Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-05-01
THREE KILLED AND SIX Will DIE
OVER $500, 600 WORTH OF PROP
ERTY IS COMPLETELY DE-
MOLISHED.
IT COMES WITHOUT WARNING
HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS
VISIT OTHER SEC
TlONS.

Joplin, Mo-, April 27.-Joplin was Wis
tied yesterday by a destructive storm.
during which at least three persons
We're killed outright. six fatally injured.
a score or more seriously hurt, and
100000 worth Of property destroyed.
The fury of the storm broke loose at
1855 in the afternoon. There was no
premoEition of its terrible violence.
There was an utter absence of the usu-
al funnel haped cloud and the clouds
locked no more threatening than those
which produce the ordinary spring
thunder showers. The Wind was a
straight gale. but it was of
Terrible Velocity.
whipping down scores of houses in the
south pert of the city and reducing to
kindling wood 100000 worth of the
finest mining plants in this district.
The worst havoc in Joplin city was in
a territory four blocks wide commence
ing at the west limits of the City at
Seventeenth street and ending at Sew
enth street on the west. Within this
narrow belt the destruction done is Wis
ible on every hand. Passing east from
the main portion of the city the storm
spent it's fury on the suburban districts
known as Moonshine Hill and Villa
Heights.
Three People Were Killed
at Moonshine Hill. News of the de-
structicn there did not reach the city
until late last night. The Hill is now
tangled mass of debris and not
single house is left standing. 1t is pop
hlated mainly by miners. who live in
little shacks. OF the little home of
Bidwell Hunter not a timber is left
standing and the three inmates of the
house are dying, all having had their
skulls fractured 1t is feared that the
mining camps farther west. which
seemed to have been in the path of the
storm, have suffered great damage,
but no reports have been received from
there.
Many Fine Buildings Wrecked.
Many of the finest buildings in the
city We're wrecked. The tall spire of
the Baptist church, one of the most
imposing edifices here, topplsd over and
crashed through the roof, destroying
the handsome interior of the building.
The Stevens hotel was unroofed and
its occupants We're driven elsewhere for
refuge from the deluge of water which
flooded them. The Frisco roundilouse
was destroyed and no less than twenty
mills are badly damaged. The tele-
graph, telephone ard street car service
is paralyzed. The electric light and
gas plants are crippled, leaving the
city in total darkness.
Iowa Gets IL Taste of Ii.
Des N1oines, Iowa, April 27.-Special
dispatches show the presence of high
wind, accompanied by heavy rain all
over the northwestern quarter of the
state. Jefferson. Fonda, Storm Lake
and othc: points report wind With a
velocity of siXty-hve miles an hour. A
cloudburst occurred at Mingo. water
running eighteen inches deep in the
street. Telegraph wires We're pros
trated along the Rock Island between
Council Bluffs and Atlantic and along
the Chicago Great Western in the vi
cinity Of Mingo and Valeria.
Fatality at Omaha.
Omaha, April 27-An unusually heavy
wind storm which struck this city last
evening killed one person and injured
number Of others, unroofed number
Of buildings and damaged great num-
Der of skylights. There was heavy
downCuur e rain. Street cars were
stopped for an hour; wires and signs
were blown down in all directions.
Rain md Wind in Illinois.
Chicago, April 27.-Heavy rains. ac-
companied by gale of sixty miles an
hour, swept across Chicago and North
ern Illinois last night. The downfall in
Chicago registered nearly two inches.
The wind tore many signs from their
fastenirgs and blew pedestrians into
the street. In number of places VIM
1owS and store fronts were blown in