Mexico, Missouri Tornado
May
27, 1896
A Cyclone Near Mexico, Mo.
Mexico, Mo., May 28.-A cyclone visited
the northern part of Audrian county yesterday
afternoon with death and destruction. The killed
so far as known are: ELIZA WARE and daughter;
J. G. WARE, HILDA BLAZE, aged 6 years;
EULAH MILLER, 9 years;
ROSE HODGE, 6 years, and the
9-year-old son of Albert Knougle.
The fatally injured are:
Eugene Lott,
aged 7; Pearl Hodge,
8; and son of Frank
Endel, 8. A number of others less
seriously; physicians have gone to the scene.
The damage done to the house and trees and crops
is very great.
Many dwellings and other buildings were swept
away. At Bean Creek, the school house was
destroyed and scholars were killed and several
injured. At the Dye school house four were
killed and eighteen injured, the teacher,
Miss Mary Blinco,
fatally. Reports are still coming and no
estimating of the loss of life and property is
possible. The residence of
George See, at High Hill, was
demolished, and Mrs.
See was killed. The children were
injured.
Daily Republican, Decatur, IL 28 May 1896
Transcribed by
Jenni Lanham. Thank you,
Jenni!
Mexico, Mo.,
special. A cyclone swept across
Audrain county Wednesday evening, doing great
damage to crops and wrecking many buildings....
In the Bean creek district a school house was
carried completely away, and a daughter of
Joseph B. Ware,
one of the pupils was killed, and
Lulu Eubanks
and Hilda Blase,
also school children were fatally injured.
Others along the route of the tornado in this
district whose names cannot be learned are more
or less injured. At Dye school house, six
or eight miles further southeast, not a pupil
escaped uninjured, and five children were killed
outright, two dying later at this place.
The school house was utterly demolished and
several of the children were blown a great
distance away, and were not found until several
hours afterward, and then in a mutilated
condition.
Progress Review,
La Porte City, IA 6 Jun 1896
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