The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-14
ANOTHER STORM
 SWEEPS MISSOURI Great Many Are Killed and
 Wounded But Reports Come Slow

Flat River, Mo, April 13-Fifty persons were injured, several probably fatal, in cyclone which this afternoon swept rortions of Elvins, Flat River and Esther, all mining towns in this section. The property damage win be in excess of $100,00O. Mine No. 1 of the Federal Lead company was wrecked and about 40 houses demolished. St. Louis, April 1S-Four negroes, two negro women and two white men were killed, several persons injured and several buildings were blown down at Valley Mines, Mo, about Il miles from Festus, Mo-, by a tornado about ? o'clock this afternoon.
 w. H. Bunt postmaster at Valley Mines, was injured.
 An eight-story grain elevator valued at s700000 in the extreme northern end of the city on the Burlington tracks was blown into the Mississippi river by a severe wind storm tonight. The Bryan Hill public school, also in the north end collapsed during the storm.
 Two women are reported to have died from fright, making three deaths up to the present traceable to the storm. 
 Kansas City, April 13.-Although the weather is fair tonight throughout the tornado swept districts of Kansas, Okla hcma. western Missouri and northern Arkansas. most of the telephone and telegraph wires still are down and only meagre reports of the death and destruc- ton wrought by the storm yesterday arc obtainable It will be several days be- fore a complete list can be obtained. It now appears that at least 19 persons were killed The names of 12 dead are known. Four deaths reported from Meeker, Okla, and three from Plummer- vile, Ark, are without names | The list of injured will number more than 1O0 Several who were reported 1 killed last night proved today to be only | seriously injured. | Monetary loss In Kansas alone is | thought to be in excess of $600,000. It IS | thought the damage in other sections visited by the storm will bring the total to more than s1,000,0op. | The identified dead: Frank Hammond | Fred Kern. tennis Brown. all of Big Heart, Okid'
 Mrs. Joseph Sullivan. | Ethel Wheeler (negress) of Lawrence Kas.
 Miss Geraldine Meisenheimer.
 Miss Elliott, Robinson, Kas. l Mrs Fred Stone, Reserve, Kas
 Jane Pelton, years old, Hiawatna' Kas.
 II E. Rosenbaum, Germantown, kas.
 Mrs. Almeda Shelly. Joplin, Mo.
 Infant child of E. D. Halter, Checotah' l Okla.
 Miss Eva Stroud. Mountain Kurg, Ark.
 Of all the stricken cities, Bib Heart, okla. suffered the greatest damage. Three persons were killed there, 60 in iured SS fatally.
 Al first it was reported eight were killed there. All the injured from Big Heart were taken to Tulsa on a relief train and they are SOW in hospitals there Little of the town was left stand ling.
 Lawrence, Kas., sustained the largest property loss of any Kansas town, i' being estimated at $20o,000 Seventy-foui residences were wrecked and the street
 cars and electric lights pus out of busi-
 ness.
 The city is still dark. J. D. Bowersock
 u former congressman, was the heavies
 individual loser, his loss being $S0O0O.
 Tn Brown county, Kansas, the tornado
 hugged the ground and residents arc
 losers of more than $Soo,0Oo worth ol
 property.
 The tornado swept T clean path 15 miles
 long and three-quarters of mile wid'