The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-31

Were you carried, Mr.. Willard, that is,
| did you know you were in the air.''
mo, sir do not remember thing, be
| tween the time when / was Frustrated and
when L found myself on my knees two
blocks away"
Then you might have been run along
the ground"
Yes, that it true Bat the reason be-
Iieve my transit was in the air, is because
| between the place / started and the place
/ fell, there are trees, houses, hedges and
wells, which had I been on foot. might
have barred further progress on my part y
OTHER EXPERIENCES.
| Mrs DR.. Parker, who has furnished
rooms up stairs across the street from the
Phillips House was watching the storm.
| II walked to the front window" she says,
| land looked out I could see the barber
across the street in the shop. shaving Jim
| HASTE walked around the room once
| and came back again and everything was
swept away. 1t was done that quickly"
! jim HASTE and the barber were both
/ killed =
| Mrs = H Winters the wife of the chief
/ train dispatcher, was carried out from
their house into the yard. Mrs. Winters
| saw hard coal stove pass over her head
! She and her husband were both pinned
down. While they were trying to extri-
cate themselves. something fell close to
them with a dull thud. Later investiga-
I ton showed their narrow escape IL was
the square piano-forte. up side down. The
tornado took Mrs. Winters shoes and
stockings and her wedding ring off.
| John Beck, farmer living one mile
west, said he watched the storm. There
were four funnel shaped clouds at each
point of the compass. After while they
all came together with a roar and dipped
three times and then disappeared
Little Sumner Brown was among those
who was carried away by the wind, He
was sleeping soundly in bed and when he
awoke he was under a pile of boards a
block away from home.
W. Fl. Tucker, the proprietor of the
Phillips house, was on the first floor OF
that hotel. He is powerful man and he
| bumped his back and bore up partition
wall that started to fall in. Under him he
| put his wife and child, and although the
up till help came.
wagon, was coming up from the Rock Is
land depot on Harvey avenue when the
wind strucb him. He was dumped On the
ground and saw his horses and wagon
! picked up by the wind aud carried over a
! block.
Charles Case was at the head of two
! horses hitched to a cab in front Of the
Arlington hotel He remained through
the storm and says he could plainly see
the vehicle rise three feet in the air and
stagger the horses.
| Ed Forsythe was gotten out of twenty
| feet of brick at o'clock in the morning
They took him home on a stretcher. His
| father had also been hurt and the excite
ment upon seeing his son threw him into
an epileptic fit. The scene was very
pathetic. Young Forsythe lost conscious
ness on reaching home and remained so
until he died. His skull WAS crushed.
Trepanning was tried but was Of no avail
Upon the clothes of another dead man,
Frank Campbell, was found telegram
just received from his wife. who was visit
ing in Kentucky, saying that she would
return next evening.
Mrs. Murphy was buried in her house.
E. B. Jones, ticket agent of the Santa Fe,
heard her cries and rescued her. Without
inquiring who he was, she almost Rugged
the breath out of him IN the fullness OF her
gratitude.
w. c. Borgess. and wife were in bed. The
brick walls of the building fell and all
about them, but fortunately not brick
struck the bed.
The family of W. A Wren had just come
to Kansas from Illinois last week, and oc-
cupied large house il the west part of
town. The house was picked up and
turned half way around. The front of the
house was full of scantlings and presented
the appearance of a target
ARE THERE MORE IN THE RUINS.
1t is not yet certain that all the
bodies have been recovered. There
are two or three men upaccounted
for The work of clearing away the big
piles OF plaster, brick and wood goes on
and it may result in bringing more corpses
to light.
ANOTHER TORNADO.
Sunday afternoon, while the spectators
were taking in the sights, man on the
top of building announced that another
tornado was insight. Everybody ran to
places where an unobstructed view could
be had and saw a funnel shaped cloud.
Men down near the Rock Island depot
claimed they could hear it roaring. This
was evidently the Caldwell tornado. 1t
excited the Wellington people greatly.
Their nerves .are in a dreadfalsconditio
and the least rumor upsets them.
THE FUNERALS.
Sunday afternoon union funeral service
were held at the First n. Z. church at
Wellington. Tie building was crowded
TO suffocatiou. Six collins, four black ones
aud two white, formed sorrowful line,
end TO end in front of the altar The
funeral procession filed out 10 the cemetery
at o'clock, there being Que hearse, the
rest OF the collins resting in spring wagons.
Those that were buried were Mrs Sasher,
Kitty Strain, John Adamson, Hart
Epson, Jim HASTE aud James Mayor.
WELLINGTON NEEDS AID.
While Wellington is not asking il, it
is evident that the town needs
aid and needs it badly Sunday, contribu-
tions were asked and received. There are
thirty or forty families who are without
money, clothes or shelter. The citizens If
the town feel that If they ask help, II viii
set the story afioat that their town Is hope
lessly destroyed and pauperized. For the
sake of the general name Of Wellington
and Kansas, they have RETAINED from is
suing a general call for assistance How
ever. they need it and those ehsritabIy liz
clined, may rest assured taat al contribu-
tons and donations, while nos asked, viii
be thankfully received