The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-02

tanned, but 1t is known Many Lives
We're Lost.
KANSAS Cry, No., April IA report
has been received by the Western Union
rom Augusta, Kas., that a cyclone
struck that town late last night and did
great damage. The report also states n
lumber Of lives were lost. There is no
Geographic communication with Au-
cu:ta or any point in that vicinity, and
no details OF the disaster can be learned.
Last nights tornado entirely destroy
cd Towanda, Kas., killing twenty poo.
ple;wreclied Augusta, killing four and
seriously iniuring many others; doing
great damage at Wellington, killing
several, and demolished several build
ings at Jiown. Particulars may be diff
cult to obtain on account OF continued
prostration OF telesraphic service.
4 later dispatch says: A tornado OF
mad destructivcness swept over Kansas
last night. Butler county seems TO
have been the scene OF the greatest
havoc. The town OF Towanda was en-
tirely wiped oil the face OF the earth,
and Augusta, a few miles distant, was
buiIetcd out Of all semblancc to its
former sell. Not a house or building
was left standing in Towanda.
The town was asleep when the storm
swept down OIL it. The roof OF the
Great Western machine works was
lifted several feet at onco and dropped
again.
4 dispatch from Lawrence, Kas..
says: "The wind has been blowing n
'gale here since midnight. Observations
taken BY Chancellor Snow, OF the state
university, showed that tho wind at
times attained velocity Of cighty-four
miles IN hour. Many buildings we're
unrooied and outhouscs demolished.
No one was injured and the patients at
the hospital are being cared for"
IN KANSAS CITY. -.
In this city (kansas City the wind
reached 4 velocity OF sixty-iour miles.
The damage consisted principally OF
roofs being blown away and plate glass
windows broken. Tho roof OF an apart
ment house at 10th and Charlotte
streets was blown away and grocery
store on Ninth street and Troost avenue
lost its roof aud portion OF its front.
Signs were blown down all over the
city, some OF them crashing through
costly plate glass windows in the center
OF the business portion OF the city.
Telephone wires throughout the city
were prostratcd. The smoke stack oi
tha power house on the northeast cleo.
tric line was topplcd over. There has
been no loss Of lie. The greatest dam
age was suffered by tho telegraph COM
panics. The Western Union reports no
communication whatever with points
west OF tho center OF the state OF Kansas
and but few workable wires east. :
LIVES LOST.
-Four dead bodies have been recovered
from the ruins already searched at
Towanda. Twenty persons are fatally
hurt and forty moro seriously. injured,
besides q largo number more or less
manned.
At Augusta three were killed out
right, james Barnes and the infant
child OF Will Rhodes, who wss blown
out oi his mothers arms and dashed
against brick wall. Rhodes himself is
fatally injured, MS is also the wife OF
Harmon lloskins. Fifteen others were
hurt more or less seriously injured ac-
cof'iilng TO present reports, but all wires
are down and it is impossible to get any
detailed account from either place.
Apparently tho same storm touched
Now Nova and Wellington. In kiowa the
Missouri Pacific depot and a number OF
dwellings, were demolished md though
no loss OF life is known, several minor
mishaps are reported. Tic damage to
property is said to be great. Welling.
ION and vicinity suffered considerably
"NM several people were killed.
WIN. littlc's house at South yelling.
ION was blown to splinters, and Little
ana iour children wure filed. Joe Wal.
yrs house was picked up and thirteen
jurcd. 80 - -
Sam Buttcrworths house and its oc.
cupants were carriedS0O yards in the air
hurt @ '
AWFUL DESTRUCTION.
Inc storm swept across the country
from iron The Indian Territory, in the south.
western part OF Barber county, Kansas
'aking the little town OF Kiowa in its
PAIN. Ina northoasterly direction i,
passed through Frazier county and
VfntonSh the center OF Sumner county.
nenning as bow, it passed almost di-
,ectIy north. Villages and farm houses
were carried away rs itswept along.
a dispatch from Fort Scott states tha,
seuthwesttrn Kansas was visited last
M'Sht by ono OF the strongest wind
shs ssaorihs ior, years. Many hay stacks,
uarhs s, and outbuildings and weakly con,
'",uctea residences were wrecked.
AZ Atchlson the gale began at mid.
n'Sht last night, but no damage tc
'Ip GIpeaS OF was done until nearly noon TO-
oaE' when tornado visited the city
ILnu I Inrooiod and demolished severa
",,, "mSG buildings and scattered signs ant
SS"a.'hcs in every direction. Tho ware
,Se Iouse OF Thrall & Co. was destroyed aut
,,I %s grocery Of the Saylor Company is ir
Inc roof OF the prison was corr;ed os