The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-04-14
WILD WORK OF WIND.
A TERRIBLE HURRICANE IN KANSAS
AND OTHER STATES.
T"wnos and Ciues Greatly Damaged and

| T"wi.us and CItcs Greatly Damaged and
Many rc"rlc k'll"a "nG NTourdcd~Full
Particulars ut tn" D'nastcr I:aya,I,-
b!r.
NtN:A% ElTl, hprii i..-Iast nights
torlildI cntiIciy destroyed Towanda,
| i\ali as, Killing twenty people, wreck ed
| Augusta, killing fO"r nnd seriously iU-
! JurlnN many others, G!1 great damage
al Wellington, hilung several, and de
! hlO!iHnCG several buildings at EioWa.
| ino Particulars may he dlillcult to OBJ
! lith Oh account oC tho continued pToS-
lfatlon OF the wires. 4 terrible wind
storm prev ais to-day throughout Kan
HHIS, AllS5oUn and southern Nebraska.
te " rStGIn | niGH reports It has been
/ l"SiiiS wires every ullnUtG fer the last
loHf hours. Only three wires arc lCTt
out o: three hundred.
The Stcrnr, as far as eau le deter.
ihlnCd swept across tf.G coliutry from
Indian ]erlllOrS - the > IuIh west part
OF Barber County Kansas, taking the
little town Of kl0Wa in its path. In "A
northeaSterly direction it passed
through Frazier County and through
the centre Of Sumner County. Bend
ing as bow it passed almost directly
north through the remainder of Sumner
County and along the western part of
Hutler County. Villages and farm
houses were carried away as it swept
along.
The tornado continued in Kansas and
IN the northwestern part OF Missouri
to-day, but was less destructive. At
wellington the house 1fa man named
Little was demolished and four little
children killed. Another house, with
fifteen inmates, was picked up and
dropped and everybody in it more or
less hurt. The house of man named
Butterworth was carried bodily through
the air three hundred yards. Some Of
the family were fatally hurt.
Later reports say that not house or
Dividing was left standing III Towanda.
Inc town was asleep when the storm
swept down, ruined everything in It's
path and lett dead bodies living in its
wake. -Four dead bodied have been re.
covered from the ruins already
searched. Twenty persons are fatally
nurC and iorty more seriously injured,
besides large number more or less
manned.
at Augusta three were killed out
right. Harmon Iloskins, James Bar
ncS, and an infant child Of Will Rhodes,
who was blown out of her mothers
arms and dashed against a brick wall.
lthodes himself is fatally injured, as Is
also the wife Of Harmon lIoskins. Elf.
teen others were hurt more or less
seriously, according TO present reports,
but all wires are down and it is impossi-
ble to get at any detailed account from
either place.
AT Lawrence the wind reached 4 We
l0clty Of eighty-iour miles. In Kansas
CITY It reached SiXty-four miles, and a
great deal Of damage was done to signs,
gas, Insecure buildings, electric wires,
etc.
Additions are constantly being made
to tin storm casualties. In Kansas
City, Kansas, two pGrS"ns were fatally
injured. Among the tCWnS suffering
are Marshall, Warr"nabuyS, Chi!icOthe
and 81. Joseph, hiaSOuri, SaIina. Olathe
ana Ottawa, Kansas. Eighty families
lived 1T Towanda, Kansas, aid not one
oi lGem escaped injury or loss Of life TO
SOM" member.
| ATCIlIS0N, ka8., y prii iii tornado
AtrHck tins city at moon today, unroof-
| lng @nG u"mOlioIiinE several large build
| iHg& ana ScattcringG signs awnings and
| out houses i'll every direction. The
Santa Ee halfway depot. was unroofed
| AID the chapel al the Scholastic Con-
vent WAS demolished. The ice ware
house OF the ihra!l lc' Company was
destroyed ard thc grocery ware house
Oi ii. Taylor is In ruii.s. The roof of
Ihc cl'y pTlSGn was carried off and a
portion of the building domoishGd. A
small house in the Missouri Pacific
yards was blown into the river, Hun.
dTedS OF ChimneyS have been blown
Gown and great deal of damage done.
The heavy damage in the country is to
lrult trees. The ground is very soft,
caused by recent rains, and thousands
OF trees have been torn up by the roots.
NO one has been reported injured.
| OMAHA, Neb., April 1.-Telegraph
wires all over the State are FRUSTRATED,
and it is impossible to obtain news of
the extent of last nights cyclone. The
western Union reports that it has only
one wire In operation in Nebraska and
| That is on the line of the Elkhorn Road.
"A special to the Bee from Norfolk, in
the northern part of the State, says the
cyclone struck the town about / o'clock
| last night and did cons siderable damage.
| t this should prove to be the same cy-
clone which devastated Nelson the de-
Structlon must have been great. The
storm trayersed one hundred and fifty
miles over the richest farming section
| Oh the State, dotted with small cities
ana villages. The wind is blowing
gale here and wires are down on all
SIDES. Hundreds Of telephone wires
are still down as the result Of last Sat
urday's storm.
WASIIINGTON, April 1.-Des Moines,
Iowa, reports damage exceeding $780,
OCO, but no loss of life. Every section
of Iowa that can be heard from has a
similar story to tell.
At st. Joseph, Missouri, the storm
began at midnight Thursday night,
and continued with unabated fury ut
. o'clock tonight. The city was strewn
with wreckage, scarcely Il house in it
having escaped uninjured. Several
people had been hurt by dying debris.
Three steamboats, on the Missouri
RlYer were swamped near st. Joseph.
There Is no indication OF cxaggeration
in any OF the stories. On the contrary
there is probability that the worst re-
mains to be told.
CHICAGO, April About $50 this
evening the sky, which had been threat
ening all the afternoon, became as black
as night, and in another minute a ter
rlble cloudburst occurred. The wind
blew q hurricane and drove the rain In