The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-05-06
SCORES DEAD
IN MISSOURI.
Tornado Wrecks the Town Of Kinks
vile and Many Lives
Are Lost.
DEATH LIST MAY REACH SIXTY
Twenty-Five Known to Have Per-
ished and a Larger Number
Are Unaccounted For.
LIST MAY REACH SIXTY
OTHER TOWNS SUFFER ALSO
Newton Partly Wrecked aud Fif-
teen Persons Reported Killed
ut That Place---Danage
in the Country.

ST. Louis, April ga special to the
Globe-Democrat from Kirlssvillc, Mo-,
says:
A gathering storm that had been
threatening all afternoon broke upon
Kirksville at GEO o'clock last night in
all the fury of a tornado. A path a
quarter OF Il mile wide and as clean as
the prairie was swept through the
eastern portion of the county, and 400
buildings, homes and mercantile
houses were leveled to the ground in
scattered ruins.
In the heavy vain that followed the
people WHO had escaped turned out to
rescue the injured. For two hours not
much was accomplished, as all was ON
fusion, but by 8 o'clock twenty-five
dead bodies had been taken from the
ruins. 1t is confidently expected that
the list of dead will reach between
fifty and sixty if not exceeding that.
Almost n thousand people We're more
or less injured.
The Dead.
A special to the Globe. Democrat
from Kirksville, Mo-, gives the list of
killed in the cyclone last night, so far
as known, as follows:
WILLIAM B. HOWELLS, student,
American School of osteopathy.
MRS. w. II. SHERBOURN, wife of
student, school of osteopathy. :
JAMES WEAVER, SIR, retired con
tractor.
ED BEEMAN. boy.
NI1pN ~ w II n TSI.N n,l Jn,,nlkn,
MISS BESSIE.
"A. w. GLAZE.
MRS. "A. w. GLAZE.
MRS. BEN GREENE.
MRS. JOHN LARKIN, JR.
MRS. L. MAHAFFEY.
MRS. C. WOODS,
A. LITTLE.
JOE WOODS.
MRS. JOE WOODS.
"A. w. RAINSCHOTT.
c. a. GIBBS.
MRS. C. A. GIBBS.
A. c. BEAL.
JAMES CUNNINGHAM
MRS. MlTHCELL.
Reported killed:
MIR. PECK.
MIR. ANDERSON.
MIR. STEPHENS.
DIR. BILLINGS.
COLONEL LITTLE AND FAMILY.
MRS. PENSCOIT AND CHILD.
Known injured:
Mr.. and Mrs. Deniston, Ernest Mills,
Andrew Roberts, Ella Green, William
Bragg, Mrs. John Barley, A. G. Bow
man, Mrs. Mary Roorhan, A. T. Cook,
- Beeman, child; Aubury Green,
Mrs. Hobson, Harry Mitchell, Mary
Mitchell, Miss Evans, Sam Weaver,
Will Parks, two Ingalls, brothers, vii.
lis Kellogg, Hollis Kellogg.
Intense darkness prevailed after the
storm, and the rescuers were at n dis.
advantage for a short time. until fire
broke out in a dozen places III the
ruins and shed light over the scene
No efforts We're made to extinguish the
fires, partly because the rescuers had
no time, and party because of the need
of the light. On both sides of the
storms path the debris was piled higl
and burned %furiously. In all probable
ity a number of bodies have been in,
cinerated. The storm first struck the
eastern portion of the city near tina
part occupied by the boarding house.
of the students of the American Schoo
of O~steopathy, state normal school ant
McWard's seminary. 1t was just sup
per time for the students, and it j:
thought very probable the list of deat
will be well filled with students, as =;
large number of those boarding house.
We're destroyed. AS far as know
these three institutions of learning es
capped the storm. The storm Their wen
northwest and wiped out Patterson!
nursery, pulling the trees out of tn,
ground and hurting them to the sky
A second edition of the storm followed
the first twenty minutes later.
1t came as an inky black clout
widely distributed and covered TIL
whole town, but passed above tn,
houses, doing no material damage an.
gathering fury MS it went. 1t IN
doubtcdly struck the ground a fey
miles out of Kirksrille.
Those who escaped the calamit
have turned out to rescue the ininre'
and hunt out the bodies OF. the dea6
and the surgeons, professors, opcrat
ing staff and students, men and won,