The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-28

May Gregory and two daughters.
Mrs. George and son.
Mrs. Pearson and three children.
Mrs. Flag. l.
Mrs. Wilson.
Mrs. GuiSey.
Dore Stafford, wife and three chill
dren.
NJ c. Crfstine and wife.
Moses Gunison and wife.
The entire eastern half of the town
was destroyed. The path of the storm
was about 500 or 600 feet wide and hard
ly a dwelling in its course escaped.
Frame houses were lifted from their
foundations and crushed like eggShellS.
The more substantial buildings were
partly wrecked and half a hundred per-
sons, at least, are homeless.
The storm blew down the telegraph
wires in and about the city and washed
away the bridge over Medicine creek, a
small stream just south of town.
Traffic on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul is suspended on account of the
destruction of the bridge and high
water
A terrific electrical storm followed and
the excitement was intense. Women
and children ran about the streets
shrieking for their parents and loved
ones, and men searched the ruins, in
the drenching rain, hoping to locate the
bodies of victims. Houses of survivors
were thrown open to those who were
rendered homeless, and everything pos
sible is being done to care for the in
jured.
repair the railroad track leading into
Newtown. The Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul depot stock yards and ten palace
stock cars were completely demolished.
Fully one-third of the business por-
ton of the city was destroyed.
HUNDREDS INJURED.
Kirksville, Mo, April 2S.-At noon to-
day it was estimated that the death
list is about fifty and that between 400
and 500 people were injured. City Off
said these SimDlV D.
proximate figures and that it will be
several days before a definite casualty
list can be secured. Telegraph wires
were down in all directions and inter-
ruptions were so frequent during the
day that only meager information could
be sent.
STORM STRUCK SCHUYLER.
st. Louis April 2s.-A special to the
that a special train has been sent to
Newtown having on board supplies and
physicians for the aid of storm suffer-
ers.
ly torn up by last nights storm and
many persons are reported killed and
injured. The wires are all down and no
accurate reports have been received.
Bridges on the Omaha, Kansas City
& Eastern railroad have been washed
out and the Rock Island tracks in this
vicinity are in bad shape. In Trenton
a portion of the Christian church was
blown down and the telephone system
throughout Grundy county has been
badly wrecked. Many houses were
blown down, but no fatalities are re-
ported.
MISSING AND INJURED.
KirksvfIle, Mo, April 2s-Twenty
people are missing as the result of last
nights storm A partial list of the in
1ured follows:
Cal. Behman and family of seven,
Mrs Thomas Bradan and family of
nine, Mrs Henry Lowe, Aubrey Green,
Mary Mitchell, Sam Weaver, Ella
Weaver, Mrs. S. Weaver, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Kirk, Mrs. John c. Weaver, Miss
Pearl Bohman, Will Philips, j. D.
Brassfield and child, Emma Denniston,
Mrs. ]. r. Anderson, Mrs. Florence
Weaver, A. Thomas, Robert Milay, wife
and daughters Ada and Edna, Clarence
Sternes and mother, James Riggers, AL
bert Whalen. Mrs. Sarah Rfggers, Mrs.
NJ. Cheny, Will Parkes, NJ. c. DWyer,
Mrs. D. D. Feather, Seth Peck, wife
and son, Oscar Ingold, Warren Ingold,
Mrs. King, Mrs. Douglas, Miss K. Moss,
T. Gross, Miss Mahaffy, Andy Rougen.
Price Rougen, Sherman French, Will
Bright, Ira Mahaffy. Mr.. Baker.
On every hand today ambulances are
bearing the dead and injured Those
who passed through the storm say it's
roar and suction deafened everybody in
its path and most of those who escaped
brief periods.
Breckenridge, No, April 2S.-A tor
nado struck this city, wrecking many
small houses, blowing down chimneys
and damaging the flour mill. Wires are
down in many places