The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-29


cuts; Miss Eva Douglas. normal stu
dent, leg broken, chest bruised; Frank
Douglas, both arms and legs dislocated,
forearm fractured; Mack Dwyer Ster-
man French, badly lacerated and
bruised: Mr.. Cross, Aubrey Green, IL
years old, jaw broken: Mrs. Sam Ham
ilton, bruised and cut; Mrs. Shelton
Hamilton, arm fractured Mrs. J. D.
Hull. skull fractured, seriously; Mrs.
King, Mrs. John Larkins. badly
bruised: Mrs. Henry Low. Becky Nc
Mimi, slight internal injuries: Miss
Mary Mitchell, Miss Ida Milay, bruised
about head and face; Miss Etna Milay,
child. internal injuries: Mrs. r. T. Mi
| lay head and face bruised; daughter
of w. r. Park. slightly injured about
| face: James Rogers, slight cuts; John
| Ryan. arm badly bruised; Aug. Ryan,
head and shoulders crushed, will die;
Clarence Stearns and mother, badly
bruised on body; Mrs. Will Smith,
shoulder hurt; Miss Effie Vesta, body
bruised will recover; Mrs. Waddell
bruises, not fatal; Benny Weaver, child,
injured internally; Thomas Whaley,
bruised about head.
Heartrending Stories.
| Stories of the victims are heartrend-
| ing.
DR.. Howells, his wife and three little
| boys crouched in their home in a group.
was left dead. the mother injured and
| the children more or less hurt.
| Mrs w. W. Green and her daughter,
| Miss Bessie. assistant in the State Nor
| NAL school, We're crushed in their home
| and the bodies were found in the wreck
| age. A little son. Aubray, was found
| to-day, severely injured.
The Weaver family of eight saw the
| storm coming, but stood calmly by the
chair of John c. Weaver, the aged in
valid father The house was torn to
fragments. The old man was crushed
| in his chair and the others We're
| knocked senseless. Ella Weavers legs
We're both broken. The aged mother
was not hurt. Joseph Weaver, his wife
and baby and brother Samuel were ter
ribly bruised
The Webster family of three were
carried in the debris of their cottage
! for several hundred yards and were
dropped, not badly hurt.
Blue Parshott. Wabash railroad
| section hand. came home after the
storm and found his wife beheaded,
with her dead babe in her arms. He
was discovered an hour later with one
! dead form embraced in each arm and
| crazed with grief.
! While John Mccall was holding on
to sapling at the skirt of the cyclone,
a 12-year-old boy, John Gebgardt
came down on him from the sky. He
| caught and saved the boy, whose home
had been demolished some two blocks
away.
At Henry Nichols farm, just out of
town, in the path of the storm another
man was seen carried up hundred
feet from the ground. The body has
not yet been found.
Miss Whaley was impaled in the
bowels upon flying tree limb. Sur
geons sawed it off at both ends, fearing
| tn ren,ptn If She lived two hours
In Each Others Arms.
A. ]. Glazee and wife met death in
each others arms. House rubbish COW
cred them entirely. He was a retired
capitalist. In his pockets were found
$4,000
Rev and Mrs Theo. Brigham, promi-
nent in M. f. circles for evangelical
work, were crushed by flying missiles.
Mrs. Brigham will die.
Hunter Lowe, farmer. and his wife
were overtaken by the cyclone in a
buggy. half a mile from their home.
They were blown out of their vehicle
and badly hurt. A moment later they
beheld their home demolished and their
three children went with it to destruc-
| tion.
w. A. Smiths house collapsed upon
his family. He dug his way out and
rescued his wife and two children
Seventeen persons fled from five houses
to 15-foot storm cellar: these five
houses We're blown from them.
The tornado struck the city last even
ing when most of the residents We're al
supper, cutting a clean swath one mile
long and 600 feet wide through the resi-
dence section and leaving death anC
destruction in it's wake. Buildings were
demolished or twisted apart and scat
tered to the four winds. A conservative
estimate places the aggregate amour
! Of 4 l,a ind yil
losses ranging from $100 to $4,000.
Miraculous Escapes.
The wind played many pranks an6
there We're some miraculous escapes
j. r. Confied and his family We're eat
ing supper when the tornado struck
their home. The house was picked uI
and carried across slough and dumped
up against hill. The building was MOI
completely wrecked and the family es
capped without anything worse than {
severe shaking up. Houses on botf
sides of the residence of w. M. Hui
were blown into splinters but the vino
was content with twisting his house
off its foundation and leaving it in
tact. The house was in the center o
the district and it was used as a hospi
tai after the storm.
F. J. Grieger, a prominent attorney
ran right into the path of the storm
To save his family, who We're helples!
with fear. Dashing into the house, h
. carried his wife and children into TIL,
cellar AS he stumbled into the plac,
of safety the building was leveled tt
the ground. He was just in time t
save his loved ones and is happy. al
though his loss by the cyclone amount
to So 000
Among the first of the buildings
wrecked was the elegant 900 resi-
dence of Mrs. Hensley, in the south
western part of the city. Not vestig'
is left. The Catholic church, a fin
brick structure in the eastern part, wa
unroofed and otherwise damaged.
| The dwelling of Albert Ellison wa
stripped of its second story. He ant
his family and John DOheny tool
refuge in the cellar and were saved
The residence of H. Lowell, just out
l side of town, was twisted into a heal
f of ruins and three of his children klleC
= and burned in the debris Other larg
residences We're lifted from their foun
datiOns and literally torn into kindlins