People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-08

fully realized by anyone but her. She
managed to drag herself and the chill
dren to the light, told them enough for
them to know what had happened and
then tainted away. She was delirions
for a long time and is still suffering in-
describable pain from the cuts and
bruises and the terrible affiiction of be-
reavement and trouble. Neighbors
carried the dead to Mr.. Winsor's where
the bodies were prepared for burial.
1t is seldom that a community is
called upon to witness a sadder scene
than the death and burial of William
Little and his four sons, called to the
great unknown without a moments
warning by the terrible work of
the elements, placed side by
side in one grave, the father and sup
port of the family, the three eldest sons
and the babe from its mothers arms,
leaving anly the mother and three
small chileren, all Of which elected an
unusual share of sympathy, as was
evinced by the great cOncOurse of
friends and old neighbors who sadly
followed the remains of the father and
husband, sons and brothers to their
last resting place. Friends met at the
home of G. II. WinsOr at 10 o'clock
Sunday morning. A short prayer by
Elder Reborn and hymn by the ALI.
ance were offered. The procession,
which was a mile long when it started,
then proceeded to the Christian church
at Oxford, where services were con-
Quoted by Elder Reborn. Chapman
Alliance, 10. 279, assisted by Avon
Center, Buana Vista and Fairview Al
lianceS, then took charge Of the re-
mains and the services at the grave
were conducted according to the i'm
preSsive form of that order. VIM. Lit
tie was an earnest worker in the re-
form cause. He was a member of the
Christian church and an ardent stu
dent of the Bible. In short he was one
of the bet men in Sumner county, a
hard worker and respected by every
body. This terrible storm seems to
have inflicted its most terrible fury
upon the two families of Little and
Hartsell, virtually one and the same
family, but living seven miles apart.
Little was a son-in-law of Hartsells.
One of Little's children was at Hart
sells at o. Sme and escaped with Sc
we're injuries.
J. w. Showalter's home, a few miles
southeast of Mr.. Little's was also
entirely destroyed. There were eleven
persons in his house at the time and
none of them escaped injury. Mr..
ShOwalter received several serious
wounds and was injured internally.
He is still in a precariOuS condition.
His wife was also badly bruised up. 4
man employed by Mr.. ShOwalter re-
ceived bad injuries and his daughter
had an ugly cash cut in her forehead.
No one killed. Only two buildings on
his large farm were left standing.
The writer did not visit the scene of
destruction further south, but the re-
ports from all the places in all of the
track of the cyclone are much the
same as the above descriptions. Ev-
erything in its path was utterly de-
molished. Neither did we look over
the field north of Oxford.
A few cases only were selected by
the writer for description and all other
families in its pathway Jared about the
same, comparatively. One reason
these families were selected and details
given of their losses and misfortunes,
from the many, is because this paper
reaches many of their friends in the
east and another is that it would be
impossible to describe separately the
manner in which it destroyed the
homes of all in its track in this county.
The following from the Oxford
Hooking Bird, shows that it did its
work as completely northwest of Ok
ford:
Chas. Jackson who lives five miles
northwest of town was in this morn
ing and reported much damage done 10
property and said that h mother was
hurt in the storm but he hoped not
seriously.
A report from Whitman says that
the bridge across the Ninnescah river
| is down and that Whitman school
house is demolished. Mr.. Whitman's
house was moved from the foundation
and the store of Leland Davis was
almost wholly destroyed.
Nearly all the property in this
| immediate vicinity was covered by
storm insurance except that Of Mr.
Hartsell which is an entire loss.
Ben Lowrey reports that the house
of Desert Taton, four and one-hall
miles northwest of town was destroyed
and that Mrs. Taton, an aged lady, wa'
hurt so badly that she was not expect
ed to live. Z. S. Miller says that Viii
Rice's buildings are damaged to thu
extent of $1,000.
The South Haven NeIC Era, the mex
day after the cyclone, gave the follow
ing description of its depredationl