The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-26
HAVOC OF STORMS
HURRICANE-LIKEG GALE IN MISSOURI,
NEBRASKA AND IOWA.
Much Property Destroyed or Dam
aged, Several Persons Killed
and Many Injured.
STRAIGHT BLOW AT JOPLIN
WHERE TWO PERSONS WE'RE
KILLED, SIX FATALLY HURT,
Score or More Injured and Mining
Plants, Business Houses and Resi-
dences Damaged 100000.
OMAHA ALSO STORM SWEPT
THREE PERSONS STRUCK By FLYING
SIDEWALKS AND SIGNS.
Boy Probably VIII Die-PIate Glass
Windows Blown i'm and Buildings
UnrOofed-Damage Elsewhere.
Score More Injured and Mining
Plants, Business Houses and Resi-
dences Damaged 100000.
OMAHA ALSO STORM SWEPT
THREE PERSONS STRUCK BY FLYING
SIDEWALKS AND SIGNS.
Boy Probably VIII Die-PIate Glass
UnrOofed-DamageE Elsewhere.

JOPLIN, Mo, April 25.-Joplin was visited
to-day by the most destructive storm in its
history. during which at least two per-
sons were killed outright. six fatally in
jured. a score or more seriously hurt and
three hundred thousand dollars worth of
property destroyed.
The Dead
ESTHER HUNTER, killed by falling tim
bers
MARTHA CAPE. coIored. died from
fright
Fatally Injured
BIDWELL HUNTER.
MRS. ANNA HUNTER.
MRS. MARIAN HICKS.
WILLIAM JONES
- KRUGER, a boy. at Villa Heights.
three miles west of Joplin.
F. B. KELLEY. at Googoo mines. three
miles west.
The fury of the storm broke loose at 4:35
this afternoon. There was no premonitlon
OF its terrible violence. There was an abb
sence OF the usual funnel-shaped cloud and
the sky looked no more threatening than
during the ordinary spring thunder show
ers. The wind was a straight gale, but it
was OF terrible velocity, whipping down
scores OF houses in the south part of the
city and reducing to kindling wood one
hundred thousand dollars worth of the
finest III .ng 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 at Seventeenth
street and ending at Seventh street on the
east. Within this narrow belt the de-
struction done is visible on every hand.
. IL,
is scarcely a building which is not dam
aged. No one was killed here, but some
persons had narrow escapes.
The home Of Mrs. Nellie Sullivan was de-
stroyed. and all of the family injured
by falling timbers. Mrs. Sullivan was bad
ly hurt about the head and face. and her
two-year-old baby was blown fifty yards
into a pond and saved from drowning by
the heroic efforts OF her seven-year-oid
brother, who had also received injuries
from the storm. One room Of the residence
of S. ID. Brewer, ION Ivy street. was blown
away, and his young son was carried three
blocks. receiving only slight injuries.
Passing east from the main portion of
the city, the storm spent its fury on the
suburban districts known as Moonshine
Hill and villa Heights. Two people were
killed at Moonshine Hill. News of the ter
rible destruction did not reach the city un-
I'll late tonight and investigation will not
be possible until morning. The hill is now
a tangled mass of debris, and not a single
house is left standing Ii is populated
mainly by miners, who live in little shacks
OF the little home of Bidwel Hunter not
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 far
ther west, which seemed TO have been in
the path of the storm. have suffered great
damage. but no reports have been received
here.
Many of the finest buildings I'm Joplin
were wrecked. The tall spire of the Bap-
tist Church. one of the most imposing edi-
fees here toppled over and crashed through
the roof. destroying the handsome interior
of the building. The Stevens Hotel was
unroofed and its occupants were driven
elsewhere for refuge from the deluge OF
water which flooded them. The Frisco
round house was destroyed and no less
than twenty mills are badly damaged. The
telegraph. telephone and street car service
is paralyzed. The electric light and gas
plants are crippled. leaving the city in total
darkness.