The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-07-03
THE CYCLONE.
Some Incidents Not Before FsubItsEed Rrs-
gar ding the Terrible Kansas Tornado.
Kansas City Journal.

some Incidents NOT Before Isabliahed Bc-
EaTdinE the Terrible Kansas Tornado.
Kansas City Journal.
From Myron Smith, ESQ, of Logan,
Ottawa county, Kansas, many items of
interest are gathered concerning the re-
cent tornado. 1t commenced near the
county line between Lincoln and Saline
counties. Il was in the usual form,
forward movement slow, rotary motion
rapid. 1t moved a little east of north
Near the divide line between the Saline
and Solomon rivers it seemed to rise
and pass on in eddies, the damage on
the hills being very slight.
Passing by the numerous casualties
and other facts already known, we
shall give a few incidents which Mr.
Smith firmly believes to be true, but
which may be exaggerated.
Near the farm of Samuel Mcbride
the storm ceased to remain stationary,
and such was the force of it that sev-
eral men declare it to be 8 fact that a
well was smoked" dry and q portion of
the wall taken out. The river was
swept dry for mile, dry enough for an
army of Isrselites to pass over dry shod.
The farm of Mr.. OrOnise was stripped.
Out of fifteen horses only three were
left for duty. Mr.. McBride's horses,
cattle aud hogs were all taken across
the river and killed.
After passing the Solomon, as the
ground rose, the storm scattered in ed
dies.
At Meredith a horse was taken up,
and, dropping stiff-legged, his legs were
driven into the ground to his body. At
the same time young man was taken
up, and, while in the air, was tumbled
all around the horse, sometimes above
snd sometimes below, and was bruised
by contact with the flying animal, but
happily the young man was dropped
| gently as feather bed, and the horse as
above stated. He cTaWled up inside 8
| straW-stack, but, being in danger of
being covered by the straw, he wandered
out on the prairie. Here he found a
child with q fence stake through his
body, and barbed wire wound about it.
| The child had not been identified at last
accounts. A woman was found nude,
| her head in the earth, and dashed to
| pieces. Her husband, now a maniac,
| vainly stretches his hands heavenward,
! crying, There there she's coming %
A young man and his wife ran from
| their new house to the old dug out, but
| failing to reach it, caught hold of some
willows, at the same time firmly cling
ing to each other. The willows whipped
the poor woman till she was uncon-
sciOus. When she recovered herself she
found herself embracing her dead hus.
band.
Another young couple saw the storm
coming and ran at right angles to its
path and just barely escaped.
The killed were covered with dust
and dirt and were so blackened that
| they could scarcely be identified. It is
| said of one woman that although her
family were separated and a child lost,
yet she assisted in preparing others for
burial. She had washed a corpse and
suddenly discovered it to be her own
child. The strain was too great and she
is said to be a Taving maniac. Mr..
Smith thinks that in the sizty-nine mile
course fOrty-fve were killed and one
hundred and twenty.nine wounded
some of whom will die.