The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-29

r. 3. Hubbard, seeds and feed
H. Conrad, restaurant.
Southern Kansas Mortgage company.
loan Office.
Peniwell Marble company, tombstones.
Douglass & Brown, real estate.
Ned Hale, coal.
w. B. Seymour, feed stable.
w. y. Seymour, feed store.
Ed l.. Brown, carpenter shop.
Fisher q Adams, blacksmith shop.
Geo. + Foltz. loan and abstract Office.
Il. Lynch, shoe shop
Col. Jesse Brewer, barber shop.
w. =. Romig, tinware store and shop.
John Roth, lunch counter.
". J. Kain, merchant tailor.
SasheF & Kirk. carriags factory,
Alliance grocery.
Il J. Smith, agricultural implements.
Rock Island Lumber and Manufactur-
ing company.
Worden & Austin, grocers, partially
destroyed.
S. Crane, books and stationery, east end
of store room and roof gone.
Daily Mail printing Office, almost
ruined.
Sumner county Standard, weekly news
paper, partially destroyed.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
WELLINGTON. Kan, May 28.-The de-
struction 10 life and the havoc to property
wrought by last nights cyclone is terrible.
In the darkness of the night and the con-
fusion incident to such catastrophe 1t
was not possible to realize the extent of
the calamity. The light of cay invests the
scene of destruction with a distinct and
awful realization of its scope. The storm
came from the southwest, and approached
the city with "A rotary motion, appearing
TO be some distance over the town. When
il reached here il descended upon the cen
for # ha Pit Writ
suddenly lifted, sucking everything into
its grasp, and AS suddenly dropping it,
Trees were torn up by the roots, houses
turned around, and stoves actually lifted
until they landed on the upper floors of
the ruins. Freight cars which stood on
the track of the Rock Island road were
picked up and carried Il distance of
200 feet. In one instance a horse was
actually taken from the ground and
carried to the top of n wO-story building.
A little child was taken out of its cradle,
carried Il distance of two blocks, and de-
posted upon the ground without being
injured. The greater portion of the city
Was completely devastated, aud the entire
community. consisting of between 5000
and 8 900 people were thrown into state
of CONSERVATION, and dread and fear
actuated all. The shouts of the rescuers.
mingled with the cries of the suffering,
while those unhurt rushed from their
homes but partially dressed. The wind
finally subsidized and in a brief time every
avs liable man in the city was engaged in
the work OF rescue, conducted under the
leadership of George Whitley, president of
the council.
IL was just o'clock when the tornado
which came from the southwest, descended
upon the town. The Lutheran church
was turned completely over, the court
house demolished, the Presbyterian
church reduced to splinters, and of the
Spcknall block, on the principal street of
the town, composed of half a
dozen brick buildings. there is moth
ing but pile OF ruins. The
Standard block, consisting OF six brick
buildings, was completely wrecked, In
this block the Wellington Daily Mail and
the Sumner County Standard were pub
lished. These plants were entirely des-
troyed, as were the Monitor, Press aud the
Voice offices in the Spicknall block. The
foundry and stove works were also levelled
To the ground On Washington avenne
every house on each side of the street is
uplo loofed. The back walls are out of many
of them aHd the window glasses are gener-
ally smashed. The opera house is u wreck,
aud the Phillips hotel complete ruin.
This house proved TO be the most fatal
trap, for one-h half dozen bodies or more
will be taken from its ruins The EpiscO-
pal church is In splinters, aud great
ber yard. The school house is total
wreck. To sum the matter OF ruin up, it
would be safe 10 say that ninety buildings
are complete wrecks, $50 buildings are
partial wrecks, while $50 more, perhaps,
are damaged to some extent. The loss to
property alone in this city will be $500, 000
as most all of the large stocks OF goods in
the city were destroyed by the cloud-burst
which followed the tornado after 1t had
taken the roofs away.
All the casualties are as yet impossible
to ascertain, but the following is accurate
as far as 1t goes:
KILLED.
James Hastie, unmarried: killed in
barber chair in the Phillips house while
being shaved.
A barber. married; his body is still in
the ruins of the Phillips hotel.
Frank Campbell, married; killed in
Phillips house.
Edward Forsythe, printer, bones frac-
tured and Internal injuries; died at $3.50
O'Clock this afternoon.
James Mayor, piano tuner Of Kansas
City; killed in Phillips hotel while read
ing his Bible.
Mrs Sasher, recently married, crushed
and burned TO death. The shock has
affected the mind, temporarily at least, of
her husband.
Miss Strahan, Mrs Sasher's sister,
crushed and burned to death
Henry Adamson, laborer; killed by plate
glass piercing his back to the kidneys.
James Weaver, occupation unknown,
crushed beneath walls.
Ida Jones, waiter in Phillips house;
crushed to death beneath fallen wall.
FATALLY WOUNDED.
Charlie Adamson, unmarried.
Mrs Captain MahaD, badly crushed.
Mrs J. i. Hanna, crushed.
Widow Murphy, skull fractured
Charles StOner, Santa Re conductor
Little Maggie King, daughter OF the late
l. y. King.
WOUNDED
A. J. Bishops child, internal injuries.
4 lieutenant OF the Salvation army,
name unknown, fracture OF skull; badly
injured.
SYLVIA koTsythe, printer, skull crushed.
Walter Forsythe, internal injuries
Mrs Robert Millard. internal Injuries.
James Lawrence, Republican Candidate
for attorney general, arm and leg broken.
There is only one wire up between here
and the east, and il Is a very hard matter
to get messages out over i. There IS no
wire up west OF Danville, but messages
from there report the Harper cyclone
fully as disastrous as the one here. The
telephone system IS a complete wreck Ia
fact, every wire in the city IS down but
one Between for.y and tfty more per
sons are injured. but none OF them ser
iously. TWO hundred men are BOW clear
ing away the debris Of the Phillips House
wreck, where at least two more bod tcs are
expected 10 be found. The Santa Re Tas
a special train from Wichita bringing hf-
teeu doctors
Reports from ali the country 70 The west
are very oIscoGIaE X, and PEiis there is