Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-24
THE STORM KING.
A Fearful Storm in the West and
Northwest.
Its Greatest Destruction at Redbud, ILL.,
A Cyclone and q Blizzard Join Hands
TO Destroy-An Arkansas
Town Wiped Out.

Town Wiped Out. :.
REDBUD, Ill, Nov. 1s-Where for
merly existed beautiful little tswn
full OF happy homes is to-day a scene of
wreck and desolation. Houses, barns,
fences and orchards are leveled to the
ground and spread over the surround
ing country.
Entering from the south the cyclone
first demolished the Catholic church
and school and the residence of Herman
Drage. The German Lutheran church
was next leveled to the ground After
destroying several barns and tearing
away all kinds of fences it struck the
large two-story residence of Peter Ken
dali, which was of solid stone, and
crurnbled it to fragments. Mrs Ken
dali was severely injured.
large double brick house, occupied
by d. d. Perry, as dwelling, office
aud composing room, was entirely de-
stroyed. The family were buried in
the ruins, but managed to extricate
themselves without serious injury
Petcrson's agricultural warehouse was
blown down. and fourteen other resi-
dences were destroyed.
The 1l-year-old son of Jacob Koch
was killed instantly, and his mother
was fatally injured.
The injured include the following:
Mrs. Jacob Koch, fatally; Mrs. Peter
Kendall Mrs. Peter Harden. Mrs
Louis Boyer. Julius Honn, Mr. Brennan,
Adrian Starr, Mrs. Emma Crow, Mrs
John Manderfeidt, Mr.. and Mrs d. d.
Perry.
Many of the people are without cloth
ing and shelterless. aud the cold rain
makes their situation the more deplor-
able The property loss is estimated
at 500. 900.
Following is a list of the houses de-
troyed: Catholic church and school,
German Methodist church. the houses
of w. Perkins, Ii. d. Rooge, E. Droege,
Joseph Voeght, John Lang, John Land
halt, John Rain, Peter Cordell, S. d.
Perry, L. Kaffenberger Ernest Budde,
Mrs. Budde, Christ Jaeger, city Jail and
engine house, Mrs. Hauermann. c. Gre
low, p. Janneman, Mrs. Jacob Kobe,
Mrs. Rosemayer. John Kueker, Henry
Wablmann, William Buettner, Henry
+: Eion, Dr. Alley, John Barnes, M. Trev-
'erier. Fl. w. Schmidt, William Voges,
s4aJohn VANDERBILT, William Michaels, B.
Miller, Charles Guebert, P. Enzenauer,
public school, William Steinde, Jacob
Miller, William Williamson, Frank
Lang, George Reiss, Alden Starr Mrs.
Sopie Rathert, Henry Rathert, Dorothy
Rathert, John Wetzel, Mrs. Wetzel,
William Kellerhalz, Frank Lish, Fred
ID. Guker. Continental Mrs. Dora Kauf-
mann, c. Boedecker's office, Lutheran
church and school.
As soon as the more fortunate of the
people of the little city recovered from
the first shock of the calamity, efforts
were at once directed to the caring for
the injured.
DESTRUCTION ELSEWHERE.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1S.-The conflict of the
elements incident to tie exit of warm
Weather and the advent of winters
chilly blasts, eliminated yesterday in
one of the most destructive and far
reaching storms of the year The in
itial battle ground offs the mighty OPP
posing forces, it appears, was near the
! little city of Redbud, Randolph county,
/. in the extreme southwest part of Hi
!. nois, about eighteen miles from the
:: Mississippi river. Sweeping from the
znorth came u tremendous storm of
snow, rain and sleet which. encounter
ing the warm air currents of Egypt"
developed three distinct cyclonic storm
centers. diverging from common CEN
ter near Rosebud.
Taking n southeasterly course one
prong of the storm passed rapidly on
Though western Kentucky and Ten
nessee leveling everything in its path,
anal only when northern Alabama was
REACHED had it spent its force. To the
wesstward passed storm center, pass
ing through central Missouri, thence
acrsss northern Kansas, finally being
lostSsin the mountains Of Wyoming.
But the curious featuresof this remark
able atm osphcric disturbance lay in the
direction taken by ~ :the third
sarm-a northerly course through
iowa. vecring to the west in
to Nebraska, leaving n hopeless
tangle of wires in its wake. until it be-
came next to impossible to reach any of
the great cities west of Chicago except
by circuitous routes
\ CYCLONE AT MAsCoUTAH
MAscoUTAH, IL, Nov. 1S-A cyclone
struck the southern portion of st. Clair,
Washington and Glover counties at an
early hour this morning. Houses were
blown down at Fayetteville, New Mem
phis and Queenslake. The large lum-
Der sheds at the latter place were scat
tered in all directions. The clouds were
black as night and appeared to roll on
the ground. Whole orchards were de-
stroyed, many trees being twisted off
at the ground. There were numerous
narrow escapes. but yet no serious
casualties have been reported. The
course of the cyclone was from south
west 20 northeast
AN ARKANSAS TOWN DESTROY ED.
STE LoUIs, Nov. 1S.-A special from
Durham, Washington county,, Ark,
says that that town, a small village
was completely destroyed by cyclone
at o'clock yesterday morning. But
one house was left standing. No lives |
were lost. The damage to property in
that section is great
The Ohio Election.
COLUMBUS, o.. Nov. 1S-Secretary of !