Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1882-04-15
a TERRIBLE CYCLONE.
HOUSES DEMOLISHED AND PEOPLE KILLED
IN KANSAS AND MICHIGAN.
Topeka, Kan, April Z.

IN KANSAS AND MICHIGAN.
Topeka, Kan, April Z.
A cyclone, which started near Ray
mond, Rice county, last night, moved III
a northerly direction and Frustrated the
telegraph poles, when it crossed the San
ia Fe Railroad tracks. John Wilson's
house was blown down and Mrs. Wilson
was killed and Mrs. Parker was fatally
injured. Several other large and strong
ly-built houses were demolished in the
neighborhood. Proceeding nOrthward,
the storm struck the new and thriving
town of Chase, demClishing twenty ont OF
the twenty-siX buildings in the place ana
throwing cars from the track. Mr.. Read,
a hotel-keeper, was killed and his VIE
fatally in ured. At about the same time
in the evening small cyclone passed
through the eastern part OF the county,
but it did but little damage. 1t was ac-
companied by veritable waterSpout,
pouring q deluge Of water in some places.
The wind sucked all the water out OF the
wells. As the cloud approached Chase 1t
was in the shape Of funnel, whirl!ng
and twisting with fearful velocity. All
the inhabitants of Chase were more or
less injured. but few escaping without
box cars, and many are Ill destitute
condition.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, April News
comes from Clyde Station OF terrible
hurricane passing near Highland Station,
on the Flint and Pere Marquette. south OF
Holly, early this evening. The extent Of
the damage is not yet known, as the tele-
graph line has blown down and the rail-
4 C1,-1a nd
what was learned when he left. The
dwelling of a man named Crandall was
blown over, killing Crandall and one
child and severely injuring another child,
daughter. \ lady named Mrs. Taylor,
of Pontiac, was also killed and several
other persons more or less injured. The
half mile Vide, but is reported 10 have
leveled everything in its path.
In Oakland county Lafayette RandeIl,
his sister and little boy and Mrs. Henry
Tyler were killed. a lttle daughter Of
Tyler had her arm so badly crushed that
amputatiOn was necessary. Miss Cora
Ward was also injured. The debris OF
the houses had the appearance OF having
been torn up by an explosion, everything
being ground to atoms. a horse was
blown out of il barn and found afterwards
in a distant field covered with mud. An
idiot sister OF Horace Sherman, OF kala-
mo, was killed, his aunt's leg was bloken,
his wifc'S law, was diSlOcatcd AID the
whole family were carried distance OF
fifty rods by the storm and thrown into a
swamp, badly bruised.
KEoKUK, Iowa, April "A special dis
patch from kcasauqua, the county seat OF
Van Buren, county, states that the hurri-
cane of yesterday morning wrecked a
great deal of property and played much
havoc throughout the lower Des Moines
Valley. At Keasauqua large new house
in which locomotive was kept, was de-
molished. \ freman was badly injured.
Two or three brick houses were partly
demolished. Heavy sections of the side
walk were torn up by the wind and borne
! away by the wind.
QUINCY. ILL.,, April "A special from
Kahoka, Mo-, says the tornado yesterday
struck the town of Ashton, doing consid-
cradle damage. Houses were destroyed
and fences and trees blown down. Parties
from the scene of the disaster say that
four houses in the village were demot-
! ished and others sutlelc ed the loss of roofs
and chimnrys. No loss of life is reported.
Farm houses and barns III the surround
ing country sustained great damage. The
force of the storm seems to have been
spent ut Ashton, as it was not perccpuDlc
at Nahoka.