Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
K.n,as Town. Wrecked.

seems 10 nave nrSC QeScenQeQ upon MO.
wa. and jumped from there to New
Havep, Sumner County, through which
county it cut a swath nearly a mile wide
ing Sedgwick County the wind next bonn
barded Butler County, to the southeast,
and almost obliterated the villages
of Augusta and Towanda, leaving
30 little standing in the latter
that it is q marvel how a soul
escaped. But n building was left
intact in Towanda, a place of $40 souls.
Five people were killed outright. Ten
more are fatally injured and a half
hundred more or less seriously MANNED.
At Augusta three were killed. One of
these was a child of Will Rhodes. The
child was blown out of its mothers
arms, and its head and body were later
picked up a hundred feet apart. Rhodes
is fatally injured, and fifteen others
were badly hurt At Kiowa, the Mis-
souri, Pacific depot and a large number
of buildings We're demolished, but no
loss of life is reported. Sumner county
suffered largely both in loss of life and
property. For fifteen miles everything
the wind came in contact with was RACED.
Near New Haven Ben H. Maple and
son, j.. Morehouse and Frank Shop
hard are reported to have been
fatally injured. South of Well
blown to splinters, and Little and four
children we're killed. Joe showalter's
house was picked up, and, with its thir-
teen occupants, carried 800 yards and
dumped in a heap, all the people being
seriously, some fatally, hurt. Near
Portland John Bristow was killed.
South Haven suffered severely from the
storm, both in the way Of material
damage and in the number of lives lost.
The house Of John Moorellouse was
leveled to the ground, and Moorehouse
and one child were killed, other mem
bers of the family escaping. John Bur-
masters house was crushed like an egg
shell, and the whole family was killed
in an instant. They are: John Bur-
master, wife and three children. Mrs.
Frank Sheppard a killed by flying
timbers. A score of other people we're
injured in the storm. 1t is believed
that not half the casualties have been
reported. The wires have been down in
all directions, and it will necessarily
take some time to get full reports from
the rural districts. Hundreds Of farm
houses have been demolished, grana-
ries overturned and grain scattered, and
u ldTBc uuluUcE VI CuttlO uuu uOT6eS
have been sacrificed.
AT Norfolk, Neb., the Episcopal Church
was entirely destroyed. The Congrega-
tional Church was unroofed and its
steeple and bell carried away. Whea-
toms planning mill was partly wrecked
and fifteen houses and barns were de-
moralized. The cyclone swept q track
through the city three blocks wide and
ten blocks in length. Many we're Sc
riously injured by falling debris. Tcle-
graph wires all over the State are pros
trated andi it is impossible to obtain news
of the extent of the cyclone. The storm
Travelled $50 miles over the richest graz
ing section Of the State, dotted with
small towns and villages.
At Merrill, Wis, a number Of children
from - to Is years old were assembled
in the German Lutheran Church, when
lightning struck the building, knocking
four Of them to the floor. Ottilie Gilman
had one shoe torn off and was badly
burned and Lena Kunkel was burned
from head to foot. The others were not
seriously injured. All will recover.
After leaving the church the current
killed a horse in a stable near by.
Iowa was swept by the terrific wind
storm. In Des Moines damage was
done to hundreds of buildings. The
wind blew sixty miles an hour, and ut
brief intervals reached as high as one
hundred. A section of the ornamental
stone cornice was blown from the Sheer
Building and crushed to atoms at the
feet of a pedestrian. Advices have been
received from the towns of Guthrie
Center, Panora, Dexter, Earlham. Green
field, Menlo, Casey, Adair and other
places to the effect that buildings have
been unroofed and great damage done.
A passenger train on the Burlington and
Northwestern narrow-gauge road was
blown from the track forty miles west Of
Burlington while running at full speed.
A baggageman, a mail clerk and two
passengers are reported seriously in
jured.
At st. Joseph. Mo-, there is hardly a
house not damaged more or less, and
many barns, outhouses and fences are
leveled. The loss will aggregate $50, 600.
In Chicago.
Death came with the storm in Chica-
go. A fury of rain and wind swept
across the city early in the evening. At
IA and 16 Pearce street, on the West
Side and close to the river, a tall brick
building stood in the open, with little
seven-story giant, rising in the midst of
the squatty frame buildings, was bat
tered blythe full force of q hurricane that
caught the falling sheets Of water and
tore them into shreds. 1t was an un-
finished structure, and the terrific gusts
Of windpushed into the open windows and
actually tore the fresh walls apart. The
building fell. Great masses of brick
crashed upon the houses all about and