The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-04-13
KILLED IN A CYCLONE.
Seventy Dead Left In the
Storms Track.

| KANSAS Guy. No, April 2--Ihe cyclone
in Kansas killed fifty people The various
towns that were visited By thedreadful tenn
pest are dismsnlled. Signs. projecting roofs.
porches and bay windows were swept away
and the houses remind one Of leaiiess trees
in antnmn Many dwellings were smashed
to the ground as though they had been egg
shells Many of the more isolated districts
Of the State have not been heard from. as all
wire Communication has been absolutely
cut of
News brought in by the railroad men
shows that scores of farm houses and barns
were totally wrecked by The bowling visitor.
NEBRASKA SWIFT IL THEE MISUrEs
OMAHA, Neb., April Not since the first
pioneer settled on the prairies of Nebraska
had such a fearfully destructive cyclone
ploughed path across the State es swept
over it Thursday night, leaving dead bodies
and ruined buildings in IFS track. From all
quarters come tales OF frightful visitation.
The tornado lasted only three minutes At
Norfolk Joseph Seedon had his family, in
cluding eight children, in the house when
the building wa scattered all over the
prairie, bat not scratch was inflicted on
any of the family.
At Edgar, school house was blown half
a mile over the plain and reduced to boards.
1t being night-there were no children in it.
Snow has fallen in blinding storm and the
drifts are impossible in some places. Trains
cannot n. Wind mills were blown down
and live stock Is suffering for water. A score
of houses were either completely or partial
ly ruined. As many people were more or
less seriously injured.
TWO KILLED N MISSOURI.
ST. JosEFH, No, April 2-There were two
fatalities in this part OF the State and pro
perty in this city was damaged to the extent
of $50,0C0 by the cyclone. The seven-year-
Old daughters Of Rev. E. s Bushnell and
Lee Salisbury were fatally hurt Several
horses were killed.
The steamboats, Yazel and Savannah and
the ferryboat Belle, cfBrownsville, are swan
ped or ashore. Dispatches from all over the
Slate report great loss.
THE FATAL CLOUD TOUCHED TAxAs.
SANTA Anna. Texas, April 2.-The cyclone
that demolished buildings and killed so
many people in other Western States reach
ed Texas and left many wrecked homes in
its path and number ofcorpses. It was 5
O'Clock when the dreadful black cloud with
the long tail that swept The ground loomed
over the northwestern hodzon. In a few
minutes it had passed, but in that short pc
Rod William McCullom was killed and Mrs.
Mclaughlin, sallie Mclaughlin, K. S. Nc
Laughlin, G. Mclaughlin, Rosa McI.augh-
lin, May Mclaughlin, John Taylor Mrs.
Bass, Mrs. Storey, Miss V. Wood and +. II.
Bass were injured.
SEWN DEAD IN CHICAGO.
CnIoAeo, H., April 2-n is now known
that seven people in this city perished in the
cyclone. They were Edward Mott, aged
years; Horan Mott, aged 5 years; David
Hulett. aged 6 months; William Gowan,
aged 10 years Samuel Birsiale, Miss Mary
Walsh, CT Joliet, Ill, and Mrs. James
Gowan.
TRAIN BLOWN FROM THETRAcK.
BURLINGTON, Ia, Aril 2-Oficials of the
Burlington and. Northwestern Railroad re-
ceiyed the information last night their passen-
ger train which arr;yesat7 p ~ had been
blown from the track 40 miles north. The
baggage man, mail clerk ard two passengers
were seriously injured and dozen Others
badly shaken up. The wind has been blow
ing hurricane all day, doing much damsge
to trees and shrubs. Great damage was done
in different parts Of this Stale and many
people were injured. At Des Moines 500.
coo worth OF property was destroyed.