Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1892-05-05

| One Kansas Farmer Killed, Another Fatal
~ Injured and Several Persons Injured
Houses Destroyed.
TOPEKA, May A tornado swept up
Mission creek valley ia the southeast
corner Of Shawnee county, killed James
Mitchell, farmer, and possibly others,
fatally injured Joseph He'll and badly
hurt two members Of Heil's family
About $3.50 o'clock yesterday after
noon ominous clouds from the south
west and northeast met and fierce
storm followed, which swept everything
before it. The farm house OF Joseph
He'll was blown to pieces and He'll was
struck in the back by 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 Heils place, was killed, but II
is impossible TO learn how IL occurred.
lie was renter and his home was a
small frame house Of which he was the
only occupant The Missouri Pacific
agent at Tevis reports man named
Plaxson killed and several people in
iured, but no further definite inforna-
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 distance of three miles along
Mission creek, but one house had been
left standing.
Ia a
except those given resulted from the
storm. Frank Miller, farmer, brought
the only information of the storm here.
He said: ut seemed as though there
were two storms. One was moving rap
idly southeast and the other as rapidly
northwest. Right between was dense
black cloud that went off toward the
northeast II was round and must
have been half a mile in diameter II
was whirling round and round with
great speed and little funnel-shaped
feeders dropped down 20 the earth
here and there. Where these touched
they tore up the largest trecsand fences.
The solid earth in many places was torn
up and nothing could Withstand IL.
In this city the heaviest rain known
in years fell but no damage was done
by the winds. At Cedar Junction, en
the Santa Fc, seven heavy freight ears
were blown from the track and num-
Der of small buildings damaged At
Lenape, on the Union Pacific, nearly
every building was more or less dam
aged. The storm was % straight wind
from the northwest. John lIaheys |
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 a tornado struck !
the farming community near Auburn. a
village twenty miles southwest of To- !
pelSn On the farm Of j. ~ Robinson. |
large barn was destroyed, the house |
was wrecked and n house in course of |
erection was demolished James NJ. |
Morcland's barn was destroyed and his |
house badly damaged. J. brakes stone |
house was unroofed and and all the con- |
tents carried Off brakes daughter, a |
girl Of 10, was carried away and lodged !
in a tree Drake and his wife were
both injured II II. BuclSley's house |
was scattered all over his farm. Pleas
ant Valley schoolhousc was unroofed |
and much other damage was done to |
small buildings and fences.
DAMAGE ABOUT TEvIs.
Near Tevis. on the Missouri Pacific. !
about twelve miles southeast of Topeka |
about o'clock, strip half a mile wide
and seven miles long was swept clean
and not house was left standing. John |
Paxton, farmer, was killed. The |
house fell in and he was struck on the /
head by piece of heavy timber. Mrs
lIurd, wife Of a farmer, was caught in a
falling house and her back was injured.
+. b. Waters barn was destroyed.
DIR. n. j. Taylor's house was blown
away. John Rees' house was destroyed.
Henry Laughlins barn was destroyed
The rest Of the family narrowly es-
capped.
The storm wasnccompanied by hail,
which has completely destroyed all
prospects for fruit where the storm
struck, as the bark is skinned from
almost all the fruit trees.
AN OLD LADY KILLED.
EMromA, KAN, May 4.-Word was
ItNtANcN hNAt Ailln iAA'i hihE va " HNN'iN
wind storm in the southern portion
Of Lyon county last night about two
miles from Hartford An old lady
named Mcdonald mother Of William
was killed. The storm
struck his house and leveled it to the
ground, severely injuring him and ear
rying his mother for a considerable dis
tance and dashed her against a wire
fence She died this morning from the
effects of her injuries
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