The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-15
A BARREN WASTE
STREWN WITH WRECKS OF HOUSES AND
BARNS. TREES AND FENCES.

Terrible Devastation Wrought by a
Cyclone in Kansas-Many Persons Sc
riously Injured and Hundred or
More Rendered Homeless and Des-
titate.
CHICAGO, May S.-A dispatch from
Hutchinson, Kansas, says: Newsreacned
this city yesterday that a wind storm
that had been raging for the last three
DAYS had eliminated in a cyclone in the
Northern part of Pratt County, extend
ing over the Eastern portion Of Stafford, i,
and up in the rice country. a funnel
shaped cloud formed between and s
O'Clock and could be seen for miles. The
district over which it passed was sparseIy
settled and but for this fact the loss OF
life and property would have been Terri
ble The cyclone fist struck at point
about five miles Southeast OF Stafford,
and for miles in a Northcasterly dlrec-
tion left nothing but barren waste,
strewn with wrecks of houses and barns,
trees and fences, with here and there
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 timbers of his
house, which was totally demolished.
Eight or nine others were fatally IN
iured, and about twenty-five or thirty
five more were more or less injured.
a. F. Guinup's house was totally de-
stroyed, and himself and family were
badly injured. His wife and young babe
were carried distance of 100 feet, and
the child's thigh was broken.
Joseph Gllt's house was totally de-
stroyed and It's contents scattered IN
every direction.
The house belonging to Mrs. Lindley
and occupied by herself and two step
children, Maud and William Blue, was
blown to atoms. Mrs. Lindley was Sc
riously injured and is not expected to
recover.
Joseph Settlers fine two-story house
was torn to pieces and so scattered that
not splinter remained on its former
site.
Another large house not yet occupied
was demolished.
4 large number of horses and cattle
were killed and crippled.
Physicians were summoned and the
people of. the whole country turned out
to render every assistance possible.
Many other buildings were more or
less damaged, and where the cyclone
crossed the Santa Fe River, between
Sterling and Alden, the telegraph poles
were leveled to the earth. and other
damage was done. There were no fatall-
ties in that district.
AS soon as the news Of the cyclone
reached Stafford mass meeting was
held and committees organized to carry
on the work of relieving the distress In
systematic manner. More than a
hundred people are left homeless and
without food or clothing.
Reports from other towns throughout
the Southwestern part of the State indi-
cate heavy winds for three days past,
but nothing in the nature Of such tor
nado as vlsired Stafford County.
VIOLENT GALES IN MINNESOTA.
CHICAGO, May S.-A dispatch from st.
Paul, Mimi, says that after blowing
hard all day Monday and Monday night
the wind Yesterday increased to a gale
and did considerable damage to build
ings and crops.
At Buffalo, this County, wheat was in
many places blown out of the ground by
the roots. In other places it is buried
so deep that it will never come up.
At Yankton the wind blew hurrl-
cane. The city hall rocked so that the
Council hastily adjourned and went into
the street. a soaking rain followed.
At Hinckley, Mimi, the wind did
damage to timber and shade trees. An
engine running between Sandstone and
Sandstone Junction was wrecked yester,
day afternoon by tree falling across
the engine while in motion. Engineer
Dore escaped unirjured, while the fire
man, Elmer Miller, was badly bruised.
4 FREIGHT CAR BLOWN FROM THE TRACK.
SIOUX FALLS, Dakota, May S.-One of
the heaviest stea0iest winds ever known
in this section prevailed Monday and
Monday night, eliminating in rain.
About midnight the wind blew a box car
from side track on the main track of
the St. Paul road at Dell Rapids. A
freight train running at full speed
struck the car, and the entire train and
locomotive were wrecked One brake
man was instantly killed. Several
other persons, including the passen-
gers, escaped with bruises.