Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-31
WORK OF TINE CYCLONE.
Fully twenty Were Killed as Wellington
Damage Wrought - Harper.

WOHA WE TINE CnCAOkE-
Fully twenty Were Killed At Wellington
Damage Wrought - Harper.
I. IL not known 10 q certainty that twenty
lives were lost in Friday nights cyclone st Well
ington, Kan, and the fatally injured list h
adding hourly to the list Of the dead. There
are half dozen persons known to be missing.
but no trace Of their bodies can be found until
stores on Washington avenue have been re-
moved. The Phillips House register cannot be
found and the clerk, Henry Adams, u uncon-
scious from injuries, 90 that he cannot tell who
we're in the building and not nov accounted
for.
The cyclone was not exceeding two minutes
IN accomplishing its terrible work OF destruc-
ucn and death The resident portion OF the
city that was in the line OF the storm which was
about two and half blocks wide, is laid low.
In Its path were located many Of the best resi-
dences in the city. well as hundreds Of small.
comfortable, though unpretentious homes All
are laid on common level and their late occu-
pants form wandering army Of homeless.
clothesless citizens
Every home left standing is hospital for the
reception of the injured The country people
are beginning 10 come in 10 administer 10 The
wants, SO fnr as human agency can alleviate
suffering aud distress A speciaI train from
Wichita brought corps OF physicians and late
Saturday night relief corps of workers ar
rived from the same place to relieve the tagged
men who worked al Friday night and Saturday
In an endeavor to set ont more bodies.
There are many incidents OF the storm that
are remarkable. The ball thnt was in progress
at the Phillips House had just begun. The
music had scarcely struck mp when the storm
came. Ladies' in evening dress Aed terror
stricken into the streets, where the rain of
ma tar ~.1 h~s,L r.. s-IV.
not one OF those who thus ran ont of the hotel
was killed outright, although nearly all were in
1ured to some extent Where the ball room
stood is a dense pile OF brick and lumber twelve
feet high. Two hundred men worked in the
ruins all day rescuing one man, Henry Smith
ers, who was found in box, where he had taken
refuge. There were two feet of brick above him.
but he had air and was hardly hurt st all, al
though he was frightened into a state bordering
on imbecility.
The Rock Island lumber yard was one Of the
biggest yards in Kansas. The stock is scattered
manning In the limits of the yard to build hen
house.
The telephone system, excep. one lone wire.
which Is all right from end to end is completely
ruined. and the switch board at the central ONCE
was taken mile and dropped in pond. Tho
electric light dynamo and a ponderous West
inghouse engine were picked up like shingles
and carried over the town and deposited not far
from the Philips House ruins.
aho'he, ireas OF the storm was the manner In
"nien pia'e siass was taken from the Spick-
men piock Aho carried several Naros, set up
sssins: . frame mouse, and, aside from losing q
Few cnips around uie edge, was not broken.
lress torn from thelr roots ana houses were
turned right-about face. Stoves were lifted
aii.h tne! were nhails landed IN the upper
uoors OF ue ruins. now THIS was done 40
Veyohu explanation, OUT IL rs TACT neverthe-
iess.
Inc Lutheran Cnnrch, massive frame
ouhaihg, one OF the most substantial OF IT'S
k,na IN tne cay; was taken up, turned com
Pie'en over Ino now stahas Win the moor up
ward as soilo, apparently, rs IL ~ had been
puiit an that way. III IL not small ouilalng,
either, Tor AZ mas seating capacity OF zoo peo-
PIE.
Ane oio cours mouse, a sohd two.story stone
structure, was completely demolished and
feaaeea 10 graves ana spilnters, with the excep-
.ion OF one niue frame once that pair OF
uonkeys couid drag from us foundations, which
was Ieit standinS intact by the sde OF the ruins
Oh the OLD court mouse.
THE DAMAGE AT HARPER.
The cyclone that devastated the CITY OF
Wellinoton at O o,clocl Fr;d.y n;e,, r..,ho,,
u.. -. n, ~
,,"fpef' nan-' "oou' 'nree nours Aier. Inc
oepot was blown away ana al electric communi-
cation with the outer world cutoff. At presen,