Morris tribune., 1881-06-23

family were ar church. Airs. Roberts
and two children, three miles east of Rosendale,
were killed, and their house totally wrecked.
Several fine country residences were blown to
fragments, hundreds of cattle destroyed and
crops and fine orchards damaged. The
total loss is not less than $500, 900
to $4,000 One farmer lost
$50 head of stock out of 2S5, and many moro
propertionately. Many farmers are left desti..
tute of everything At Flag Springs several
houses we're blown down and considerable
property damaged The whole of Empire
Prairie suffered incalculable loss
Hardly had this terrible cyclone passed when,
slowly rising from the south, about four miles
distant could be discerned another fully as
large as the first and this only spent its fury
in its wake, carrying destruction as it sped on
and on. Houses and barns, stock, and every
object in its wav fell PROSTATE at its mercy. 1t
took an almost due east direction, resembling
in its course that of the former, and must have
taken in as much territory as did the first
of town, was the first object of it's fury. 1t
was blown to pieces and the property rendered
total wreck. Nine persons were in the house
at the time Mr.. Colt was severely injured
about the head, but will recover His daughter
Bertha, aged three years, had her head CRUSH
ed, and died at o'lock the next morning. The
others were all more or less injured, but none
fatally. Frank Beake and others, twenty In
all, were sheltered in farmers house south Of
Winslow. Every one was injured some prob
ably fatally. The house and barn are a total
wreck. There is a frightful loss of stock. The
houses of Phil Ausmus, Mr. Ewing, Mr., Wolf
Mr.. Thomas, John Bolts, and Dan Coyle
near by, were destroyed, and it is re-
ported that several more houses shared the
same fate A report has reached here that
the family of man near Berlin, ten miles east
were all killed. and another farmer at
Berlin likewise killed. A woman with a babe
at her breast and a child, name not known, al
80 living near Berlin, were killed. A young
man of that place saw the approaching cyclone,
and attempting to escape, pitched heaAlong in
to mudhole, and was suffocated. Many more
are thought to be killed.
In Usage county Mo-, about fifty houses were
destroyed with other buildings, and corn WAS
badly damaged Probably the number of wound
ed will not exceed thirty or forty; some dam
gerously and not expected to live The tota
loss to the people of this country, is about
800, 900, while many families have been left
wholly destitute. Only three persons were
killed outright The town of Flora suffered
more than any one place, nearly every house
in town being destroyed or very badly damaged.
THE CYCLONE IN KANSAS.
A dispatch from Burlingame says: The cy-
clone frs formed between Arvonia and Olivet
1t then passed northwest, gong out of this
county in the direction of Pomeroy, Franklin
county. In its course 1t killed five persons, is-
Guiding John Rosencrana. John Harper man
named Brown, two colored children, and per-
son whose name has not yet been learned.
The destruction of property is enormous, but
cannot be safely estimated. The cyclone cut
a swath of desolation and death. Entire farms
have been stripped of buildings, cattle, and
much of the vegetation in Usage county.