Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-15
STORM IN MISSOURI
Nvo Towns Demolished and St. Louis
Heavily Damaged.
YALEs MINES AND CADET SUFFER
elief Parties from Featus Blocked
ny HiEh water--st. Louis EIe-
vator FILLED with wheat
~ River.

pEsOTo. Mo April i4-with ell tele-
zones south Of here crippled. reports from
re districts swept by a tornado late yes
rday afternoon are coming IN slowly vi
lu be late today before a complete list Of
obstruction can be compiled
light persons are known to have been
led IN Wales Mines. Cadet and vfcinItv
our negroes are dead at Wales Mines and
20 white women at Cadet Two men
Shn Powers OF Cape Girardeau and Jo-
I'm }. Boyers OF Desoto. we're killed while
ding in an automobile In the southern
arr Of Jefferson county third occupant
the machine. which was caught in the
mo Is missing The chauffeur. who es-
ped, teiephoned the report here
Measer reports tell OF great havoc
rouehout Jefferson county Farm bui1d
- were demolished and great damage
ne 70 crops.
POstOffice a. Blown Down.
ST. LOUIS April 1S.--Four negroes are
own 70 be dead, number injured. one
riously. and three missing. following a
rnado which wrecked the town Of vaien
ines. Mo-. forty miles southeast OF here
? o'clock this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. c. Baker, their daughter
I'd sOn-in-Iaw, were killed when tho Wales
lines Dostoffics and general store crashed
upon them. Postmaster Bunee. who Is
slievsd 70 have been the only person in
~ debris was taken out half an hour
iter the storm. He IL said 70 be dying At
10 hone.
News Of the storm. which damaged farm
ropsrty. tore up trees, paralylssd wire
communication and blocked railroads. was
rst received at Festus. Mo. train crew
aoed over the Mississippi river and Bonnie
ere railroad from Wales Mines, carrying
rrified passengers out Of ths danger zone
Relief parties from Featus tried to reach
AZ strioksn town. but found che roads
Locked By high water. No word has come
ut OF Wales Mines since O'clock Il is
elievod that q second storm visited the
laoa. - the one whioh demolished cadet,
To-. tsn miles south Of Wales Mines, was
= lported from De Soto az sweeping IN that
! ERECTION Ak o'clock
y Sc. Asuas swept ~ storm.
\ terrific wind. hail and thunder storm,
ooompanieA By q heavy downpour Of rain,
Fepe ovoR 81 Louis late this afternoon,
ausing thossands OF dollars Of damage
nd indirectly three deaths.
The Sad ineiUde & driver Of q team Of
rules. who. with his mules was electro
uted W running into a live wire; q
roman who sucoumBed 70 fright. and an.
Their woman who was killed IN q runaway,
,er horses taking fright during the storm
Houses were blown down IN the outskirts
N the city, and IN the extreme north end
y In slght-story elevator containing 100000
bushels OF wheat valued at t75c,0o0 was
blown into the Missouri river.
Windowa In the Bryan Hili and John
Marshall schoois and two churches were
broken by the wind ana hail.
The damage was particularly heavy In
the west end; north side and in st. Louis
county where many greenhouses were de-
molished by tho hailstones which measured
more than two inches In diameter. The city
,arks we're denudsd OF plants, and flowers
the city's greenhouses were destroyed.
he storm came az thousands were on
leir way home from down town A. WIN
ows we're broken In She street ears the
excitement approSinnated panic.
May st6nnea ~ IiatIstonea.
Persons IN various parts Of the city were
eportsd stunned by blows from falling
ailstones though no serious injury to
any one from this source waa reported
The storm pht an abrupt end to the
American league game between the Local
and tire Cleveland teams, when the steel
1HHpolo YVES snapped bN the vino and the
players driven from the diamond by tn,
storm.
Telephone service was interrupted and
reports from the stricken districts were re.
ceived slowly.
The known dead are:
HARRY FOSTER, eiSotrOeutsd.
MRS REGINA MAYER 70 years old
who was run over BY her carriage. She wal
lighting when the horses took fright from
he han and was injured internally
Utmost ever manufactures plant on tbs
nth side was left without windows after
he storm
Fifty injured at Fiat River.
FLAT RIVER, Ne. April i1-F1fty per.
az we're injured. several probably fatally
storm which this afternoon SWEEP
grts Of Elvins. Flat River and Esther. al
ming towns In this section
fhe property damage will be In exoes,
100000
Nine No. Of the Federal Lead company
az wrecked and about forty houses ds
olished, The cyclone was preceded by :
Nj storm which continued for more thar
All an hour.
storm in Howard