George Cannon, John Norville, Henry
Brown, Robert Chumley, Drew and
VIM. Grubb, were the next in the
path of the storm and were entirely
swept away.
The next sufferer was Hawkins
Bank, mining town containing per-
haps $50 souls and some 40 houses, Of
which only two remain standing, and
they are badly wrecked.
\ correspondent: visited this place
to-day. In every direction men, wo-
mon AMI children were homeless and
,ce.ne.. distracted, so thoroughly did
the cyclone do its work. The large
store building of the Midland blast
furnace was not spared and the goods
were strewn all over the country. The
residence of Superintendent Condray
of the mines, in which were 10 people,
was entirely demolished. None of the
inmates were killed. although Mr..
Condray was bruised, as was William
Condray, a son. The balance of the
houses in the place were small and
easily blown down and the contents
we're total loss, representing every
thing the miners could call their own.
At this place seven persons were
killed and many were badly wounded.
Hardly any person escaped. The list
Of the killed is as follows:
At Hawkins Bank the dead are:
William Asher, with baby in his
arms.
Andrew Lay.
Mrs. James Wilson.
Mrs. William Asher.
John ID. Lay.
John Dill and unknown three
months old child.
The following were fatally injured
at the same place:
Mrs. Clarence Jacob.
Mrs. B. Jerry.
Two sons of John Wilson, and Mrs.
Henry Brown and child.
Those seriously injured were David
Williams and wife.
DIR. H. H. Browne.
Clarence Jacob.
Henry Lay.
John Condray and daughter.
james Shumate and wife.
Il. Jerry.
Mrs. VIM. Condray.
Ira Lease, wife and step-mother.
Mrs. John Dill.
l.. l.. Dabney.
John Wilson.
Andy Handy, wife and six children.
CENTRALIA.
CENTRALIA, Mo-, Apr. ia de-
structive storm passed over this city
Tuesday night about midnight,
doing an immense amount of damage.
The storm came from the Southwest
and swept diagonally through the city.
The stores Of Potts Bros. and the
Mercantile Company were partly
unroofed and the plate glass windows
blown out. John Blanchards two
story implement house was torn to
pieces, The Baptist church ana
Beacheis livery stable were partially
unroofed. George McCallisters
dwelling was badly wrecked and
Jonas McCallister was blown out of
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