Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-01-14
STORM SWEPT PRAIRIES.
Suffering I'm Kansas-A Regular Blizzard
In the " est and IA Cyclone IN
Kentucky.

KANSAS Cry, Jan. l4.--Telegraphlr
advices from different portions OF Kansas
reporta blizzard in that state At Wichita
ten inches of snow has fallen, and for 100
miles west the storm has ragged with fury
and the whole country is covered vita
snow to the depth of a fOoto more. Rail-
road trains are stuck at sev, raj pac $ and
traffic is practically suspended. Intense
suffering is reported in destitute districts
in several OF the western counties There
are forty or more cars of provisions at
KioWa and at the town OF Liberal en-
route to the sufferers, but that is fiftv to
seventy miles awav from tie starving
| people and nobody is willing to take the
chances of freezing by hauling freight in
wagons. The mercury is falling and severe
cold is apprehended.
CENTRAL WEST IN THE BLIZZARD.
Chicago, Jan. l3.-The rain storm of
yesterday afternoon has given place to a
gale which ragged with great force all OF
last night, and which has only diminished
with the advent of cold weather. While
during part of yesterday the thermnme-
ter was between fifty and sixty above zero.
1t began falling rapidly last night and at
an early hour this morning marked only
eighteen above. The signal service bureau
reports the storm as general, and the tele-
graphic service from the west, nOrthv est
and southwest, fnily cOrroborates this re-
port. The wind has played havoc with
electric wires all over the west, the tele-
graphic service being demoralized Re
ports from the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wis
NoI Slyo nd l.
diCate about the same weather in those
states, the only variation being that the
blizzard is more intense and the snow
much deeper in the north. st. Louis has
been practically cut Off from the rest of
the world, so complete was the demor-
alization of the telegraphic service. The
wires in every direction were down and it
was not until 10 this morning that the
Associated Press finally established con-
nection with the storm stricken city.
CYCLONE IN KENTUCKY.
st. Louis, Jan. l3.-A special to the
Post Dispatch says that for several miles
around Clinton, Ken, nearly everything
is razed to the ground. The first build
ing struck was II section house about half
mile from town. and which was occu-
pied by John Rhoades and his family,
consisting of his wife and three children,
all OF whom were killed. The population
OF the town is about 900, and at first it
was feared that hundreds had been killed
but the list was found to he comparatively
small, only eleven bodies so far having
been found. Small houses were lifted
bodily from the. ground and whirled
around in the air, dropping to the ground
with terrifying crash, and being literally
mashed into kindling Wood and fly
ing tmbers flied the air, and the crash
of falling buildings mingled with the
shrieks of people flying from their ruined
homes. The path of the tornado was
about 300 yards wide, as shown by TIE
debris. The loss to pronnr'y is estimated
at $4,000 T@c r,e3seng.c fr1m the
scene of the disaster report eight of the
fifty-three wounded are so seriously in
jured that they are not likely to live.
WIDE SPREAD DAMAGE.
At Minneapolis the weather is "clear
and cold"
At Wicklilf, Ky, thirteen Of the prin-
cipal business houses were wrecked,
and twenty-five people were more or less
injured.
A special from jackson, Tenn, says
cyclone visited Moscow, Ky, and that
two persons we're killed and four or five
wounded at that place.
Toledo, Jan. l4.-During the heavy
gale last night freight car was blown
from siding at Custer station, on the Gin
cinnat, Hamilton & Dayton road, and
then driven three miles north, where it
collided with the south hound passenger
train leaving here at midnight The en-
gine, baggage and mail car aie wrecked
and both engineer and fireman are i'll
jured, but not fatally. The gale injured
roofs and did minor damages.