Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-05-28
The very latest reports from S

The very latest reports from St.
Louis estimate the killed at 1,100.
The report from Kansas City that
400 were killed there has been denied.
A. L. Powell, night operator at the
Union depot, has the thanks of the
LEDGER for valuable courtesies.
The loss of property is terrible, but
not to be considered when you think
of the number killed.
1t is horrible to think of helpless
school children being literally torn to
pieces.
The La Crosse Lumber Co.'s tele-
phone was in great demand last night
and to-day to get the news from the
east end.
Mr.. Browning came through Van
dalia from Chicago to-day and says
several houses were blown down in
the east end of the county.
The safest place to go IN case of a
cyclone is the Union passenger sta
tion-it will never be touched.
Father Dempsey returned this
morning from Ned Hagan's, north of
Rush Hill. He says Riley Hagan, a
young man, is seriously hurt, and Lee
Hagan is injured but not seriously.
They were both patching on their
farm.
Mayor B. G. johnson has called a
mass meeting of the citizens at 1880
to- might at the Court House to send
relief to cyclone sufferers.
Little Lulu Blase died from her in
juries last night.
Mrs. John Atkins measured a hail
stone which fell in her yard south of
Mexico on Wednesday which was A by
Az inches.
At the Dye school house not one of
the twenty-three pupils escaped in
juries of some nature.
L. G. Cove and S. P. Emmons left
St. Louis last night about IL O'Clock
and they report terrible scenes of dis
aster there. The new convention hall
was blown in two and all the plate
glass windows in the wholesale houses
were blown out. Most of the destruc-
ton of life was in east and south st.
Louis and is estimated at 1920. All
of the street al lines except the cable
are disabled-wires all down.
Tom Helms farm house north OF
Mexico was blown down and Tom has
not been heard from, but it Is thought
he will turn up all right.
The loss of property in Audrain
will not exceed that of 1891, but the
loss of life is greater on account oil
the two school houses being struck
while the children were in the build
ings.
24S WINDOW LIGHTS BROKEN.
The hail storm yesterday broke
24s panes of glass at the Green House
None of the plants were badly dam
3 aged.
AS LARGE AS GOOSE EGGS
Horace Mundy and Tom Northern
returned fromAuxvasse Mo, YESTERDAY
! afternoon, and say that hailstones al
large as goose eggs fell there.
= A BIO UP WEST.
There was quite a wind storm yes
I terday afternoon between Renick ant
Clark. Several telegraph poles were
Z blown down and houses unroofed. NJ
, one was injured.
y WEIGHED ONE OUNCE.
j. F. Llewellyn weighed one of the
largest hail stones which fell yesterda,
afternoon and found its weight to b'
one n The storm was evidently
q of the 16 to 1 variety.
DIR. E. S. Cave measured a hail ston'
: that fell in front of Shireman's cloth
ing store that was FIVE inches round
: Joe Weimer says he picked up a hal
d stone weighing owe a pound.
THE CYCLONE OF 1891.
=, The terrible cyclone that passe'
: over this section FIVE years ago is sti
remembered wildly. The Afternoon
b was sultrv, the heat being excessive
q This city was scarcely disturbed b
the wind and it was not known
town that serious damage had beef
10 done in the country until runners ar
is rived half an hour later.
d The killed on this fearful occasio
were Balsen Kunkel, an infant daugh
III ter of John Doerge, and Home
l. Rogers, of near Centralia.
The seriously injured were MISSES
at and daughter, Miss Gertie Fletcher
Iy now living in this city, and a daughte
l. of Mr.. Doerge. There were a numb'
of others injured, more or less, and tt
damage to property and grown
to crops was attempted to be e
al timated.
The residences of Frank Carter, Ri
ia lie Powell, Baisen Kunkel, Georl
NJ Craue, Joe Kendall, Mr.. Yostemeye
10 s. 8. Norris and T. B. Ham were blow
away. The condition of the atmo
M phere was much the same as expe
fenced Wednesday. 1t IL seldom &
case that q cyclone visits so near t
ID. same region twice.
tn DYE SCHOOL HoUsE DISASTER.
IL Special Dispatch to the Ledger
in RUSH HILL, Mo-, May H.-The c
I clone struck the Dye school hout
ON north OF here, this afternoon and XII
he ed three children outright child
its Mr.. Hodges, one Of Mr.. Milier's a
ito one of Mr.. Knoeble's. All the Oh
dren in the school house were inlurt
st. several Of them badly. A number We
he blown away and have not yet be
found. JAMES MYERS