The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-06-23

family were at church. Mra Roberts
and two children, three miles east of Rosondale,
we're killed. and their house totally wrecked
Several fine country residences were blown to
fragments, hundreds Of cattle destroyed and
ea s5SR' ps sn fine not orchards ass sa Tes
to $5Oo,O0o. One One T farmer %roo'YloU lost
$50 head Of stock out Of 283, and manv more
propsrtionateiy. Many farmers are left desti
tute Of everything. At Flag Springs several
houses were blown down and considerable
Prairie suffered incalculable loss.
Hardly had this terrible cyclone passed when,
slowly rising from the south, about four miles
distant, could be disoerned another fully as
large az the first, and this only spent it's fury
after full hours duration. 1ttook everything
in its wake, carrying destruction as it sped on
and on. Houses and barns, stock, and every
object In its wav fell PROSTATE at it's mercy It
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
The house Of John W. Colt, four miles south
Of town, was the first object of its fury. It
total wreck. Nine persons were III the house
At the time Mr. Colt was severely injured
about the head, but will recover. His daughter
Berth:, aged three years, had her head CRUSH
cd, and died at o'lock the next morning. The
others were all more or less injured, but nope
fatally. Frank Beake and others, twenty In
ai!, wero sheltered in farmers house south CT
Wins!ow: Every one was injured, some prob
ably fatally. The houso and barn are a total
wreck. There is 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 moro houses shared the
same fate. 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 q babe
at her breast, and child, name not known al
50 living near Berlin, were killed. A Young
man of that place saw the approaching cyclone'
and attempting to escape, pitched headlopp in,
to mudhole, and was suffocated. Many more
arc thought to be killed.
In Osage county No., about fifty houses were
badly damaged. Probably the number of wound.
ed will not exceed thirty or forty; some dan
gerously and not expected to live. The tota
loss to the people of this country, is about
. iOu,O 600, 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 cv-
clone frs formed between Arvonia and Olivet
1t then passed northwest, gong out of this
county in the direction Of Pomeroy, Franklin
county. In it's course 1t killed five persons ;.l
cluding 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 hut
cannot be safely estimated The cyclone cut
swath OF desolation and death. Entire farms
nave been stripped of buildings, cattle. and
much OF the vegetation in Usage county.