The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 4, 1899, Page 2

DEATH LADEN STORM HAS MANY VICTIMS. | minutes. It came as an ink black! public buildings and good streets FILIPINOS RUN UP THE WHITE F | cloud, widely distributed, and cover-| which a democratic administration led the whole town. On its front the | bequeathed to us have been allowed | jt Is Believed the Filipinos Will Agree to lterrified people beheld a gleaming/|to decay and rot, until they have | yellow crest with a sweeping, chang-| reached a condition which is both Kirksville, Mo., Devastated and ling, ominous aspect that betokened a Hundred Killed. WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT. Four Hundred Houses Are Torn to Pieces— Thousand People Injured—Rescue of Injured Difficult Owing to Confusion. Kirksville, Mo, April 27 —The sky emptied its fury in a gigantic cyclone upon Kirksville, the town made famous by osteopathy, at 6:20 o'clock tonight when the east side of the town was wiped from the map. A broad, clean path, nearly a quarter of a mile wide, lies through the town as smooth as virgin prairie. Probable 400 homes, where an hour ago families were asking divine bless- | ings upon their evening meal, are now scattered as fragments some- where beyond the town in woodland and prairie. It is probable a hundred people were killed. The known list at 6 o'clock reached thirty-one. A thous- and were injured. It will be long after daylight before any adequate conception of the destruction to life can be had. It is the record of the St. Louis and Louisyille cyclones all over, as fatalities are upon everyone's lips; each blanched face on the street reports a new calamity. The dead eo far as known are: William S. Howells, senior student } American School of Osteopathy;Mrs, W. H. Sherbourn, wife of sexior student of American School of Oste- opatby; James Weaver, Sr., retired contractor; Theodore Brigham, re- tired merchant; Ed Beeman, boy: Mrs. W. W. and Miss Bessie Green, wife and daughter of W. W. Green, who is at Durant, I. T ; Mrs. Henry Billington, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Glaze; Mrs. Ben Green, Mrs. John Larkin, Sr., Mrs. T. Mahaffey. Mrs. C. Woode, Mr. and Mrs. A _ Little, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Woods, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Rainschett, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gibbs, A. C. Baal, James Cun- another chariot of death. Many | sought refuge in cellars, while others awaited fate in calm, deliberate ob servation The tail end of the cyclone did not break upon Kirksville, however, |seeming to go by overhead, gather- ing fury as it went. It is believed |that this second eyclone wave drop- jped down to the ground before | traveling much farther. The heavens {became black for fifteen minutes, jafter which a heavy rain fell for aa ;bour and a half. By 8 o'clock the |sky was clear and starry and an |ominous pall of quiet seemed to hang out of the sky. | ed At Newton, a village forty miles jnorthwest of Kirksville, in Sullivan county, the loss of life was apalling. | Phe tornado swept into the city just jabout dusk. The inhabitants were | unprepared. The day was unusually warm, but nothing more than a severe April shower was anticipated. But suddenly the skies blackened. For a moment the atmosphere was intensely oppressive. A fleecy cloud appeared like a rift in the firmament, quickly changing to an ominous yellowish green color. The next moment there was an awful roar, as if of the clashing of the elements, and the fearful storm broke. Frame houses were lifted from their foundations and carried hun- dreds of feet, dropping in the road- side and crashing like so many egg shells. Bricks were torn from the more substantial buildings and dashed like shots against the frailer structures. Howses crumbled as the wind sang its awful dirge of devas- tation. ® dozen houses went down simul taneously as the tornado struck the town. Their occupants were smoth- ered to death or knocked insensible by the debris and left to die, for there was no one to render assistance Surrender With No Other Promise Than That of Amnesty. disgraceful and dangerous This} Manila, April 28.—This morning gang is the legitimate successor Of| the chief of staff from the command- the same old crowd that looted the/ing general of the insurgent forces state as they are now robbing thé/ entered our lines to express admira- city, until when they were drive®/tion of the wonderful feat of the out of office and place by an indig-| American army in forcing the pass- nant populace, they had not only/az6 of Rio Grande river, which was cleaned out a full treasury, but left) thought impossible. The staff officer a crooked debt of more than $20,-| reports that the insurgent command- 000,000 for the succeeding demo-|ing general has received from the cratic administration to pay. These| insurgent government directions to are matters of history with which suspend hostilities pending negotia- every intelligent citizen of the state tions for the termination of the war is familiar. Staff officer with party is now ep route to Manila and will soon arrive It was to be expected that every) Dawton’s forces well in hard in the little yelping and yowling and snatl-| vicinity of Angat, east of Calum | idg coyote that roams the alkaline| pit, where he is waiting supplies to| wastes of republicanism and gold/ be sent to-morrow. Yesterday morn- bugism, would show his teeth and | ing force of 1500 insurgents attacked | howl at a democratic governor—any|troops at Taguig; driven back by| democratic governor. They did it) Washington regiment. Our lots two when Stone was governor, they did/ killed and twelve wounded. it when Marmaduke, Crittenden and Hardin and all the rest of them sat in the chair of state. But the sur- = . rues ne ch ‘ : ‘ epartment shows pat 198 were! prise comes in when Gemosestie) | cin the Philippines from Feb'y editors join in the fracas and add to} 4 4+ April 28, and 1,111 wounded: the confusion caused by these mangy | total, 1,309. | distributers of the fleas and vermin of politics. It is time for democratic Orrs. ¥ | A statement prepared by the war | ase | Washington, D. C, April eee editors to shake the dust from their | Te e24 of the Filipino insurrection | feet gudinee fi the infeo-|'* 2” sight, in the opinion of army | ees ane a ee © infec’land navy officials. A telegram re- tious crowd. Go fumigate your-|eeived from General Otis to-day selves and get a health certificate. announced that Aguinaldo had taken | a what is regarded as the first step | What has Governor Stephens done| toward surrendering, namely, re-| to merit szeh abuse? He has ap questing a cessation of hostilities. | pointed his wife’s relation to office, Two New Jersey Trusts. | say some. The charge is too puer ile and contemptible for manly men Trenton, N J, April 26—The| United States Worsted company, to talk about. If these relations are | with an authorized capital of $70,- good citizens and capable, and/0@0,000, and the American Plumbing | perform their duties honestly and| Supply and Lead company, with an| faithfully, what ground have|a-thorized capital of $35,000,000, others for objection? Washington, | were incorperated yesterday at the and Adams and Grant and 4/| office of the secretary of state. The great many othera committed the|former is empowed to manufacture THE SPEER NURSERY -AND FRUIT CO. Since the death of Henry Speer the firm name, Henry Speer & Son will be changed to The Speer Nursery & Fruit Co. with JOHN SPEER, Manager. Henry Speer had twenty-tive years | experience raising fruit and nursery stock in this county. We have the| been raised up in the business and Thresher Feeder | Nichols-Shepard Set EPARATOR Nichols & Shepard Company, Battle Creek, Mich, Branch House at KANSAS CITY, MO. * tock of machines and extras mailed free, BY SCAU A UU 0 Ua GU CO UU0 DOR j while the fatal wind toyed with life and death. In one house five people perished. Sherman Desper, his wife and their four children were about to sit down to their evening meal when the wind ; came up. In an instant their home from the southwest. Ata distance | pe et niatisd aetna Gee it seemed to be making for the fair ie wleddcreminched to death dat grounds, and people at the American |, pigcunes A ere School of Osteopathy, on the west | eyenaend mS pyar deve Hears iiek a side of town, watched its coming somes Bas ene Es Pits a eines Ga toarc that ikaw! The people of this section were fenite Gaon ann none cies first made aware of the approach of | reaching the town limits it Perea ne oR EY Dal oe oie Piiher eat howeves aud el q| oP from the Missouri river. The x > and clearec’ terrifying noise could be heard for the state normal school without) ying E ee touching it. Patterson's extensive | 2 : : : nurdery, jak west was swepk down |outsids their homes, gazing in the to clean scil. The course from that | on was through a well built up see tion of the town, made up muinly of if 1 new houses and very largely popu i ae = x . lated by stadents of (Wc normal | Jee of injured who were struck by echool and the American School of | _ ee Osteopathy. Marcus Ward's young | ladies’ seminary was 200 yards east | Tye ae of the storm’s path. A hotel building | Oktay eet a z jin the center of the cyclone’s track close to it was demolished. Ascore} ‘ > > ningham, Mrs. Mitchell. Reported killed: Mr. Peck, Mr. Andergon, Mre. Stephens, Dr. Billings, Col. Little and family, Mrs. Penschott and child. The cyclone approached Kirksville do, before they realized the death large spli raSse i al of guests stood upon the porticos | i cpeeecs mee ae oe en rely | A sa +,-,;through Mrs. Furne. She died to and in the dining room of the Still | |day. The house,half a mile west of the storms |,. - i" : ok like so much kindling-wood. path, and saw it sweep terrifically |. deecbtec = through the town, terrified at the! ee manifestation of ruin and death it! were found in as yao of the blast like | Bimself badly burt. All the daugh-| leaves, seemingly far in front of the} os aad puss hurt and are not} revolving cleuds and a full hundred Eee eA a yards in the sky. Now and thena | What Has the Governor Done? great branching tree would toss up| Ylley Den in the arms of the blast high over, The people of the state are grow-| the city and spin on abead like a|ing exceedingly tired of the persist- wheat straw out of a threshing ma-| ent and malicious war that has been | chine. People are found on every | Waged against Governor Stephens | side who tell of human forms sweep-| from the very beginning of his ad- ing skywardas birds and from the | ministration. Its purpose is well | list of missing among east side | understood. Ite sole object and aim | families the story seems credible. | 5 to create dissension among demo- | One horse was blown out of the|¢cratsand eventually turn half the shafts of a road wagon which lodged | state over to the tender mercies of} against the front of a house in the | the ugly crowd that bas made loot | edge of the wind track. No cne of the public offices of this city for} knows what became of the animal. | 8° Many years past, the vilest and| Members of households disappeared ™oSt consciousless gang that ever with the partial demolition of homes | foisted itself upoa a helpless and) t and Journal of Agriculture while others remained unhurt among trustiog public: which has laid 9 | incorporation under thelaws of New, DO NOT RUIN THE WHEELS. twenty miles, and many people were|cisely such an appointment as the direction of the approaching torna-| ocrats thought it would not be amiss |dealing nature of the approaching | this object in view they advised the This accounts for the large | governor to make the Brady appoint- and we have reasons for believing | residence of George| that the governor regrets it as much Furne was the first buildiag of im.|/as any other gool citizan. was right|eimilibus curantur may be all right in medicine, but it can hardly be conside house was cut to pieces /ical disturbance, an incident of the The jirrepressible conflict between two many different places after the storm | the role of |had passed by their father, who was/|tune that he got into a fracas of | {T@vagancs jare heartily sick of the whole busi | T. W. LECC. |the United States is in process of! appointed Geo. W. Jones, the purest | dends and ablesé man that ever filled the See a lot of in another col- office of Election commissioner. | umn carryin great loads of . 2 grapes at Bo , Portugal, for Suppose we cancel Brady with Jones } making into wine. It is interesting. Kead all aboutit. Speer N. J. Wines are made from ced and call it even. Besides, there are} t other considerations. The Mayor had the appointment of one election commissioner, and everybody knew what kind of a citizen would get the | per wines, His I place. His name is Wurzburger, the Sa translation of which we believe is, Reed’s Reason for Leaving Congress, the worst of Burghers. It was pre- pe the oldest and finest pro or to Imported Wines. F. Howland of 29 west 4 mphatically that I lik far better tha His Claret “Reed said to m2 one day, in dis- eussing an Indian Territory bill I was interested in: ‘We are ed busy legislating for the niggers of the universe that we haven't time or money for our own people, and can’t take care of them. Another time there was a bill appropriating money for tte Philippive campaign, and Reed referred to the expenses arring for so many “yel- so damn- public expeeted. Some good Dem- to set a ferret to catch a ratand with ment. We think it was bad politics, | Similia | ¥€ Were ix low belli herd toa World reporter, in speak- ing of Thos B. Reed. ARE YOU constitution undermined by -"—Congressman Cow- d a sucecss in office holding The asylum trouble is purely a med- 1 hostile seh with the governor in im. Itis his misfor-| that kind When Stephens was elected he premised the people of the state a good, honest business administration and he is keeping his word. He has done and is doing all that he prom-| ised and it is time to let up in this constipation, fight on the governor. The people i eee SS - i are tired of it. There is no just and ail es Nae i ae cause for itand it is hurting the Tutt s Liver Pills state Itis giying usa badness of reputation abroad that we by no| means deserve, and all good citizens an absolute cure. ness, For all repairs, or parts of Buggies, Suarries a | road ss farm wagons, phaetons £¢, po! : n 5 ee | shafts, neckyokes. wheels, dashes, cushion,s A gigantic trust to include ail the/| top. Teell the best large farm mach nery fectories in| We reset tires and formation at Chicago. Articles of Buggy Paint on Earth.| same fault, if fault it be. On thejand deal in worsted and woolen] hove protited by his experienc Be- other hand, Jefferson refused to ap-| yarns and goods and other fabrics. | img in the fruit growing business we point any relative, on either side of |The capital stock is divided into ! was atc varieties echoed OC SE. his family, to any effice whatever; | $30,000,000 preferred and $40,000,-| ing, ete. but all men are not Jeffersons The /000 common, the preferred to pay 7| 5; ape stretch a pny tae offense is certainly forgivable, con-| per cent culminate dividends. The s will do wellto consult us and sidering the precedents. He appoint-| capital stock of the company is di eb obi Sharps Mi sce aides ed Brady, say others. That was|vided into $10,000,000 preferred ‘ really a grave offense. But he alsojto pay 7 per cent cumulative divi- Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Cherry Trees, and all kinds | of small fruits, Plant Shade and Ornamental Trees. Our prices are consistent with the times and the quality of our goods. Send for catalogue. Any business manin Butler can tell you where to find us. South Side City Limits The Speer Nurserv & Fruit Co, F.C.CORSETS MAKE American Beauties. MODELS. KaLamazco Corset Go. SOLE MANUFACTURERS. SOLD BY NEW YORK KACKET, One Low Price to All Weet Side Square, BUTLER, MO — On Each Box. Executor’s Notice letters of teste- D Oreasr lersigned on “4, by the Probate vent Court of B Missouri. All pe ms against sald estate, are re t them for allowance to the after the late c reciuded from claim hed Administrator's Notice reby given, That letters of ad- ) Pearson the debris. Along the edge of the debt of more than twenty millions | Jersey will be filed in a few days. | witi tarnish yous bugey je | ‘ou 8 bug; storm path, holes are seen through on the shoulders of St. Louis tax- frame houses as if punctured by | Payers: which has systematically and cannon balls. | persistently robbed the city treasury A second edition of the cyclone) and “assimilated” the taxes for per- followed the first ia about twenty | sonal riot and enrichment, while the| a a The capital is to be $50,000,000 of { HIGH OR LOW GRADE which $25,000,000 has already been| for very few dollars. Iam thankful to all who subscribed. It is understood that| pave patronized me and hope you will continue the trust is to increase the price of a me, come farming implements. | a. at this is the right place ¢ undersigned on by the Probate , Missouri ms sgainetssid estate sre nee to the year after the date of precluded from difeuch claims be re from the date All persons baving < required to exhibit administrator within o said letters, o any benefit of not exhibited of this pal barred. This ist day ot April, 1a%. T. 8. HODGES, 21-48 Administrator. via the new et ® y ication, they shall be forever | | Six miles west of Butleey IO OOn Roo, 1 g EPARD Large illustrated catalog 1 about g ard : Tator and its img Prov attad) ments, and the} Nicho Shepang Traction Engine Missour: Pacific Railway Timely at Butler Station. NORTH BOUND, 2 Local Freight i SOUTH BOUND. No. No. 5 No 1 No. 811 Local Freight 1; IN’ STATE DIVISION, No. 349 Depart T No. 350 Arrive ie E. C. Vaxpenvoon, K. C. 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