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

earth again at Jacobs creek, IN Tn
county, and kept on going east until
reached Mr.. Ross house, about Lhr'
miles southeast of EmpOrIa. 1t the
again rose from the earth, and ma
have come down again or may not, {
some further point east. The width {
the tract upon which buildings wei
destroyed is about six miles, reachin
from the northern limits of Empori
20 about four miles south of the Col
tonWood. The storm was more exten
sive than this-but not in its destruC
tive power.
We now proceed TO give the individ
ual damages, so far as we have beel
able to ascertain them at this writing
Sunday evening--premising that chin
neys, fences. outbuildings, &C., blown
down, are so many in city AM
country, that they are altogether ''to'
numerous for mentioH." AS for broker
glass, hardly any window TO the north
without shutters escaped fracture, an(
thousands of new lights of glass are
in demand. We begin with the be
ginning:
THE TORNADO AT COTTONWOOD.
COTTONWOOD STATION,
April ID, 1878.
EDITORS NEWS:
A tornado struck Cottonwood Station
about o'clock this afternoon, entirely
demolishing 10 houses. A halt dozen more
were moved from their foundation and
badly wrecked. The Cottonwood hotel
was unroofed and a part of the front
blown down. One woman, Mrs. Miller,
was killed outright, and her husband and
four children dangerously wounded. Mrs.
Walters and two children, Fred Smith.
wife and three children, John Merritps
child, Lizzie, and Mrs. Matthews are all
seriously injured. Several others were
more or less hurt. Some ten freight cars,
standing on side track were blown over.
The damage in Cottonwood Falls, one and
q quarter miles south OF the station, was
slight. one residence was blown over,
the CatholicChurch and j w Nc Williams
house were moved from their foundations.
or course, outbuildings are knocked
galley west, and crooked.
p. S.-The tornado, apparently came
from little west of north, and after pas
sing Cottonwood Falls turned to the east.
NJ.
HOW TOhNADO LOOhEDs
People on Jacobs and Phenis creeks
say that the green cloud before described
moved over them with b seething, boiling
motion, sending down into the air be-
tween itself and the earth, long, slim,
trunk or funnel-lIke clouds, black as ink,
which would twist and wrIthe up and
down to ard the earth, some of them re-
tirIng into the cloud before reaching the
earth, and others touching the earth at
Intervals. Wherever these reached the
earth, devastation ensued-whatever they
touched was torn to pieces and cast about
like stubble. Nothing seemed strong
enough to resist their terrible power.
This was before the rain and hail blended
the sky and air into indistinguishable
down from every point of the compass,
and one was taken here and another
there, in a very irregular way, it seems as
If the main mischief done by the wind
was by those fuLnel-like clouds striking
this aud that point at random, hitting
some places with terrible fury, and miss
ing others. They must have carried hight
planks and boards very high, as many can
be seen, mile or more from any house,
sticking at all angles in the prairie, driv-
en- one to two feet in the ground. These
must have fallen down from a great
height, or been projected with great force
into the ground.
JACOBS CREEK.
The tornado first struck and demolished
Henry l.. Keyes' house, on Jacobs creek,
or rather on the divide between Jacobs
and Phenis creeks. Thos. H.sSpelman's
house went next, and then the houses of
A. and Samuel Bogae. These houses
were all demolished utterly, and their
destroyed. Mr.. Reyes and fam
lily were not seriously injured. Samuel
Bogue's family took refuge In their cellar,
before tins house went over, and thus es-
capped, but several OF the five children
went out in momentary luIl of the wind,
and were blown away as 1t sprang up
again. George, aged eleven years, was
blown two and a half miles over the prai-
RE, and badly bruised. A. Bogue, his
father and mother, were up at Mr. Hols-
Inger's getting out wood, and could not
get home till the storm was over. His
wife is visiting IN Iowa. In his house
were his mother, Mrs. Belle Bogae, and
his slater, Miss Ella. They say the house
tipped mp, everything in it sliding and
IumblIpg around. All was confusion IN
4 moment, and as the house went to frag-
ments, Mrs. Bogqe was blown in the air
with the ruins, and tell IN q pool of water
about one hundred feet south of the house,
with her leg broken. Miss Ella, not be-
ing hurt, soon found her mother, and
luckily discovered near by straw tick
and a comforter, which she held over her
mother to shield her from the hail. Mrs.
Bogue is at Mr.. Joel HaywOrth's, receiv-
ing the kinGest attention, and is ex-
pected to recover.
MIR. Reyes, before the house was swept
away, started with his family for his barn,
and all managed TO get there, badly
bruised by the hail. One hail stone as
large as man's fist, nearly Drained Ar.
Keyes. Part Of the stable blew away af-
ter the family reached it, but not the part
they were in.
The Grand View school-house, on ia
cobs' creek, was completely wrecked.
Mr.. Hayworth's kitchen addition was
but his main house, one of
the heaviest we were ever in, stood the
storm.
Mr.. Alleh's log house, which he was re-
pairing for occupancy, was blown down.
This foo;s up five dwellings, one school
house and one kitchen addition, demol-
ishsd in the Jacobs creek locality.
PaENIs GREEK.
On this stream which puts into the
Cottonwood from the south, ABOUT eight
miles southwest Of Emporia. there are
many houses In RUNS.
The first house to go on Phenis creek
was that OF r. N, Kennedy, on the west
side of the creek, and not far from the
house Of his stepfsther, John Burns. The
house and all his fences were utterly de-
molished, and largely blown out of sight.
Mrs. Kennedy was severely injul ed In her
back.
Half of Mr. Burns house was blown
away, and the other half unroOfed, and
his cribs and fences knocked to pieces.
Following down the creek, about as the
injured houses range from side to side, the
next ruin is the log house belonging to
Edward Humphrey, blacksmith, Empo-
ria, and tenanted, before the tornado
struck it, by B. II. Jones. Mr.. Jones was
slightly injured, and much of the house
and its contents blown into the creek and