Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-30
EXCEEDS A SCORE.
The Death Roll Left by the
Wellington Cyclone.
VERY COMPLETE WORK OF THE WIND

The Tornado-swept Town Visited by 49,
600 Strangers-Lists of the Dead and
1njured-Many of the Latter Very Sc
riously Hurt - Property Destroyed
Worth $3.50, 900 Two Other Towns
Ravaged and a Total of Fourteen Per-
sons Reported KiIIed-CycIonic Nov
elites.
KANSAS CITY, May 3O.-A special to
The Journal from Wellington, Kans,
says: Weliington's cyclone visitation has
made it for the time the chief object of
interest for all southern Kansas No such
crowds have visited this city before as
those which since earliest daylight poured
in on every railroad and highway yester-
day. On all its four lines centering here
the Santa Fe ran excursions from as far
north as Hutchinson, south from Arkan-
sas City and west from Medicine Lodge,
while the Rock Island was equally indus
trious in forwarding sightseers to the
stricken city. Division Passenger Agent
Murdock. of the Santa &c, estimated the
crowd at 5000 which, IS an exceedingly
conservative estimate.
The Destruction Most Complete.
1t is the common remark of those who
have witnessed similar scenes that in the
extent and completeness of the destruc-
tion it transcends anything in their expe-
rience. Other like calamities have been
attended with greater loss of life, but
rarely has a picture of such utter desola-
tion and ruin been presented as that seen
in the devastated district. The miracle of
1t all is that the loss of life was not four
fold greater. This is to be attributed to
the fact that the churches and the busi-
ness blocks were practically deserted ex-
cepting the two hotels, where eight of the
fatal casualties so far reported occurred.
The Lists of Dead and Wounded.
There were nineteen in all, so far as
known at this writing, killed, and several
of the wounded have died. The names of
the former are: Leonard Adamson,
Thomas n, Cornwall, Frank Campbell,
Matilda Carson, Caroline billiard, -
French, James Hastie, James Harrison,
James Hendricks, Henry James, Ida
Jones, William Jones, Wharton Mason,
James Mayer, Mrs. J. f. Sasher, Mamie
Strand, y. Silva, Hart Upson, James
Weaver.
Injured victims-Those taken out of the
RUNS injured, some of whom have since
died, ARE as follows: Charles Adamson, Miss
Bishop, Jesse Brown, Guy Colby, Mrs.
Henry Conrad Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Earl
Edward Forsythe, E. J. Forsythe, Silva
Forsythe, Walter Forsythe, Lieutenant
William French, Mrs. 7. J. Hanna, Mat
tie Hodges, Charles Hoover, Maggie King,
James Lawrence, Mrs. Mahon, John Mar
tin, Joseph Morris, Carrie Mitchell, Mrs.
Robert Millard, Carrie Mitchell Child, Mrs.
Murphy, Ralph NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Charles Stoner,--Thrall, W. H...Tucker,
Dick Weaver (child.)
Six Funerals Yesterday.
OF the above Mrs. Murphy, an aged
woman, and Jessie Brown will probably
die and, as will be seen from what follows,
one of them has already died. The fu-
nerals of six of the cyclone victims-Mrs.
Sasher, her sister, Miss kittie Strain,
Leonard Adamson, Ida Jones' Horton Up
ton. and Professor James Mayer-took
place yesterday afternoon from the Metho-
dist church. James Hasty was buried
later in the day by the Odd Fellows, while
Ed Forsythe will receive the rights of
sepulchre today. The body of Thomas
Cornwell has been forwarded to his home
near Belleplain and that of Frank Camp
bell to williamsburg, XIV