The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-28

St Louis, April 27.--A special to the
Globe Democrat from kirksville, Mo-.
says: A gathering storm that had beeW
threatening all afternoon broke upon
Kirksville a $40 o'ciock tonight in all
the fury of cyclone. A path quar-
ter of a mile wide and as clean as the
prairie was swept through the eastern-
portion of the city and 400 buildings.i
homes and mercantile houses, were lew
eed to the ground in scattered ruins.
In the heavy rain that followed. the
people who had escaped turned out to
rescue the injured, For two hours not
much was accomplished, as all was
confusion, but by o'clock % dead
bodies had been taken from the ruins.
II is confidently expected that the list
OF dead VIII reach between 80 and 50
if it does not exceed that. Almost 1000
people We're more or less injured. Day
light will be necessary before an ade-
uuate conception of the destruction OF
life and property can be had. Each
banched face reports new calamity.
The list of killed in the cyclone to-
night, SO far as known, is as follows;
WILLIAM B. HOWELLS, student.
American school of osteopathy.
Mf(S. w. II. oElTLIStp - AN-S, WIZ 49,
student of school of osteopathy.
JAMES WEAVER, SR., retired con-
tractor
THEODORE BRIGHAM merchant
ED BEEMAN, boy.
MRS. w. w. GREEN and daughter
MRS. HENRY ELLINGTON.
\. w. GLAZE.
MRS A. W. GLAZE.
MRS. BEN GREEN.
MRS. JOHN LARKIN, SR.
c. A. GIBBS.
MRS. C. A. GIBBS.
A. G. BEAL.
JAMES CUNNINGHAM.
MRS. MITCHELL.
Reported killed:
MIR. PECK.
! MR.. ANDERSON.
MIR. STEPHENS.
DIR. BILLINGS.
COLONEL LITTLE and family.
MRS. PENSCHOTT and child.
MRS. T. MAHAFFEY.
MRS. C. WOOD.
MRS. A. LITTLE.
A LITTLE, #
JOE WOODS.
| MRS. JOE WOODS.
A. w. RA1NSCHOTT.
MRS. A. w. RAINSCHOTT.
Known injured: Mr.. and Mrs. Dem
iston, Mrs Hobson, Harry Mitchell.
| SldIS MIttlleil, MISS dis, toaili w Cav
er. Will Parks. two Ingalls, brothers,
Willis kellogg, Hollis Kellogg.
Reported injured; Maud Waddell.
Mrs T. Bullock. Mr.. and Mrs. j. H
Kirk. A. l.. Peal. W. S. Smith, Mrs
Hennons. Mrs. Milen. Duan Mills. Err
Little, Ina Green, William Bragg, Mrs.
John Barley, A. G. Bowman, Mrs. Mary
Rohran, A. T. Cook. -Beeman. Al
child, Asbury Green.
Intense darkness prevailed after the
| cyclone and the rescuers were at Al
| disadvantage for a short time until
fire broke out in a dozen places in the
ruins and shed light over the scene.
No attempts were made to extinguishi
the fires, partly because the rescuers
had no time and partly because of the
need of light.
On both sides of the storms path the
debris was piled high and burned
tercely. In all proba bility a numbers
of bodies have been incinerated. The
storm first struck the eastern portion OF
the city near that part occupied by
! the boarding houses of the students of
the school Of osteopathy, the state nor
NAL school and NcWard's seminary. It
was just supper time for the students
and it is thought very probable the
list of dead will be we'll filled with stu
dents, as large numnef OF these
boarding houses We're demolished. As
far as known tonight this institution
Of learning escaped the storm.
The storm then went northwest and
wiped out PaItersOn'S nursery pull
ing the trees out of the ground and
hurting them through the city. A
second edition of the cyclone followed
the first. 20 minutes later. It came as
an inky black cloud, widely distributed
and covered the whole town, but passed
above the houses, doing no material
damage and gathering fury as it went.
1t undoubtedly struck the ground few
miles out of KrksVille
In the heavy rain following the ball
ance of the people who escaped the ca
: lamity have turned out to rescue the
injured and hunt out the bodies of the
: slain. and the surgeons, professors ope-
rating staff and students. men and wo-
men. of the American School of Osteo-
pathy. together with all the druggists
residing in the town. have formed res