Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-08-28
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tArribl> cyclone ever experieAoed n I
Ter, struck this city. It came up fPoa
the river and from what point It origin
etAd 10 not nov known.
The ouddenAees of the stoYm's eoni19 |
vas one of its most svful festureo. The |
heaveps we're % black q night ana the |
wind .b1eV With most frightful velocity. |
Whole rows of trees we're blown down. |
Following this hundredo of houses wsTe |
anroofsA, partly blown over or CON- |
plotely demolished and worse than ell, |
the visitation of death vss cent upon . !
nunber OF people. How many we're |
killed. Is not known. but It is feared that |
ct least twenty-five hove suocumbsd to
the storm.
Passenger trsins and locomotives ct
the depot were blown over end every
wire in the city, electric light tele-
phone and telegraph, is down. The
devastation is to be compared With
nothing in the memory of the Oldest
residents.
Four men ere known to have been
killed in the Hazard wire rope works
A house on Scott street occupied BY
miners, who had just returned from
work, fell in and three Of the jnmste6
were killed.
eThe huge stack of the kyle planning
mills fell on man and two horses and
all were killed.
A little colored girl was killed by a
falling building on South Main street
Two men suffered death by the fall
ing of portion of Stegmair's brewery.
and third incurred the same fate
through the almost complete demoli-
ton of S L. Browns handsome brick
business block on East Market street
There are undoubtedly fifteen or six
teen others killed as reports are coming
in constantly to that effect
Reports came from Sugar Notch,
mining town three miles from here, that
the destruction of property is terrible
and that fifteen persons were killed.
Horrible was the scene in the Hazard
wire rope works Dead and dying lay
on the floor and their heartrending cries
and agonies filled the air. The cyclone
struck the rear of the large brick build
ing, about 200 men being employed in
the works. The floor and side walls
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about The bricks and ponderous
When the storm was imminent the men
rushed for the door but many of them
were caught in the ruins
A special from New Milford, Susque-
hanna County, says that cyclone
struck that region at precisely the same
moment that Wilkesbarre was struck.
Farmer Coles house was demolished
and Mr.. Cole was killed.
Another dispatch says that just be-
fore the cyclone reached here it struck
Harveyville, killing two women.
FATAL RAILROAD WRECK.
Boston. Aug. 20.-One of the most
disastrous railroad wrecks that have oc-
Cured in the vicinity of Boston, and
one that rivals the famous Wollaston
disaster of October 5, 1878, occurred
shortly after one o'clock yesterday
afternoon on the same road, the Old
Colony, and very near the same locality.
In the Wollaston disaster fifteen per-
sons were killed and nearly $50 injured
Yesterday fifteen persons were killed
twelve instantly-twenty-t three serious
ly injured-three fatally-and several
more sustained slight injuries.
y
Woodstock express, which left Wood
sholl at 1850 a. m. and was due in Bos-
ton at Ito p. m. It consisted of loco
motive 122, manned by Engineer Bah
cock and Fireman John Ryan. a baggage
Car, smoker, the Pullman car Puritan
and four ordinary coaches, heavily
| loaded.
The train had passed Quincy station
at 1857 p. M, running about ten miles
an hour. and just beyond Presidents
bridge, about an eighth of a mile toward
Boston, the engine left the track, from
a cause at present undetermined, and
plunged into an embankment twelve
feet high and was buried upon one side.
The tender, baggage car, smoker and
Pullman passed by the engine and were
stretched along for distance of 100
feet beside the track.
L The following were dead when taken
from the wreck: Mrs. Orcutt Allen,
Philadelphia; Mrs Mary E. Fennelly,
aged seventy. Louisville, KY; F. j.
IoJohnson, Montpelier, VT; John Ryan,
South Boston, fireman of the train; four
women; two men; two children-one a
boy of fourteen.
The following died during the after
noon and evening: Mrs. A. c. Wells,
Hartford, Conn; daughter of II. L.
WEIGH, Waterville, Conn.
The following are critically injured:
Mrs. Oscar Fen6elly, of Louisville. KY,
wife of the cashier off the Citizens Nat
ional Bank. Louisville, scalded over
her whole body; c. M. Copp, Cleveland.
O., scalded over whole body, not ex-
pected to live till morning; E. C. Bailey.
of Dorchester, formerly proprietor of
the Boston Herald, scalded on face and
hands.
Between thirty and forty others were
hurt more or less seriously.
The most unfortunate party was the
family of Oscar Fennellys of Louisville.
KY. His wife, three children, mother
and maid were in the party. His mother
was killed outright Two of his chill
4 dren have since died at the hospital.
His wife is so seriously injured that sh g
may die at any moment, and his other
child and the maid are both injured.
Returns Showing the Population of the
Country to Be Over $4,000, 900.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.-The Census