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

| aud bright future lay before them.
! When the flames were conquered hardy
baud Of men began delving into the ruins
and in due time appeared with both
bodies. but so badly burned that ut mere
touch Of the finger the skin would slip
from the flesh.
The Conrad hotel, or boarding house,
was also reduced to splinters aud dust
and, in fact, the entire brick block of
which it was but one Of four houses Il
/ was here the calls of Ell Forsythe were
heard He was in the rear end Of his
building when the walls caved in and
buried him six feet. His cries were rec.
Ognized, and another band OF men began
delving into this pile of pulverized brick
aud mortar After three solid hours
work he was reached and conveyed 10 his
home. His wounds were considered not
Fatal till late this evening, when lie was
pronounced in dying condition. Two
others were slightly hurt.
1t WAS IN the Conrad building that poor
iAdamson also received his death wound.
The Monitor, Press, Standard, Mail aud
| Voice offices were all wrecked. and not n
newspaper in town was thought TO be left
to chronicle its destruction. It was a
mistake to think so; for before O'Clock il !
the morning sign was posted up in |
conspicuous place stating that the Mai,
would be out on time, as usual To ser
the Mall Office at the time this bulletin,
was posted one would think it would b.
impossible to issue a paper from thu
ONCE Tor at least month; but the
determination Of the Young American IL
great, and at O'Clock Mr.. Bahama was
selling copies Of the Mail like hot cakes on.
the street E itor Herring of the Standard.
also demonstrated the superior stuff h
was made of; foa at 1880 in he morning he,
had corps Of men rebuilding his office
Both The Monitor Office and the Voice ar (
such complete wrecks that it is not ex,
pected that anything Of any value will or
can ever be recovered.
Every window in that section OF the city
over winch the storm Travelled is broken
as completely smashed and shattered AS ii
dynam te had exploded in front of eacI
window. 1t is unnecessary to particullrizs
any further here. Wellington is in ruins
beyond the power of pencil to describe on
brush to pOrtrays The scenes Of last night
Will be remembered for long time by
th0Se who went through them, and when
The boys and girls OF today will have st.
tanned the age of ripe old graudsires and
grandames they will remember them
wildly enough to recite them to the
grandchildren of their generations.
CYCLONE FREAKS.
The story told by W. Shapfer. Joseph
Worden, J. A. Bolinger aud X. Adams is
the strangest freak OF all. They were in
| Shuafarfs at IN . h,,alr l,,sll;.s.
the corner Of Washington avenue and
Seventh street, when the cyclone carried
away the rear wall OF the building The
wind dashed them up against the front
door, withdrew them as it were, and by
good luck BOlinger and Schaefer found a
friendly counter under which they hid At
this time the gas went out and terrible
flash of lightning fitting through the
air revealed Il feed box to them. They
rushed for the box, and when they had
about half way reached it the twister
picked both Of them up, dragged them
along the ceiling, out of the opening
caused by the collapse of the wall, and
carried them distance of 40 feet toward
A street. where it laid Bolinger down at
the foot Of a tree, while Shaefer got q re-
served seat on the limbs.
Dr. Keys, the Presbyterian minister,
started out to lock the stable door after
the storm, but instead OF finding the stable
in It's usual place he found it completely
demolished and the horse browsing Judo
lently in the nicely kept lawn.
Engineer Charlie Marsh owned an old
hen aud brood of young chickens, which
were dOmesticated in an empty barrel. Tbs
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the yard at the rate OF 100 miles an hour
took 1t up in tine air several feet and then
planted it in the ground so firmly between
TWO trees that it was with difficulty the
stout engineer moved it. In all the cir.
cumlOcutions of the barrel not a chicken
was spilled.
A Mrs. Mcdonald, who lived on A street,
when the storm set in sought safety 10
flight to neighbours house across the way
When she reached the middle of \ street
she was lifted twenty feet in the air and
gently dropped down again. She lost d
dress in the ascension.
When the cyclone struck the Standard
block the national guards were drilling in
the armOry. When the rear wall wa,
taken away young Bollinger was also
taken with it and landed about seventy,
five feet on A street. Cropping around there
b. ind woman with barely any clothe,
Oh her back. Upon being asked where she
had been taken from she replied that she
had been taken from the Alliance store, q
BLOCK and one-half away. The cvclon,
stripped most of her clot ling off Sh,
must have been completely lifted over two
houses TO reach the spot where she was
found.
In looking for sick people who needed
medical assistance a man named Osborn
encountered young man standing M
against a tree. He saw him twice later il
the same position, and thinking it strange
he concluded to speak to the young MAJ
aud got no reply. A little personal inve,ti
cation proved thst the young man wa,
: actually Unconscious while standing erec
, on his feet. Doctors were summoned
who restored him 10 consciousness. hi
\ 1nconcinusness grew out OF fright.
A residence on Jefferson avenue occu
pied by Mrs. Wsehart was turned com
; pletely around and left with the bacl
door of the kitchen facing toward til,
, front gate.
! j. E. Hale, when the wind struck hi
house, tried to close a transom. B.ing
unable to succeed he called his two daugh
tiers TO his assistance. When they arrive,
the house went to pieces and as he grabbe,
{ each Of the girls around the waist the
? three were picked uD and carried through
D the air. When they recovered conscious
d ness. Hale was lying in gutter in th
d roadside while his daughters were Il
| feet from him.
|. John Willard entered the Conrad houS
!. as the storm struck II, and the first thin!
4 he knew he was standing on A street
4 block away, having been snatched from
Z the building as the roof raised and tn
rear wall gave way, and uucOnciou,l
4 taken the distance Of a full block. In hi
flight through the air he uncOnciOusl
b. grasped flying umbrella and held i
L firmly in his hand when he had landed OF
t street
!. When the twister struck the women i
4 Mr.. Winters family il absolutely strip
= ped them naked. It even took the stock
Z lngs from the feet OF Mrs. Winters.
e Que family near the corner Of Sevent
It and A streets had 2iS chickens before th
n cyclone: now they have but three an