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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1899
Page
9
A powerful tornado struck Kirksville and Newtown in Sullivan county causing extensive destruction. Reports indicate up to 100 deaths with many more injured. Rescue efforts by doctors, students, and residents continued overnight amid fires and blocked communications.
Kirksville Missouri April 25 latest tally raises known dead to forty nine with twenty four more bodies identified as injured count grows. List of dead includes Mr Beal A C Baman Ed boy Billington Dr Billington Mrs Henry Brigham Theodore and others with many family names and a death toll approaching one hundred despite scattered identifications.
Reports from Newtown Sullivan county describe a tornado destroying half the town and killing twenty with thirty to forty injured. The storm path was 500 to 600 feet wide. telegraph wires down and Medicine Creek bridge washed away. Survivors sheltered, and relief efforts began despite continued danger from fire and rain.
The jury in the George case returned a verdict of acquittal at 10:43 a.m. after twenty four hours and forty five minutes of deliberation with twenty two ballots. Mrs. George celebrated with friends at the Conrad hotel and planned a visit to Hanoverton to see her mother.
An agricultural notes column discusses improving farm yields with small holdings and diverse crops. It cites 200 acres with 156 improved, two men earning up to 700 dollars yearly, and a 40 acre farm reaching about 500 dollars. It also covers grasses for arid plains, cow peas, teaching calves to lead, gate designs, clover cultivation, and tools maintenance.
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