Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-05-04

| Della White; Mrs. Peck, fatally; Cal
Little's niece, fatally; W. R. Park
| Mrs. Theo. Brigham, legs and ches
crushed; Robert alillay; Miss Weaver
Mrs. Olivet; Miss Moss, fatally, broker
back; John B. Kirk and wife; Mrs
| Forbes; Mrs. D. D. Feathers; Elmer L
Dennison ann wife; Harry Mitchell
Mrs. Lou Mitchell, leg broken; Cal
Little, serious; Herman X. Sherburne
head injured; o. H. Beeman's child
Mrs. P. Hill, leg broken and otherwise
| crushed; John Conder, slight; Oscar
Ingold and brother; Mrs. w. B. Howell
and child, dangerous; Norman Yankee
Sedalia; Mrs. w. H. Vincent; Mrs
Ella Weaver, both legs broken; DAME
McGonigle; Mrs. Munson; V. Brigham
seriously; Stella Weaver; Joe Weaver;
George Weaver; Ella Weaver; NJ A
Romijue; Price Romijue; S. E. Myers;
Miss Cupp; ]. T. Ashfort; J. w
Brown; Mrs. Lulu Byrns; NJ. Sheey
and wife; Mrs. Glenn; Thomas Dins-
more and wife; Mrs. Wheeler Doug
lass; Charles Douglass and son; Mrs.
j. B. Hobson; ]. B. Clark;
Willis, Hollis and C. Kellogg;
Mrs. Oliphant; Mr.. and Mrs. Peck;
Mrs. DR.. Howell; Mrs. Mary Rora-
baugh; Mrs. Rowe and daughter; D.
S. kraggs; P. B. Warren; Mrs. O..
Miller and child; Mrs. N. Johnson
Mrs. Sarah Reiger; Miss Belle Ma
haffey; 1. Coonfeld and wife; Albert
Whaley; Mrs. NJ F. Hernon.
Missing: Mr.. Elliott; Mrs. Williams
One strange incident of the storm
was the finding of grooming baby out
in a field far from any house. The
child was scarcely scratched. No one
called for the baby and it has not been
identified. Another baby was found
where it had been bruised to death by
the violence of the wind This baby is
also not Identified Among the horrors
of the storm was the finding Of the
corpse of 16-year-old girl, with a two
by four scantling driven through her
body. The BODY of little child was
found with the limb of a tree sticking
through it's neck.
At the call of Mayor Noonan a mass
meeting was held Friday afternoon
and an executive committee appointed
to raise funds and take full charge of
the work Of relief. The district visited
by the storm was recently built UP and
most of the houses were new Very
few of the buildings were insured
against wind. The relief committee
secured donations Of over $1,000 with
in a short time in the afternoon, but
the calamity is so overwhelming that
outside assistance will be needed.
However, the mayors of st. Louis,
Kansas City, Quincy, st. Joseph, Mo-
berly, Macon and several other towns
have already telegraphed offers Of as
sistance. There is some talk of petit
tioning the Legislature for state aid.
No arrangements have yet been made
for the burial Of the dead.
Desolation in Newton.
Chillicothe, Mo-, April 29-Scenes of
utter distress and desolation were
pictured yesterday in the tornado
swept burg of Newton. Fifty families
are homeless, Is dead, 80 injured and
half of the place is in ruins. The
know dead are: S. Desper, wife and
three children; Laban Evans and two
William Hay, wife and two
children. The injured are: Three
children of VIM. Hays; Ellis Evans;
A. J. Jones, wife and two children;
Mrs. Mary Gregory and daughter;
Mrs. Pierce and sister; Mrs. tlagg;
Mrs. Wilson; Mrs. Timsey; Dave
wife and three children; Mr.
and wife; Nose Guyman
and wife; Mrs. Johns. The storm
struck Newton at 6:15 in the evening.
1t cut a swath 600 feet wide through
the best portion of the place. Thirty
houses were torn to sp1inters. On one
street row of ten houses was demol-
ished. Frame buildings we're twist
ed and lifted from their foundations;
one was turned squarely around
while another was turned upside
down. Samuel Desper, at the ap-
pearance Of the black cloud, started
with his family to a neighboring eel
lar, but the house was blown down
over them just as they reached the
front door, Two daughters were
caught by the falling timbers and
killed instantly. His wife was seri-
ously injured, though she is still
alive. Mrs. Hay was running up
street to seek shelter. Her mutilated
trunk with the head missing was
found later. The storm lasted five
minutes It blew down the telegraph
wires in and about the town and
washed away the bridge south Of
town and partly demolished the depot.
Many Buildings Wrecked
Kansas City, April 29.-Advices
from Breckenridge and Carthage, Mo-,
and Mcpherson and Reading, Kansas,
state the tornado did much damage
there, wrecking numerous buildings.