The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-06-06
PARTICULARS OF RUIN.
a Broad Path Of Straight Gale IN
Harper. Ending With a Twister In

Harper. Ending With a Twister In
Sumner.
Az the more full reports come in from ths
storm in Sumner and Harper counties, Kan.
eos. the first reports, though thought to have
been exaggerated by some, are confirmed
and added to.
The storm passed through the northern parl
OF Harper county at about z 80 p. m, while
quick destruction encompassed Wellington
just after p. N.
In Harper county the storm is described a
. straight blow, six miles wide, With severe
bail along the outside. It swept about thirty
farm buildings between Attica and Harper,
ana at harper the ruin is said to be fearful.
A hundred or so of houses we're blown down
| or moro or less damaged and many families
are left destitute and without shelter.
The dead in Harper county. so far a. re-
ported, are: William Shanahan, farmer
Mrs. Thomas Gallaher and her son, at the
farm west of Harper; Mrs. E Maloy, fatally
hurt and her child killed, and a Mrs. Harri-
son; these all before Harper was reached.
The injured are F. A. Beatty, wife and
daughter, S. q. Challis and wife, James
Gerard, boy, Mrs. c. A. Frey, two of the
name of Lebrecht, Mrs. Florence Sayers, Mrs.
Felrath, Gottleib Handraft, NJ. NJ. Munger's
family, he was away from home, j. A. Sell
| bert ana wife.
| The report says that the village of Chryst
Springs is swept away; that Attica was
| slightly injured, but that other towns IN the
county were no: injured.
In Harper the Catholic church and German
church are both clear down. The Baptist
and Christian churches are greatly injured.
The NJ. E. church is safe.
The Mason block ON the corner; in which
| the Harper Mercantile company was located,
was burned.
The Queen City block and the Opera house
block are almost wor HESS.
Of the eleven houses north of the Santa Fe
track eight are crushed to the floors and the
contents are total losses.
The Murphy's are greatly damaged. The
store Is wreck and the three residences
more or less a total loss.
The stand pipe stands intact, but a small
building beside it Is completely crushed and
the contents are all smashed.
In the Odd Fellows cemetery, one mile
northeast, over one-third of the monuments
are Frustrated, toppled to the northwest. The
north fence is down and nearly all the head
stones are leaning. A four-wheeled vehicle
has landed among the graves.
The grand stand, box stalls, and buildings
at the fair grounds, one mile south, are lev
eled to the ground, save the east end of the
agricultural hall.
At Wellington the body of James Mayer, a
Juliet VI hdIlSttS lily, WAS bdk0u lIOm
the ruins of the Phillips house, with his open
bible in his hand.
Other bodies taken from the Phillips
house include Hart Epson, the barber, and
Mr.. HASTE, who was being shaved at the
time; Thomas Cornwell, of Belle PLANE;
Jesse Bower, barber; Ed Forsythe; Ed
Jones, waiter.
Mrs. Sasher and her sister, Miss Katy
Strain, were burned to death in the Robin
son block.
Frank Campbell was among the killed at
the Phillips house. Henry Adamson, laborer,
was pierced in the back by fragment of
plate glass and killed.
Among the wounded, many of them sup
posed to be fatal, are: James Weaver, Ida
Jones, Charles Adamson, Mrs. Captain
Mahan, Mrs. 7. ]. Hanna, Mrs. Murphy,
Charles Steiner, Maggie King, Ed, Sylvia and
Walter Forsythe, child of ex-Sheriff Thrall,
Mrs. Robert Willard, James Lawrence, VIM.
French, Mr.. Sammons, Matty Hodges, Guy
Colby. Dick Weaver, Garry Mitchell, E. j.
Forsythe, with forty or fifty more whose in
juries are less serious.
Among buildings destroyed are the Luther
an church, the old court house, the Presby-
terrain church; the Spicknall block, a row of
six brick buildings, in which were the offices
of the Monitor-Press and the Voice; the
Standard block of six two-story bricks, in
which were the Daily Mail and Standard
AOWop0pCISs anu TIC pOStOulCCS tA0 AOOAOAy
and stove works, the brick block in which
was the Alliance Mercantile Exchange, and
which burned: the Episcopal church, the
new and beautiful First ward school house.
The list of buildings is stated in the repor.
to be only partial list, comprising the most
important, with no mention of the many
residences destroyed.
WELLINGTON cyclone vista
ton has made it for the time the chief object
of interest for all southern Kansas. No such
crowds have visited this city before as those
which have been pouring in on every rail-
road and highway. On all its four lines CEN
tering here, the Santa Fe has been running
south from Arkansas City ana west from
Medicine Lodge, while the Rock Island has
been equally industrious in forwarding sight
seers to the stricken city. Division Passen-
ger Agent Murdoch, of the Santa Fe, esti-
mated the crowd in town at IL, 200.
The Presbyterian and Lutheran churches
were well protected by cyclone policies and
house destroyed will, in like manner, be in
part restored by the insurance companies.
OF tornado insurance on residence and bust
ness property, there was SO little as to be
hardly worth mentioning. The few seconds
work of that whirling cloud wiped out quar-
stands dead and absolute loss to the un-
lucky owners.
Freight cars were taken from the track and
carried distance of 200 yards without being
harmed.
A horse was carried to the top of two
story house and deposited there, while baby
was taken from its cradle and carried twenty
yards and deposited on the grass SO gently
that it did not receive the slightest injury.
While in Harper county the storm was
wide one, at Wellington its center was hardly
wider than two city blocks; but this did not
comprise the entire field of its destructive
operations. An arm seemed to swing out
from the main storm to the south, and take
in the reverse a whole line of buildings run
ming south on Washington avenue, blowing
in the front and throwing down the rear
walls and demolishing the roofs, while leav-
ing the entire row standing.
Around on Harvey avenue the handsome
Standard block, standing at right angles with
the storms general course, was served in the
same capricious fashion, leaving the building
with front stove in and rear walls gone, up
held mostly by their party walls.
W1CH1rA.-A special to the Eagle says a
tornado passed about two miles north of
bo nf