Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-06-04
Terrific Cyclone.

through nearly the whole northern tier o
counties of Kansas, but was most violen
between Blue Rapids and Centennial sta
tions on the central branch of the railroad
r about 80 miles apart. The storm movet
in the direction of little north of east anC
passed into Nebraska through Richardson
county.
The town of Irving. Kansas, was nearly
destroyed and twelve lives were lost out
right and forty persons wounded, many o.
whom will die. In Frankfort five persons
were killed and many wounded. At Man
haitian two were killed. In the neighbor-
hood of Frankfort four or five farm houses
were blown over and in the town several
houses destroyed. Several persons in the
country are reported severely injured. AT
Entralia several houses were unrOofed and
one house and barn blown down, trees
uprooted, fences laid fiat and great damage
done to crops. At Beatty, on the St
Joseph and Denver railway, numerous
houses were blown down. AT Denison
Mills, Nebraska, on the Atchison & Ne
braska road the Catholic church was
totally demolished, also store and several
residences were more or less damaged
Entering Missouri, it struck the earth
near Lees Summit, and tore furrow
through the country hundred yards wide
and ten miles long, levellng everything in
its track. killing and wounding several
persons. Three miles east of Lees Sum-
NIT, the house of Mr.. Warren was totally
destroyed, two persons killed and others
wounded. Further on the house of Alex
ander Scruggs was unrooGed and his wife's
skull fractured. The houses of DR.. Dun
nington and Mr.. Underwood were Destroy
ed, but their families escaped. The resi-
dence of Mr. Hutchens was torn to peices
and the family badly hurt. The house of
MIR. Harris near Blue Springs was demol-
ished and Mr.. Harris, his wife. and little
girl killed, and three other children
MORALLY wounded. Mr.. Harris was lifted
high up into the air, carried two hundred
feet, then dashed to the earth, while his
wife and child were carried the same
distance in an opposite direction. One
other child was found in a pool of water
fifty yards from the house with straw and
grass wrapped so tightly around the head
and shoulders it could only be rescued |
with great difficulty. The child was but
slightly injured, his escape being attributed
to the mysterious bandage around him.
At this point the storm cloud burst but
came together again almost instantly with
terrific force; bounding from the earth, il
came down again near the dwelling OF
MIR. Hare, which was crushed through,
leaving the side walls standing. A funnel
shaped cloud then rose in the air and dis
appeared in the northwest. The heaviest
rain ever known in this section accompa.
MED the tornado, deluging the country as
it passed over.
A Concordia dispatch states that the
storm was extremely violent in the vicinity
IF Delphos, Ottawa county, and fifteen
lead bodies were brought in from two
square miles of territory. One man from
Belot was taken up in his wagon and
brown to the ground again and instantly
illlcd. A woman and child were thrown
against u wire fence and killed. Five
Dersons were killed in one house neal
DeIphos. Crops are severely injured ali
dong the line of the storm. Reports
rom Scandal, Republic county, state thai
he storm was very severe in that section,
out no casualties are yet reported. The
'ltlzens OF Atchison raised twelve hundred
dollars for the relief If the sufferers. A
pecial train left there at midnight Satur.
lly with supplies, medicine, blankets anu
clothing,
A dispatch from Independence, Mo-,
tates that the place just escaped the cy-
'lone, but it did great havoc in the neigh
'orhood. At Lees Summit among other
houses destroyed was that Of r l.. Harris,
Who with his wife and two children were
Tiled and two other children injured. His
ouse was lifted into the centre of the
yclone, carried three hundred yards in
lie air and then dashed to pieces. Sci
nlists are sorely puzzled to account for
he phenoment, rs all the bodies were
overed with thick blush sulphurous mud,
he clothing was stripped off or torn to
hreds, shoes torn off, anil the feet and
oodics burned and backened fearfullv.
lorscs, cattle and sheep were caught VI
N the Harris place, carried long distances
nd dropped bruised and crushed out of
ii shape. Huge trees two and three feet
n diameter We're twisted off, and in one
Instance it swept along the bed of u rnvine
md lifted out of its narrow walls every
tick OF timber and carried them away
The bed of that ravine looks as if it had
'een swept by fire. Wagons and agrcul-
ural implements had been carried for
niles and every article that contains iron
S broken and twisted out of all shape.
The elect of this cyclone strengthens the
opinion that these cyclones are electric
orces and not wind. At daylight Mr.
'nodderly, of Barnard, noticed that the
leat was drawing water up into the air in
water spouts, where they dis
He also says that immense
numbers Of fish came to the surface and
tuck their noses out of the water rs if
differing for air.