The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-05-06
FATAL TORNADO.


Houses Destroyed.
TorEKA. Nav A tornado swept up
Mission creek valley in the southeast
corner of Shawnee county killed James
Mitchell, a farmer and possibly Others
fatally injured Joseph He'll and badly
hurt two members of Heils family
About $50 o'clock yesterday after
noon ominOus clouds from tne south
west and northeast met and "a fierce
storm followed, which swept everything
before it. The farm house of Joseph
He'll was blown TO pieces and Hell was
struck in the back by "a flying piece of
timber and fatally injured. His daugh-
ter had her arm broken by heavy piece
of furniture. His son. Ia years of age,
had his collar bone and left leg broken.
james Mitchell, who lives one mile
south of Ieil's place was killed but it
is impossible to learn how it occurred
He was renter and his home was
small frame house of which he was the
only occupant The Missouri Pacific
agent at Tevis reports a man named
plazson killed and several people in-
jured, but no furthcrdefuite iuformu-
tion can be secured as the telegraph
wires are down and the Missouri Pacific
track, the only road which runs through
the storm swept districts is torn up.
A farmer who came to town reported
that for a distance of three miles along
Mission creek, but one house had been
left standing
1t is not Thought that any other deaths
except those given resulted from the
storm. Frank Miller, q farmer, brought
the only information of the storm here
He said: 1T seemed as though there
were two storms. ono was moving rap
idly southeast and the other as rapidly
northwest. Right between was dense
black cloud that went of toward tho
northeast 1t was round and must
have been half a mile in diameter. 1t
wac whirling round and round with
great speed and little iunneI-shaPed
feeders dropped down to the earth
here and there Where these touched
they tore up the largest trees and fences
The solid earth in many places was torn
up and nothing could Withstand it."
In this city the heaviest rain known
in years fell but no damage was done
by the winds. At Cedar Junction on
the Santa Fe, seven heavy freight cars
were blown from the track and a mum
Der of small buildings damaged. At
Lenape, on the Union Pacific, nearly
every building was more or less dam
aged The storm was a straight wind
from the northwest. John Hauey's
store was moved from its foundation
and the stock damaged. a large farm
house was badly wrecked. The hail
was severe and injured the fruit.
About $3.50 o'clock tornado struck
the farming community near Auburn. o.
village twenty miles southwest of To-
polza- On the farm of 81. n. Robinson
q large barn was destroyed, the house
was wrecked and house in course of
erection was demolished. James NJ.
Morelaud's barn was destroyed and his
/ house badly damaged. j. brakes stone
house was uurOofCd and and all the con-
tents carried OFF. brakes daughter, a
girl of Is, was carried away and lodged
Hur % TrH
both injured. II. II. Buclzlcy's house
was scattered all over his farm Pleas
ant Valley schoolhouse was unroofed
and much other damage was done to
small buiIdiugs and fences.
DAMAGE ABOUT TEvIS-
Near Tevis, ON the Missouri Pacific,
about twelve miles southeast of Topeka,
about . o'clock, a strip half "a mile wide
and seven miles long was swept clean
and not a house was left standing. John
PaNton- a farmer, was killed. The
/ house fell in and he was struck on the
| head by piece of heavy timber Mrs.
/ Hurd, wife of q farmer was caught in
falling house and her back was injured.
j.. B. Waters barn was destroyed.
DR. n. j. Taylor's house was blown
away. John Reess' house was destroyed.
| Henry Laughlin's barn was destroyed
The rest of the family narrowly cs-
capped
The storm was accompanied by hail,
which has completely destroyed all
l prospects for fruit where the storm
| struck, as the bark is skinned from
almost all the fruit trees
AN Old LADY BILLED.
EMP0RIA, KAN, May Word was
| received here this morning of "a severe
wind storm In the southern portion
/ OF Lyon county last night about two
miles from Hartford. An old lady
named Mcdonald. mother of william
Mcdonald, was killed. The storm
/ struck his house and leveled il to the
/ ground, severely injuring him and car
/ rying his mother for a considerab bic dis
l fauet- and dashed Hnrr nr-afuzt n wire