People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-08
was little if any over 200 yards wide

The neighbors of the afflicted |
families are doing al in their power to !
relieve their sufferingS.
The report that a live baby was
found on the prairie which had been
carried for a long ways by the cyclone
was as erroneous as it was ridiculous.
Many of the persons who were
carried from their houses and taken
any distance looked the next day like
they had been dragged through a mud
hole.
Many were the persons in the
funeral throng Sunday who were
scratched and bruised up and looked
as if they had passed through cy-
clone, indeed.
occupy greater part of the space
in the paper with cyclone news this
week but still we could fill much more
space and not mention anything that
happened outside of Sumner county.
G. W. Little of Crawford, Kansas,
and H. G. Little of Little River
Kansas, both brothers of the deceased
William Little came to Oxford Satur-
day in response to telegram.
1t seems that the cyclone formed
west of here, did some damage at
Kiowa, Barber county, took a circle
through the territory then turned and
entered the state at the south line of
this county.
Our Mulvane informant tells of a
very queer freak at one place. The
house and everything was totally de-
StrOyed, but large mirror was found
a long ways from where the house
stood and it was not aa much as crack
ed,
Chapman Alliance, of which Bro
Little was a worthy member, will meet
Saturday evening, April 8, at call of
the president to pass resolutions of
coincidence and assist in the relief of
the grief stricken family, a copy of
which will be furnished to the VOICE.
A terrible hail storm prevailed during
the cyclone and added to the terror.
Great holes can be seen in the ground
all along its path. The hail stones
were very large and we heard several
persons say they saw hail-StOneS larger
than hen eggs.
The writer and Charley Keir of
Oxford while out looking to see what
could be found, discovered tire from
Mr.. Titles spring wagon over a mile
from where the wagon was standing
1t was broken in two and twisted out
Of shape. No other part of the wagon
was found near it and Mr.. Keir said he
knew the tire came off Titles spring
wagon. This is only one of hundreds
of strange freaks it performed.
A mass meeting was called here for
Monday night and committees were
appointed to solicit aid for the suffer-
ers. Over five hundred dollars was
subscribed in a short time and all
donations of clothing, household
articles, ETC., are being taken to the
room formerly occupied by the express
companies. Surely there is not a
person in this town who is able that
will not give something toward the
relief of these unfortunate people.
They are our neighbors and while we
know they will not be allowed to suffer
want, it is our duty to help them get
another start. Most of them have to
start again with simply nothing, the
same as if they had been dropped here
from some other planet. Anything
you can bring will be of use to some
body, and remember there are great
many of these families who need help.
The smaller towns along the line of
the cyclone that were not touched are
making noble donations, so we hear.
We have attempted in the above to
give an account of the work of this
tornado, but it is impossible to tell the
half and the nponle hero reali7a II