The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-05-02
Strikes JOPLIN HARD.
Missouri Town Torn by Tornado
and Three Persons Killed
and Many Injured.
The LESS is ESTIMATED AT 100000.
Other Towns Throughout State More
or Less Damaged-Farmer at Chill
licothe Killed by Falling Limb
Violent storms in Other States
Flood at Benton Harbor, Mich.

persons are dead and Is are injNred,
some of them fatally, at Joplin, vic
tins of the tornado that struck that
city late Friday. Twenty residences in
Joplin were wrecked, and several 9TH
ers at suburbs of Moonshine Hill and
Villa Heights were demolished. A con-
servative estimate Saturday places the
aggregate loss in buildings wrecked
and mines flooded at 100000. Mayor
Triggs Saturday called 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
slow working telephone wire.
Revised List of Casualties.
A special to the Star from Joplin,
Mo-, gives a revised list of the casu-
alties resulting from Fridays tornado
as follows:
DEAD-Ester Hunter, two years old.
]. /. Jones.
Martha Cope (colored), frightened to
death.
INJURED-John Kuger. Villa Hughes,
fatally injured: Mrs. Thomas Smith, of
Newburg, Mo-, thought to be fatally
hurt whole Smith family of seven in
jured from house falling on them; I'M
known woman, Byersville, fatal; Anna
and Bidwell Hunter, fatally injured; G.
w. Markham, badly injured; Bud Cole,
bruised and cut: F. B. Kelly, badly
bruised; Charles Click, injured; Mrs.
Matte S. Walker, badly injured while
driving in storm; Mrs. Nellie Sullivan,
badly cut on head: her four children
also injured: one baby blown 200 feet
away was uninjured: Mrs. Richard Rex,
back injured; Miss Rex, injured internal
ly; also two Rex children injured; Mr..
Moody, visiting Rex family, cut and
bruised; Mrs. Anna Hunter, badly
bruised on shoulder and head; Mrs.
Hick, 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. 1. w. Reynolds house
was overturned and badly damaged,
but the five members of the family
were released uninjured. The Frisco
roundhouse was partially destroyed,
the roof was blown off the Joplin Roof
ing company's building and the Joplin
Ice and Cold Storage Supply company
suffered and the Joplin Hay company's
barns were demolished. The new Bap-
fist church was unroofed, the Method
list mission church was completely de-
molished and the baseball grand
stand was blown away. The office
of the white lead works, Cooper's car
riage shop and the buildings on the
Plymouth river, the Blackburn mine
and the Cumberland Lead and Zinc
company's mine were destroyed. AL
bert Frey's mine suffered heavy dam
age and the American Concentrating
company's mill was badly damaged.
ST. Johns hospital was damaged to
the extent of $1,000; the Mineral Belt
Telephone company suffered loss of
$4,000 in poles and wires; Bell Tele-
phone company, $1,000; Stevens hotel,
$4,000, and the Roosevelt flats and the
Joplin Gas company's plant were bad
ly damaged The houses of John Win
burne and Walter Chapman were
blown completely away, but the fam
lilies escaped. At least so families are
homeless.
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 were demolished,
and hundreds of orchards and forest
trees were uprooted. At Lexington
the Baptist church was unroofed,
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 were blown
over. Near Center View, a residence on
the Robinson farm was demolished,
but the occupants escaped injury.
In Kansas City the damage was
slight.
Farmer Killed at ChiIlicothe. 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 wea Their
bureaus thermometer was blown
away from the top of the government
building and other havoc wrought in
various parts of the city. Trees
were uprooted and broken, billboards
and fences were blown down and
chimneys were wrecked. In some
parts of the city sheds and barns
were demolished.
Telegraphic reports to the Post
Dispatch show that rains have fallen
generally throughout Missouri and
Illinois. The precipitation was suffi-
cient to give relief from the drouth
Heavy rains are reported from CO.
lumbia, ST. Joseph, Chillicothe, Mar
shall, Warrensburg, Keytesville and
Kirkville.
At ST. Joseph the municipal electric
plant was wrecked, leaving the city