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

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stroyed, clothing much damaged. Family Q
n Rev. John Jones' house unroofed and al
+ most entirely d, stroyed. Family of four are 3
II a Mr. Davis house.
W. B. Ross new frame house OF X storie
was totally destroyed. His wife and ten chi
dren took refuge in the cellar. He was no
in the house, having just reached home, ana
3 stayed out to take care of his team. He saw
= his barn roof go OF, and then his house ny Il
pieces, and as soon as possible got to the ru
j, ms and found his family up to their knees il
!. water in the cellar, his wite's head cut an6
his eldest girl insensible, hurt by q falling
timber. The daughter suffered conclusion Of
the brain, and is not expected t. live; house
was well furnished; nothing saved but part
: of bedding and cIoe ing. The family is stop
3 ping at B. F. Parker's.
The tornado next and last moved Parker's
school house thirty feet from its foundation,
} blew down Flack's school house, toward
Hartford. breaking all the seats and benches,
and then took its leave Of Lyon county.
THE CITY AND SURROUNDINGS.
J Harvey Thomas, who lives near Ply
mouth, says there were a few houses
moved from their foundations, in his
} neighborhood, and that much damage
was done to the orchards and wheat
The window glass suffered badly also.
Lakeside school house and j. V. Car
ter's smoke house lost their roofs.
Seden's mills are badly damaged. The
wind there was from the south, and took
the roof Of the furniture factory clean of,
whirled it across the river, and as 1t few
through the air 1t struck and demolished
/ The nf he 80 -.
-four MILL The tin roofing OF the stone
factory was all torn of in immense rolls,
some Of which landed in Mr.. Soden's yard.
His heavy barn was moved two feet to the
north. The damage to the mills and con-
tents is not less than 81 900. Everything
in the furniture factory and furniture
stored in the stone mills was soaked
with rain, making Mr.. ArnoId's damages
several hundred dollars. Part OF the
furniture factory roof also landed in Mr..
SoGen's yard. Mr.. SOden says that if the
blast that struck there had reached the
city, few buildings would have been left
standing. This was from the south,
while the wind that destroyed the houses
In town was from the northeast and north,
after the south wind had stopped,
The east and west gabIe-ends of the
Poor House, and the roof, were demolished.
There is not much left OF the building
above the second floor.
Mr.. John Fluker's new house, west of
town. just finished, was blown down. We
believe it was not occupied.
The upper part Of the east gable of Mr..
Bigger's brick house, west of town, was
blown in, and 1t is q wonder that the roof
stayed on.
Mr.. BaIley's new house on Neosho
street was lifted from ifs foundation and
carried six feet south.
Mr.. Harper's new story and half frame
house on Rural street, corner Ninth, was
lifted up, carried oyer the south fence,
! and smashed to pieces. Mr.. Harper was
out in the country. Mrs. Harper, with
her three chill dren, the Oldest four years,
and Mrs. f. Tiffany, with her infant
child, were in the house, but Mrs. Tiffany
ran out just before iE went off its founda-
tions, and after a desperate battle with
the storm, brought up at DR.. Brener's
house to the northeast where she found
| shelter, herself ana child not being
| seriously injured Mrs. Harper and
children were in the front room, and part
OF the house leaned over them in a way to
| shield from the north, and Mrs. Harper
get hold of quilt and hold it up to keep
the storm out from the west. Mr.. s, G.
johnson, who lives next east, saw tn
house go, and himself and wife sailed out
and fonnd Mrs. Harper and her children,
and aided them to reach Mr.. Johnsons-i
he carrying child under each arm.
Mr IiE1a I. =
house, just north of the Constitution
street school house, was blown to pieces
just as MIR. Harper's was. The family of
six or seven people were In it, but none
were injured.
A new barn be ng erected by Mr.. Malt
by, north OF the city limits, was badly
spread around.
The roof Of the north gable of the old
Normal School building was taken of,
and two of the ornamental towers of the
new Normal building were blown away,
and the north part Of the tin roof was
rolled up, letting water in badly.
Mr.. A. N. Hanna's tenant house, north
east of the Normal, went to pieces. No
one was living in it.
Jordan Carson, colored, southeast of the
Normal, had his house moved of its foun-
dalton and barn blown down, being dam.
aged 800.
Mr.. Osgood's barn, and'Adam MobIer's
barn, on Exchange street, were blown
down.
A. Pollard lost Is cor DIS of wood by the
sudden rise of the Neosho. The Allen
Creek bottom was all under water, doing
Of course much damage to crops.
John Fowler's windmill, southeas of
the city line, was blown over, and the
large railroad windmill was injured. A
hous near by, owned by Mr.. Fowler.
and tenanted by Peter Cooper and family,
was lifted up, thrown over the south
fence, an smashed. or the SIX people
in it, but one, little girl, was hurt. She
was found under 8 straw tick, and
trunk on top the tick. She was badly
bruised about her breast aud shoulders,
but was helping to pick up things in the
afternoon. Mr.. Cooper's brother-in-laW |
was blown over fence.
West Of the junction, freight car was
rolled down the south side OF the en- |
bankment, and east Of the junction, three
A. T. q s. +. passenger cars and II
freight cars, all empty, stood half tipped
over. between the track aud switch.
On Moon creek, six miles west OF town,
large line of empty freight cars were
Also Llpp0u over anu lAfOHu lECEl the
track.
just south of the junction depot we
found the new frame dwelling of an
honest German, Louis Labborn, 10 frag-
ments- This Is the third time q tornado
has struck them, once in New York, once
I'm Iowa and third and worst time, in
Kansas.
John FowIer's old saw mill, and house
near it, on the Cottonwood. were blown
down.
The old furniture factory south Of the
A., 7. & 8. T. track, near Commercial
street, went to pieces, and barn on the
other side Of Commercial street followed
/ suit.
Further south, and east of CONNER
ciaI street, Mr. Buttons new story and q
half house, which he was going to move
| into this week. scattered itself all the
way TO the Cottonwood river. Across
the road from it, Mr. Burdick's kitchen
| addition, 10 feet square, was demolished.
/ The fine one-story brick school-house,
southeast Of town, was destroyed, its roof
| landing about . quarter Of 3 mile to the
south. while q slight frame wood house in
the school lot, was not touched.
The only seriou damage in the centers
| OF the city was to DIR. McCandlissS and
/ Atyeo & Herman,s brick buildings on
/ Commercial street. Their corniees
| have blown OF, piling ornamental
i ironwork out In the street. and 3 few
l wagon loads Of brick on the sidewalk.
/ The appearance Of the riddled north
i vrfndaSue of Ef1eDlea 4 PlumF,a and nth