The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-05-02
HALF HUNDRED KILLED
Injured In Kirksville Cyclone
Run Into Scores.
HUNDREDS OF HOMES ARE GONE.

of the Storm-Rescuers Still Searching
Ruins For victims-Number Still Unac-
counted For-Marvelous Stories Told OF
Freaks of the Wind.
KIRKsvILLE. Mo-, April 20.-As a re-
suit of the tornado that swept through
the eastern portion of this city Thursday
evening, demolishing half Of the resi-
dences and other buildings, 200 families
are homeless and nearly 90 dead
bodies and 10 injured persons have been
recovered from the ruins. More than q
dozen of the injured will die. Although
rescuers have been searching the ruins
ever since the storm spent its fury.
many are still missing, and it is thought
that considerable number of the un-
fortunates were consumed in the flames
that broke out soon after the storm had
ceased. The work of rescue continues,
but it may be days before the total num-
Der of victims is known. AS far as
known the names of the dead and in
jured are as follows:
The dead: Mrs. Henry Ellington,
Mrs. A. r. Bowman, Theodore Brig
ham, ex-merchant; Miss Lena Brown
Of Moberly, child of Rev. Albert Burr.
Seth Feather, 9-year-old boy, Mrs. w.
w. Green, A. j. Glasse and wife, J. A.
Glasse and wife, DIR. w. B. Howells,
osteopath; j. B. Larkin, retired mer-
chant; three children of Henry Lowe,
Mrs. John Mahaffey, ST., Mrs. John T.
Mahaffey. child of j. T. Mahaffey, +.
M. McClay and wife, mother and niece
of j. T. Miller, Miss Ora MILAN of
Woodland, Mo-. Mrs. Blue Panschott
and baby, Mrs. III. K Sherburne, Sam
uel Weaver, ex.contractor; Miss Leona
Whaley, DIR. Wheeler, Mrs. Joe Wood,
Mrs. Cal Little, Mrs. Mary Rorabaugh,
Harry Mitchell. j. K. Anderson, DIR.
Billings, Drew Bowman, James Cum
ningham, Mrs. Elliott. Miss Bessie
Green, @. A. Gibbs, Mrs. @. A. Gibbs,
Mrs. Heaman. Miss McClay, John @.
Weaver, Joseph Woods, Mrs. Lou
Mitchell.
Missing: Mr.. Elliot, Mrs. Williams.
Severely injured Miss Della White.
Cal Little's niece, fatal; w. r. Park,
Mrs. Theodore Brigham, legs and chest
crushed; Robert Millay, Miss Weaver,
Mrs. Oliput, Miss Moss. fatal, broken
back; John B. Kirk and wife, Mrs.
Forbes. Mrs. D. d. Feathers. Elmer L.
Dennison and wife, Mrs. NJ. F. Her.
non, Cal Little, serious; Herman K.
Sherburne, head injured; o. H. Bee
mans child, Mrs. P. Hill, leg broken
and otherwise crushed; John Gender,
slight; Oscar Ingold and brother, Mrs.
w. B. Howell and child, dangerous;
Norman Yankee of Sedalia, Mrs. w.
H. Vincent, Mrs. Ella Weaver, both
legs broken; Daniel McGonigle, John
T. Mahaffey's daughter, Ben A. Bow
mans daughter, 7. j. Miller and whole
family injured, Mrs. w. H. Philips,
serious; Mrs. Mnnson, V. Brig.
ham, serious, Stella Weaver, Joe
Weaver. George Weaver, Ella Weav-
er, M. A. Romijue, Price Romijue,
H. E. Myers, Miss Cupp, j. E. Ashforth,
j. w. Brown. Mrs. Lula Byrnes, M.
Shney and wife, Mrs. Glenn, Thomas
Dinsmore and wife, Mrs. Wheeler Doug
lass, Charles Douglass and sons. Mrs. j.
B. Hobson, j. B. Kirk, Willie Kellogg,
Hollis Kellogg, g. Kellogg. Mrs.
Oliphant. Mr.. and Mrs. Peck, Mrs.
DIR. Howell, Albert Whaley. Mrs. Rowe
and daughter, D. Skraggs, P. B.
Warren. Mrs. o. Miller and child, Mrs.
N. johnson, Mrs. Sarah Reiger, Miss
Belle Mahaffey, 1. Coontleld and wife.
Cuts Path Through Residence Section.
The tornado struck the city when
most of the residents We're at supper,
cutting clean path one mile long and
600 feet wide through the residence
section and leaving death and destruc-
ton in its wake. Buildings were de-
molished or twisted apart and scattered
to the four winds. A conservative esti-
mate places the aggregate amount of
damage at 100000, the individual
losses ranging from 500 to $4,000.
The wind played many pranks and
there were some miraculous escapes,
j. T. Coonfield and his family were
eating supper when the tornado struck
their home. The house was picked up
and carried across q slough and dumped
up against hill. The building was not
completely wrecked and the family es-
capped without anything worse than a
severe shaking up. Houses on both
sides of the residence of w. M. Hull
were blown into splinters, but the wind
was content with twisting his house off
its foundation and leaving it intact.
The house was in the center of the dis
trict and it was used as a hospital after
the storm. Among the first of the
buildings wrecked was the elegant $1O,-
600 residence of Mrs. Mary Hensley in
the southeastern part Of the city. Not
q vestige Of it is left. The Catholic
church, fine brick structure in the
northeastern part, was unroofed and
otherwise damaged. The large dwell
ing Of Judge Andrew Ellisons in the
same locality, was stripped of it's sec.
ond story. The residence of H. Lowell
just outside Of town, was twisted into
q heap of ruins and three of his chill.
dren buried in the debris and killed.
Other large residences were lifted from,
their foundations and literally torn
into kindling wood.
twenty-five doctors from Moberly