Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-07
DEATH IN THE TEMPEST.
Various Parts Of the Country Swept
By a Tornado.

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| By Tornado.
Several Southern Kansas Towns Destroyed
| and Many Persons Killed and Injured
Fury OF the storm at Other Places-
Damage to Property.
| WICHITA. Kan, April AIN the four
/ counties OF Barber, Butler, Sumner and
Rice Thursday nights tornado touched
| at least twenty places with fury which
suggested the hand of cyclone, and
left behind it in each instance either
dead to be mourned or wounded or help
less ones to waiS. F
The greatest calamity reported is from
the little town of Towanda, eighteen
miles west OF here upon the St. Louis
& San Francisco railroad whose pop
ulation yesterday numbered about 500
souls. This village lies now in absolute
ruin. In its whole area bat one house
remains unframed, not more than half
dozen others, with ruined chimneys
and broken windows, wrenched,
| wrecked and roofless, even stand upon
their foundations. Over the prairie lie
| the scattered remnants of the rest that
but yesterday were homes.
The dead number four. They are:
John D. Godfrey, aged IS, retired physl-
clan; Herschel Cupp, aged p, son OF
Daniel Cupp, one of the oldest settlers
of Kansas; John Bailey, aged 81, rail-
road laborer; six-year-old child of John
Blake, merchant.
Those fatally hurt are: Miss Annie
Robbins, aged So, postmistress, broken
arm. lung pierced, bruised oyer face and
body and injured internally: Mrs. John
r. Kerr, back and shoulder bruised and
| injured internally: Earl Kerr, aged IL,
skull badly fractured; Fern Maxwell,
| aged 8, skull fractured; c. L. Westcate,
aged so, skull fractured and injured in
ternally.
! The seriously injured are: Fife Kerr,
Willie Maxwell, Gilmore Hall, Mrs.
Cory, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mooney and
child, William Mitchell, Mrs. Poor
baugh, Mrs. William Mitchell, w. H.
Gibbs.
3 Augusta, a co2lntry town south OF
] Tovanda, was partly destroyed by the
+! s.orga.. Every house these in the track
eS the storm was swept away. The
dead are:
albert Barnes, aged q, farmer; Baby
of William E. Hoadss; Harmon Hos
Esins, aged SO, fssraeE.
among the Disc oE dangerously in
jdred are:
William r. Hoades, bruised and in
juFed internalig; Mrs. Harmon Hoskins
{ ard Baby, both bruised: Thomas Smith,
Is INFUSED about head and SHOULDERS; Mrs.
Thensas Smith, injsred internally; Hel'-
bert Abbot and vile, scalp wound and
/ numerous other serious bruises.
county, a few miles south of Yelling
ton, the cyclone struck the farm house
OF Joseph Showalter, wrecking the
house and injuring every one of the
thirteen members of the family. Mrs.
Showalter and &gwo of the family may
die.
just north of ShowaltSr's it demolished
the house of William Little, killing him
and four children instantly. Every
horSe in Titles stable was also killed.
Of the nine members of Samuel But
terwortA's iarAily in his farm house in
the storms path only his daughter was
: seriously Aart. -Four members of the
/ family were carried over tAree hundred
wards from tee Aouss. Every farm
house and 1arn in that vicinity was
damaged.
) Near South Eaven the storm did great
/ damage. Fully ifty fssrsn hauses We're
demolished aud ahaet 1eG peae'e more
'er less inisssea.
+ EISss71HyRE.
+ OMAHA, Nsh., Abeil 2.@Ate Fa&tts-
mautA irl1naes4ee damage was done to
treas, fences, ovtbui3aiGgs assd crops.
+ At Sterling the axes1- CT e&e cyclone
was confined to the wFecfziEG of cat
houses and windowe4as& TIE damage
viii amount to several hundred dollars.
At Beaver City many buildings hare
beer wrecked, wlsle the {aageSsaae III The
country districts IS CREST.
b SFBoEG CgfT, Kan, AeFi3 2.-1he
cyclone struck the resi&ezece q John
Closer and killed Closer asad wife aao
a small child end badly injured several
Others. William Snyder sE EI1F.tlsals e
| reported fatally burt.
~ The cyclone struck eight ISLES west
of here and killed one aaasts, 1'''il1iaz,
Richer, and probably 4afally wouDdez.
several others, It did great ela8aasssse
: a1ong its tack OF several raiies,
ArCWIseN, Kan, April "A teQz:i5ese
, gale began here at t2 o'cinelz last saiSsstt,
but no damage was done asntif nearly
noon to-day when . tornado stuck t'ae
city and unfnofed and demolished sew
eral large buildings and scattered si554ls,
/ awnings and euthauses in every cisco
ton The Santa Fe freight depot xN%s
| unroofed and the ehafsel st Mt. Soho
tastical convent deaaolishad. TIE were
house of the Thrau Ice Co., vas C.
! stroyed aad the groeery II 81. SaS9eR is
J in ruins
I ST. JesEPa- Mo-, April a.-Atsa'eioes
yesterday o wind stonm strRek tlsz
city which by o'clock had reached It's
[ velocity Of City miles an hoer. NeafaJ
. every telegraph and telephone u7ire il
/ the city has been torn down, nuInsreus
, small houses demolisheda and many large
I ones unfaofed. Thousands of dealafs
+ worth OF damage was caused b tbs
, breaking OF plate glass in store windows
T In ths eastern part Of the city . brich
house was blown down, baryiae Lille
} BnshHeN, aged seven years, and eera
ously injrr4ng her.
BURLINGTON, L., ApfR e.-OHieers o.
the Burlington & Northwestern narrov
r gauge rsslWay received tie inforEaatior
tonight that their passenger trsE
which arrives at p U. had lseeR Rlezgl
from the track forty saii@ Rszs5i. Fhl
haGEase aas, naai3 clerk AID two pas
eox,<~fres v<e,sa c<refor1eSy iIliI<sed and