The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-29

bodies having been taken from the debris.
A special tram brought twelve physicians
from Wichita. The loss TO property aloua
in this city is $4,000. Nearly all the
large stocks of goods in the city were
destroyed by the cloudburst which fol.
lowed the cyclone. 1t is safe to say that
80 buildings have been wrecked here and
as many more partially demolished.
HUTCHINSON, Kan, May 2s-At 7:40
last night a terrible tornado burst upon
Harper, accompanied by rain and hail.
Nearly all the business houses of the CITY
were either totally destroyed or badly
twisted. Both the Santa Fe and Atchison
Southern depots were entirely blown
away. The end was blown out
of fine school building, church
wrecked and many residences ruined.
Paterson's hotel was blown down and
the opera-house and roller mill destroyed.
The scene is one of ruin and destruction.
Hardly building in the entire town es-
capped damage and the place is strewn with
debris from end to end. 1t is almost
miracle that more lives were not iost as
the death list contains only six names.
Many persons were seriously injured and
scores received slight wounds. Be-
fore the cyclone reached here 1t
SlFuck tue Village OF trVSt3k
Springs and completely demolished it.
No definite news of loss of life there is re-
ceived. After leaving Crystal Springs the
storm swept with terrible force over the
country demolishing barns and farm
houses, but it is not known if any lives
were lost. The list killed at Harper is:
J. L. sTAINHAS.
MIS-. JAMES GALLAGHER and child
Mrs. FRANK ToaLIS aud child.
JAMES HARRISON.
WILLIAM STEVENSON, neck broken.
The most seriously injured are Samuel
Cole, Robert Libricht, Samuel Lioricht,
Samuel Chailis. Mrs. Samuel Challis. The
Harper normal and high schools were
completely wrecked. The First National
bank is a complete loss The total loss aggre-
gates s500o00, on which there is less than
$50, 0C0 cyclone insurance. At least sixty
buildings were crushed, and the contents
are complete wreck. Hundreds of other
houses are considerably damaged, and
scarcely building in town escaped unin-
jurcd. Hundreds of families are homeless
and destitute. The house and outbuild-
ings of A. L. Beatty were demolished. his
wife's thigh broken, and his little daughter
received severe wound. Among the in
jured. in addition to those already men,
son, Mr.. Corby, Peter Girard, Mrs Avery,
Florence Sayer, Mrs. Felrath. Gottlieb
Handhardt and family were carried loo
feet, and Handhardt injured. The
family of NJ. NJ. Manger were
buried in the ruins of their house and
considerably bruised. Ellis n. Miller and
family had similar experience. ]. III.
Seibert and wife were injured. The Cath
olic and German churches were
greatly injured. The Masonic block,
the Queen City block and Opera
house block are almost worthless.
OF eleven houses north Of the Santa Fe
track eight are total loss. In the Odd
Fellows cemetery, northeast, over one.
third of the monuments are prostrated.
The grand stand, box stalls and buildings
of the fair grounds, south. with the ex-
ception of tn. agricultural building, were
leyeled to the ground.
TExARKANA, Ark, May 2s.-A terrific
tornado passed few miles north of here
last night. Thousands of acres of timber
were feiled to the ground, and a family Of
seven negroes on the Glass plantation on
Red river drowned. Considerable other
damage is reported.
MARSHALL, Mo-, May 2s.-A terrific
storm struck this place at s O'Clock this
evening. Several small houses were blown
down, but the only serious injury received
was by Mrs. Frank Davis, who was hurt
internally, and will die.
Charles ]. Carr, clerk for the Stewart &
Holmes Drug Company, has brother who must
have had narrow escape from being killed by
the cyclone at Wellington, Kan. He is a prin-
ter in the Office OF the Standard. the weekly
paper, and the Hcu, the daily, which was
wiped out, and lived at the Phillips house,
where eight persons were killed. His brother
IN this city was naturally anxious about him.
but received telegram yesterday afternoon
saying that he was safe Mr.. Carr said last
evening:
wellington is substantial prairie town of
10000 people in Southern kansss. about thirty
miles south OF Wichita. 1t is the center Of a
weil-settied farming and stock raising district,
and is we'll built up most OF the buildings on
the main street, Washington avenue, being of
brick. The newspaper Office a solid two
story brick. Nearly every town around Well
ington has had cyclone, but Wellington has
hitherto escaped. Ny brother is coming out
here in about two weeks"