The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-17
TERRIBLE TWIsTTER.


Hmvee ns Kansas City and Other
PsInfs In Missouri and Kansas.
kansas CRY, May 14-The latest |
estimates. by the storm yesterday. place
the rs of properly At between $3.50 900
ant $500 600. At least so buildings
were blown down and zoo more badly
damaged. The list Of killed and wound
ed cannot be given yet. The killed is
reported 10 be four-a citizen. name IN.
known, two employees of Coles circus
and boy named Silben. The character
of the property destroyed is chiefly
dwellings AID shrubberY.
THE PATH OF THE STORM
did not touch the business part OF the
city and the stores destroyed were these
of small retailers, scattered throughout
the residence portion. Ramps brewery,
at the corner Of Nam and Fourteenth
streets suffered severely, and the new
German Evangelical church. costing
$35, 900, was ruined, as was also the
new Methods: church on Lydia avenue.
Prominent among
THE HOUSES DEMoLIsHED
Are those of J. q. Horton, Rev A. D.
MADEIRA, John Hengle, DR.. Grow, A. S.
Glenn, Upton, Berry, D. 7. Irwin, E. J.
Fry, B. s. Pierson, and L. Manlove.
Part of the elegant residence of Chas.
Goggett was carried away. The line of
rum Iusversing the city extends nearly
three miles and presents most chaotic
appearance. Trees, bricks, rafters and
household effects are
SCATTERED IN ENDLESS CONFUSION
and block up Broadway at many places.
The cyclone was accompanied by tor
rents of rain and beating hail, which,
pouring into the dismantled houses,
greatly increased the work of destruction.
GREAT CROWDS
thronged the streets this morning in the
southern part of the city, viewing the
destruction caused by last nj gifts storm.
Already workmen are busy cleaning
the debris from the streets and patching
up such houses as are capable Of repairs,
and rendering them tenable. Every
thing is
YET IN CONFUSION.
A complete list of the wounded and
estimates of the losses of property are
not obtainable now. The following is
the latest reported killed: Willie
SIeben, Mr. David Red, Joseph Burns.
Injured: James Drummond H.
ternally; very serious; A. Eb-
recht, dangerously; Mrs. TrainoE
about the knees; Mrs. 5. Loire, ankle
broken; Mrs. Thos j. Dyer, dangerous
ly; Mrs. VIM. Mcclellan, internally; g
thIee-ye old child of Mrs. Mary
Jackson, coloied, fatally; Arthur
Whitney. 10 years old. dangerously
Mrs. Cynthiania Davis, terribly cut
about the head and face; Frank
jenkins, badly cut about the head and
face. The two children of Joseph Jack
son, one four years old, was
not expected to. live. Jackson wss
LYING Ill. IN BED
when the roof was taken from over his
head. A child of Ed Wheeler was badly.
hurt.
was an old bOatnan. He was standing
by the riverside when he was struck by
the flying timbers of his house. His
neck was broken. Willie Sieben was
killed by the Overturning of a wagon
at the circus grounds. Mrs. Reed was
blown against tree and her neck bro.
ken. 1t is reported that two employees
of Coles circus were killed,
but this is not confirmed.
1t is probable that definite returns will
reduce the amount of damage to prop
erty below tn e estimates of last night /;
that it will be less than $3.50, 900.
THE LOSSES
are almost innumerable, but gen.
orally for amounts ranging from
800 to So 900, as the destruction was
chiefly among houses in a thinly settled
portion of the city, generally among
the smaller dwellings and did not ex-
tend to the stores or more prominent
buildings. No reports were received
this morning from outside the city as
the telegraph wires are not yet
restored, but they are being
rapidly repaired and will be in working
order in few hours. The probable
damage without the city is not SO great
as was represented from the meagre re-