Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-06-12
FlERoE STORMS.
The Town of Bradshaw, Net., Wiped Out
BY . Cyclone and Many Killed and Injured
Storm In Iowa.


The Town of Bradshaw, Net., Wiped Out
BY . Cyclone and Many Killed and Injured
Storm In Iowa.
OMAHA, Neb., June 5.-The results of
Tuesday nights storm at Bradshaw
were fully as bad as at first reported,
the cyclone striking the place about
$50 o'clock, almost completely demol-
ishing every building, instantly killing
i've persons and injuring score ofothers
The killed are: Mrs. Henner, three
children of John Shaw, a young son Of
j. A. Brumsey.
Among the injured are: j. A. Brum-
sey, arm broken; Mrs. Brumsey and two
daughters, Mrs Cutshall and family,
Mrs M. Williams, an unknown emil
grant, Nellie Dorsey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Miller and family, DR.. Moore, Mr.. and
Mrs Keyser, Mr.. and Mrs J. II. Bah
cock and three children, Willie Chapsin,
P. M. and T. Colby, ]. N. Cook, Willie
Heath, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Charles Mil
Ter, Mrs. Elk Chaplin. Mr.. Shaw, father
of John Shaw, is missing.
The roar of the whir1wind was the
first notice the terrified people had, and
whenever possible they sought places of
safety. But few, however, had more
homes.
Thirty minutes after the storm struck
the town the stars from clear sky
shone out again.
Not a building was left standing.
Every business house was wrecked and
the principal street was filed with
ruins, while their contents were scat
tered broadcast over the prairies. The
depot was crushed into kindling wood
and all but one car was wrecked. This,
which CHANGED to be loaded with stock,
was blown to York, a distance of nine
miles, without leaving the track.
Thirty-five- persons were in the hotel
during the blow. The roof was torn off
and the sides partly caved in and the
windows knocked out, but no one was
hurt.
Seven men were in hall over store
and remained there until the blow was
over. The hall and store are a mass of
ruins but not man was hurt
One mans family was saved by cling
ing to heavy base burner.
Another child chung to a small tree
in the yard and it held and saved her.
A Russian settlement near Bradshaw
was struck and the report is that nine
persons were killed there outright.
The physicians say that, in all, twelve
are dead, eight mortally wounded and
perhaps twenty-one hurt more or less
seriously.
THE STORM IN IOWA.
DIES MONIES, Iowa, June 5.-Great
damage was inflicted upon the towns of
Underwood, Nicola, Persia and Weston
in Pottawattamie County Tuesday night
by rain, and yesterday morning about
ten o'clock Mosquito creek, that flows
through these towns, overflowed its
banks and all the country in the vicin-
ity was overlooked. The sudden swell
ing of the creek is thought to have been
caused by cloudburSt near Nicola yes
terday morning, but owing to rail and
telegraph communications being cut off
exact facts can not be ascertained.
At Underwood about thirty-five resi-
dences in the low lands were wrecked
by water and as many families rendered
homeless. Five miles of the Milwaukee
track were washed away and that part
of town traversed by the Milwaukee and
Rock Island roads is submerged under
fifteen feet of water. No lives were
lost, but there were very many narrow
escapes by residents of the flooded dis
tricts. At Weston the same creek over
flowed its banks and the city was
flooded to depth of five feet through
out. This occurred about five o'clock in
the morning and so sudden was it
that the people are firm in the belief
that a cloudburst occurred near that
point. Thirteen houses were wrecked
and fifty more or less damaged. There
was no loss of life.
A fast stock train on the Illinois Cen
trail plunged into washout at Ackley
with seven car loads of cattle. Over a
hundred head were killed.
The storm about Adair was the worst
ever known there. The wind blew a
hurricane and the rain fell in binding
sheets. During the night there were
three different storms from as many
points of the compass. Corn was badly
washed out and orchards and gardens
ruined in many places. Many window
lights were broken by hail.
A German farmer northwest of Adair,
whose residence and outbuildings are
located on the low lands, lost sixty he ad
of good hogs by drowning. His barn,
corn cribs, hay stacks and fences were
| flooded away and three feet of water
stood in his residence, driving his fam
lily to the upper story. The lightning
| was very vivid and continuous and did
much damage. The telegraph wires
were badly down. the line repairer hav-
ing twenty breaks to close between
Adair and Atlantic.
John Cook, living just east Of Casey,
had 50, 600 stallion drowned in the
Middle river and came near losing his
own life. That stream was a wide.
| raging food. The storm all over that
vicinity did great damage and it is only
surprising that no lives were lost.
People very generally took to caves and
| cellars.
CHESTER, Iowa, June 5.-A cyclone
passed near this place at $50 yesterday
afternoon.
A school house three miles south was
struck by the storm and completely de-
molished. The teacher, Miss Mary
Smith. was badly injured and one pupil
| fatally injured. Miss Smith may posi-
bly, recover.
Several farm houses and numerous
oatbuildings were blown away. The
number of people injured is estimated
at twenty.
FIERCE STORM AT 1ERRE.
PIERRE. S. D., June 5.-A fierce wind