Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-27
The FATAL FUNNEL.

age VI hone otar, TINS (Gentry) county
was wiped out or existence by a cycloHs
Thursday afternoon and the surrounding
country devastated Three persons were
killed outright and half dozen more
probably fatally injured. 1t is impossible
to estimate the damage dons but it will
amount 10 thousands of dollars.
At $50 p. N. two funnel-shaped clouds
app .ared in the northwest trayelinr
RAPIDLY and very low down
The frame residence of h P. Williams.
three miles east of Albany. was struck
and completely demolished. Nothing of
The building Was left standing except a
corner post Williams niue-year-old
son and his mother-in-Iaw, Mrs. Crispin.
were killed outright and Mrs. Williams
ana three small children were fatally in
jured.
Immediately east of the residence of
Mr.. Williams was that of Mr.. Million. Il
was right in the cyclones track and was
swept from the face Of the earth in q
twinkling. The timbers composing it were
scattered all over the surrounding country.
! Mr.. Million and his family had seen the
| approach Of the storm and taken refuge In
cyclone cave and all escaped injury.
Moving on the two great clouds wheeled
down on the village of Lone Star. de-
| stroying the storehouSe of A c. Townsend.
| the Baptist Church and almost every resi-
dence in the place.
Mr.. Townsend, who is also the post
master, was fatally injured, as was Mrs.
George Stineman.
More than sixty people were rendered
homeless in an instant by the storm and
many were slightly in jured.
The destruction was most complete and
there exists immediate n.scessitv for re-
lief. The citizens of Albany met yester-
day morning and raised several hundred
dollars and furnished large amount of
clothing and provisions for the relief Of
the storm-stricken people OF Lone Star.
The cyclone passed eff to the southeast
doing great damage to growing crops, or
chards and forests in its path At Sloan
Spring and Freewater great damage was
also done, but so far no reports of fatali-
ties have been received from there.
IN NoDAwAY COUNTY.
MARYsvILLE, Mo, June pa disas-
trous cyclone passed over Union town.
ship, Nodaway County, Thursday after
noon. Two large funnel >haped clouds,
one coming from the southeast and the
other from the northwest, met near the
southeast corner of Union township.
whirling and twisting at a fearful rate,
taking a northeasterly course. School
houses, dwellings and barns were torn
down, orchards uprooted and great trees
torn out by the roots.
The first place struck by the storm was
the residence of s. c. Leech. The roof
was torn off and his eight-acr orchard
was entirely demolished.
One-haIf mile east the house, of j. w. R.
Walt and John Allen were damaged
The residence of Mr.. D. Simmons near
that of Mr.. Allen was wrecked.
The "Snowball" school house, one
quarter of mile northeast of Simmons
was completely demolished. The
school was filed with pupils, but all
escaped injury except little daughter of
Mrs. j. NJ. Berkley, who had her arm
broken.
Within a few hundred yards of the
school house, the residence of j, S. Mem
nard, his barns and outhouses were blown
away.
A mile further on the Logan school
house was lifted from the side of hill on
which it stood and landed on the top of
the eminence One after another the houses
and barns of j. A. Sparks, Perry Jackson,
Edward Crenshaw, Daniel Melton. James
King and Samuel King were demolished
by the cyclone.
At the Logan school two pupils were
slightly injured, ard at the residence OF
Samuel Kennard, Mrs. Kennard was
shocked insensible.
Continuing in its track the cyclone swept
Down on Parnell City doing great damage
and wrecking the school house and many
residences.
EIGHT OF FAMILY DROWNED.
LITTLE Rock. Ark, June 22-Deputy
United States Marshal Newton Faulken-
burg reported to- day that on his trip to
Conway and Van Buren, counties, just
he learned that during heavy
ain storm in that section of the State last
night an old man named Emer-
ION had the misfortune to lose his wife
md seven children in a food.
As near as the marshal could learn-and
he facts are meager-there had been
tremendous rain near Clinton, the county
eat of Van Buren,, on the upper Red
liver, and it was near this place the acct
lent took place. Emmerson. who is an
Id settler in Van Buren, County, was
With his family in ais house at night when
he storm was raging. After an hours
ain the water gradually flooded his house
nd fearing he and his family would be
rowned, he gathered two of his
hildren in his arms and
made for the door to escape. As the door
pened, a huge log afoat dashed in the
ntrance and knocked the little ones from
is arms. They fell at his feet into the
Wifi current and were lost. He then took
p two more, one in each arm, and sue
seded in getting out with them safely,
lling his wife to follow with the others,
Ut in attempting to escape in the same
amer the mother, with two children in
sr arms and three clnging to her dress
as carried down with the food and
owned.
The father and two children, the only
les left in a family OF eleven, escaped
it'll their lives. The night was dark and
e father, with the only Two survivors OF
s large family, stood in water above the
aist clinging to a tree for several hours,
ID when the waters subsidized in the morn.
9 a search was made and the dead bodies
the mother and seven children were dis
vered scattered here and there for a con-
ierable distance around the place the
9TH ng having caught in underbrush and
3 bodies held fast in that way. Two Of
, bodies were found in the garden lot a
ort distance from the house, where they
d been carried by the force of the water,
d others as far as fifty yard, from the
use.
Twenty-Seven Bodies Found.
D. - LA1s