The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-29
MANY LIVES
DESTROYED in
The WEST
BY the Flailing Tornado That
Makes Kindling Wood out
OF Houses 1t Strikes.
TyUn TnuJNc III Nycco,InI
TWO TOWNS IN MISSOURI
Suffer Untold Horrors by the
Blasting Winds =. Clean
Death Swnth Cut.
NEARLY FIFTY DEAD BODIES
Taken From the Ruins OF Kinks.
vile, and Fifteen Rccov.
cred Mt Newtown.

| KIRKSVILLE, Mo-, April oS.--As q
result OF the tornado that swept
through the eastern portion of this city
yesterday evening, demollshing half OF
the residences and other buildings, 200
families are homeless and nearly
fifty dead bodies and seventy injured
persons have been recovered from the
ruins. More than n dozen of the in
jured will die. Although rcscuers have
been searching the ruins ever since the
storm swept its fury, many are still
missing and 1t Is thought that con-
siderable number of the unfortunate
were consumed in the flames that broke
out soon after the storm had ceased.
The work OF rescue continues, but II
may be days before the total number of
victims Is known.
The death list is as follows:
Mrs. Henry ,Blllngton, Mrs. A. r.
Bowman. Thco. Brigham. ex-merchant;
a. ]. Glasse and wife. Miss Lena Brown,
Of Moberly; child of Rev. Albcr: Burr,
Seth Feather. eight-year-old boy; Mrs.
w. w. Green, DR.. W. B. Howell, ]. b.
Larkn. retired merchant; three chill
dren of Henry Lowe. Mrs. John Mahaf-
fey, sr.. Mrs. John T. Mahaffey. child of
J. II. Mahafrey. +. NJ. McClay and wife,
mother and niece OF J. 7. Miller, Miss
Ora MILAN. of Woodland. Mo-; Mrs.
l
Blue Panschott and baby, Mrs. II. X.
Sherburne. Samuel Weaver, ex-con-
tractor; Miss Leona Whaley. DIR.
| Wheeler, Mrs. Joe Wood. Mrs. Cal. Lit
tie.
When the tornado struck the city last
evening most of the residents were ut
supper, the tornado cutting n clean
path one mile long and 600 feet wide
through the residence section. leaving
death and destruction In ltc wake.
Buildings wer demolished In It's wake.
| apart anu scattered 10 the four winds.
A conservative estimate places the ag-
grcgntc amount OF damage at 100000.
the Individual losses ranging from sl0O
to $4,000.
| Some Miraculous Escapcs.
The wind played many pranks and
there was some mjracu,ous csc,nes
C. Coonaeld and his family were cntinr
supper when the tornado struck their
home. The house was picked up and
carried across q slough and dumpcd I'm
against n hill, the building was not
completely wrecked and the family cs-
capped without anything worse than n
severe shaking UP. Houses on both
sides of the residence of w. NJ. HulI
were blown into splinter5 but the wind
was content with twisting his house off
its foundation and leaving If intact.
The house was I'm the center of tho dis.
trict and 1t was used as n hospita; ,ftcr
the storm. p, ], ReIrer n nron,,nont
attorney, ran right into the path OF tho
| storm to save his family. who wpro
helpless with fear. DashIng into the
house he carried his wife and baby into
the cellar. AS he stumbled into the
plncc of safety the building was levclcd
to the GROUND. He was just In time to
save his loved ones and Is happy al
though his loss by the cyclone amounts
to $1,000.
| Among the first OF the buildings
wrecked was the elegant $4,000 resi-
dence Of Mrs. Mary Hensley, in the
southeastern part Of the city. Not n
vestge OF 1t IS left. The Catholic
| church. u fine brick structure In the
northeastern part was unroofcd and
otherwise damaged. The large dwelling
OF Judge Andrew Ellison, In the same
] locality. was stripped OF Its second
story. He and his family and John
Doneghy took refuge in the cellar and
were saved. The residence OF II. Lowell,
just outside of the town. wns twisted
Into heap OF ruins and three of his
children burned in the debris ana kill
ed. Other large residences were lifted
from their foundation and literally torn
Into kindliug wood.
Pcoplc cpouic.Stric,,c,
For n time the ncon,o +, ,h,t no-,tor
of the town not toucho1 hy ,hn .,or,,
| were manic strick.n h,t 81. soor a..
they recovered their w,,s ,hov ,mmo-