The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-06-06
TELEGRAPHIC.
THREE TERRIBLE TORNADOS

Great Loss of Life, Property and CfOp5,
The FIends of the Air Hold High CarnI-
val.
Our Geographic report in the daily of
Friday last contained brief account of
a severe tornado which swept through a
portion of Andrew and Nodaway coun-
ties, Missouri, at a point about 80 miles
north of st. Joseph. Our report today
consists of accounts of still worse lorna
dos on Friday evening, one in jackson
county, Missouri, about is miles south
east of Kansas City, and the other at va
rious points in Riley, POttowatomie,
Clay, Ottawa, Cloud, Washington and
Marshall counties, Kansas, it's main dam
ages being in the vicinity of Irving, in
the Big Blue Valley, both on the Central
Branch railroad, from thence it went north
through Washington and Marshall cOun-
ties into Nebraska. The Kansas tornado
touched at more places and did great
er damage than the Missouri ones, and
was the worst on record for our State
The AtchisOn Champion correspondent
who has visited the scene, thinks there
were two different tOrnados, one taking
place half an hour after the other. The
distance apart of places struck, confirms
this theory, and he says some parties ont
rescuing sufferers by the first tornado
were caught and injured by the second.
To begin at the beginning we give the
following account of the Missouri tor
nado about St Joseph, thursday evening:
pscial Correspondence Kansas City Journal
BARNARD. Mo-, May 3O.-On Sunday
it will be one year since your cores
pOndent was called upon 10 report the
great Richmond cyclone of June list,
1878.
This morning your correspondent went
out on the track of the storm to view the
work yesterdays tornado had wrought.
In every essential particular it is the du-
piioate of the Richmond cyclone. The
same
JOoPEp AND JAGGED EDGE
that marked the west line Of the funnel
on that occasion appears on the south
line Of the present track, while the west
line is almost as straight as if it had beep
surveyed. Trees have been twisted off
ly stripped of their bark. Those who
were in the track of the storm say that il
appeared at times to stop, as II gathering
force, and then take a backward sweep,
and on every occasion it was found that
the funnel was making the loop in the
south edge, and that it did make such a
loop is evidenced by the fact that its
track varies all along its line OF nearly
| three miles from u distance of nearly fifty
yards to half mile, and that the increase
| is always on that rule. and that it lifted
up and destroyed alternate pieces OF
property, leaving those which stood in
the bowl of the loop aRscathed. Again
nothing WAS blown overs everything wa
lifted up and moved or twisted.
THE CYCLONE
raised in the southwest and moved IN &
direct line toward the northeast. i
struck and destroyed nine farm houses
and also destroyed all barns, fences
trees and crops in its path. About {
dozen people were severely injured. Il
then crossed the country 81 miles
to Platte river. post of the way through
the timber, where II appears TO have
raised and disappeared. Nothing is known
OF il to the northeast of TINT poiat, al
though when last seen it was moving OF
L AihC III
county, a Catholic eGlony, where there il
| a large cathedral.
OF THE MINOR DETAILS,
4 in time to make the mail will not give m,
j time to speak. Dead horses, cattle ant
!; hogs are TO be found all along the line
I Huge trees, two and three feet in diam
eter, have beeR twisted away, and in on,
instance it swept along the bed of a "a
vince and lifted out of its laEEoW wall
every stick of timber and carried then
away. The bed of that ravine looks q
If it had been swept by fire. Wagon
and agricultural implements have bee
carried for mics. and every article tina
contains iron is broken end twisted on
u of all shape. The effect or tbs cyclon
strengthens the opinion advanced On
year ago thai these cyclones are electri
forces and hot wind.
Al daylight Mr.. II. II. Ggpdderly, @
} Barnard. was al the I02 river, ana potiC
ed the heat drawing the water up int
the air in miniature water sPoqts, wher
they disappeared. He also says immens
numbers of fish came to the surface al
stuck their noses out of the water as
l suffering for air. He returned TO tOwT
told his story and advised the citizens {
look out for 3 storEG. He was laughe
at, as q matter of course, bnt the stOrT
came all the same,