Marshall County Independent, Volume 5, Number 21, Plymouth, Marshall County, 5 May 1899 — Page 3

WORK OFTHE CYCLONE Great Loss of Life at Kirksville, Mo. Other Points Visited.

The sky emptied its fury In a gi$intic tornado upon Kirkwood, Mo., a town of 7,000 people, Thursday eventig, and wiped the east side of the town off the face of the earth. A tiroad, clean path nearly a quarter of a mile wide lies through the town. Probably 400 houses were torn to fragments and scattered in every direction. It is probable a hundred people were killed. The tornado swept on, and Newark. Knox county, a little hamlet off the railroad, was almost destroyed. The dead there are said to number thirtyEeven. , Newtown, Sullivan county, a small place oa the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paui railroad, had been practically wiped out by the cyclone before it struck Kirksville. The list of injured will reach 500 there. In the heavy rain following the tornado the people who escaped the calamity turned out to rescue the injured and hunt out the bodies of the slain. Surgeons, professors, operating staff end students, men and women of the American School of Osteopathy, together with all the doctors resident in the town, at once formed rescue and hospital corps, and in the darkness and rain hunted out the unfortunates. This work was superintended by Mayor Xoonan, Dr. Charles K. Still, and Dr. William Smith. From everj locality the cry went tip, "send surgeons. There are men, women and children in agony; send help." Physicians from all neighboring places hastened to the scene, but medical supplies are short. Rescuing corps are lifting roofs and searching the basements of wrecked houses all along the edge of the death track, not entirely demolished, for the forms of the bleeding, dying and dead. Cabs, express wagons, private conveyances, and stretchers were put into service. The streets were soon filled with weeping men. women and children, and men carrying stretchers bearing the maimed, dead and dying. Half a dozen wrecked dwellings took fire immediately after the tornado passed. The fire bells rang out the alarm, but no one had time to put out Urcs, and the fires burned themselves out. The light from these fires illuminated the town, ;md aided the rescuers In carrying on their errand of mercy. Kent's undertaking rooms were used as the charnel-house, and scores of the dead are now there, son . of them unidentified. Kirksville is the seat of government of Adair county, and is seventy miles west of Quincy, 111. It is situated in a fertile grain, fruit, and stock growing district, and there are coal mines eight miles distant. It has two railways, the Wabash and the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City. There are several good hotels, an opera-house seating S00 people, and a fine Masonic hall. The Xorth Missouri Normal school is also located there. The town is most widely known as the seat of the American School of Osteopathy, teaching a new system of medicine discovered or invented by Dr. A. T. Still. This institution has attracted students from all over the country, and has added much to the growth and prosperity of the town. A dispatch from Ute, Iowa, says: Eastern Monona county, a part of Crawford county, and the whole of Soldier river valley were swept by a tornado about midnight Thursday. Five persons were killed, five fatally injured, and four others dangerously injured. Fortunately the storm struck no towns. Do7;ns of others scattered throughout the prosperous farming country of the Soldier river valley were hurt more or less by flying debris. The whirling storm seemed to follow the valley of the Soldier river and even curved in and out among the bends of the stream. It was followed immediately by a strotig straight wind ;tnd a heavy

HOW IT STRUCK UTK, IOWA.

fall of hail. The large house of George Ferne was the Srst building of importance destroyed. It was right in the center of the cyclone's track. The house was cut to pieces like so much kindling wood. All the family except the father were in hed. The mother was not found until daylight. She lay beneath some of the debris of her ruined home, a fence rail forced diagonally through her body. She lived several hours in spite of her awful wounds. The five daughters were found in as many different places in the darkness after the storm by their father, who was himself badly hurt. All are badly hurt and expected to die. Harry Ferne, a 10-year-old boy. was blown nearly a mile from his parents' home and was crushed out of resemblance to a human being when found. A mot remarkable freak of the elements occurred in the destruction of the Feme house. Albert Ferne, a 4-year-old boy. was asleep by the side of his mother, who was killed. He disappeared and was supposed to have been killed, until nearly noon, when a searching party found him fast asleep on a hay stack nearly half a mile from his home. The supposed tramp killed had taken refuge in the barn of Peter Peterson. The wind broke his body to pieces, mixed it up with the logs of

PATH CUT THROUGH KIIIKSV1 U.E.

the stable in which he was sleeping, and carried it several hundred yards away. Peterson's house was blown to pieces, and the owner carried through the air, mixed up with the debris. He is not dead, but has lost both ears, cut off as if by a knife, and is otherwise badly hurt. John Amerston was swept away with his house, and his body carried half a mile and dropped into the river. Harry Maltby was swept a mile from his home. ;icross the river, and back again, through all the frightful debris, and finally dropped into the stream. He was not hurt, swam to the shore, and helped rescue the wounded. Hanson Severson was crushed in the ruins of his house. In Crawford county, on the county line, four miles freni Ute. the house, granaries, and barns of Monday Peters were demolished. Peters says he heard a strange, moaning sound, and went from his bed to the door to investigate. He could see, outlined against the sky, a great black ball, from which a snout reached to the ground, bobbing around like the small end of a big balloon. Wherever tliis snout struck the earth the forest was cut up as if a great machine had run over it. A moment later the snout struck Iiis house, which went up in the air and came down half a mile away, a mass of kindling wood. He was carried with the storm for a mile. Some times he was rolling along the ground and CUS "

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grabbing at trees to stop his progress, and at other times was 3ailing through the air like a bird. The path of the storm is nearly a mile wide and is as clearly defined from its entrance into Monona county along the winding course of the Soldier river for twenty miles as if cut out by an army of men with grading and digging machinery. Tree3 two feet thick were twisted off, and in many cases pulled up by the roots and carried miles away. The loss is enormous. Nearly all horses, cattle, hogs, and sheep in the storm's path were killed and all crops ruined.

MAN'S DREAD OF SNAKES. It's a Mraterioa Trait of Humanity, aa Yet Unexplained. "The dread of snakes is a mysterious human trait," said a physician, "and has perplexed psychologists not a little. The great majority of snakes are perfectly harmless, but the average man is vastly more afraid of them than he would be of some dangerous wild beast. I use the word 'afraid' for its convenience rather than its accuracy, because the sentiment in point Is not fear, as we commonly use the term, and has nothing to do with courage per se. It is a sort of instinctive horror and loathing, and. by the way, is more common in men than in women, the impression to the contrary notwithstanding," relates the New Orleans Times-Democrat. "According to the accepted theory, it is a survival of the time when serpents were among the most formidable enemies of our manmonkey ancestors. The danger has disappeared, but the dread still lives, all the more terrible because It haa grown vague and formless. I remember some years ago a patient of mine, an athlete and a fellow who would fight his weight in wildcats, came into my office to consult mo about some trivial complaint. I had been experimenting on a small garter snake, and the dead body, about as big as a lead pencil, lay on a newspaper on the sofa. He was about to sit down when he saw it, and without saying a word he closed his eyes and fell crashing to the tloor in a swoon. I was astonished beyond measure, and before he recovered the corpse was in the trash barrel downstairs. An officer who served through the Santiago campaign told me that our boys were much more afraid of reptiles than of bullets. One day he ordered a strapping big sergeant to take a few men out and make a reconnoissance of a small thicket, and was surprised to see the trooper hang back. "Are you afraid of the Spaniards?' he asked, contemptuously. 'Oh, the Spaniards!' exclaimed the sergeant, in desperation. 'What do I keer for the Spaniards? I was thinkin about a snake I saw crawlin into them bushes yesterday." " "Working" llie Souvenir Storm. The giving of souvenirs by small tradesmen flourishes mightily among competitors in crowded neighborhoods in Harlem. When a new market is opened each purchaser on the first day is presented with an after-dinner coffee cup and saucer, and on certain days thereafter when trade lags and ordinary bargain oilers do not suffice to stir it up. Fven small shoe dealers hang out a card on certain days offering souvenirs to all customers. A shrewd small boy took a pair of shoes to be mended on one of the "souvenir days." The ( barges were only 10 cents for lejiairs, and at first t.h,-. souvenir was refused, but he mad.' s;u h a vigorous demand for his rights that he carried his point and lugged ()rf in triumph the mantel ornament which was offered as a souvenir. IIfftlf rson rntrr- the IC.toe. Congressman David 15. Henderson of Iowa has announced his candidacy for the speakership. In doing so hi said: "As the silence nf Mi. Kced and the information from many quarters clearly indicate that lie will not again be a candidate for the speaker.-hip and as the Iowa delegation is united in favor of my candidacy, I have decided to enter the race." Ocneral Henderson is much gratified at the information that his Iowa colleagues will meet in Des Moines next week to perfect the details of his campaign. The man hoo can't kwit gittin a jag on, without gnln to a jag kure, or gcttia soopernatchurally hR-d, is fillers in danger ov soopernatchuraliy droipiu frura grace, to to speak.

HAG GERT Y'S STRIKE.

FABULOUS WEALTH FALLS TO A SHEEP HERDER. Richest Copper Vault Known How the Kudefeha Claim H Located. Opened, nd Is lleing Operated Fortune Smiles on Pluck. (Special Letter.) A miner's dream has again been realized in the Rocky mountains. A poor prospector and sheep herder has suddenly become a bonanza copper king, with a mine that even now, in its infancy. Is shipping more than $10,000 worth of ore a week, and is believed to have at least $300.000 worth of the red metal already in sight, after only three months of actual mining work. Ed Haggerty. after years of poverty, finds himself the possessor of a vault of copper ore richer by five times than the ore of the famous Anaconda mine of Hatte. Mont., and twenty times richer than the average yield of the greatest copper mines of northern Michigan. The Rudefeha is believed vo be the richest copper strike ever made in this country, and as the price of copper is steadily advancing, a great topper mine has become more desirRUDEFEHA MINE "GRUBHOUSE." able, in the miner's eyes, than the richest of golden bonanzas. A vein of copper ore. averaging over seven feet in width, has enabled its lucky finder to sail for a visit to his home at Cumberland. England, with $30,000 in the bank to his credit, with which to administer comfort to an aged father and mother, whom he hid not seen before in fourteen years. During the early part of October the first carload of ore shipped to Chicago brought a cheek of $CG4 above all transportation charges. This first shipment averaged 33.1 S per c?nt copper, but no return was made by the smelter for either gold or silver. The last carload shipped to the Argo smelter ran over 35 per cent copper and 1.96 In gold, and one ounce of silver to tli? ton. For this carload a check for ?1,43" was received. The story of Ed Haggerty and the discovery of the Rudefeha mine is plain but alluring. Haggerty began prospecting, as he says, because he ha 1 never been able to save a cent working for wages. The first prospecting was at Sandstone, about fifteen miles from Grand Encampment. Wyo., but it was not until the spring of 1S97 that he first saw the "prospect" that has since made him a fortune and a reputation as a miner. On this journey Haggerty was accompanied by several copper miners from Douglas mountain in Colorado. The party camped a few days at Battle lake, near the top of the continental divide. One of these men told Haggerty that he was looking for red, spongy iron ore at the surface, as he considered it to be a much surer indication of copper than the green copper stain for which most prospectors looked. On the morning of June 20, 1S07, Haggerty left the camp and headed for a big quartzite dike some three or four miles away, plainly visible at that distance on account of its immense size, but although it was in the latter part of June, Haggerty was unable to reacn this dike, as the snow had not yet left that side of the mountain. On July 2ö he finally reached the white quartzite dike, for which a month befoie he had wallowed in vain. He discovered that tons of ore had rolled down the mountain side, and that the quality of the ore answered the description of the Douglas mountain copper miner. On closer examination of the ore he found a few pieces of the hard sulphide ore stained green in places with copper. Haggerty a. once set up a location stake, erected a monument, and thus took possession, by law of a twenty-acre tract of mining land, which he christened in his location notice as the "Rudefeha Uule Mining Claim," the name being composed o the two tirsi letters of the name o' each of the partners Ituniicy, D:m1, Ferris and Haggerty. HaggM-ty was now convinced that he had at least a copper prospect worth working, und lie appealed to his partners t-j work the claim during the winter. Ferris and Deal were both willing J;i.t Rumscy vas afraid the groand was n.d v.nrth the spending of uio:e y, :4nd the work was accordingly eelayt.J. and Hums: y's one-fourth iu-tre.-t altcrv.ard purchased for 31.000 by Ferris. Haggerty then hired cut to a man north of R:ivii::s. Wyo.. -js u sheep herder, in ord r that he night ria.:e his ornemc-j until spring opnd up. Not until tle latter part cf .June was be able to find a barren p!r.ce large enough on which to pitch a tent when he made location on four l.i i ms adjoining the Iiud-feh-., and I roeei.t'vd to trace the vein far up the hill, finding it about five feet in .vidtii at ti e oottom. He next begin to sink a siiaft so as to catch the vein on its dip. and at a depth of thirty feet h i-truck the original vein. At this depth a heavy l!ow of v.atrr entered the ibaft and H:;ggrrty went to Grand Enir.rupincnt to ;i t mining supplies. While he was away on tl is trip Ferris went into the hills to ?re the p opcrty: and he in turn was; so elated it the prospect tint he irstructod Ilagrrty to cut :i va.-'M und up to !Ii r.rne sr.d T:p?r" for more extrs'e opTt!nry. S,..'!::l!- ' wnre tl'ers '?anlel

In and eight men on Sept. 17 cut tha I

first log for the buildings, while by Sept. 25 the work in the mine had been resumed and the water was being taken out. Owing to the great depth of snow covering the mountains of the continental divide, the mine is now being worked under almost Alaskan difficulties. FIRST IN PEACE AS IN WAR. Admiral George Dewey's Tact. Wit and Courtesy. Every story that travels across the Pacifie about Admiral Dewey presents the hero of Manila in a more attractive guise and heightens the interest of Americans in their beloved idol. The Oriental hotel in Manila has long been the favorite abiding place of the wives of army and navy officers stationed there. Naturally they have their little, all-important "set," in their eyes the cream of aris'toeracy. This set has a rigid outside; it does not include any woman of less aristocratic position than theirs, any woman whose money is the result of her own honorable labors. There was one of the latter class of women staying at the Oriental hotel during the months of the war excitement, a Miss Thompson, who was the correspondent of a syndicate of American newspapers. She was a woman of ability. She did her work well and won the respect and esteem of everyone who knew her; she was universally liked, except by the officers' wives, who could not condescend to know her. They made their attitude pronounced; they drew the social line, on whose safe inside they congratulated themselves upon being. Admiral Dewey undoubtedly has a sense of humor as well as many other things that go to make up a capable officer and charming man. He evidently smiled, perhaps in an amused way at first, then a little grimly and ironically, when it came to his ears that the wives of his subordinates had entered into a crushing social ring to ostracize and persecute the newspaper woman. Miss Thopmson had an unexpected visitor one day. Admiral Dewey sent up his card. He paid a long call. He and Miss Thompson found much that was interesting to talk about. In the enjoyment of their talk they were apparently oblivious that the rest of the Oriental hotel had gone mad. The world had quite came to an end in th1 teapot district, with its self-righteous ideas of the fitness of things. The admiral had called on a workingwoman! They were made to appear in the wrong. Perhaps it is better to draw a veil over the subsequent wailing and gnashing of teeth, the tears and rage of the would-be leaders of Manila society. But Dewey was characteristically relentless. He rubbed in th lesson he had given. He asked Miss Thompson if he might lunch with her the next day. and again the whole Oriental hotel knew it and was aflame. The woman who had been humiliated by the pettiness of petty people was honored by a great man. And no one can doubt that behind the iron commander, with the eye of an eagle, the brain of lightning and the will of steel, there exists the very tender heart of a gentleman of the old school. A NEW MRS. PARTINGTON. Milwaukee's Mrs. Partington realty deserves to have her fame perpetuated. She says so many deliciously absurd things that no one who has not met her will believe that they are other than the inventions of some malicious person, jealous of the lady's standing position. For be it known that Mrs Partington's husband is one of the wealthies and best known of Milwau kee's solid citizens, and she goes on her way daily scattering these conver sational pearls regardless of whom they may fall before. She had just learned to her sorrow that it was con sidered very bad form in the more exclusive Prospect avenue sets to purChase anything down town, nay for it then and there, which she had heretofore taken special delight in doing, as it enabled her to show a large wad t uf bills in her fat p icket b.io'a. So she .-ailed into a dry goods store one day, bought a skein of embroidered silk, and remarked airily: "You nv.iy send that up to my liou-e. Dwli't forget to send it A. B. ('.' On another orea-ion she asked a uon.iv. clerk in th ? same st.ue to shov: her some stockings. "What kind of hose s-hall I show you. madam?" "llc.-e is it? Do you t:ke me for a gardener? It's stoeVins I want." V:is No (ieiit leinu n. a ld.ü ii imm v. as furious. "You The t have b hissed, läge. ' cn stealing coal from me!" he The other man wa-? livid with You are no jtmtleimin!" lie yiur.itei not en: If von were vou'.l s iv eeii "i!"- -Detroit Journal, nronoscd to celebrate the inid. It is lrp of the iri : ! imp 1 crty. iie postage stamp In Frame by "e for six months of the old i 1SW, hcr.ring the cfdgy of lib-

Society Directory.

MASONIC PLYMOUTH KILWINNING LODGE, No. 149, F and A-M-meets first and third Friday evenings of each month. Wm. H. Conger, W. M. John Corbaley, Sec. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 49 R. A. M.; meets second Friday evening" of each month. J. C. Jilson, H. P. H. B. Reeve, Sec. PLYMOUTH COMMAND'RY, No. 26, K. T.; meets fourth Friday of each month. John C. Gordon, E. C. L. Tanner, Ree. PLYMOUTH CHAPTER, No. 26, O. E. S.; meets first and third Tuesdays of each month. Mrs. Bertha McDonald, W. M. Mrs. Lou Stansbury, Sec. ODD FELLOWS. AMERICUS LODGE, No. 91; meets every Thursday evening at their lodge rooms on Michigan street. C. F. Schearer, N. G. Chas. Bushman, Sec. SILVER STAR LODGE, Daughters of Rebekah; meets every Friday evening at I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. J. E. Ellis, N. G, Miss Emma Zumbaugh, V. G. Miss N. Berkhold, Sec. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. HYPERION LODGE, No. 117; meets every Monday night in Castle Hall. Wm. F. Young, C. C. Cal Switzei, K. of R. and S. HYPERION TEMPLE, Rathbone Sisters; meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Chas. McLaughlin, E. C. FORESTERS. PLYMOUTH COURT, N0.1409; meets the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in K. of P . hall . C. M. Slay ter, C. R. Ed Reynolds, Sec. K. O. T. M. PLYMOUTH TENT, No. 27; meets every Tuesday evening at K. O. T. M. hall. D. W. Jacoby, Com. Frank Wheeler, Record Keeper. WIDE AWAKE HIVE, No. 67, L. O. T. M.; meets every Monday night at K. O. T. M.'hall on Michigan street. Mrs. Cora Hahn, Com. Bessie Wilkinson, Record Keeper. HIVE No. 2S, L. O. T. M; meets eyery Wednesday evening in K. O. T. M. hall. Mrs. W. Burkett, Com. ROYAL ARCANUM. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in Simons hall. J. C. Jilson, Regent. B. J. Lauer, Sec. "WOODMEN OF THE WORLD. Meets first and third Wednesday evenings of each month in K. of P. hall. J. O. Pomeroy, C. C, E. Rotzien, Clerk. WOODMEN CIRCLE. PLYMOUTH GROVE, No. 6; meets every Friday evening at Woodmen hall. Mrs. Lena Ulrich, Worthy Guardian. Mrs. Chas. Hammerei, Clerk. MODERN WOODMEN. Meets second and fourth Thursdays m K. of P. hall. J. A. Shunk, Venerable Consul. C. L. Switzer, Clerk. BEN HUR. Meets every Tuesday. W. H. (Jove, Chief. Chas. Tibbctts, Scribe. G. A. R. MILES II. TIBBETTS POST, G. A. K., meets every first and third Tuesday evenings in Simons hall. W. Kcllcy, Cum. Charles Wilcox, Adjt. COLUMBIAN LEAGUE. Meets Thursday evening, every other week, 73 P n1 m 's" sell hall. Wert A. Beldon, Commander. Alonzo Stev ensciij Pro vost. MODERN SAMARITANS. Meets second and fourth Wednesday evening in W. O. W. hall. S. B. Fanning, Pies. J. A Shunk, Sec. MARSHALL COUNTY PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION. Meets first Tuesday in each month. Jacob Karzer, M. D., President. Novitas B. Aspinall. M. I)., Sec