The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-04-05
Special to the REcoRD-US1oN.

KANSAS CITY, April A half-hun-
dred names compose the list of those
killed in Kansas by the cyclone last
Thursday, and still the death list is incom-
plete. The details of the disaster, as far
as it affected the storm-stricken towns,
are now believed to be completed, but
many casualties in the country regions
are still unrecorded. Four towns were
wiped from the face Of the earth, and a
dozen or so others were more or less
damaged.
The locations of New Haven, Towanda,
Augusta and Smolan are now marked
only by wreckage and piles of splintered
timber, which before composed the houses
OF these towns. OF the fifty dead, TWEEN
ty-seven were killed outright. The re-
manning twenty-three were those who
were fatally injured, and who have since
died.
A storm of great intensity prevailed
again last night in Kansas and Western
Missouri. The telegraph wires were only
partially restored when they were again
LAID to the ground. Advices are meaeer,
AS far as known, they are as follows:
At Cnerryyale,. kans., six houses were
destroyed, and two people killed At
burlington 100 houses had the windows
broken by hail. Much damage was done
fruit trees and crops. The hailstones are
said to have been eight inches in circum-
ference. There was q similar storm at
EInporia, and much damage at Fort
Scott, many roofs being blown away.
stables demolished and outhouses blown
down. Several people were painfully
injured, but there was no loss of life. At
Garland every window in the town
nearly was smashed, and crops in the
surrounding country greatly damaged.
At Bosworth six houses We're demolished
IN the path of the storm.
The storm, besides being similar to a
tornado, was accompanied by water
spout which flooded all the creeks.
Maukunka Greek is out of its banks.
j he road is inundated and the fields for
miles under water. Crops are entirely
washed out, and the farmers will be
obliged to replant.
Reports from all over Kansas report
ohe prevalence of a gale and grave ac-
counts of damage, which, however. is
confined in all cases to ieveling DWELLINGS.
oxen WINDOWS and signs and wrecked
roofs. In this city the wind blew q hur-
1cane during the entire afternoon and
ne schools were dismissed, but there
@as no cyclone and the damage was
ight.
ANOTHER TOWN BADLY WRECKED.
FAIRFIELD tIll.), April "A report has
Iust reached here that Barnhalf, seven
miles south, was almost entirely wiped
oIt by a cyclone this afternoon. 1t was
learned later that but three houses were
left standing in the town. Mrs. Rerrey
as fatally injured and other people pain
iuily hurt. No further particulars are at
Jland.
sNoWSToR0I IN THE NORTHWEST.
ST.. PAUL, April 4.-Dispatches from
the Northwest tell of severe snowstorlns.
snow is prevailing with great force in
the Dakotas. At Bedfield. S. D., to-nipht
genuine blizzard is raging. The moist
1yre has already retarded seeding ten
days, and this will set it back more.
OMAHA (Neb.), April 4.-Reports from
Western and Central Nebraska and
south Dakota show severe blizzard i'm
progress. The mercury fell forty de-
grees in three hours at Grand Lodge. and
q norther is prevailing. The worst snow
storm of the season is reported along the
Burlington in the Black Hills. AT Ali
ance, Neb., trains are showed in. A
heavy storm is raging between Valen-
tine and Chadron and Sonia in Eastern
colorado. The wires are down in nea rlv
all directions and trains are DELAYED. 4
blockade occurred in the Northwest