El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-28
TERRIBLE CYCLONE
Caused the Loss of a Hundred Lives
and Millions of Property
In Missouri.

Caused the Loss of a Hundred Lives
and Millions of Property
In Missouri.
KIRKSvILLE, Mo-, April 28.-Thie
/ town and the section of the country
| in which it is located was swept by q
terrible cyclone yesterday afternoon.
The storms path was a quarter of q
mile in width and its power was terri
fic. Wherever 1t passed it left behind
q track of desolation and ruin. Nearly
| five hundred substantial business
buildings and homes we're laid low in
an instant and many bodies were
buried beneath the ruins where the
life was crushed out of them.
The storm in all it's fury burst upon
Kirksville at $50 O'Clock. In half
hour it's work was complete. 1t was
followed by intense darkness, and a
| heavy rainfall and the terror stricken
survivors commences d in the gloom to
search for the bodies of the dead and
dying. Soon fires broke out in dozen
places and the wreckage was lighted
up by the glare. -
A partial list of the killed is as fol-
lows: William B. Howells, student of
the American school of osteopathy;
Mrs. w. 81. Sherburn, wife of student
OF school of osteopathy; James Weav-
er. retired contractor; Theodore Brig
ham, merchant; Ed. Beeman, Mrs. W.
W. Green and daughter, Miss Bes-
sic; Mrs. Henry Ellington, A
W. Glaze, Mrs. A. W.
Glaze, Mrs. Ben Green. Mrs John Lar
kin, Sr., G A Gibbs, Mrs. G A Gibbs A
G Beal, ] Cunningham, Mrs. Mitchell,
Mrs. T A Mahaffey, Mrs. G. Woods,
Mrs. A Little, Mr.. A Little, Mr.. Joe
Woods, Mrs. Joe Woods, Mr.. A W
Rainschott. Mrs. A W Rsinschott, Mr..
Beck, Mr.. Anderson, Mr.. Stephens, DR..
Billings. Col. Little and family, Mrs.
Penschott and child.
Known injured: Mr.. and Mrs. DIM
son, Mrs. Hobson, Harry Mitchell,
Mary Mitchell. Miss Evans, Sam
Weaver, Will Parks, two Ingalls,
brothers, Willis Kellogg, Hollis Kel-
logg.
Reported injured: Maud Waddell, |
Mrs. T. Bullock, Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. |
Kirk, A. L. Peal. W s. Smith, Mrs |
Heunons. Mrs. Millen, Duain Mills, |
Ernest Mills, Andrew Roberts, Esther |
Little, Ina Green, VIM. Bragg, Mrs.
John Barley, A. G. Bowman, Mrs.
Mary Rohran, A. T. Cook, Beeman,
Child, Aubury Green.
Reports from Newton, Mo, ana from
Onawa, Iowa. says that many people
we're killed at those points by the
wind.
Death and desolation reign in
today. The weeping of the
orphaned and the widowed min giles
with the moans OF the wounded, while
scores OF surgeons, physicians and
nurses are performing their missions of |
mercy. The search for victims of the
awful cyclone continued through |
the night and with the COM
ing of dawn scores of those who were
fortunate enough to escape the fury OF |
The wind Joined the faithful night |
workers in the task of putting aside |
i'm ber, stone and brick in their en-
1eavor to bring to the dead and wound
I'd.
Physicians snd nurses from nearby
,ities are coming into Kirksville in all
sorts OF conveyances. The actual num-
Der of dead is st II unknown at q. m.
Thirty bodie have thus far been re-
covered.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 2S.-News
rom various points in Missouri where
asst nights cyclone struck shows that
;he dead number over q hundred and
'he destruction .of property will run
nto the millions