The Red Cloud chief., 1892-04-08
STORM SWEPT.
Pretty General Throughout Kansas
and Nebraska.
TOWANDA, EiN., IS DESTROYED,
But One House Remaining Five Men
Killed and Forty to Fifty Seriously In
jured Strong City Suffered Serious
ly-Iepo-ts From Various Places.

WICHITA, L., April I'm the four
counties of Barber, Butler, Sumner and
Rice Thursday nights tornado touched
at least twenty places with a fury which
suggested the hand of n cyclone, and
left behind it in each instance either
dead to be mourned or wounded or help
less ones to wall.
The greatest calamity reported is from
the little town of Towanda, eighteen
miles west of here upon the st. Louis
and San Francisco railroad whose pop
ulation yesterday numbered about 800
souls. This village lies now in absolute
ruin. In its whole area but n house
remains unframed, not more than half
a dozen others, with ruined chimneys
and broken windows, wrenched,
wrecked and roofless, even stand upon
their foundations. Over the prairie lie
the scattered remnants Of the rest shat
but yesterday were homes.
The dead number four. They are:
John ID. Godfrey. aged IS, retired physi-
clan; Herschel Cupp, aged 81, son of
Daniel Cupp, one of the oldest settlers
of Kansas: John Bailey. aged 81, rail-
road laborer; ~six-year-old child of John
Blake. merchant.
Those fatally hurt are: Miss Annie
Robbins, aged So, postmistress. broken
arm, lung pierced, bruised owe face and
body and injured internally: Mrs. John
i. Kerr, back and shoulder bruised and
injured internally; Earl Kerr, aged II,
skull badly fractured: Fern Maxwell,
aged S, skull fractured: c. l.. Westcate,
aged so, skull fractured and injured in
ternally.
The seriously injured are: .
Efie Kerr. aged Is, bruised about hips
and scalp wounds; Willie Maxwell,
aged II, serious scalp wounds; Elmore
Hall, badly bruised about head: baby of
Gilmore Hall, leg broken; Mrs. Cory.
three ribs broken and badly bruised;
Mrs. Walter Mooney, fractured clavicle
and fractured skull; William Mitchell,
hut internally: Miss Lucy Poorbaugh,
hip bone broken; Mrs George Cornelius,
three ribs broken; Mrs. William Mitch
ell. collar bone broken and injured in
back of head: VI. III. Gibbs, three ribs
broken and internal injuries; Walter
Mooney, wounded in side and skull
slightly fractured; Myrtle Mooney,
aged ,, skull fractured.
Augusta. a country town south OF
Towanda, was partly destroyed by the
storm. Every house there in h track
of the storm was swept away. The
dead are:
Albert Barnes. aged %, farmer; Baby
of william f. Hoades; Harmon Hos
kins. aged so, farmer.
Among the list of dangerously in
jured are:
William r. Hoades, bruised and in
jured internally: Mrs Harmon Hoskins
and baby, both bruised; Thomas Smith,
injured about head and shoulders; Mrs.
Thomas Smith. injured internally; Hec-
bert Abbot and wife, scalp wound N
numerous other serious bruises.
Near the Oxford bridge, in Sumner
county. a few miles south of Yelling
ton. the cyclone struck the farm house
of Joseph Showalter, wrecking the
house and injuring every n Of the
thirteen members of the family. Mrs.
Showalter and two of the family may
die.
Just north of Showalter's it demolished
the house of William Little, killing him
and four children instantly. Every
horse in Little's stable was also killed.
Of the nine members of Samuel But
terworth's family in his farm house in
the storms path only his daughter was
seriously hurt. -Four members of the
family were carried over three hundred
wards from the house. Every farm
house and barn in that vicinity was
damaged.
The cyclone did great damage on the
eastern outskirts of South Haven, a
small town in Sumner county, twelve
miles from the Indian territory. The
farm house of Benjamin III. Maple was
torn down and Maple and his young son
We're probably fatally hurt. Arthur
Merchant. a farmer, was injured seri-
cuslv internally. John Bernaster, his
wife and three small children We're IN
iured more or less seriously. Stalker
Graves and Mrs. Frank Shepard were
also among South Ravens list of serious
IL injured. Fully fifty farm houses east
o. South Haven were demolished n
there were over 100 people slightly in
jured.
There was considerable damage IN
Wichita. A cooper shop and the old
Santa Re hotel We're blown Town and a
number of houses in west Wichita were
unroofed.
Pat Martin. a farmer living a few
miles south of Wichita, was fatally hurt
10y the collapse of his house during the
storm.
Trainmen arriving at IL O'Clock last
night from Kiowa, Kan. report That
several houses and the railroad depot
were blown down there but NO one was
seriously hurt.
IN
OMAHA. Neb.. April AT Flats
mouth immense damage was done to
trees. fences. outbuildings and crops.
The roof of Hon. I. Z. Whites residence
was blown off. as was that OF the Perk-
ins hotel. The roof on the barn on the
farm of Martin Propst, south OF town,
was blown off. entailing a loss OF 5000.
At Sterling the work OF the cyclone
a oo,4nad ~ the wrecking OF out