Mesa free press. [volume] (Mesa, Ariz.) 1892-1901, 1899-05-12
DEADLY WIND.
HOUSES KNOCKED DOWN ON
WRETCHED INITIATES.
Hundreds of Families Homeless-A
Heavy Property Loss-Many of the
Injured Will Die-Work of the Res
cuerS.

Kirksville, Mo-As a result of the
tornado that swept through the eastern
portion of this city demolishing half of
the residences and other buildings, 200
families are homeless, and more than
thirty dead bodies and seventy injured
persons have been recovered from the
ruins. More than a dozen of the in
jured will die.
Although rescuers have been search
ing the ruins ever since the storm
spent its fury, many are still missing,
and it is thought that a considerable
number of the unfortunates were con-
sumed 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 number of victims
is known.
The severely injured thus far re-
ported number sixty-six many of
whom will probably succumb to their
injuries. A conservative estimate
places the aggregae amount of damage
at 100000, the individual losses rang
ing from $10O to $4,000.
The wind played many FRANKS, and
there were some miraculous escapes.
| j. l.
eating supper when the tornado struck
their home. The house was picked up
and carried across slough and
dumped up against a hill, but the build
ing was not completely wrecked, and
the family escaped without anything
worse than severe shaking-up.
Houses on both sides of the resi-
dence Of w. M. Hull were blown into
splinters, but the wind was content
with twisting his house off it's founda-
ton and leaving it intact The house
was in the center of the district, and
it was used as hospital after the
storm.
P. j. Rieger, a prominent attorney
ran right into the path of the storm
to save his family, who were helpless
with fear. Dashing into the house he
carried his wife and children into the
cellar. AS he stumbled into the place
of safety the building was leveled 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 $4,000.
The stories of the victims are heart
rending. DR.. Howells, his wife and
three little boys crouched in their
home in group. The house was de-
molished, the father was left dead, and
the mother badly injured, while the
children were more or less hurt.
AT Henry Nichols's farm, just out Of
town, in the path of the storm, man
was seen to be carried up a hundred
feet from the ground. The body. has
not yet been found.
Miss Whaley was impaled in the
bowels upon flying limb of a tree.
Surgeons sawed it off at both ends,
fearing to remove it. She lived two
hours.
A. J. Glaze and wife met death in
each others arms. House rubbish COW
cred them entirely. He was a retired
capitalist. In his pockets was $4,000.
Rev. and Mrs. Theordore Brigham,
prominent evangelists, were crushed by
flying missiles. Mrs. Brigham will die.
Hunter Lowe, a farmer and his wife,
were overtaken by the cyclone in
buggy half a mile from their home.
They were blown out of the vehicle and
badly hurt. A moment later they be-
held their house demolished, and their
three children went with it to destruc-
ton.
The freaks of the storm were many,
but one of the strangest occurrences
was the finding of grooming baby out