ANNIVERSARY CYCLONE
Published by THE BONNE TERRE STAR, Bonne Terre,
St. Francois Co. MO, Fri.
April 19, 1912.
Last Saturday night at about ten o'clock, St. Francois county
had an anniversary cyclone similar to the one that passed north of Bonne Terre a
year ago--April 13.
This time Farmington, Knob Lick and vicinity to the south of us were visited.
In fact, there were two cyclones, one following the other, and both did an
immense amount of damage.
Probably the worst damage was at DeLassus where nearly everything was torn
up, one killed and many injured.
At Farmington, the Clardy farm and the Fair Grounds suffered badly and the
Butterfield greenhouses were damaged more than any other one institution,
telephone communication in the storm area was put out of business.
THE KILLED:
Mrs. John Topping, aged 55 years, of DeLassus.
Clark
Parmley, aged 9 years, of Knob Lick.
Casper Ruh, aged 24 years, of Stono
mountain.
THE INJURED:
At Delassus--
Mrs. Chris. Vaughn, aged 55 years, badly
bruised all over body.
Miss Vaughn, daughter, aged 18, bruised.
Richard
Welch, aged 70, breast severely crushed, ribs broken and head cut.
James
Welch, aged 38, badly bruised about face.
Mrs. James Welch, bruised.
Two
small sons of James Welch, cut and bruised.
Henry McAlister, wife and two
children, badly bruised.
Mr. and Mrs. Zach Cole, slightly bruised.
C. D.
Cole, ankle sprained.
Two Topping children, aged 9 and 4, badly
bruised.
Robert Wills, foot cut.
Two Wills girls, cut by broken glass.
At Knob Lick--
William Parmley, foot pierced by nail.
Mrs. William Parmley, left arm broken above wrist.
Hattie
Parmley, aged 16, bruised about
face.
Blanche Parmley, aged 14, bruised under right shoulder and about
head.
J. P. Whitaker, aged 68, one rib broken.
Georgia Whitaker, aged 13,
hip sprained.
Will Whitaker, aged 6, hurt about head.
Mrs. B. W. Robinson,
bad cut on chin.
Haden Robinson, legs hurt by bricks.
Junior Robinson,
legs bruised.
At Farmington--
Miss Anna Butterfield, arm slightly cut and
bruised.
Ellis Taylor, colored servant at Butterfield's, cut and
bruised.
H. B. Ledbetter, cut on wrist by glass.
Frank Ledbetter, cut on
hand by glass.
At Stono--
Lee Elser, hurt about head.
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