Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-06-01
MEXICO MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JUNE l. 1893

property was washed away and the
kilns were severely damaged.
The electric light house at the
depot was damaged slightly.
The storm was severe in the vi
cinity of Youngs Creek. The crops
are damaged considerable.
| There was no serious damage done
at Fulton.
Andrew Pihale, of Martinsburg,
was in Mexico next afternoon, buy
ing window glass for his hardware
store in Martinsburg. The storm
damaged his store-house consider
ably.
The Presbyterian church of Mex
leo was flooded with water and the
officers are arranging either to build
a new church or at least put on a
new roof.
Rev. Mr.. Barker's barn was blown
down and although it was full of
horses none were injured.
Thurston Duncan reports con-
siderable damage from the storm at
Moberly where he was at the time.
Several houses were unroofed and
some buildings at the fair ground
were blown down.
The shaft G. c. Davis was sinking
on his farm for coal caved in and
will have to be dug out again. The
workmen were within six feet ofcoal
when it caved in.
Ben James had one fine colt and
one hundred head of sheep to
drown by the storm Thursday night.
1t seems to be fated that Worces-
ter should be caught IN all the
storms.
Information from near Santa Fe
reports that hail fell in some places
four inches deep.
Kelly Pool, of Centralia, was here
and reported that no great damage
was done at his town, although it
rained fearfully hard and the wind
blew severely.
| Sturgeon experienced no severe
damage from last nights storm, that
is, none has been reported.
Many of the inhabitants of the
lower portion of Flat Rock were COM
PEELED to abandon their homes and
seek refuge.
The branch down by R. E. FL
liot's pottery presented raging
and angry scene about II O'Clock.
The fences and movable objects
were washed away.
| On Thursday night, May 25th,
1898, Lee McFaddin and Mrs. Laura
Matthews were married by Rev.
J. FL. Jackson. Mrs. Matthews is a
daughter of Thomas Board, of this
city, and Mr.. McFaddin is men,
Der of the real estate firm of Cluster
e. McFaddin. He is an active, ener-
getic young business man. Lee
was very sly about his marriage.
Several of his friends have been
suspecting the fact but he even
tually fooled them all. He did not
secure his license until after the
evening papers went to press and
was married and gone before any of
his friends could congratulate him.
Mr.. and Mrs. McFaddin will in a
few days visit the Worlds Fair and
eastern cities.
The result of the storm is more
serious in the way of loss to crops
land stock than at first supposed, and
as the returns come in from distant
portions of the county we find that
thousands Of dollars damage will be
the result. The farmers of Audrain
county will have to bear the brunt
of this storm, as they do almost all
of the storms. The loss of life will
not be as large as at first reported
while the damage to crops and stock
will be more than anticipated and
will be even larger than reported by
the papers, as fully two-thirds of the
loss will never be found out by the
reporters.
| Mr.. J.W Mccormick suffered loss
to the amount of over 5000. His Or
chards were both ruined, his house
damaged and his outbuildings were
completely torn down. A wagon box
was blown off the wagon and has
never been found, although Mr.. Nc
Cormick traced it over a mile.
The residence of Alex. Paris was
blown from the foundation and his
outbuildings were entirely destroy
ed.
The residence of /. Matthews was
blown down and he was injured
slightly. Two lady members of his
family were blown some $50 yards
lby the wind but, miraculous to state,
were not injured.
John Spotswood informs us that
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