Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — ADD TO DEATH LIST. [ARTICLE]

ADD TO DEATH LIST.

Loss of Life in Kansas and Missouri Now Reported to Be Forty-Two. The recent storms in Kansas and Missouri covered an area of 200 square miles in that section and cost thirty-seven lives as far as reported with many others missing, and a property loss that will exceed a million dollars. The probable loss ot life, including those reported previously. is as follows: Dead. Injured. M inolta. Mo 11 Not estimated Baxter Springs, Kan. . 6 11 Columbus. Kan 1 Not known Ottawa, Kan 2 Not known \ an Buren. Ark. ...;.. 2 Not known Fish Creek. I. T 5 Not known Thomasville, Mo 5 Not known Fayetteville, Ark..... 3 Not known Richards. Kan 1 Not known Indian Territory (hunters) ... G Not known Total 42 Throughout the entire section dwellings, farm buildings, bridges, and fences were swept away. At Winona eighty buildings succumbed, l-.ve residences, a church, and a warehouse wont.down at Baxter Springs. A schoolhouse and a church were blown down at New Albany. Kan. Many buildings Were leveled at Ardmofe, I. T. Bridges suffered’chiefly at Guthrie, Ok. The path was from northwest to southeast and covered a wedge-shaped area fifteen miles wide at the northern portion and extending a length of nearly fifty miles. Two-thirds of the windmills in the path of the storm are down and sheds and barns without ’lumber are wrecked. A freight train was overturned at Canton. Several buildings were blown down at Chickasaw, I. T., among which was the Rock Island freight depot and a large grist mill near by. These summaries are only a fraction of loss in property. The greatest burden falls upon the farmers, as the season is too far spent to plant new crops, and suffering must surely follow in the storm’s wake. The country’s granary has been cleaned out. Details of individual suffering and experiences will fill volumes.