Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-05-29


mortuary result of Friday nights
cyclone so far as can now be computed.
Fifteen dead at Wellington, seven at
Harper and five at Orgonia compose the
list of victims in the towns, while from
the country districts comes the report
of six killed, making total of SO dead.
The lists in the next day or two will
probably be largely added to as the
complete details are learned.
WELLINGTON, KAs., May 2s.-The
destruction to life and havoc to proper
ty wrought by last nights cyclone Is
terrible. In the darkness OF night and
the confusion incident to such a cat
astropne, it was not possible to realize
the enOrmity OF the calamity. The
light Of day invests the scene Of des-
truction with distinct and awful real
ization OF its scope.
The loss of life is appalling and the
ruin to property great. The storm came
from the southwest, and approached
the city with rotary motion, appearing
to be some distance over the town.
When il reached here ii itdescended upon
the centre Of the town with appalling
force; then it suddenly lifted, sucking
everything into its grasp, and as sud
denly dropped.
Trees were torn from their roots,
houses turned around; stoves actually
lifted until they landed on the upper
floors OF the ruins. Freight cars which
stood on the Rock Island track were
picked up and carried q distance OF 200
feet. In one instance horse was ac-
tually taken from the ground and car
ried To the top of a two-story building.
A little child was taken out OF its
cradle, carried distance of two blocks
and deposited upon the ground without
being injured.
The loss to property alone in this city
will be $500, 1000, as mostly all OF the
large stocks of goods in this city were
destroyed by the cloud burst which fol-
lowed the tornado, after IL had taken
all the roofs away. In the country, to
the west, reports are discouraging, and
while there is no detailed news from
the country in the immediate vicinity OF
the city, the indications are that the
damage is terrible.
1t issafe to say that $50 buildinga are
complete wrecks while $50 more are
partially wrecked. All the casualties
are not yet known, but the following
list is as accurate as can now be made:
KiIled-James HASTE, unmarried, killed
In barber chair in the Phillips House while
being shaved; Frank Campbell, married;
James Mayer, piano tuner, Of Kansas City;
Mrs. Sasher, recently married, crushed
and burned TO death. The shock has af-
fected the mind, temporarily at least, of her
husband; Miss Strand, Mrs. Sasher's Sis
ter, crushed and burned to death; Henry
AdamsOn, a laborer, and James Weaver,
crushed beneath walls; Ida Jones, wait
ress, crushed TO death beneath a fallen
wall.
Fatally wounded-Chharles Adamson,
unmarried: Mrs. Capt Mahan, badly
crushed; Mrs. J. IT. Hanna, skull fract-
ured; Charles Stoner, Santa Fe conductor;
Little Maggie King, wounded; Edward
Forsythe, printer, internal; Sylvia For
sythe. printer, skull fractured;
Walter Forsythe, printer, internal;
Mrs. Robert Millard, internal injuries;
Lieut.. VIM. French and Cadet Simmons,
Of the Salvation Army; James Miller, leg
and arm broken. Prof Mayer and Hart
Upson are missing, and between 40 and %
more are injured, but none seriously.
The greater portion OF the city was
completely devastated. and the entire
community, consisting Of between 5000
and 5000 people, were thrown into q
state Of CONSERVATION.
The Lutheran Church was turned
completely over, the Court House
demolished, and the Presbyterian
Church reduced TO splinters. The prin-
clpal block of the town is nothing but
pile OF brick and mortar and glass. The
Standard block, consisting OF six build
idgs, was completely wrecked. The
foundry and stove works were leveled
TO the ground,
On Washington avenue, every house
on each side Of the street is unrooied,
the back walls are out of many OF them
and window glasses are generally smash
ed. The opera house is a wreck and
the Phillips Hotel complete ruin.
This house proved to be the most fatal
trap for half 4 dozen bodies or more
will be taken from its ruins.
There is only one telegraph wire be-
tween here and the East, and 1t is
ve-y difficult matter TO get message
out over il. There is no wire west OF
Danville but messages from there report
a very disastrous cyclone at Harper.
About 200 men are at work clearing
away the debris at the Phillips House
wreck where at least two bodies more
are expected to be found.
The search for bodies among the
debris of the ruined Phillips house was
continued in the afternoon with un-
abated eagerness and industry, and at
one o'clock the body Of James Mayor,
piano turner, Of Kansas City, was
found and taken from the ruins.
About thirty minutes after the recov-
cry of the body Of Mayor, the body
OF Hart Upson, the barber, was found
beside the chair in which ne was shaw
ing HaStie when both Of them were
killed.
Upson's body was badly crushed, and
death was probably instantaneous. I'M
mediately after the body of Upson was
discovered the workmen put more en-
ergy into their digging and chopping,
and to the great surprise of all the body
of Tom Cornwell, very highly respect
ed citizen Of Belle Plain, this county.
was found.
He leaves q wife and seven children.
It was reported about o'clock that
Lieut.. French, OF the Salvation Army,
and Q comrade had yielded their shields,
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