Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03
STORM STRICKEN.

STORM STRICKEN.
| aaIlatin. Tsun.. md other Places Daunaepa
-Destractisn st Metropolis. ul.-Raih as
Bowling Green and Marion, Ky.
GALLATIx. Tenn. March 2o-The
worst storm that ever visited this sec
ton passed over this city Thursday
| night Two miles from Gallatin houses
! were blown down The brick residence
! Of John Hibbet was completely blown
away. The walls fell in and killed An
eighteen-months-old baby, also a boy
twelve years old, son of Palo Langford.
Htbbet is dying and his wife is horribly
mangled-
Across the pike from Hibbefs Will
liam .Patterson's residence was blown
down, injuring five persons
In this town residences were COM
pletely wrecked and large trees were
uprooted and carried some distance.
The town is nearly wild Jim Patter-
sons house was unroofed and Mr.. Pat
terson and three ladies were in one room
| when the roof fell In. Patterson re-
ceived painful injuries and his wife was
also hurt The storm was only of short
duration and passed over about ten
| o'clock. All the dead and wounded are
| being moved to the residence of Mrs.
| Van Allen, about one mile from town.
After sweeping up Rogana, the storm
king began its dreadful march. It took
northeast course and for twenty-five
miles carried every thing in front of it
All houses beyond Bledsoe, up to Emilia,
Macon County, have been blown into
i atoms. Fully q hundred people are
crippled in that section and are under
| the care of doctors. Men, women and
children are in q horrible condition in
that section.
] j. w. White, of Bledsoe, arrived here
last night and says every thing is a
barren waste. Several people were
killed, but he could not learn their
names The march of the cyclone was
about five miles northeast of Bledsoe.
| Many people were horribly mangled
at Rogana, and the town is entirely
| swept away, only one house remaining.
Postmaster Wood had his little daugh-
ter killed at Rogara and is also danger
ous1y hurt
Nat Turner'S residence is a complete
wreck. Miss Alice Turner and ErslSine
Turner are both seriously crushed and
| it is reported here that neither will sur
| vive.
1t will be impossible to give a COM
plete list of the injured. Those that
were killed were:
John Hibbet and his little baby.
Irene Langford, daughter of Palo
Langford.
The daughter of Postmaster Wood at
| Rogana.
| Mrs Tatum, living at L. A. Green's
Those that are so badly injured that
| fears are entertained that they can not
recover are: Miss Alice Turner, Erskine
Turner, young son of John Hibbett, de-
| ceased, and a young son of William C.
Patterson
THE METROPOLIS DISASTER
METROPOLIS, Ill, March GA cyclone
| Thursday night cut clean swath about
| a quarter of a mile wide clear across the
| town. wrecking property of all descrip-
| tions and burying men, women and
children in the debris of falling build
| ings- Several hundred people were
| killed or wounded and between two
| hundred and three hundred houses
were swept from their foundations
above the heads of their unfortu-
| nate occupants The storm was past in
a moment, and then came a binding
| rain, which greatly retarded the work
of rescue. People outside the path of
the storm were quickly on the streets
| and as fast as poss BILE the victims were
taken from the ruins.
The rain soon ceased and the full hor-
ror of the situation became apparent
On every side could be heard the groans
of the dying, and all around lay the
mangled bodies of the dead. Scores of
bodies were removed from the ruins
In the business district stores that
had been considered substantial were
molished in an instant The cyclone
entered the town on the south and west,
sweeping every thing before it. Small
barns and outbuildings were caught up
by the whirlwind and carried with
crushing force against larger
structures. Trees were twisted
off short and hurled long dis
tances. Fences were leveled in the
country for miles before the cyclone
reached Metropolis, and for miles be-
yond.
Every church and every other promi-
nent building in the place is either de-
stroyed or badly damaged, including
two school houses, the court house and
Jail and many smaller structures
THE STORM AT EVANSVILLE.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. March 29.-Tbe ice
house and a portion of the store room of
the Fulton Avenue Brewery caved in at
2:30 yesterday afternoon burying two
men in the ruins The storm of Thurs
day night, it is supposed, unsettled the
building to such an extent that it was
unable to bear the weight of the malt
and ice stored in it The names of the
men killed are: Claude Tilley and Jo-
seph Vinegar. A man named Kelly is
also supposed to have been in the debris,
but this has not been verified. The
damage will probably reach S25, 900.
BOWLING GREEN GONE.
CINCINNATI March 2S-Late dis
patches state that the tornado struck
the town of Bowling Green, Warren
County, KY. and completely wiped it
out AS the wires are down no detailed
report can be obtained Bowling Green
has population of about 5, 600 inhabit-
ants, and the loss of life is con jectured
to be correspondingly large.
RUIN AND DEATH AT MARION.
MARION, KY, March 29.-This city
was devastated by the same storm that
brought such ruin to Louisville. There
was great loss of life.
SCENES AT LOUISVILLE