People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-06-03
KILLED.

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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-
cured aud internal injuries; died at $3.50
o'clock this afternoon.
James Mayor, piano tuner Of Kansas
City; killed in Phillips hotel while read.
ng his Bible
Mrs Sasher, recently married, crushed
md burned TO death. The shock has
Effected the rind, temporarily at least, Of
ier husband.
Miss Strahan, Mrs. Sasher's sister,
rushed 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 Mahan, badly crushed
Mrs. J. I. Hanna, crushed.
Widow Murphy, skull fractured.
Charles StOner santa Fe conductor.
Little Maggie King, daughter Of the late
l. n. King.
WOUNDED.
A. J. Bishops child, internal injuries.
A lieutenant Of the Salvation army,
name unknown, fracture OF skull; badly
injured.
sylvia FOrsythp, 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
aud he east, aud il is very hard matter
to get messages out over il. There is no
wire up west OF Danville, but messages
from there report the Harper cyclone
fully rs disastrous as the one here. The
telephone system is complete wreck. In
fact, every wire in the city is down but
oae. Between forty and fifty more per-
sons are injured, but none OF them ser
iously Two hundred men are now clear
ing away the debris of the Phillips House
wreck, where at least two more bodies ure
expected to be found. The Santa Fe ran
special train from Wichita bringing fif-
teen doctors
Reports from all the country to the west
Ire very dscouraging, and while there is
40 detailed news from the country in the
immediate vacinity of the city, tile indi-
.ations are that the damage is terrible.
BUSINESS HOUSES DESTROYED.
The following is partial list of the
business houses destroyed:
e. \ q ,mhrill Loan mud incurauca
Monitor-Press, weekly newspaper.
Peoples Voice, Weekly newspaper.
7. b. Hubbard, seeds and feed.
II. 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. b. Seymour, feed store.
E h. Brown, carpenter shop.
Fisher & Adams, blacksmith shop.
Geo. r Fo!tz. loan and abstract Office
Il. Lynch, shoe shop.
Col. Jesse Brewer, barber shop.
w. a. Romig, tinware store and shop
John Roth, lunch counter.
NJ j. Kain, merchant tailor.
S,lsher & Kirk. carriage factory,
Alliance grocery.
X J. Smith, agricultural implements.
Rock Island Lumber aud Manufactur
luz company.
Worden & Austin, grOcers, partially
destroyed
5. Crane, books and stationery, east enc
OF store room and roof gone
IllV Mail prinfinn nffina ohm oc
ruined.
Sumner county Standard, weekly news
paptr, partially destroyed.
Sunday was double day Of rest for the
people OF Wellington. The city's
Inhabitants had gone through one horri-
Die haunting night of blood curdling,
heartrending experiences, and another day
OF rrscuing the dead from under the piles
OF wrenched, broken and twisted boards
plaster, tin, brick and stone. The great
horde of visitors were, in large part, the
principle spectators on the street, the
citizens Of Wellington remaining indoors
or sitting on their porches and taking q
much needed rest. Wellington, a wrecked
city. never had 50 large number OF peo
pie on her streets in her palmiest days
Fifteen thousand strangers roamed about
the streets and clambered over the ruins
and crawled in and out among the debris.
Wichita, alone, furnished $500 and Win,
field 1900 People came from as far north
us Harrington, Florence and Hutchinson,
and as far west as Medicine Lodge crowds
trouDed in to see the dire work of the
angry elements. Every Kansan had a
curiosity and an anxiety keeuer because
he did not know how soon he, too, would
he victim of the same monster. Around
the principle ruins the militia of yelling.
ton bad strung guide ropes to keep the
over-curious out from among the unsteady
and dangerous walls and foundations. The
members of the militia were in uniform
aud policed the city,
EXAMINING THE TREES
Everything had an intense interest fol
the spectators. The big trees, some two
feet in diameie first claimed the atten-
tion of the analytically inclined and furn.
ished some significant proofs Of the nature
OF the storm. Any number Of these large
cot!onwoods were lying about on the
ground, some falling to the east some to
the west and north and south, all 10 the
same dooryard, indicating the extreme
narrowness of the funnel weapon and
showing its tortuous nature. In one yard
four trees fell to the four points of the
CONFESS, all within thirty feet of one an.
other. thus demonstrating that the funnel
was at this point not over forty feet across
ana was twisting from the west to the
east, for the south tree fell to the east. the
east tree to the north, the north tree tC
the west and the west tree to the south
Strange to say, these fallen trees did not
not one of them, bring single root W
with them, but were torn off level with The
surrounding ground, and the bark about
} the base was twisted aud wrenched, tn,
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