The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-06-05
BIG TORNADO IN NEBRASKA.
TIE LITTLE TOWN OF BRADsHAW
SWEPT OUT or EXISTENCE.

Not n BuIIdInE Intact In the Settlement
Twelve Persons Dead. Eight MortaIIy
Hurt, and Many Others IHjured-FreIGht
Cars Tipped Over or Blown Along tho
Track for MIles-A Terrible Spectacle.
OMAHA juno Especial dispatches show
that the results OF last nights storm at Brad
shaw were fully as bad as at first reported.
Tho tornado struck the place about $50
O'Clock. almost completely demolishinR every
building In town, Instantly killing five persons
and injuring several others The names OF all
the injured and the extent Of their Injuries
have not yet been learned. The wires have
been down and everything lie in confusion In
the stricken village. The killed are:
Mrs. Penner.
Three children OF John Shaw.
A young son OF J. A. Brumsey
The injured are:
J. A. Brumsey, arm broken: Mrs. Brumsey
and two daughters. Mrs. Cutshal and family.
Mrs. N.Y. Williams. an unknown emiGrant. Nellie
Dorsey. Mr.. and Mrs Miller and family. d. 4.
Moore. Mr.. and Mrs. Keiser. MIR. and Mrs J. H.
Babcock and three children, Willie Chaplin. p.
NJ. and T. Colby. J. n. Cook. Willie Heath. Mrs.
Thomas, Mrs. Charles Miller. and Mrs. E.
Chaplin. Mr.. Shaw, father Of John Shaw. is
missing.
perfect deluge OF rain and hail fell during
tho storm. 1t came up 80 suddenly that few
had time to seek place OF safety. Tho Bur-
lington and Missouri track was destroyed.
Freight cars were blown and twisted about
like paper boxes. The prairie around Is strewn
with dead hogs and fragments OF buildings.
The exact extent Of the storm in the sur
rounding country is not yet known. The I'M
known emigrant in the above list Of injured
was taken UP by the wind and dashed against
An elevator. receiving injuries from which he
will do Gov Thayer has ordered Company A
to the scene Of the disaster to stand guard un-
Gil order Is brought out OF chaos.
Tho village is in Hamilton county. about
twenty miles northeast Of Hastings.
later report says there Is not one building
left intact standing and hardly one stone upon
another. Among tho ruins this morning were
lying the dead bodies Of the storms victims,
and frightened people with blanched faces
moved among their wrecked homes.
gaping holes in the earth tn where but
wrought this terrible deyast alton must have
been appalling. The, shapeless wreck. the
tho bodies OF tho dead that have been recov-.
cred together with the many wounded and
suffering. formed a picture OF horror and
despair.
with scarcely a mements warning. The roar
fed people had. The tempest struck the town
fairly. and there is loft not single building.
Every business house was made total wreck.
and the principal street was filled with
the ruins. In the extreme west part
Of the village a few houses are left with q sem
banoe Of their former appearance, but they are
without windows and DOORS and their CON
tents are scattered broadcast over the prairie.
The depot building was crushed into kidding
wood. and every car standing there was
wrecked except one that was loaded with stock,
and which was blown. without leaving the
track, to YORK, distance OF nine miles,
The dead and injured were quickly found BY
tho people. and q courier was despatched at
flying speed to York for assistance; BY Tho
people had collected together five bodies Of
people who had been killed outright.
1t was found that q Russian settlement near
the town WAS struck, and the report Is that
nine persons were Killed there outright The
physicians say that In all IL are dead. 8 NOR
tally wounded. and Il hurt. more or less
seriously.
tho storm are searching for their neighbors.
and other fatalities may be reported. Along
the track OF the storm. which was a half mile
wide. trees were uprooted. fences levelled, and
crops utterly ruined Dead stock. was found
In many places. showing that nothing living
had any chance for escape from the fury OF the
clements.