The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-04-06
WILD WORK OF THE WIND.
A Terrible Hurricane in Kansas and Other
States-Several Tow rs Wrecked and
Many Lives Lost.

! hANSEAS SIIJ, - pIIl ! 1.-LtiSI ulShI :
tornado entirely destroyed Towanda,
Kansas, killing twenty people, wrecked
Augusta, killing four aud seriously in.
juring many others, did great damage
at Wellington, killing several, and de.
moiished several buildings at Kiowa
The particulars may he difficult to OBJ,
tain on account of the continued pros,
tration of wires.
\ terrible wind-storm prevails to-day
throughout Kansas, Missouri and
Southern Nebraska. The Western
Union reports it has been losing wires
every minute for the last four hours.
Only three wires are left out Of three
hundred.
The storm, as far as can be determined,
swept across the country from Indian
Territory in the southwest part Of Bar
Der County, Kansas, taking the little
town of kiowa in its path. In north
easterly direction it passed through
Frazier County and through the centre
OF Sumner County. Bending as bow
it passed almost directly north through
the remainder of Sumner County and
along the western part Of Butler Coun-
ty. Villages and farm houses were
carried away as it swept along.
The tornado continued in Kansas
and in the northwestern part of Mis-
souri, to-day, but was less destructive.
At Wellington the house of man
named Little was dem olished and four
little children killed. Another house,
with fifteen inmates, was picked up
and dropped and everybody in it more
or less hurt. The house of a man
named Butterworth was carried bodily
through the air three hundred yards.
Some of the family were fatally hurt.
Later reports say thaG not house or
building was left standing in "owanda.
The town was asleep when the storm
swept down, ruined everything in its
path and left dead bodies lying in its
wake. Four dead bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins already search
ed. Twenty persons are fatally hurt
and forty more seriously injured, be-
sides a large number more or less
manned.
At Augusta three were killed out
right. Harmon Hoskins, James Barnes
AID an infant child Of Will Rhodes,
who was blown out Of her mothers
arms and dashed against brick wall.
Rhodes himself is fatally injured, as is
also the wife Of Harmon Hoskins. Eff
teen others were hurt mere or less seri-
ously, according to present reports, but
all wires are down and it is impossible
to get at any detailed account from
either place.
At Lawrence the wind reached a
velocity of eighty-four miles. In Kan
sas Cityit reached sixty-four miles, and
a great Zeal of damage was done to
signs, gas, insecure buildings, electric
wires. etc.
The house which was blown down
was a seven-story brick al the corner of
Halstead and Pearce streets. 1t was
surrounded by one or two-story frame
dwellings occupied by poor families.
Several of these were crushed and three
children were instantly killed. Three
people are missing, supposed to be
under the ruins, probably dead. Twelve
others were injured, OF whom two or
three are likely to die.
Additions are constantly being made
| to the storm casualties. In Kansas City,
Kansas, two persons were fatally in
jured. Among the towns suffering are
Marsha, Warrensburg, Cailicothe and
| St. Joseph, Missouri, Salina, Olathe
and Ottawa, Kansas. Eighty families
lived at Towanda, Kansas. and not one
of them escaped injury or loss of life to
some member.
BUILDINGS WRECKED IN ATCHIsoN.
ATcHIsoN, Kas., April IA tornado
struck this city at noon to-day, unroof-
ing and demolishins several large
buildings and scattering signs, awnings
and out houses in every direction. The
Santa Fe railway depot was unroofed
and the chapel at the Scholastic Con-
vent was demolished. The ice ware
house of the Thrall Ice Company was
destroyed and the grocery ware house
Of II. Taylor is in ruins. The roof OF
the city prison was carried off and a
| portion of the building demolished.
A small house in the Missouri Pacific
yards was blown into the river. Hun
dreds of chimneys have heen blown
down and great deal of damage done.
| The heavy damage in the country isto
fruit trees. The ground is very soft,
| caused by recent rains, anG thousands
of trees have been torn up by the roots.
No one has been reported injured.
| EFFECTS OF THE STORM IN NEBRASKA.
OMAHA, Neb, April TELEGRAPH
wires all over the State are prostrated,
and it is impossible to obtain news Of
the extent of last nights cyclone. The
Western Union reports that it has only
one wire in operation in Nebraska and
that is on the line of the Elkhorn Road.
a special to the Bee from Norfolk, in
the northern part of the Sta.e, says tho
cyclone struck the town about II
o'clock last night and did considerable
damage. If this should prove to be the
same cyclone which devasted Nelson
the destruction must have teen great.
The storm traversed one hundred and
fifty miles over the richest farming