Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-05-09
CYCLONE TWO STATES.
Great Destruction 10 Bouses ana
GrovtuE CrOBS.

fBy telegraph 20 tho Dispatch.l
CHICAGO, MAY s.-A dispatch from lIulchi-
| son. Kan. says: News reached this city
Yesterday hat the wind-storm that had been
Taging the last thrCe DAYS had eliminated in
Ia cyclone in the northern part Of Pratt coun-
Nv, extending over the eastern portion ~
stafford and up in Rice county. = funnel
| shaped cloud forrscd between : and s
| O'Clock, and could be seen Tor miles. The
| district over which 10 passed was sparsely
| settled, aud but for This fact the loss Of lie
end property would have been terrible.
/ The cyclone first struck st point about i've
miles southeast OF stafford, and for miles In
| q northeastcrly direction left nothing but
| barren waste strewn with wrecks Of houses
and barns, trees and fences. with here and
| there the bodies Of stock either killed or
crippled BY the wind. The only person
killed outright was william Crawford,
whose neck was broken by the flying tim
bers OF his house. which WAS totally de-
moiished. Eight or nine others were fatally
Injured about twenty-five or thirty
five more were more or less injured. A. T..
! Guinup's house was totally destroyed, and
| himself and family were badly injured. His
wife and young babe were carried di't1uce
Of 100 feet, aud the chid's thigh broken
.Joseph Giles's house was totally destroyed
A house belonging 10 Mrs. Lindley and 0c.
cupied by herself and two stcpchildren-
Maud and William Bue-was blown ID
atoms. Mrs. Lindley was seriously injured
and is not expected to recover
Joseph Sellers fine two-story house was
torn TO pieces and so scattered that not
splinter remained on the former site. An
other large house, not vet occupied, was de-
moshed. 4 large number OF horses and
cattle were killed and crippled. Physicians
were summoned and the people OF the whole
country turned out 10 render every assist
auce possible. Many other buildings were
more or less damaged, and where the
cyclone crossed the santa Fe railroad be
tween Sterling and Alden the telegraph-poies
we're leYelled to the earth snd other damage
done. There were no fatalities IN that dis
trict. As soon rs the news OF the cyclone
reached stafford a moss-meetinS was held
and committees organized to carry on tue
work OF relief Of the distressed IN a syste-
matte manner. More than one hundred
people are homeless and without food or
clothing.
Reports from other towns throughout the
southwestern part OF the state indicate
heavy winds for three days past, but nothing
IN the nature OF such a tornado as visited
Stafford county.
BLOwiNG HURRICANE.
CHICAGO. May S.-A dispatch from st.
Paul, Mimi, says that after blowing bard all
day Monday and Monday night the wind yes-
terday increased TO & gale aud It'd consldera-
bic damage TO buildings and crops. AT Buf-
falo, this county, the wheat was IN many
places blown out OF the ground by the roots.
In other places Il IL buried 50 deep that
II will never come up.
AT Yankton the wind blew 3 hurricane.
The City Hall rocked so that tue Council
hastily adjourned and went into the street.
A soaking rain followed.
At Hmckley. Mimi, the wind did damage
10 timber and shade-trees. An engine run
ming between Sandstone and Sandstone
Junction was wrecked yesterday afternoon
by tree falling across it while In motion.
Engineer &. e. Do.e escaped unniured,
while Fireman Elmer Miller was badly
bruised.
TOUGH WIND.
SIOUX FALLS, DAE., May S.-One OF the
beayist, sieadiest winds ever known in this
section prevailed Monday and Monday night,
eliminating in rain. About midnight the
the wind blew 4 box-car from the side track
on the maiu track OF the St paui road at