The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-06

aboge are the only cases o. which we
have positive knowledge 81 this
writing. The storm was probably
more destructive in its effects than any
that has visited this section since the /
terrible tornado of 1878, and was attend
ed with much more fatal results than the |
cyclone of last June.
THE STORM SOUTHWARK.
Between Emporia and Howard the
storm Thursday expended itself in an
unusually heavy fall of rain, accom-
panied by the most vivid lightning, but
was not attended by loss of life as far as |
reported and there was no hurricane.
At Fullerton, station few miles
south of Madison, the iightning struc
the building of Messrs. Marshall &
johnson, tearing a hole in the roof. but
doing no further damage, not even
harming any member of a family occu-
plying the upper floor.
The rainfall was immense, the
streams south of Eureka being out of
their banks and at the railroad bridges
the water was nearly up TO the stringers
and in some places the entertainments
were badly washed and in a more OF
less dangerous condition.
MORE ABOUT THE STORM.
Reports of the havoc wrought by The
storm of Thursday night still continue
to come in and show that the damage is
much greater and extends over wider
territory than was at first supposed.
Arthur Payne, living on a quarter sec
ton of school land near Horton station,
writes to gentleman in this city that
his house was badly wrecked, his wife
seriously injured, and that he is greatly
in need of assistance.
George Plumb, it is said by one of his
neighbors, has lost five hundred
sheep, and his wool clip, which was
stored in a building demoralized by the
storm, was so saturated with water that
the fieeces had to be united and spread
out to dry.
The frame work of house in process
of construction, belonging to Mr.. Viii
Hanson, on Badger creek, was badly
twisted and taken from the foundation.
The barn of Edward Gaughan, on
Duck creek, was blowa to pieces, and
the house of C. ]. Reynolds, in the same
neighborhOod, was completely demol-
ished.
A house belonging to Mr.. Alton,
living near the Cady place, on the Bur-
lingame road, was blown down, and
several of Mr.. Cady's horses, in addition
to valuable one which he has already
lost, are seriously injured.
Mrs. Judge Ruggles was caught on
the prairie near her farm on the Neosho,
and thrown from her buggy into the road.
The horse she was driving became de-
tached from the vehicle and stood quietly
beside her near the fence, which she
sought as the only available shelter, and
thus afforded her some protection against
the storm. The carriage was lifted from
, the ground and carried some little dis
lance and at latest accounts was i'm
paled in fence post.
THE STORM ELSEWHERE.
Commonwealth: The storm which
visited many portions Of Kansas Thurs
day afternoon and evening was very
disastrous in many places. The wire.
are down in many directions, so that i
: has been impossible to obtain all the de
: tails even at this time. A special from
Manhattan, published elsewhere, gives
short account of the damage done there
Three cars were blown from the tract
, near Peterton, while the telegraph pole
were blown down between Peterton anS
Barclay, on the Santa Fe road. A
Usage City several buildings in process
of erection were blown down OF VI
rooted. Many of the telegraph pole
were broken and several buildings ur
= rooted or demolished at Barclay.
: At Lawrence hailstones weighing
over q pound fell in some places, break
D ing windows, demolishing window shut
!, tiers, killing poultry and doing othe
damage. A very high wind accom-
: panied the storm, blowing down tree!
s. unroofing houses, blowing in gablel
% tumbling over barns and carrying dc
struction everywhere.
It seems to have been an old fashione
Kansas Cyclone.
A number of houses at Reading wer
blown over and other damage done.
Many houses were blown down an
e unroofed, death and destruction bein
everywhere visible along the track of th
"a storm, in the Cottonwood Valley.
,f At Abilene the Presbyterian churc
- was demolished, while the whole cour
a try was deluged with water. Thi
. church was erected in 1876 and cost fiv
&c thousand dollars. Other buildings wei
= more or less injured. @
l, The storm seemed to be genera
throughout the State, but assumed cy
clonic proportions at wide interval
le These storms are entirely too numerou
III IN the west for either peace or comfort
" ~-zA-llu1ss'VVedd
er Quiet weddings seem to be "quit
as the thing In Emporia this year. The
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