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

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)ove, it was badly wrec roa I'D sho+
red. The roof was : - s.on, +ho
arm here. No one hu :.
A little farther Sout o.a ,ro oor,o
, the once happy homo of can,rol
90 '1',i' OaU y. 'I most severely af-
'O'ou ~, 4" i-'0 , w cyclone left behind
lnO-I 10 D- 2 nothing left of the
'uo0 Gnu D'-H ere but a few logs and
-n'-O 9here the house once
'00O Gnu M all pile of feed and a
Nv pieces of ho horn uboro = onoo
.ood. Every th;nr mas Itorol,r h,oun
} atoms and 80 g. ,,;,a. a,.on
""' s0late scene indeed. The
!, power of Providence was
L 'n"' '' we'd the lives of the family at
lis placr no,,oof thono hoinr I,iiIod
lie eye ,1ao .t.,,o,. 49,, rIoeo oho,+
sn' o'clock in the evening. Mrs.
'"t " ell and her son Will had taken
IL intern and left the house to at
INV to some chickens when the cy-
" le came in all its fury. They were
th dashed to the ground, then raised
the air and mingled with the flying
ogs, lumber and furniture from the
house, and lodged against a tree or
Isomething they know not what. Will
was carried clear to the back side of
| the orchard, but found he was not
badly injured and started back toward
the house as soon as he could face the
terrible wind. He only went a short
distance when he found his little
nephew, Roy Little, member of the
family that was so terribly afflicted
; and which we will give an account of
further on. Roy, while badly injured,
was not dangerously hurt. A little
, further on Will found his mother, who
had escaped death, but was badly hurt
and bruised up. She had one ankle
thrown out of joint and was otherwise
terribly bruised and mashed, but not
dangerously, it is thought. She says
that when she was first thrown to the
ground, something like plOw fell upon
, her and held her for short time, when
it was lifted off by the wind and then
: timbers of some kind were piled upon
: her. When the wind lifted these, she
thought perhaps nothing more would
strike her, as the fury of the storm
seemed to be abating, when she was
struck by something sharp on the left
side of the neck, which left an ugly cash.
| Mrs Hartsell is a lady about fifty years
: of age. The two daughters who were
: at home, Nellie and Lou, were in the
yard holding to each other during the
terrible ordeal and their escape from
instant death from the flying timberS
and debris seems miraculous. They
r were only slightly bruised and escaped
| almost entirely unhurt John, the
g youngest of the family, was just going
out of the kitchen when the cyclone
struck the house. He was picked up
and carried about fifty feet from the
house. Wonderful as it may seem, he
L received hardly a scratch and was in
< the thickest of the wreck. Mr.. Hart
sell was inside the house in the room
4 in the south side where the cyclone
S first struck. The house was dashed to
pieces instantly and as this room he
t was in was built partly of logs, his eS-
e cape from instant death is also mirac-
1 ulouS. He was dashed and slammed
i around amongst the flying heavy tim
S berS and household furniture and after
|. the wreck found himself wedged under
e apple of logs. He was terribly bruised
!. and cut up, but had no bones broken
d nor was he injured internally. He was
4 a very feeble man and has had very
/. poor health since he was mustered out
S of the United States service after the
t civil war, in which he served faithfully
|, from the beginning to the end, con-
: tracing diseases that ruined his health.
q In his feeble health, how he could
: stand the terrible treatment he recelv-
S ed in this cyclone and come out alive
e is mystery. He displays wonderful
J, compOsure for a man who has lost
v every vestige and particle of his pos
e sessions on a farm that was fairly we'll
e improved. and has nothing left of his
r machinery, plowS, wagons, household
goods and everything, except few
e head of stock and the barren land. In
d his own language: 81 did not have a
S very fine house, but l had a pile of
|, stuff it has taken years of hard labor
d to earn and now it is all gone" There
d is little use to hunt for the most valu-
S. able article, for there was nothing toe
a strong for the terrible tornado to break
|. into thousand pieces and scatter fol
y miles away. Mr.. Hartsell had no in.
surance on anything and all is a tOta
a loss, the only man we have heard of SC
IS far who was in the track of the cyclone
, in this locality and not insured. Ev
4. cry member of the family who was a
d home at the time was left without ;
lstitch of clothing eXcept wha