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le)fte)8teitgteg.0/ity7leatilear,t,Missouri Town Torn by Tornado and Three Persons Killed and Many Injured.THE LCSS IS ESTIMATED AT $100,000.Other Toitbi Tliroaffhoat State More or Leas Damiied-Farmer at Chll-llcothe Killed by Falling Limb— Violent Storms In Other States— Flood at llenton Harbor, Mich.Kansas City, Mo., April 28—Three persons are dead and-25 are injured, aorae of them fatally, at Joplin, victims of the tornado that struck that city late Friday. Twenty residences in Joplin were wrecked, and several others at suburbs of Moonshine Hill and Villa Heights were demolished. A conservative estimate Saturday places the aggregate loss in buildings wrecked and mines flooded at $100,000. Mayor Triggs Saturday called a 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 a slow working telephone wire.Revlncd Lint of Caftnaltlca.A special to the Star from Joplin. Mo., gives a revised list of the casualties resulting from Friday’s tornado as follows:DEAD—Ester Hunter, two years old.J. I. 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 injured from house falling on them; unknown woman, Byersvllle, fatal: Anna and Bid well Hunter, fatally injured; G. W. Markham, badly Injured; Bud Cole, bruised and cut; F. B. Kelly, badly bruised; Charles Click, injured; Mrs. Mattie S. Walker, badly Injured while driving in storm; Mrs. Kellie Sulllvm, 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 Internally; 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-slght destroyed; Miss Nora Winburne. seriously Injured.Residences Destroyed.The residences of Thomas Smith, Mrs. Kellie Sullivan, Mr. Babbs, S. D. Brower, Mr. Richard and Mr. Thomas were completely demolished, while a Bcore or two others were more or less badly damaged. I. 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 Roofing company’s building and the Joplin Ice and Cold Storage Supply company suffered and the Joplin Hay company’s ..barns were demolished. The new Baptist church was unroofed, the Methodist mission church was completely demolished and the baseball grand stand was blown away. The office of the white lead works, Cooper’s carriage shop and the buildings on the Plymouth river, the Blackburn mine and the Cumberland Lead and Zinc company’s mine were destroyed. Albert Frey’s mine suffered heavy damage and the American Concentrating company’s mill was badly damaged.St. John’s hospital was damaged to the extent of $1,000; the Mineral Belt Telephone company suffered a loss of $3,000 in poles and' wires; Bell Telephone company, $1,000; Stevens* hotel, $2,000, and the Roosevelt flats and the Joplin Gas company’s plant were badly damaged. The houses of John Winr burne and Walter Chapman were blown completely away, but the families escaped. At least 50 families are homeless.Damage, Throughout Minnonrl.More or less damage resulted throughout western Missouri from Friday night’s windstorm. At Nevada a large smoke stack on the state insane asylum No 3 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 \tere uprooted. At Lexington the Baptist church was unroofed, a huge smokestack at the water-works* pump house was blown down, and trees and fences were laid low. In the vicinity 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 occupnnts escaped injury.In Kansas City the damage was slight.Farmer Killed at Chllllcothe, Mo.St. Louis, April 28.—A windstorm
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Cooperstown, North Dakota, US
Thu, May 01, 1902
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