Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-07

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retired physician
Rershel Cup, farmer.
John Bailey, railroad laborer.
John Blake, merchant.
George Blake, his son. aged 6.
Miss Annie Robbins. postmistress-
Earl Kari, aged IL.
c. L. Westgate, clerk.
Chicago: Edward Mott. aged ..
Horace Mott, aged 5.
David Hulett, infant.
William Gowan, aged 10.
Samuel Barsdale. Waterman
Miss Mary Walsh, a visitor from Jo-
/ let, Ill.
Alice Hulett, aged Z.
Wamego. Kan: Mrs. Albert Eggers,
farmers wife.
Two children of Mrs Eggers. aged
and 5.
Joseph Johnson, farm laborer.
Charles Taylor, farmer.
ArFs Charles Taylor, his wife.
E-year-old. child of above.
Augusta, Kan: Albert Barnes,
| farIAer. go.
Infant child 619villiam Rhoades.
Harmon Hoski2s, farmer
Infant son OF the latter.
Mrs. Herbert Abbott.
Wellington, Kan: Mrs. Joseph Sho-
walters, farmers wife. Her infant
| child.
William Little, farmer.
Four children Of the latter.
Bangs, Tex: Miss jackson.
Louis BROOKS
Frank Brooks.
Mrs Frank Brooks.
Strong City, Kan: John Closer,
farmer.
Mrs. John Closer, his wife.
Infant child OF the above.
| South Haven, Kan: benjamin II.
Maple, farmer.
James II. Maple, his son. e
Wichita, Kan: Patrick Marlin, farmer.
Eureka, Kan: Miss Mary Rizer-
| Moberly, No: Mrs. James Conns1iy
St Joseph Mo-: Seven-year-old child
OF Rev. E. b. Bushnell.
{: Santa Anna, Tex: Willie McCullon,
aged II.
Dubuque, Ia: An unknown man.
! sWinterset, Ia: John Bard.
Vine Creek, Kan: Miss Smith, farm
Set's daughter
NEAR COVE, ARK.
| LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 4.-Word
/ yeached here yesterday morning OF a
singular and distressing accident near
! Cove, Ark. An alliance picnic was held
Saturday which drew together crowd
Of people numbering 100 Or 2Oo.z In the
afternoon q storm came up. The wind
twas very strong, leveling everything in
its path. When 1t struck the woods in
which the piclknickers had gathered
ftrees were blown down in all directions,
one of which caught and killed two
persons and fatally injured two others.
| Several persons were dangerously hurt
| by pieces OF flying timber. Cove being
some miles from railroad or Geographic
station it is impossible to get further
particulars.
RESULTS AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, April THE fatal effects
of he fearful storm are row fully
known. The ruined buildings yielded
a CHASTITY harvest Four crushed and
broken bodies We're taken from beneath
the huge piles of tangled rafters and
is.5ricks which had crushed life out in
! stantly in their fall. Little Alice Hugh
lett died Saturday morning from the in
| juries received. All the people who
| were in the frame cottage crushed by
the collapse of the great factory are
now accounted for and the number of
those killed is known to be eight.
HAIL AT BURLINGTON, KAN.
BURLINGTON, Kan, April Sunday
about 1890 o'clock a hail storm struck
this city, breaking out nearly all the
| window lights in buildings on the south
side. Some of the hailstones measured
eight inches IN circumference. The NJ.
E. church and public school building
Suffered heavily. a great deal of dam
age was done to farm property east and
south of here Wind and ran accom-
panied the storm.
AT TowANDA- KAN
| WICHITA, Kan, April 4.-Yesterday
two more names Were a6s1ed to 1iae roll
| of victims whom death claims at To
wanda They are: Mrs Sohn Kerr and
! Earl Kerr her son. Both OF these url-
| fortunates died from the effects of skull
| fracture received from flying missiles OF
the night during that appalling moment
/ of storm and stress. These added ones.
mother and son. increase the number OF
| dead at Towanda, as q direct result OF
| Thursdays fearful tempest to present
total of eight
AT NoRBoRNE, NO.
| NoRBoRNE, Mo-. April A terrific
hail storm visited this place at 3 O'Clock
| yesterday afternoon. doing considerable
/ damage. Stones fell measuring four
inches in diameter and weighing from
one and half to one and three-quarter
] pounds. The storm came from the north
west and was accompanied by very little
wind. The skylights in the photograph
gallery were all broken There was a
very slight fall of rain.
AT DENVER, COL.
DENVER, Col, April "A terrible
storm passed over Denver last evening.
1t is quite probable the cyclone viii
prove even more detructive than that Of
| Friday. On the day it passed over Den
/ yer last week the barometer stood at %.
F! while yesterday it fell to ~ lib. South
| ern Kansas appeared to be the objective
point
| SOME AMERICANS