People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-08

| MOIh vi lnt cyclone was the deStruc-
ton OF I. Mobiles house, southeast of
town, which was badly demolished and
Mr.. Noble seriously injured. John
Wright's place was next in the course
and was wrecked after the most
approved style. Then came James
Brann's place where the house, which
was a light structure, was swept COM
pletely away, but no one was injured.
at this point the cyclone seemed to
spread out without the loss of any of
Its destructive qualities, and struck the
house Immediately east of ]. S. Brann's
occupied by Mr.. Dewitt and also
James Houses place a half mile
further east. At the Dewitt place
the frame of the house was blown
clear away, the floor and contents of
the house being left intact. Mrs. De-
Witt, who had young baby, born al
10 o'clock in the morning, was left
lying in her bed undisturbed but badly
frightened. She was immediately
taken to j. 5. Brann'S house and will
probably sustain little injury from the
shock.
James Houses place was completely
devastated. The house was blown into
atoms, household effects, wagon, buggy,
wheat bins and everything but his
horses, were swept away, none of the
family were injured, having taken
efuge in cave, which had been COM
pleted the evening of the cyclone.
Horace and Hile Horne were the
next victims in the path of destruction
each of them having a house blown
away, one of them, however, was un-
occupied. The house on Gene Drose's
east farm was also destroyed. Then
came Mr.. Higgins place and Harris
Riley's everything being swept clean.
At Frank Shepherds farm the large
fruit trees were torn up by the roots
and piled up along the hedge fence.
The house was blown some forty or
fifty feet and lodged against the hedge,
large corn crib full of grain, had the
shingles on the south side all torn off
the sheeting and presented a peculiar
appearance.
At John BOwermasters the house
was completely wrecked, the building
by some freak of the elements having
been caved in from all sides and the
family buried under the debris. II is
remarkable that they escaped with
their lives, but none were injured but
Mr.. Bowermaster himself, who after
getting freed from the wreck rescued
the rest of the family.
NJ. II. Naples house was totally de-
stroyed and Mr.. and Mrs.
Maple and son injured. Mr.. Maple is
now lying at the point of death, having
been unconscious ever since his injury,
and his sixteen-year-Old son is also in a
critical condition, having an ugly cash
across his head and his face badly
bruised.
Mr.. MOZART, who lived in a small
house near Mr.. Naples where he was
feeding cattle, was carried, house and
all, several hundred yards where the
house was wrenched to pieces, and he
was thrown to the ground and injured
in the back, every stitch of clothing
being torn off of him.
The Mulvane Record gives the
following list of casualties from the
scene in northeast Sumner. This
report is not complete, however.
A destructive cyclone swept through
the county five miles east of Mulvane
between s and Q o'clock last night,
March 81. Its direction was north
east, and its track was about one mile
wide.
Jake Timm, house destroyed. He
is quite severely hurt on thigh and
foot.
Henry Timm, house destroyed.
Sam Mckee, roof torn off house and
house badly wrecked. Smallest boy
hurt by organ being blown over on
him.
Mr.. Aker's house blown down and
one man badly hurt.
Barn on the Scott farm entire wreck.
| Willis house destroyed.
Henry Evans, house OH Willis farm
destroyed.
| O Herb Whitted, barn destroyed and
one horse killed.
John Kellers barn was entirely de-
stroyed His house moved off its
/ foundation and badly wrecked. One
mule killed.
II. c. Helbert'S house and barn were
completely torn to pieces, and pieces
of lumber, articles of furniture, carpets
and other things scattered all around.
The animals in the barn were not
hurt, but they were shut in among
the debris so that it was almost i'm
possible to get them out. Some of his
animals were killed by flying timbers.
Both house and barn are total loss
Insurance Sl400.
Dick Webster, Tom Ado and Billy
Bugg all had their houses torn down.
Mr.. Varney's house and Squire
Thedgic's barn were destroyed. L. W.
Dunnels wind mill blown down and
badly damaged.
Three or four houses were blown
down in Clearwater.
Six persons are reported killed in
TOwanda.
Great excitement prevailed all over
the country, and the people were out
all night with lanterns
II. c. Helbert had the only cyclone
insurance we heard of among all the
losses.
The storm extended through other
counties north and is said to have
passed clear through Kansas, Nebraska
and even did destruction as far as
Chicago, Ills.
Full reports from other localities are
given on another page of this issue in
telegraphic form, which we suppose is
about as reliable as all telegraphiC
! reports. The aboyes reports of the
I n a a