Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-04-13
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND MAR.
RON ESCAPES FROM LOSS
OF LIFE.
The NJ. NJ. A. and Other Buildings
Suffer Loss-The Damage Ex-
tends Over a Large
Territory.

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electric storm than a tornado. The
damage, while not serious here, COW
cred a great deal of territory. The
Missouri Military Academy suffered
the severest loss in this imme-
diate locality. The southwest
gable of the Missouri Military Acad-
envy was blown in; there is no in
suranee. The damage, Col. Fleet
thinks, will beelose to 81 900. Prof.
Thornburg and vile and two cadets,
the Sheets brothefs, of Chiuicothe,
Mo-, had a narrow escape from
death. When the crash came the
two Sheets boys jumped out of bed,
one OF them being struck by a flying
brick as he escaped, and the bed was
literally crushed. If they had re-
manned in bed they would have been
seriously injured if not killed. Prof.
Thornburg and wife remained in bed
and the bricks and timbers filled
every other portion of the room. If
they had gotten out of bed to escape
they would have been seriously if
not fatally injured. A large num-
Der of our people, especially those
in the Opera House were very much
frightened. Many sought shelter in
their cellars. The following are some
of those who suffered from the
storm:
One side of Haskell's wagon shop
was blown in. Damage slight.
A portion of the roof of JamesG Car
rett's residence was blown off.
VIM. Coons' fence and outhouses
were blown away.
Some of the shutters on the Court
House were blown of.
The chicken house and smoke
house of VIM. Huff were picked up
and carried a hundred yards and
destroyed.
Nearly a mile of fence was
blown away from George Morris
place. His ice house was demol-
ished.
The porch of Capt. Dix's house,
on Promenade street, was blown
down.
The crowd in. the Opera House
came near having a stampede by
the storm. The play, ga Breezy
Time" vas interrupted by a sure
enough breezy time.
MI. C.M. Lakeland, who returned
from the west to-day, says that seven
persons were killed and quite a num-
Der injured by the storm near Hig-
~ginsville, Mo. Heealso says that prop
erty was greatly damaged.
The large doors on G. F. Clark's
big barn were blown off and a lot of
fencing torn away.
In east Mexico. w. Prices wood
house and the fences on the old
Saunders place and also on the West
place were completely torn down.
James Abbay's kitchen was dam
aged.
The large barn on the Robinson
farm, 10 miles north of town, was
completely wrecked. The farm is
owned by Bob Johnson and oceu-
pied by Taz johnson.
The roof was blown off of DR.. H.
K. Hinde's elegant residence, 6
miles northwest of town. The house
was otherwise damaged
A barn on the Bob Graham place
Just south Of Mexico, was destroyed.
A portion of the roof of Maj.
Ricketts, house was blown off.
The large stock sheds belonging
to Joe Potts were blown down.
Two or three chimneys on Hardin
College were destroyed.
Lamartine Lakeland g fine barn
was unroofed and seriously dam
aged.
Andy Luckie and family, James
McWilliams and family and many
others went to their cellars when the
wind came up.
There was a large number of cows
tied in the barn on the Bob Graham
place south Of town and while the
barn was destroyed only n OF the
cows was injured at all.
Caleb Berry had about FIVE hun.
dred panels of fence blown down,
and Martin Kunkel's fence was bad.
} ly damaged. The wind out in the
vicinity of Worcester was very severe.
THE CYCLONE IN OTHER PLACES.
: A cyclone passed over southern
Kansas and the towns of Wilds
I Everetts and Powhattan were laid
Y waste.
8 Akron and Westfield of northern
] Iowa, and Page, Neb., were struck
: by a wind storm. A man and biz
wife were killed on one farm and in
9 jury to property was quite extensive
Paris, Texas, suffered ~severel.
! from a wind storm.
Page City. No., was visited by
cyclone on Tuesday night about
O'Clock. Many houses were destroy
ed and several people killed. MIR
William Walker and two childrel
were instantly killed. Page City j
a a little hamlet on the Lexingtol
2 Branch of the Missouri Pacific rail
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