Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-04-29
Strikes joplin HARD.
Missouri Town Torn by Tornado
and Three Persons Killed
and Many Injured.
THE LOSS is ESTIMATED At 100000.
other Towns Throughout State More
or Less DamaHed-Fnrmer at Chill
lioothe Killed by Falling Limb
4 Violent Storms In Other States
Esoed az Bsnton Harbos, Mieh.

Violent Storms In Other States
E4eod az Bsnton Harbos, Miah.
kansaB City, Mo- April eS.-Three
persons are dead and Is are injured,
eSnse Of them fatally. at Joplin, VIC
Aime Of The tornado that struck that
city .ksAe Eddax. Fwenty residences IN
Joplin ~aas wnecArd. end several 9th
hrs n pssbusbs % Moonshine HUI and
IaAe He4ghte wens demolished. A con-
4syvattps estimate Saturday places the
aggregate loss In buildings wrecked
end mines flooded at 800. 600. Mayor
Trig9e Saturday called meeting OF
oitxens 30 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.
Revised List of Casualties.
A special to the star from Joplin,
40. gives o revised list Of the casu-
alties resulting from Fridays tornado
as follows:
DEAD-Eeter Hunter. two years old.
y. j. Jones.
Martha Cope tcolored). frightened to
death.
INJURHn-John Kuger. Villa Hughes,
fatally injured: Mrs. Thomas Smith, of
Nswburg, Mo-, thought to be fatally
hurt: whole Smith family of seven in
3ured from house falling on them: un-
known woman. Byereville. fatal: Alma
ana Biauell Hunter. fatally injured; G.
w. Markham. badly injured; Bud Cole,
md ostfs all hoql
bruised; Charles Click, injured; Mrs.
Matte s. Walker, badly injured while
drying in storm: Mrs. Nellie Sullivan,
badly sut ON head: her four children
also injured: one baby blown 200 feet
away was uninjurad: Mrs. Richard Rex,
back injured: Miss Rex. injured internal
"; also two Rex children injured; Mr..
Moody. visiting Rex family. cut and
bruised: Mrs. Anna Hunter. badly
bruised ON shoulder and head: Mrs.
Aick. badly injured: eye-sight destroyed;
Miss Nora Winburne. seriously injured
Residences Destroyed.
The residences Of Thomas Smith,
Mrs. Nellie Sullivan, Mr.. Babbs, S. d.
Brewer, Mr.. Richard and Mr.. Thomas
were completely demolished, while
score or two others were more or less
badly damaged. l. w. Reynolds house
was overturned and badly damaged,
but the five members Of the family
were released uninjured. The Frisco
sonndhouse was partially destroyed,
the roof was blown off the Joplin Roof
fng sompany'e building and the Joplin
Ice and Gold Storage Supply company
suffered and the Joplin Hay company's
barns were demolished. The new Bap-
list church was unroofed, the Method
ist mission church was completely de-
molished and the baseball grand
stand was blown away. The office
of the white lead works, Cooper's car
rage shop and the buildings on the
Plymouth river, the Blackburn mine
and the Cumberland Lead and Zinc
company's mine were destroyed. AL
bert TYay's mine suffered heavy dam
nge and the. American Concentrating
company'e mill was badly damaged.
St. Johns hospital was damaged to
the extent Of $1,000; the Mineral Belt
Telephone company suffered loss of
$1,000 in poles and wires; Bell Tele
phone company. 81 900; Stevens hotel,
So 600, and the Roosevelt flats and the
Joplin Gas company's plant were bad
~ damaged. The houses Of John Win
hume AMI Walter Chapman weee
blSMn completely away, bud the lam
lilies escaped. Al beast 50 families are
bsmeless.
Damage Throughout Missouri.
More or less damage resulted
throughout western Missouri from
Friday nights windstorm. AT Nevada
a large smoke stack on the state in
sane asylum No crashed through the
roof of the main building doing several
hundred dollars worth of damage. No
one was hurt. in Nevada and vicinity
a number of barns We're demolished,
and hundreds of orchards and forest
trees were uprooted. At Lexington
the Baptist church was unroofed, a
huge smokestack at the water-works'
pump house was blown down, and trees
and fences were laid low. In the vicin-
ity of Warrensburg great harm was
done to orchards and shade trees, and
numerous outbuildings We're blown
over. Near Center View, residence on
the Robinson farm was demolished,
but the occupants escaped injury.
In Kansas City the damage was
slight.
Farmer Killed mt Chillicothe, Mo.
st. Louis, april 2s.-A windstorm
that gained a velocity of 40 miles or
more an hour ragged in ST. Louis and
vicinity most of Friday night and
Saturday morning. 1t was accom-
panied by heavy rain. The weather
bureaus thermometer was blown
away from the top of the government
building and other havoc wrought in
various parts of the city. Trees
were nprooted and broken, billboarGs
and fences were blown down and
chimneys were wrecked. In some
parts of the city sheds and barns
were demolished.
Photographic reports to the Post.
Dispatch show that rains have faller
generally throughout Missouri and
Illinois. The precipitation was sniff
GENT to give relief from the drouth
Heavy rains are reported from Co
1umbia, ST. Joseph, Chillicothe, Mar
shall, Warrensburg, Keytesville and
Kifkville.
At st. Joseph the municipal electric
plant was wrecked, leaving the city
in darkness.
a farmer was killed near Chilli
gothic Iy limb blowing from tree
Telegraph and telephone communi,
cations in many sections of the state
are broken.