The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-02
THREE Killed AND SIX Will Dlt
OVER TaOO,OOo WORTH OF PROP.
ERTY IS COMPLETELY DE-
MULIsHED.
IT CONES WITHOUT WARNING
HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS
VISIT OTHER SEC
rIONs.

| tied yesterday by a destructive storm,
during which at least three persons
were killed outright. six fatally injured.
score or more seriously hurt, and
100000 worth Of property destroyed.
The fury of the storm broke loose at
ABS in the afternoon. There was no
prenonit!on Of it's terrible violence.
There was an utter absence Of the usu-
al funnel-shaped cloud and the clouds
| locked no more threatening than those
| which produce the ordinary spring
thunder showers. The wind was a
straight gales but it was of
Terrible Velocity,
whipping down scores of houses in the
south pert of the city and reducing to
Rindffng 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-
struction there did not reach the city
until late last night. The Hill is now
tangled mass Of debris and not a
single house is left standing. 1t is pop
ulated mainly by miners. who live in
little shacks. OF the little home OF
Bidwell 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 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 were wrecked. The tall spire of
the Baptist church. one of the most
imposing edifices 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 roundhouse
was destroyed and 70 less than twenty
graph. telephone ard street car service
is paralyzed. The electric light and
gas plants are crippled, leaving the
city in total darkness.
Iowa Gets n Taste of Ii.
Des Moines Iowa, April 26-Specal
dispatches show the presence of high
wind, accompanied by heavy rain all
over the northwestern quarter of the
state. Jefferson, Fonda, Storm Lake
| and other points report wind with a
velocity Of sixty-five miles an hour A
cloudburst occurred at Mingo, water
running eighteen inches deep in the
street. Telegraph wires were pros
trated along the Rock Island between
Council Bluffs and Atlantic and along
the Chicago Great Western in the vi
entity of Mingo' and Valera.
Fatality at Cmaha.
Omaha. April 26-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 a great num-
Der of skylights. There was a heavy
downpour of rain. Street cars were
stopped for an hour; wires and signs
were blown down in all directions.
Rain md Wind in Illinois.
Chicago, April 26.-Heavy rains. ac,-
companied by a 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
I:fasteniEgs and blew pedestrians into
the street. In number OF places win
l'dOwS and store fronts were blown in.