The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-31
house partially destroyed and stables both

house partially destroyed and stables both
gone.
Baldwin, four miles northeast of Crys-
tai, fine house and barn wrecked.
Octagon school house. totally destroyed.
Clark, near OctagOn school house, house
demolished.
Jon Powell, two miles north of Crystal,
two barns blown down.
Fawcett, two miles north of Crystal, one
| barn destroyed.
E. a. Mallory, two and half miles
northeast of Crystal, house and Two stables
I demolished.
Ed. Miller, three miles northeast of Crys-
tai, house and stable destroyed.
McMullen, three and one-quarter miles
northeast of Crystal, house off founda-
tien.
Thos. Hendrixson, three and one-hlf
miles northeast of Crystal, house and sta
| b esSroyed.
G. 1o1nhardt, two miles northeast of
Harper, house totally wrecked.
| John n. Babcock, three miles northwest,
| house wrecked.
Geo. Gould, fifteen miles northwest,
house demolished. He says the storm
| formed almost over his house and went in
two directions.
| H l.. Jordon, while returning from At
tica to his home in West Lake township,
caught in storm and had his wagon de-
|
another loose team.
Taylor Bros seed house, near Attica.
| total wreck.
NJ. E Sconce, nine miles northwest, house
| partially wrecked and granary, barns and
other buildings destroyed His fathers
house acrosf the road destroyed.
Z. 2. Raymond, fourteen miles north
west, house demolished.
j. A Moores and A Terrel's, two miles
northeast OF Attica, houses badly dam
aged.
| z. A. Beatty, one and one-half miles
| northwest, house and granary totally de-
! stroyed.
The Maxwell rink was demolished
| Lamar & Son, 2-story stone, slight dam
| age; wareroom down.
| The most com plete wreck caused by the
storm was the building occupied by the
| Harper Mercantile company and the Ma
sons. 1t went down in heap, buryiHg ali
within its walls-scareiy one brick being
left upon another. Very little will be
saved unchanged. The tine furniture and
! costly paraphernalia of the Masonic lodge
are total loss. Several were caught in The
wreck, but no one was killed; among them
were Lewis and Robert Liebricht and
! Peter Corby, the two latter being badly
injured. The Knights of Pythias lodge
/ lost all
Pelzell's cigar factory is total wreck
goods great.
Several large glasses were broken in the
second story of the Chicago Meat market,
used as lodging rooms by the Farmers
restaurant; also the said restaurant sus
tanned some damage.
DR.. II. c. Martins office was damaged
by some shingles of, plastering cracked,
glass broken and awning down.
On West Main street the roof went of
tho Pad bS1-n gbe6 yyas 6pntOliShe6
The Harper Normal college, II fne two
story brick, had belfrey blown away and
the heavy cornice off, roof damaged.
Small frame, occupied by Misses Elliott,
Bear aud Haynes, wrecked.
Baptist church, belfrey blown off; roof
main part is not as badly damaged as at
first thought; it is thought that 500 will
put it in shape; frame.
Mrs. Vests Millinery store building
was badly damaged and stock injured.
The Forey block, two-story brick. shows
the south end blown out and roof off. The
west lower room was occupied by the
Graphic Office and the upper rooms by
students and for other purposes.
The Patterson veranda was blown away
from the front and the tin roof taken OFT;
damage to rooms was by water. several
being pretty badly wet; some glass broken.
Tie front was blown out of Cox's
variety store: damage slight
C7t!ZenS' BANK, root Injured.
Wright g. Clound, grocers, were dam
aged to some extent.
Elephant store sustained some damage
to stock by leakage.
Cole Bros, building was unroofed but
stock was not damaged TO any serious ex-
tent.
T. B. Orr, hardware. roof off of two
thirds of building, plate glass broken,
stock badly damaged by water.
Merrick block unroofed.
Obert 81 Collins. clothing. glass broken.
Glenn Drug company, three large glass
in front, also glass at rear, show case brok-
en-. Their ware room was completely de-
stroJei and stock lost
Z. b. Sitter, GROCER. glass front out.
Robinson & Buunell, ware room down,
roof damaged, glass front blown in.
Christian church partly unroofed and
west end blown in.
J. g. Wenger's coal sheds and feed store,
the latter a two-story frame house, rear
and upper story occupied by the family,
are totally wrecked; feed mill is badly dam
aged.
Catholic and Mennonite churches dsmag
ed.
Fair buildings and fence wrecked.
The fine and'costly new school house in
the west part of the city is badly wrecked,
the south side of the upper story being
blown in and the north wall buIged out;
cupola and bell blown of