Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-02
NEWS By TELEGRAPH,
From ALI Quarters.
ADESTRUCPIVE TORNADO
Many Lives and Much prop
erty Destroyed.
DISASTROUS CLoUDBURST IN CHICAGO
A Severe Gale All Through
the West.
DEMOCRATS Snow Their WEAKNESS.
They Refuse to Discuss
Leading Issues.
MANY LIVES LOST.

I
been the scene of the greatest havoc. The
the earth and Augusta few miles distant,
was buffeted out of all semblance to it's
former self. Not building was left
standing in Towanda. The town was
asleep when the storm swept down, RACED
everything in it's path and left dead bodies
lying in it's wake. Four dead bodies have
been recovered from the ruins already
searched. Twenty persons are fatally
hurt and forty more seriously injured, be-
| sides a large number more or less MANNED.
THREE KILLED.
At Augusta three were killed outright,
Harmon Hoskins, James Barnes and the
infant child of Will Rhodes, who was
| blown out of his mothers arms and dashed
against brick wall Rhodes himself is
fatally injured, as is also the wife of Har-
mon Hoskins. Fifteen others were hurt
more or less seriously, according to pres
emit reports. All wires are down, and it is
impossible to get any detailed account
from either place.
Kiowa and Wellington. In Kiowa the
dwellings and buildings were demolished,
and though no loss Of life is known several
minor mishaps are reported. The damage
to property is said to be great.
BLOWN TO sPLINTERs.
Wellington and vicinity suffered con-
siderably and several people were killed.
William Little's house, south of Yelling
ton, was blown to splinters and Little
and four children were killed. Joe Wal
toms house was picked up and thirteen of
the occupants were more or less injured.
Sam Butterworth's house and its occupants
were carried 300 yards in the air and some
of the family were fatally hurt.
The storm, as far as can be determ-
from the Indian territory into
county, Kan, taking the little town of
Kiawa in its path. In northeasterly di
rection it passed through Frazier county
and through the center of Summer county.
Bending as bow, 1t passed almost direct
| ly north through the remainder of Sum-
| mer county and along the coast. No
one was injured and the patients are being
| cared for elsewhere.
MANY BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
At Olathe, Kan, the general store of
Mariner & Marvin was partially wrecked.
Farm houses and stables in the country
we're unroofed, but no one was injured.
At Marshall, Mo-, the cupola of the
Methodist church was blown down. Plate
glass windows were blown in and roofs
/ carried away.
At Salina, Kan, the house of N. A.
Brather was carried from its foundation
and wrecked. The family were at supper
| and were injured.
| At Ottawa, Kan, the tower of the water
company's building was toppled over, roofs
carried away and sidewalks turned over.
Trees were uprooted, and much damage
| was done to orchards.
| At Warrensburg, Mo-, the Methodist
church wac uprooted and the cupola blown
| down.
| At Chi1licothe, Mo-, also, the cupola of
the Methodist church was blown down and
| the building unroofed. No one was hurt.
| A HEAVY WIND.
In this city Ransas City the wind
reached velocity of "a miles. The damage
consisted principally of roofs blown away
and plate glass windows broken. The roof
Of the high school was blown off. School
was dismissed, it being feared that the
building was unsafe. The roof of an
apartment house was blown away, and a
grocery store lost its roof and portion
of it's front. Signs were blown
down all over the city, some of them
crashing through costly plate-glass win
dovs. Other windows were crushed in by
tho force of the wind. Telephone wires
through ther city were Frustrated. The
stock of the power house on the North
east electric line was toppled over. VII
lagos and farm houses were swept away.
The tornado continued in Kansas and the
northwestern part of Missouri to-day, but
was less destructive.
A dispatch from Fort Scott states that
southeastern Kansas was visited last night
by one of the strongest wind storms for
years. No reports Of injuries to persons
have been received, though many country
barns, out-buildings and haystacks and oc-
casionally a well-constructed residence
were destroyed.
become a hurricane and blew away part of
the roof of the Great Western stove works
and work was suspended for the day. The
roof of the Great Western machine works
was lifted several feet and dropped again.
The tin roof of Carwird's opera house and
the roof of the Caldwell building on Della
ware street were blown away at noon.
At st. Joseph nearly every telegraph
and telephone wire has been torn down,
ed and many large structures I'M
rooted. Thousands of dollars worth
of damage was caused by the breaking OF
plate glass in store windows. In the
eastern part of the city brick house was
blown down, burrying Tillie Bushnell
aged seven, and seriously injuring her. Al
the factory of Tootle, Hosea & Co., there
was stampede of the several hundred
girls A violent gust tore portion of the
roof off the factory. No one was injured
A dispatch from Lawrence, Kan, says:
"The wind has been blowing a gale her.
since midnight, the wind at times attain
ed a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour
Many buildings were unroofed and out
houses demolished. The roof of the Has
kell hospital was blown away and it was
necessary to anchor the building. Their,
has been no loss of life. The creates
damage was suffered by the telegraph com
panies. The Western Union reports NJ
| Communication with points west of tn,
center of Kansas and has but a few worka
able wires east. Telegraph poles along al
the railroads west of here have been pros
trated, causing woeful tangle of wires. F"
It OMAHA, April Telegraph wires al
is over the state are Frustrated, and 1t is i'm
d possible to obtain news of the extent O
'e last nights cyclone. The Western Unto
+. reports that it has only one wire in opera
,e ton in Nebraska, and that Is on the lin
'g Of the Elkhorn road. a@
A CYCLONE.
Specials from Norfolk, on that line,
the northern part of the state, say that
Cyclone struck the town about II o'clos
n last night and did considerable dsmsg
If this should prove to be the same cyclor
which devastated Nelson the destructio
must have been great. The storm travele
$50 miles over the richest farming section
dotted with small cities and villages. tt
wind is blowing gale here and wires al
down on all sides. Hundreds of telephoz
wires are still down as result of last Sa
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