Mark,
        What you describe is milder than normally seen with a bear or vandal
attack.
You did a good job of cleaning up, to start with.
It is not unusual for the colony to survive a mishap as you describe.
The queen may survive the acrobatics you describe. If there is brood
they will create a new queen. I wouldn't worry too much. Feed them a
gallon 1:1 sugar water to stimulate laying and check in a week for eggs/
larva or queen cells. If there are none, order a new queen. The rest
didn't sound too bad. Bears do much worse to a colony and will survive
if they have a queen, food, and the opportunity to cleanup/rebuild.

Thom Bradley
Chesapeake, VA

Mark Osborne wrote:
>
> I may have made a fatal( to the bees) mistake today.
> Med that was stuck to bottom drops, turns upside down in the dirt, and
> generally panics entire hive.
>
> Now, I suspect that the queen was in this Medium. I have lots of dead,
> injured and dirty bees in the dust. I am unhappy, the bees even more so.
>
> I continue to pick up the mess, No frames fell completely out of the
> medium, but it got really dirty. I replace the meduim. I install Apistan
> strips, reassemble remainder of hive, and get the hell out of there.