Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-05-04
OVER SIXTY KILLED.
Terrible Tornado Visits Kirksville
and Newtown, Northern Missouri.
More Than Two Hundred Buildings In
Kirlsville Demolished and the Country
Adjacent Was Devastated Death
LIST at NewtOwn Reaches II.

Kirlsville, Mo-, April 2O,-At noon
to-day it was estimated that the death
list from the tornado which visited this
place Thursday evening is about 80,
and that between 400 and 500 people
were injured. City officials said that
these were simply approximate figures
and that it will be several days before
n definite casualty list can be secured.
Telegraph wires were down in all
directions and Interruptions were so
frequent during the day that only
meager information could be sent. The
known dead are rs follows;
Mr., Anderson, A. G. Beal, Ed Beeman, boy;
DR.. Ellington Mrs, Henry Ellington, Mrs.
Bowman Theodore Brigham, merchant; Mrs.
Theodore Brigham, Mrs. Condor, James Cum
ningham Q. A. Gibbs Mrs. c. A. Gibbs, A.
w. Glasee, Mrs, A, w, GlaSee Mrs, Ben Green,
Mrs w. w, Green. Miss Bessie Green, daugh-
ter OF Mrs, w. w, Green; Mrs, Melinda Hell
min Mrs, Hills William 49, Howells, student
American School of osteopathy; Mr.. and Mrs,
Kirk, Mrs, John Larltin, Sri Col. Little and
family Of four Henry Lowe and three chill
dren Mrs, II, Mahafey, Mrs. Miller, Harry
Mitchell, Mrs, Mitchell, Mr., and Mrs. Jean PEN
sholt, Mr.. Peck, A, w, Rainschott, Mrs, A. w.
Ralnschott, Mrs. w. II. Sherbourn, wife Of stu
dent Of Osteopathy college; Mrs, c. Il. Steven
son. James Weaver, retired contractor; Alma
williams, Joe Woods Mrs, Joe Woods, Mrs Q.
Woods, Mrs Leona Whaley.
The tornado which wrought such de-
struction struck this town at 6:20 in the
evening when most people were at sup
per- The entire east side of the city
was wiped clean. Over 200 buildings,
homes and stores, were leveled. A
heavy rain followed the cyclone and
the debris of wrecked buildings took
fire in several places, lighting the way
for the rescuers. Mayor Noonan, who
has been active in rescue work, esti-
mates that the death list may reach
100. The cyclone approached Kinks
Vile from the south, somewhat west,
and missed the heart of the city by two
or three blocks.
Reports from the country districts
state that many farmers have suffered
severely and that several lives have
been lost outside of Kirksville. Henry
Lowe and three children, living three
miles north of the town. were crushed
to death beneath their demolished
home. The other members of the fam
lily escaped. Other fatalities are re-
ported from the country, but no names
are given.
Newtown Also Visited by the Storm.
Chillicothe, Mo-, April 29,--The latest
reports from Newtown, in Sullivan
county, which was visited by last
nights tornado, are that Is persons
were killed and more than 25 were in
jured, some of them, it is believed,
fatally. A corrected list of the dead,
so far as can be learned, is as follows:
s. Desper, wife and three children;
Laren Evans and two daughters; Will
liam Hays, wife and child. The entire
eastern half of the town was destroyed.
The path of the storm was about 500 or
600 feet wide and hardly a dwelling in
its course escaped. Frame houses were
lifted from their foundations and
crushed like egg shells. The more sub
stantial buildings were partly wrecked
and so persons at least are homeless.
The storm blew down the telegraph
wires in and about the city and washed
away the bridge over Medicine creek,
small stream just south of the town.
A terrific electrical storm followed
the tornado and the excitement was
intense. Women and children ran
about the streets shriel1ing for their pa
rents and loved ones and men searched
the ruins, in the drenching rain, hop
ing to locate the bodies of victims.
Houses of survivors were thrown open
to those who were rendered homeless,
and everything possible was done to
care for the injured. The Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul depot, stock
yards and ten palace stock cars were
completely demolished. Fully one
third of the business portion of the city
was destroyed.