The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-09
DEATH In THE TEMPEST.
Various Parts Of tho Country Swept
BY a Tornado.
Several Southern Kansas Towns Dss1r0yad
and Many Persons Killed and IBJursd-
Fury of the Storm at other PJnoaS-
Damage to Property.

| Rice thursday nights tornado touched
at least twenty places with fury which
suggested the hand of a cyclone, and
left behind it in each instance either
dead to be mourned or wounded or help
less ones to wall.
The greatest calamity reported is from
the little town of Towanda, eighteen
miles west of here upon the st. Louis
& San Francisco railroad whose pop
ulation yesterday numbered about 800
souls. This village lies now in absolute
ruin. In its whole area but one house
remains unharmed, not more than half
dozen others, with ruined chimneys
and broken windows, wrenched,
wrecked and roofless, even stand upon
their foundations. Over the prairie lie
the scattered remnants of the rest that
but yesterday were homes.
The dead number four. They are:
John D. Godfrey, aged rs retired physi-
clan; Herschel Cupp, aged 81, son of
Daniel Cupp, one of the oldest settlers
of Kansas; John Bailey, aged 81 rail-
road laborer; six-year-old child of John
Blake, merchant.
Those fatally hurt are: Miss Annie
Robbins, aged So, postmistress, broken
arm, lung pierced, bruised over face and
body and injured internally; Mrs. John
r. Kerr, back and shoulder b. buised and
injured internally; Earl Kerr, aged Ii,
skull badly fractured; Fern Maxwell,
aged s, skull fractured; c. L. Westcate,
aged 80, skull fractured and injured in
ternally.
The seriously injured are: Effie Kerr,
Willie Maxwell, Elmore Hall, Mrs.
Cory, Mr., and Mrs. Walter Mooney and
child, William Mitchell, Mrs. Poor
baugh, Mrs. William Mitchell, w. II.
Gibbs.
Augusta, country town south Of
Towanda, was partly destroyed by the
storm. Every house there in the track
of the storm was swept away. The
dead are:
Albert Barnes, aged %, farmer; Baby
of William r. Hoades; Harmon Hos
kins, aged 80, farmer.
Among the list of dangerously in.
jured are:
William R. Hpades, bruised and in
| jured internally; Mrs. Harmon HoskinS
and baby, both bruised; Thomas Smith,
injured about head and shoulders; Mrs.
Thomas Smith, injured informally; Hei-
bert Abbot and wife, scalp wound and
numerous other serious bruises
Near the Oxford bridge, in Sumner
county, few miles south of Yelling
ton, the cyclone struck the farm house
of Joseph Showalter, wrecking the
house and injuring every one of the
thirteen members of the family. Mrs.
Showalter and two of the family may
die.
Justnorth of fShowalter's it demolished
the house of William Little, killing him
and four children instantly. Every
horse in Little's stable was also killed.
OF the nine members of Samuel But
terworth's family in his farm house in
the storms path only his daughter was
seriously hurt. Four members of the
family were carried over three hundred
yards from the house. Every farm
house and barn in that vicinity was
damaged.
Near South Haven the storm did great
damage. Fully fifty farm houses were
demolished and about 100 people more
or less injured.
ELsEwHERE.
OMAHA, Neb., April AT Platts-
mouth immense damage was done to
trees, fences, outbuildings and crops.
At Sterling the work of the cyclone
was confined to the wrecking of out
houses and windowglass. The damage
will amount to several hundred dollars.
At Beaver City many buildings have
been wrecked, while the damage in the
country districts is great.
STRONG CITY, Kan, April 2.-The
cyclone struck the residence of John
CLOSER and killed CLOSER and wife and
small child and badly injured several
others. William Snyder at El1ndale is
reported fatally hurt.
The cyclone struck eight miles west
of here and killed one man, William
Richer, and probably fatally wounded
several others. 1t did great damage
along its track of several miles.
ATcHIsoN, Kan, April "A terrific
gale began here at 12 o'clock last night,
but no damage was done until nearly
noon to-day when tornado stuck the
city and unroofed and demolished sew
eral large buildings and scattered signs,
awnings and outhouses in every direc-
ton. The Santa Fe freight depot was
unroofed and the chapel at Mt. Scho-
astical convent demolished. The ware
house of the Thrall Ice Co., was de-
stroyed and the grocery of II. Sayler is
in ruins.
ST.. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 2.-At2 o'clock
yesterday a wind storm struck this
city which by o'clock had reached the
velocity of fifty miles an hour. Nearly
every telegraph and telephone wire in
the city has been torn down, numerous
small houses demolished and many large
ones unroofed. Thousands of dollars
worth of damage was caused by the
breaking Of plate glass in store windows
In the eastern part of the city brick
house was blown down, burying Lille
4 Bushnell, aged seven years, and seri-
ously injuring her.
BURLINGTON, Ia, April 2.-Oficers of
the Burlington & Northwestern narrow
gauge railway received the information
tonight that their passenger train
which arrives at p. m. had been blown
from the track forty miles north. The
baggage man, mail clerk and two pas
sengers were seriously injured and a
dozen others badly shaken up.
LEAvENwoRTH, Kan, April lat
noon to-day the gale blew away part
of the roof of the Great Western Stove
works, and work was suspended for the
day. The roof of the Great Western
Machine works was lifted ten feet at
one end and dropped agaip