Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-04
THAT TORNADO.
Further Particulars of the Havoc Don.
by the Unbridled Winds.

by the Unbridled Winds.
Irving, Kan, June 2.-Thirty deaths Ger.
tain and ffty-three people badly injured in
the recent cyclone. The people want money
to get the necessaries which are at hand.
From fifty to sixty families at Frankfort,
Kansas, are houseless and destitute of cloth
ing, provisions and farming implements.
The citizens of that place have donated
500 and more aid is needed.
st. Louis, June 2.-An Atchison dispatch
says: The committee of surgeons and citi.
zens sent to Irving, Kansas, Saturday return
ed to-day. They report the dead all buried
the wounded tenderly cared for. Relief
committees have been organized at Irving
and Frankfort and are doing everything in
their power to provide for the necessities of
the sufferers. The following is a list of the
killed at or near Irving: Mrs. Susan G..
Buckmaster; Elizabeth Buckmaster, aged
9; Alice Buckmaster. aged 6; Laura E.
Buckmaster, aged 5; Celestia Buckmaster,
aged 2; Clinton Keeney, aged 50; John
Keeney, aged 49; Mrs. Flora Keeney, wife
Of John Keeney; Mrs. J. Williams, aged
AZ; Mrs. E. Sheldon. aged %; Fannie Swar.
tina, age unknown; Mrs. Nawark, aged 60;
Mrs. Geo. Martin, aged 35.
The following Is a list of those wounded {:
N. Irving and S. w. McCilliker, scalp
wound and severe confusion Of back; Benz.
Foster, scalp wounds and Commissions; Willie
Weeks, skull fractured will probably die\ /;
Mrr. Fannie Sabin, severe Commissions Of back
and conclusion of brain; Jacob Sabin dou-
bile fracture of right forearm, left shoulder
dislocated aud right leg fractured; Willie
Sabin IA child, Eta Bates, Homer and Sid.
ney Bates (%childIen), Jessie Bates, Nathan
kurly, Leah Hunt, Mrs. Leah Hunt, FAY,
and Della Hunt (children), Willie
Sheldon, Ebon Sheldon, Jesse Gallop Ia
child), Mrs. ]. Gallop, Charlie Gallop "a
child, JohnR. Gallop, Geo. Martins child,
Mrs. J.. w. Griffin, Mrs. Jennie Snyder,
Mrs. Ed. f.. Snyder, H. N. Fosgate, Frank
Seaton, Peter Buckmaster, Clarence Buck.
master "a chilly, James and Mark Kurly.
The destruction of property will foot up
very large, but no reliable estimates can be
formed of the amount. Hundreds of houses
have been destroyed and crops in the path
of the cyclone utterly destroyed. The track
of the cyclone varies from three-fourth of a
mile to a mile in width, at intervals, as it
occasionally left the ground for a short dis
lance and again decended. Wherever it
touched the ground it swepteverything clear
of houses, trees and crops. Where it crossed
the Blue river it lifted every drop Of water
in its course, and in passing over a we'll in
Irving it scooped it dry.
The following is a list of those killed in
the vicinity of Frankfort: Jas. Downs and
wife, John Howe, MI. Graves, Henry John.
son, Mrs. Henry johnson, Mrs. Van Hall
and Thos. Trasper.
The following were wounded in the vicin.
ity of Frankfort Mrs. S. A. Fox, severely F;
Mrs; Graves, severely John Vaughn, severe.
~; Mrs. Fox, severely Benz. Fox, a boy,
severely Robt. Singles dangerously Mr..
Bolton, severely; Joshua Howe, badly; ],
Vaughn, severely; Henry Corser, wife and
child, severely John Osborn, severely the
child of Mr.. Morfts severely !; David Webb,
dangerously. This makes a total of 20 kill.
ed and As seriously wounded at or near the
two places. Fifteen are reported killed and
many wounded in the vicinity Of Delphos
Ottawa county, and several casualties ar,
reported in other parts of the country trav
ersed by the storm. 1t is therefore certain
that no less than 40 have been killed and x
to 80 wounded, all the latter very severely