The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1892-04-07
Hurled Long Distances.
HUMAN BEINGS THE CRUEL SPORT OF A
TORN ADO. ENTIRE SOUTHWESTERN

HUMAN BEINGS THE CRUEL SPORT OF A
TORNADO. ENTIRE SOUTHWESTERN
KANSAS VISITED.
WICHITA, Kan, April ). The fierce
wind storm which began Thursday even
ing about 9 o'clock has blown over, but
the havoc which marks it's course will
take time to repair. The tornado swept
the entire southwest part of Kansas, reach
ing from kiowa, along the southern bor-
der of the State to South Haven, from
there northeast through Sumner county,
round by Mulvane to Towanda and Angus
ta, in Butler county, and thence to
Florence and along the Sante Fe main
line. Death and destruction were left
everywhere, but the details of the disas-
trous wreck accomplished are slow in
coming in.
At Towanda, in Butler couny, three
more OF the injured have succumbed name
ly Miss Anna Robbins, the P0stmistress,
Ferd Maxwell and Ira Hixon.
Two more dead bodies have been found
on the prairie, these being Jesse Wilkins
and Mrs. jesse wilkins. They were lift
ed out of their house. and dashed to death
a quarter OF Il mile distant The first
storm news in the vicinity of Lorena, south
of Towanda was received last night, and
it tells of wide havoc to buildings. gram
aries and stock. Mrs. Henry Gof was
blown through a hedge and wire fence and
suffered injuries from which she has since
died
ID. Smith, wife and children received
some in uries in the same way, and James
Mcpherson and wife We're found dead in
the creek some distance from their shat
tered house.
At Rose Hill, Mrs. Tinney had leg
torn Off by the wind and died this morn
ing Mrs Brantfeld West had her body
pierced by splinter and is dying.
The village of De Gratitt, in Butler
county, was annihilated, and of the 60 in
habitants half dozen are reported fatally
injured.
At Eureka, Greenwood county, Mrs.
Mary Rize was killed by flying timbers.
Near Florence, Marion county, railroad
officials report the killing of several people
whose names have not been procured, and
in the northwest corner of Cowley county,
Bashnell, a small place, was totally wreck
ed, and the few inhabitants were carried
in all directions, many of them seriously,
though Miss Harriet Morse is the only one
known to be fatally injured.
North of this place, j. o. killian, a
farmer, was buried in the debris of his
house and cannot live. Henry, Willis and
Jake Tins are among the fatally injured
in this locality, and Mrs. George Brad
field is numbered among the killed.
The cyclone passed two miles east of
Lewisville, striking the farm house Of Al
bert Eggers. Nothing but the foundation
was left Of the buildings. -Four persons
met their death-Mrs. Eggers, her two
children and a farm hand.
When young Eggers became conscious
he was wandering about the farm with a
broken arm and some other bruises. His
wife was discovered a few hours later, dead
with one child closely held to her breast.
The other one was found at a greater dis
tance away, while young johnson was
fully half a mile north of where the house
stood, on j. w. Arnold farm, fearfully
crushed.
The towns of New Haven and Smolan
were wiped out by the storm in Kansas.
About a dozen towns were damaged.
Only one person was killed at Smolan, as
the people took to their cellars. The
death roll OF so is still believed to be in
complete. OF the so dead n were killed
outright and % were fatally injured and
have since died.
Towanda is a village OF 300 inhabi-
tants, situated ten miles west of Eldorado.
The storm laid the whole town fiat witt
the earth, and left not single house
standing. OF the eighty families com
prising the population there is not one
that is not either mourning for dead ol
dying member OF sorrowing with the suf
fering. Four persons were killed out
right, and several are so badly injured
that they cannot live.