The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1865-06-10

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Tremendous Storm
most severe storm ever known n
seton Of countTys visited here 7sssssr-
fLsFnoon. The day had besn e.t-s6,e.
SOS 4 black frightful locking. cloud
noticed in Che west. 3 iitfie bsfera -
oek. Al about Eve. The the storIs. ioursk
- q fel fury upon the town. The vins
s u perfect hurricane, fillin6 aha air
iuil Of dust that person could ret -
lnguiehed ct a distance of 3 rod. BuilaS
lpgss kyllghts. chimusys, signs ard fences
asre scattered by the aging elements IN 81
IEeetlens. Much property was 5sstrovad
t. happily, no life Was lost, ana no en-
iured. -. = = s. =
Afler the hardest Of the storm was over.
sye passed ever the town. The follovino.
ilsk CEN prisss, we are confident. about sil
BE damage done BY the tornado
honHe belonging to G. ". " elker on
sF-s9st street, north Of Winthrop street.
49, ptseA 1eEni and entirely dsstroved
ihls was new frame dwelling nodse, late.
The new brick on Winthrop street. be.
longing to Jones & Sprinkle, aud occubisd
Oy Y. Hastings as an auction room. vastun.
rooted. MT. Hastings and a friend vera
IN the building at the time, but suffered NO
harm. Their goods were somewhat damag-
ed BY the rain. .
John Atchison WAC putting M a stoya
house, corner of Massachusetts and war
rem streets, and had the walls to the first
story nearly completed. This fell in. and
Is Is q t0tai wreck. Witnesses say, however,
tnat THIS was caused, not by wind, but by
the water which ran down upon the north
side "lthsueh force as TO undermine 1t. Ina
snort time after, the cellar was completely
II OF water. Mr.. Atchison is probably
the heaviest loser among the number.
"A small brick house in the northeast part
OF town. owned by Peter Linn, and occu-
pied by couple of colored families, had the
ROOT blown of, but no further damage was
done.
The wind played strange freak upon
the roof OF the Pacific Mill, owned by HAYS
q Shultz. A chunk of the roof of the mill
seemed to have been ''gouged" outand car,
RED some distance Nothing inside was inr
The gable end of Rev. R. Burgess's house
was blown in. This was one-story house,
and 1t seems strange that the wind should
have affected it so much. Mr.. Hays and
some of the family were standing at the yin
dow when the wind came, but the flying
bricks and mortar passed fairly over them,
and struck on the floor beyond. This dis
aster to their houses is sad blow to the
family of Mr.. Burgess, and assistance to
them would be worthily bestowed.
The roof on the north side of Mr.. HoYey's
barn, south of Lawrence, was taken of.
The signs on JeWells warehouse, the
Journal Office, Sherman House, and Eureka
House, were blown down.
A large amount of window glass was bro
ken. The windows in the north side Of the
Durfee House were blown in -
Our North Lawrence neighbors suffered
somewhat. Trees fell upon the houses of
R. H. Patty and Mr.. Robinson, iniuring
them considerably. Mr.. Crawford's house
had the end blown out, and was moved off
its foundation. Frames which had lust
been erected by Judge Lambdin and Mr..
Tibbetts were also destroyed. sg , 81
A vast amount of timber. both on the Re-
serve and between here and EudOra, was
prostrated.
The storm has done much injury To crops,
the wheat, which was cut by hail.
Most of the fruit, everywhere in its track, is
destroyed.