The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-12
DEATH AND DESOLATION.

Missouri, Dealing Death and De.
struction I'm Its CouFse-Many Lives
Lost, and Great Damage Done %
Property.
81. Loum, May 81.
dispatch from Atchison, Kan, says: A
SsgInDle Storm OF wind and rain passed over
M0asnern Kansas and Southern Nebraska last
whole northern tier Of counties Of this state.
Dus was most violent between Blue Rapids
nsn ~ - ~ eeesaeoAoA ths6 Branch
t Esi!roaas seout thirty miles apart. The
east, and passed into Nebeasha through Rich
ninety miles west Of thig ufscc. Wss
nearlY destroyed. At that poins The storm
took on the character Of . cyclone, and level
buildings were & destroyed, fifteen persons s
killed, thirty to forty wounded. Among the
casualties are the following: Jolm Kelley,
vile, Esther and son killed. Mn.IW. j. VIII
iiams killed. Mrs: Brickmaster and five chill
aren KILLED; Jacob Sabens and wife fatally
injured. Z. Sheldon, wife and sister danger
0usly hurt and not expected to live. Mrs. w.
q. Bates and two children badly hurt-one has
since died and Mrs. Noah, Mrs. George
Martin, and several others more or less seri-
Among the buildings blown down are
churches, one fine stone building, the pub
lie school, the grain-elevator railroad depot
Wetmore Institution, and the residences Of
John A. Warden, Charles Preston, w. II.
Ssbens. N. L: Leddy, and Meesra: Armstrong,
Others. In the neighborhood Of Frankfort
four or i've farm-houses were blown over,
and In ! the a. town several houses
were destroyed. There were no cas-
tsa At this place but sewers. in
tralia several houses y ere unroofed, and one
house and barn blown down, trees uprooted,
fences laid nat, and great damage done to
It Beatty, on the st. Joseph 4 Denver
kailroad, . number Of houses were blown
AZ Denison Mills, Neh, on the Atchison &
Nebraska Road, . Catholic church was totally
demolished, Is was also the store of Mead,
Riley = e.; One lady was severely injured.
A dispatch from. Manhattan, Kan, says:
A cyclone crossed Big Blue River at Mouth
Mill Creek, last night, and uprooted trees,
destroyed grain cribs. fences and crops. The
trSs S r. stors asS Ct Mr.: Coudray was un-
it at the time. Mr.. Coudray was somewhat
injured, and his sister-in-law;; Mrs. Tattlecock,
and child were killed.. .''., L..
On Fancy Creek, twelve miles north of Cou-
dray's. Methodist church was entirely de-
and horses killed, and other property de.
strOyed, but no lives lost.
The Globe Democrats special from indie
pendence, Mo-, says: A cyclone struck the
earth four miles from Lees Summit, last even
ing, an6 tore furrow through the country
about = hundred yards wide, and ten miles
long, leveling everything in its track, and
killing and wounding several people. The d.
rectiOn OF the storm was southwest to north
east Three miles east Of Lees Summit the
house of Mr.. Warren was totally destroyed.
Two members Of the family were killed and
others severely wounded
Further on, the house Of Alexander
6cr0Ggs was unroofed. His wife's skull was
fractured. The houses Of Dr.. Huntington
and Mr.. Underwood were destroyed, but their
families escaped unframed. The residence of
Mr.; Hutchins was torn to pieces, and the fam
The house Of Mr.. Harris, near Blue Springs,
was demolished. Mr.: Harris, his wife and
dren MORALLY wounded. Mr.. Harris was
lifted high up into the air, carried about
200 feet in the course the storm moved,
and then dashed to the earth, while
his wife and child were carried about the
this point the storm-cloud burst but came
together again almost instantly with terrific
crash, bounded from the earth, came down
again near the dwelling Of Mr.. Gore, which
It passed through, leaving ito side walls stand
ing. s,. 80; -
The funnel.shaped cloud then rose high in
heaviest rain ever known in this section &C.
companied the tornado, actually deluging the
| country it passed over.
The Atchison Champion has later special
from Frankfort giving the following casual
and wife, killed; John Howe and boy of
| thirteen, killed; Mrs. Grooves, killed; Miss
Grooves, leg broken; child Of Mr.. WAKEFIELD,
seriously injured; Mrs. Vaughan, badly
in n5tsS x John Xsusnssn' ss sn x tS
arm broken; Henry johnson, mortsiIy
Ms. Henry johnson, killed; M: Bolton, leg
broken; Joshua Howe, James Vaughan,
Henry Carzear, Robert Laughlin and Miles
AZ Irving twelve persons were killed out
right, and forty-nine wounded, most of the
latter severely. Many of them will die. A
committee of the citizens and physicians from
this city arrived there this afternoon, and
warded from here to provide for the immediate
necessities OF the sufferers.
A special diepatch to the Champion from
Concordia states that the storm was extreme
| " violent IN the vicinity Of Delphos, Ottawa
County. Fifteen dead bodies were brought in
| from Beloit was taken upin his wagon, thrown
to the ground again, and instantly killed. A
woman and child were thrown against wire
fence and killed. Five persons were killed in
one UOU46 u02E O6lp0O0s
The crops have been severely injured along
the line OF the storm. 90
Reports from seandia, Republic County,
state that the storm was very severe in that
section, bat no casualties are yet reported.
A dispatch from the Associated Press re-
1 of the house Of MI. Harris, near Blue Spring.
an account Of which was reported from Inde-
pendence, says: Mr. Harris, hts wife
and children were carried up into the
air, clear out Of sight, and dropped
from the site Of the house they occupied, and
varying in distance from 100 to 40 yards.
| Mrs. Harris and one child were killed out
right. Mr.. Harris died several hours after.
One Of the other children was found in .
pool, fifty yards from the house, with large
bunch Of wet straw and erase wrapped 60
| tightly around his head and shoulders that It
| could only be removed with great difficulty.
The child was but slightly injured, his escape
being attributed to the mysterious bandage
| 81. LOUIS, June I.
No additional particulars Of Friday even
ing's cyclone in Marshall County, Kan, was
received to-day, but report comes from
Brookville, Kan, ut least seventy-1ve miles
southeast Of Irving, the town where the most
destruction took place, that . most terrific
wind-storm passed over the country north.
west OF there Friday afternoon. doing great
damage to farm property and killing several
people.
A cyclone also struck the outer edge OF
Kirkyville, Adair County, Mo-, Friday even.
ing, demolished about . dozen houses, and
badly damaged several Others Several per
sons were severely injured, one woman
| being reported killed. si1tiftl ID
A very high wind also prevailed north and
northeast Of st. Joseph, Mo.
A grain elevator at Hopkins Mo-, was de
stroyod, several small dwellings, barns, etc
blown down, and an elevator on the Kansa
City, St. Joe d Council Bluffs Railroad de
i Considerable damage was done to othe
buildings. Trees were .uprooted, fences ant
barns blown down, and crops damaged oil
along the line of the storm.
Il Is not unlikely that these storms
had . common origin out on the
plains I'm Western Kansas; that som,
local cause broke the original cloud into
fragments; that separate storms were formed
4 from these, one Of which trayersed the north
ern tier Of counties IN Kansas. Another trav
eled eastward, striking the earth in jackson
County, No., thence moved northeast I.
Kirksville end bcyolnd, and tbs third, and tn
weakest one of The tAree, passing over the
i country In the neig0bothood Of st. Joseph.
"A heavy rain fen here last night and to-day
Il 49, g. a. Are