Mt Vernon, IL Tornado, Feb 1888 - Dead & Injured

THE DEAD AND INJURED.
Following is a list of the dead:
DAVID YEARWOOD.
MRS. J. J. WATERS and babe.
J. C. MURRAY.
MRS. RUSSELL DEWLY.
MARY WESTBROOK.
HENRY WATERS.
JAMES PIERSON.
CHARLES CUMMINGS.
MRS. CALVIN COOPER.
GEORGE PERSONS and son (colored).
MRS. WILLIAM JONES and child.
MRS. ELVINA MARTIN (colored).
JOHN YEARWOOD.
SAM YEARWOOD and wife.
FRANK CLIGHTMAN.
ADA HARPER (colored).
MISS JOSIE SITTON.
JOHN DODSON, JR.
JOSEPH SHEW.
MRS. JOHN SHELTON.
MRS. CHARLES HUTCHINSON.
MISS IRWIN.
NETTIE SHIELDS.
AMANDA BIERDON.
An Unknown Man.
MRS. L. E. LEGGE.
GEORGE JONES' youngest child.

The list of those injured seriously and slightly is very large. Several are not expected to live. An efficient corps of physicians and surgeons is on the ground rendering all assistance possible.

Cash donations to the amount of $1,200 have been received this evening and promises for much more. None of the buildings have insurance against storms and the loss is total. Adjutant-General VANCE has telegraphed that he and DR. RAUCH, president of the state board of health commissioners, will be here to-night. Gov. OGLESBY can not come to-night.

Steps are now being taken to give a public funeral to-morrow to all who have not yet been buried or taken away.

The Quincy Daily Whig Illinois 1888-02-21