The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-28
Town OF KirkSViN6 fl
most Demolished.
OTHER CITIES SUFFERED
Path a Quarter of a Mile Wide
Swept Clean.
FULL LIST OF CASUALTIES
Impossible to Obtain Last Night Owing
to Debris.
MORE THAN 1000 WERE INJURED
Many Students Thought to Be Included
in the Dead, as the School of
Oste pathy Was One of Build
ings Destroyed.

Kirksville, Mo-, April 27.-A gathering
storm that had been threatening all the
afternoon broke upon Kirksville at $40
O'Clock tonight in all the fury of a cyclone.
A path a quarter of a mile VIDE. and as
clean as the prairie was swept through the
eastern portion of the city, and 400 build
ings, homes and mercantile establishments,
were leveled to the ground in scattered
ruins.
In the heavy rain that followed the peo-
pie who had escaped turned out to rescue
the injured. For two hours not much was
accomplished, as all was confusion. but by
8 o'clock twenty-five dead bodies had been
taken from the ruins. 1t is confidently ex-
pected that the list of dead will reach be-
tween fifty and sixty, If it does not exceed
that. Almost 1000 people were more or less
injured. Daylight will be necessary before
an adequate estimate of loss of life and
property can be had. Each blanched face
reports a new calamity.
Intense darkness prevailed after the cy-
clone. No attempts were made to extin-
guish the fires, partly because the res
cuers had no time and partly because of
the need of light. On both sides of the
storms path the debris was piled high and
burned fiercely.
Struck Eastern Portion
The storm first struck the eastern part
of the city near that part occupied by the
boarding houses of the students of the
American School of Osteopathy, state nor
NAL school and McWards seminary 1t
was just supper time for the students and
se, rl1& Ill
will be well filled with students, as large
number of these boarding houses were de-
molished.
AS far as known tonight none of these
three institutions of learning escaped the
storm. The storm then went northwest and
wiped out Pattersons nursery, pulling the
trees out of the ground and hurting them
through the city. A second edition of the
cyclone followed the first, twenty minutes
later. 1t came as an inky cloud widely dis
tributed, and covered the Whole town but
passed above the houses, doing no material
damage and gathering fury it went.
1t undoubtedly struck the ground a few
miles out of Kirksville.
Kent's undertaking establishment is being
used as the charnel house and score of
the dead are now there, some of them
unidentified.
Other Lives Lost
Reports coming from the country dis
tricts state that many farmers have suf-
fered severely and that several lives have
been lost outside of Kirksville. The home
of Henry Lowe, three miles north of town,
was demolished and Mr.. Lowe and three
children were crushed to death Other
members of the family escaped.
Other fatalities are reported from the
country, but no names are given.
The list of killed in the cyclone tonight
SO FAR as known is as follows: William b.
Howells, student American School of Os-
teopathy; Mrs. w. H. Sherbourn, wife of
student School Osteopathy; James S. War
ner, contractor; Theodore Brigham, mer-
chant; Ed Beeman, boy; Mrs. W. W. Green
and daughter, Miss Bessie, Mrs. H. Bill
lington, A. w. Glasee, Mrs. A. W. Glasee,
MS. Ben Green, Mrs. John Larkin, Sr,
Mrs. T. Mahaffy, Mrs. c. Woods, A. Little
Mrs. A. Dole, Joe Woods, Mrs. Joe Woods,
Mrs. A. w. Rainschoot, A. w. Rainschoot
G. A. Gibbs, Mrs. c. A. Gibbs, A. C. Beat
James Cunningham, Mrs. Mitchell.
Reported killed: Mr.. Peck, Mr.. Anderson,
Mr.. Stephens. DR.. Billings, Colonel Little
and family, Mrs. Penschott and child.
Known injured: Mr.. ara Mrs. Dreyston,
Mrs. Hobson, Harry Mitchell, Mary Mitch
ell, Miss Evans, Sam Weaver, Will Parks,
two ingalls, brothers, Willis Kellogg Hol-
lis Kellogg.
Reported injured; Maud Waddell, Mrs.
T. Bullock, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Kirk, A.
l.. Peal, w. s. Smith, George Hennons,
Mrs. Millien, Mrs A. Miller. Duan Mills,
Earnest Mills, Andrew Roberts, Esther Lit
tie, Ina Green, William Bragg Mrs. John
Barley, A. c. Bowman Mrs. Mary Ro-
rahn, A. r. Cook, - Beeman, child, Au-
bury Green.