The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-26
DEATH IN STORM.
Joplin, No. and Surrounding
Country Suffer Greatly
From the Wind Which Has
Swept Over This Region.
THREE WERE KILLED.
A Score or More We're More or
Less Hurt.
Property Damage is Estimated
at 100000.

Kansas City, Mo, April 26-Three per-
sons are dead and fifteen are injured,
some of them fatally, at Joplin. victims
of the tornado that struck that city late
yesterday. Twenty residences in Joplin
were wrecked, and several others at
suburbs of Moonshine Hill and Villa
Heights were demolished. A conserva-
tive estimate today places the aggregate
loss, in buildings wrecked and mines
flooded, at $100, 900. Mayor Trigg today
called a meeting of citizens to devise
plans for relief of the homeless. All
telegraph wires out of Joplin were
wrecked and the above information was
secured over a slow working telephone
wire.
A special to the Star says:
A revised list of the casualties result
ing from yesterdays tornado follows;
The dead:
ESTHER HUNTER, years old
MARTHA COPE Ccolored). frightened
to death.
The injured:
John Kuger. villa Hughes, fatally in
Mrs. Thomas Smith OF. .Newburg, MO,
thought to be fatally hurt
Whole Smith family of seven injured
from house falling on them
Unknown woman, Biersviiie, fatal
Anna and Bidwell Hunter, fatally in
G. w. Markham. badly injured.
Bud Cole, bruised and cut.
F. 3. Kelley, badly bruised.
Charles Click, injured
Mrs. Matte S Walker. badly injured
while driving in storm.
Mrs. Nellie Sullivan, badly cut on
Her four children also injured. One
baby blown 200 feet away, was unin-
Mrs. Richard Rex. back injured.
Miss Rex, injured internally; also two
Mr.. Mcody. visiting Rex family, cut
and bruised.
Mrs. Anna Hunter. badly bruised on
shoulder and head
Mrs Hick, badly injured eyeSlgnI
Miss Nora winburne, seriously in
jured.
miles west.
The residences Of Thomas Smith.
Mrs. Nellie Sullivan, Mrs. Babbs, S. D
Brewer, Mr.. Richard and Mr.. Thomas
were completely demolished, while a
score or two of others were more or
less badly damaged. / W. Reynold' s
house was overturned and badly dam
aged, but the five members of the fam
ily were released uninjured. The
Frisco round-hOuse was partly de-
stroyed, the roof was blown off the
Joplin Roofing company's building, the
Joplin Ice and Cold Storage company
suffered and the Joplin Hay company 5
barns were demolished The new
Baptist church was unroofed, the Meth
0dist mission church was completely
demolished, and the baseball grand
stand was blown away
The offices Of the White Lead works,
COOper'S carriage shop and the build
ings of the Plymouth River mine, the
Blackburn mine and the Cumberland
Lead and Zinc company's mine We're de-
stroyed. Albert Frey's mine suffered
heavy damage and the American Con-
centra ting company's mill was badly
dam aged. St Johns hospital was dam
aged to the extent of LOCO the Mineral
Belt Telephone company suffered a loss
of $4,000 in poles and wires, Bell Tele-
phone company. $1,000; Stevens hotel
$1,000 and the Roosevelt flats were bad
" damaged The houses of John Wins
burne and Walter Chapman were blown
completely away but the families escap-
ed At least 80 families are homeless.
The fury of the storm broke loose at
ABS in the afternoon. There was no
premonition OF its terrific Violence. There
was an utter absence of the usual fun
ne1-shaped cloud and the clouds looked
no more threatening than those which
produce the ordinary spring thunder
shower.
The wind was a straight gale, but it
was of terrible force, whipping down
scores of houses in the south part OF
the city anQe reducing TO hlnulluS WOU1
thousands of dollars worth of the finest
mining plants in this district. The worst
havoc in Joplin city was in a territory
four blocks wide commencing at the
west limits of the city and Seventeenth
street and ending at seventh street on
the east Within this narrow belt the
destruction done is visible on every
hand Most of the houses are not COM
pletely razed but there is scarcely a
building which is not damaged. No one
had
miraculous escapes.
The home of Mrs. Nellie Sullivan was
destroyed and all of the family were in
iured by falling timberS- Mrs Sullivan
was badly hurt about the mead ana race
and her two-year-Old baby was blown
fifty yards into pond and saved from
drowning by the heroic efforts of her
seven year-old brother, who had also
room of the residence of s. D. Brewer,
on Ivy street, was blown away and his
young son was carried three blocks, re-
ceiving only slight injuries
Passing east from the main portion
of the city the storm spent its fury on
the suburban districts, known as Moon
shine Hill and Villa Heights.
Three people were killed at Moon
shine Hill. The hill is a tangled mass
of debris and not a single house is left
standing 1t is populated mainly by
miners, who live in little shacks.
of the little home of the Bidwells not
a timber IS leII SIdnQlQS ana the three
inmates are dying, all having had
their skulls fractured
MUCH DAMAGE AT OMAHA
Omaha, Neb., April 26.-A serious
/ wind and rain storm strSck this city
at o'clock Friday afternoon, doing
a great amount of damage to prop
erty and resulting in the injury Of a
number of persons.
Robert Maxwell, aged 13. was struck
by a flying sidewalk on Military ave
nue., and will probably die.
Ex-Mayor George = Bemis was