The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-04-19


: heavy.
{ Mrs. VIM. HodsOn was found bangir
e over the fence badly hurt. and was take
4 to her father's, Adam Stotler. Mr.. Sto
? Ter had gone out Saturday for the fir
{ time after long illness, and was at Wn
f Hodson's when the house was demolisI
> ed.
Thos. LiIIibridge's house and conten
in ruins. Himself wife and daughter e
capped serious injury.
EIwood and Riley Workman's houses
: owned by their father, rs stated above
blown to pieces and contents ruined.
U. Hodson's house ditto.
The Kirkendali sehool-house ditto.
James P. Williams log house ditto
Williams and family were canght in tn
storm on their way home. The team RAJ
away, but all escaped from the wagon
and mir. Williams held his children to tn
ground to save them from being blow
away. The hail bruised them badly.
ON THE COTTONWOOD BOTTOM.
Richard Peters wife and eight of hi
nine children were IN his house, one storJ
and half, and as they felt it going, theJ
went to q cave just east Of 1t. The houst
rolled over this cave. going to pieces anC
smashing the cave in. Mrs. Peters being
cut in the head and nearly cru shed un
der one of the timbers. Herself and
family are stopping at Henry Coppoek'i
house,
Henry CoppocHs kitchen addition ROOF
was taken OF.
Na~f oast of him a 7 Rurl-aFt1s ho,,ae
was demolished. Himself, wife and three
children are also at Mr.. COppock's, as are
David Coppock and family.
Reese Jones' house was unroofed. His
son was not seriously hurt.
W. H. Leavitt's house and everything
In 1t ruined.
Part of NJ. W. KirkeEdall's kitchen roof
gone. The hail broke holes through the sid
ing large enough to admit a mans hand, and
one Maidstone smashed half of his front door
panel II. and could hardly go into a quart
cup after it was picked urs
r. H. Bright, living on the Anderson farm,
reports his house turned round, and part of
Its roof gone.
Henry Osborn was at kirkendall's when
the storm burst on them, and got to his own
bic. He found his house and contents utterly
demolished, his wife lying insensible seventy
five yards from the house site, up to her arms
IN water; and he found his oldest girl, about
five years old, clinging to hedge, her collar
bone broken. His tive youngest girls were
found seventy five yards further away, the
youngest dead, and the next one so injured
that she died Sunday morning. This is the
saddest visitation any one family experience
ed. Mrs. Osborn was still out of her mind
last Tuesday, unaware of how she was hurt,
or OF her chIldren's sad fate.
Hugh Thomas house had the root torn OF,
and badly injured.
John E. Davis stable blown down and Mr..
Davis wounded in the jaw In trying to secure
his horses. Farming implements in barn de-
stroyed, and 200 bushels of corn swept away
by water.
Evan Davis lost his granary, and had his
house moved from its foundation.
Mr. Hickox's orchard was badly damaged.
His house is full of people, including old
Mr.. Cox. We are much obliged to Mr.. Hick-
OK for plotting us through deep water in the
road Tuesday night.
VIM. Eagles two-story stone house lost its
roof
John R. Griffith had the west end of his
large new frame barn blown in. aud his or
chard and fences badly mi ured.
Ishmael Jones had his new frame house torn
to pieces. The stone house of his mother,
near by, lost part OF its roof.
Able Histts barn was blown down.
Bently Hiatt's barn badly injured.
VIM. Eagles two-story stone house lost
its root.
John r. Griffith had the west end OF
his large new frame barn blown in, and
his fences ana orchard badly injured.
Ishmael Jones had. his new frame house
torn to pieces. The stone house of his
mother, near by, lost part of its roof.
Able HATS barn was blown down.
Bently Hiatrs barn badly injured.
ON THE PRAIRIE.
On the prairie between Phenis and Dry
Creeks and north of the Cottonwood bottoms,
is what is known as the HaViIand house,
which was tenanted by Isaac Newell, wife,
four children, and his father-in-law, John
Cox, seventy years of age. The house be-
longed to man named Turbett, who lives in
California. The house and contents were
demolished, old MIR. Cox being carried over
the house and set down in a peach tree, with
broken leg. Mrs. Newell was also bad
ly hurt.
s. b Smiths house, contents and farming
implements destroyed. The family took ref
uge from the hail under an overturned wagon
box. hrs. Smith was injured
Emanuel Moons house and contents total.
Iy ruined. Mr.. John Gatewood was there,
and helped MIR. Moon hold the door, but the
wind forced it open, sucked Mr.. Moon out,
and slot him like a rocket over the house
and into some bushes one hundred feet in the
rear, the house meantime going to pieces.
Mr.. Gatewood was at first caught in the
wreck, but another gust relieved him. He
thought Moon was gone, until he saw him
walking back with board over his head to
keep on the hail.
Geo. Sell lived in DR.. Chapman's house.
He was on his way home when the tornado
came. The roof was taken of the house and
one end blown in, and then Mrs. Sell and her
girl and boy started for the granary. but
were dashed to the ground, and the boy
thrown against post and his skull frac-
tureJ.
MIR. Eastman who lives with DR.. Chitten-
den, was going from town, and his horses ran
away, threw him out, and he landed against
the wire fence at Sells. He next found his
horses caught in the fence, and rode them to
Sells house, finding the boys dead body as
he went and Mr.. Sell and the little girl in q
cave. He took them back to the granary,
and then went to Moen's house, and there
found that family and his sister-in-lsw, Miss
Wood. They went to Sells granary, and Mr..
E. rode ZONE and hitched up, and with the
hired man went back to the granAry, taxing
provisions, prepared by Mrs. Chittenden, to
the parties there, and 70 some twenty people
who were in Rohn Humphreys cellar. The
Mcores. Eewells, old man Cox. the dead boy,
Mrs. Sell and girl. were found in the granary
next morning by Mr. Hickox, to whose house
most of them were taken. Mrs. Chittenden
has parted with nearly all her clothing to aid
those who were left without any of their
own.
John Humphreys two-story stone house is
goods, clothing, grain and -four destroyed,
and his farming implements partly destroy
ed. his family Of eight escaped serious in
jury. Mrs. Humphrey, with some of the
children, arrived home from the city just as
the storm came. Mr.. Humphrey ran out TO
help her, but the team was blown on the
fence, one horse nearly killed, and Mr. and
Mrs. Humphrey and the children blown
about until they got into the hedge, and, af
ter the house went TO pieces, reached the cell
lar. The children, who were in the house.
were not injured, and all took refuge in the
cellar, where some twenty people in all stay
ed that night, the floor remaining over it.
Mr. and Mrs. Buckingham were going
home in their buggy; and were lifted ont OF
the vehicle and WsSied through q ravine up