The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-29
THE HARPER HORROR.
The Devastation at Wellington Duplicat-
ed at Harper.
special Dlspatch 70 the Daily Ea-le.

! Special Dispatch to the Daily Eagle.
ANTHONY, Kan, May 2S.-A cyclone
struck the north part of Harper county
| last night at 7:30 o'clock and swept through
the business part of the city OF Harper.
nine miles north of here, creating fearful
| havoc. Crystal Springs was swept away
and Attica slightly damaged. but Anthony,
! Bluff City, Danville and Freeport were
uninjured the storm belt was six miles
wide-a straight blow with severe hail
along the outside. The wind started
west and south of Harper and swept away
| thirty farm buildings before reaching that
| town. At Harper the ruin is fearful. At
least sixty buildings are crushed to the
| earth and their contents are complete
wreck. One hundred more houses are
! damaged more or less, and scarcely a
| building escaped injury in that town.
Hundreds Of families are homeless, with
out food or shelter. The dead are as fol-
/ lows:
William Stranahan. farmer at the
west edge of Harper; killed by the house
moving from its foundation and catching
him half out Of the cellar. He was caught
| by the neck and dragged six feet into a
space cniy four inches high. The family,
down cellar ana up, were uninjured
Mrs Thomas Gallagher, living three
miles west; skull broken; died today.
A SOD of Mrs. Gallagher's
A grandchild Of T. Mallory The mother
OF the child is fatally hurt.
a brother of w. II. Harrison, living
northwest of Harper.
+. A. Beatty. living one mile north, had
all his fine buildings destroyed. His
wfe's thigh was broken and his little
daughter Minnie received severe scalp
wound.
S H. Chaliis and wife each had an arm
broken aud their home WAS scattered to
the winds
In he town of Harper James Dickerson
was knocked down at the Red barn and
bruised up. S E. Cole received "A slight
injury. MIR. Corby was considerably hurt
in the falling of the Masonic block
Peter Gerard, IA boy, received severe
wound in the leg Mrs. a. Grey was
caught in the falling of their residence.
and received a slight wodnd. Robert
Lebrecht's leg was broken in two places.
Miss Florence Sayers was struck and re-
manned insensibIe for an hour. Their
house was turned upside down.
Mrs. Felrath. living west OF town, was
brought in this morning severely in
jured Gotleib Hauharit and family,
two miles northwest, were seated t the
supper table. They were caught and
carried 100 feet Mr. HsDhardt received
wound IN the foot. The house Of N. VI.
Munger, north of town, was blown down
over the family. bruising them consider
ably, but not seriously. Mr.. MaBger was
- Errz zfr.ss 2 i...
Ellis Miller aad family, TWO miles south
east. narrowly escaped with their lives. A
bran new building. the result OF nine
years savings. was crushed fat. 4
miraculous escape was that OF J. H. /
Selbert aud wife. TBey were IN the upper
story Of the Thompson block when the
walls fell IN, aud escaped with but few
bruises.
Both the public school buildings are
badly damaged. One is total loss TIE
Catholic and German churches we're
blown down; tie Baptist and Christian ,
churches greatly injured, bot the Meiho- +.
dist Episcopal church j. safe. The Masonic
block, on the corner ia which WAS tie .
Harper Mercantile company. Is destroyed. T
Tie Queen City block aaI tie opera 4
hoase block are almost worthless o. tie 4
eleven houses north q the santa Re track .
izh: are crushed % re floor aud Tie .
conteufs total iosses The Aurpay prop
erty ls greatly damaged. The store -
wreck snd ;Ae three residences more OF 4
!es- - total ioss Tie slaudpsps stands .
intact. bat sz1s.l dE-I..ug beside i y
colE pIete!y crushed. ard the e9atea;s are
ali sa.as4ed. T-le 0Fuer. stand nz agafnl.
tie ruins, vas happy - TIE G4c- stsl h4s
family were uaharElsd, having run 10 tls
uariEses-.
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