The record-union., 1892-04-02

| AASSAS CII1 (%AO.l, April Ia Tor
nado mad in destructiveness swept over
| Kansas last night. Butter County seems
! to have suffered the greatest havoc. To-
nawanda was wiped off the face of the
earth, and Augusta, q few miles distant,
was butfeted out OF all semblance to its
former self. Not house or building was
left standing III Tonawanda. The town
was asleep when the storm swept down
and not a house or building was left
standing. The storm raised everything
in its PATH and left dead bodies lying in
its wake. -Four have already been recov-
cred from the ruins searched, twenty
persons fatally injured, and forty more
or less seriously, besides large number
slightly. At Augusta Herman Haskels,
James Barns, and an infant child of
William Rhodes were killed outright.
The wires are all down, and it is i'm
! possible to get detailed account from
either place.
In Kiowa the Missouri Pacific depot
and a number of buildings were demol-
ished. Several mishaps are reported.
The damage TO property is great.
AT Wellington, William Little's house
was wrecked and Little and four chill
dren killed. Joe Walters house was
carried from its foundation, and thirteen
inmates more or less injured. Butter
worth's house, with its occupants, were
! carried several hundred yards, and some
fatally hurt.
From indications the storm swept
across the country from Indian Territory,
through Barbour, Frazier, Sumner and
| Butler Counties, carrying away villages
and farm houses as it swept along. The
tornado continued into Kansas and
Northwestern Missouri, but was less de-
StructiVe.
Southeastern Kansas was also visited
last night by one of the most destructive
storms in years. No fatalities are re-
ported, but considerable damage was
done.
Atchison was visited by tornado to-
day at noon. Several buildings Were I'M
rooted and demolished, and signs and
| awnings were scattered in every direc-
ton. The Santa Fe depot was unroofed,
and the scholastic convent demolished.
! Thrall II Co.'s warehouse was destroyed,
and the grocery store Of Taylor d Co. is
| in ruins. The prison roof was carried
off, and the building was partly demol-
| ished; u small house in the Missouri Pa
cite yards was blown into the river
Hundreds OF chimneys were blown
down, and great deal of minor damage
! done. Fruit suffered badly in the coun-
try. No one Was injured.
At Leavenworth the Great Western
Stove Works We're partially unroofed,
and work will be suspended for days.
AT st. Joseph nearly every telegraph
! and telephone wire in the city was torn
down. Numerous small houses were de-
molished, and large ones unrooted.
Thousands of dollars worth OF damage
was caused by the breaking OF plate-glass
in the store windows. In the eastern
/ part Of the city brick house was blown
down, seriously injuring child. At the
factory OF Tootle, Hosed IL Co. there was
a stampede of several hundred girls
when the wind tore portion of the roof
off. No one was seriously injured.
A dispatch from Lawrence, kans., says
the wind has been blowing q gale there
since midnight. Many buildings We're
unrooted and houses demolished. The
roof of the Haskell Hospital was blown
away. and it was necessary to anchor the
buildings with cables to prevent them
blowing over.
In Kansas City the damage consisted
principally OF roofs blown away and
plate-g glass windows broken. The roof
| Of the High School was blown of. There
was no panic, but the school was dis
missed. Signs were blown down all
over the city, some of them crashing
through costly plate-glasS windows in
the center of tie business portion. Tele-
phone and telegraph wires are Frustrated
There has been no loss OF lie.
The greatest damage was suffered. The
Western Union reports no eommunica-
ton whatever with the west or center Of
Kansas, and but few wires east. Mes
sages are being received subject to in
definite delay. The telegraph poles
along all the railroads west of here are
prostrated, causing Woful tangle, with
which the wire men struggled all day,
apparently with but little success.
IN NEBRASKA.
OMAHA (Neb.), April Telegraph
wires ali over the State are prostrated,
and it is difficult to obtain news of the
| extent of last nights storm. The West
ern Union has but one wire incarceration
in Nebraska, that being along the Elk
Horn road.
!gtA dispatch to the Omaha Bee from Nor
folk, in the northern part of the State.
says a cyclone struck there just before
midnight last night and did much dam
age II this is the same storm that devas-
tated Nelson the destruction between
these points must have been very great,
and the storm must have traversed l5o
miles of the richest farming section, dot
ted with small cities and villages. In
Omaha it is still blowing tonight, and
the wires are down on all sides.
IN IOWA.
Dies MONIES la, April 1.-The hurri-
cane which began after midnight still
continues. All traffic on the streets is
stopped. A great many houses have
been unroofed and otherwise damaged.
| There were many narrow escapes from
flying missiles.
SEVERAL KILLED IN CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, April 1.-About half-past 6
o'clock this evening the sky, which had
been threatening all afternoon, became
densely black. and in another moment n
cloud-burst occurred. The wind blew a
hurricane, and swept everything before
il. At the corner of Holstead and Pierce
streets the cyclone blew down a seven
stor- brick surrounded by one and two
story frame buildings, crushing them to
the earth, and killing three people, and
fatally or seriously iniuring many others.
In Thomas Hulett's house, immedi-
ately in the rear of the seven-story
brick, the family were all at supper,
when the brick fell and crushed the
Hulett residence. There were thirteen
at table. A six-months-old baby was
crushed into a shapeless mass Horace
Mott, aged 5, and Eddie Mott, aged =,
! We're also instantly killed. The others
We're pinioned under the broken timbers
and brick and were soon rescued The
| fatally injured are: Alice Hulett. aged S.:
Mrs. Alex. Keown, Horace Wygant.
Mary Wygant, James Mott, Jr., and
Maurice Mott. James MCGOWAN, wife
and son, and Mary Walsh are missing
and are supposed to be in the ruins.
Thore is little hope that they are alive.