Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-04-07
WINDS AWFUL WORK.
A Cyclone Vents It's Fury Upon
Kansas Towns.
Over a Score of Persons Killed and Much
Property Destroyed-OtherN Northwest
ern States visited-Liyes Lost
in Chicago.
IN KANSAS.

over Kansas thursday night. Butler
county seems to have been the scene OF
the greatest havoc. The town of To
wanda was entirely wiped off the face
of the earth and Augusta, few miles
distant, was buffeted out of all sem
blance to its former self.
Towanda is village of 500 inhabit-
ants, situated 10 miles west of Eiiora-
do. The storm laid the whole town
fat with the earth and left not single
house standing. OF the eighty families
composing the population there is not
one that is not either mourning for a
-7dead or dying member or sorrowing
with the suffering. The killed are:
James Bailey, John Blake Herschel Cupp,
William BARLEY, DR.. ID. d. Godfrey, infant
child of John Blake.
Those fatally wounded are:
Little girl blown from second story Of hotel,
a distance of $50 feet. badly crushed; Mrs G. A
Robbins, skull fractured by flying timbers; Ell
mer Ham, internally injured; Mrs Walter
Mooney, side crushed; Alice Thornton; George
Cornelius and wife. badly crushed.
At Augusta three were killed outright
Harmon Haskins, James Barnes and a
little child of VIII Rhodes, who was
blown out of his mothers arms and
dashed against brick wall. Rhodes
himself is fatally injured, as is also the
wife of Harmon Haskins. Fifteen
Others were hurt more or less seriously,
according to present reports, but all
wires are down and it is impossible to
get any detailed account from other
places.
WalliprfoD o1d ,y;o;n;t,- s,,Farad oo,,
siderably and several people were
killed. William Titles house, south
of Wellington, was blown to pieces
and Little and his four children were
killed. Joe Walters house was picked
up and thirteen of the occupants were
more or less injured. Sam Butter
worth's house and its occupants were
carried 500 yards in the air. and some
of the family were badly hurt.
South Haven suffered severely from
the storm both in the way of material
damage and in the number of lives lost
The house of John Moorehouse was lev.
eled to the ground and Moore house and
one child was killed, other members OF
the family escaping. John Bur
masters house was crushed like an
eggshell and the whole family was
killed in an instant. They are: John
Burmaster, wife and three children
Mrs. Frank Sheppard was killed by fly
ing timbers. A score of other people
were injured in the storm, but it is be-
lieved no more fatalities occurred.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April As the
telegraph service is being reestablished
through the storm-swept district OF
Kansas many strange stories are being
brought in about the freaks of
the wind which caused so much
devastation all over the west
ern part of the state. The list of
dead and injured is increased with
every new report re ceived and it is now
estimated that the list of fatalities viii
reach sixty within the state border,
while three are reported killed at Okla
homa.
The following is the estimate placed
on the dead and wounded as near as il
can be ascertained at this time: South
Haven, eight dead and thirty-two in
jured; Wellington, four dead and TWEEN
tythree injured; on farms between
these two towns, five dead and nine in
jured; Towanda, seventeen dead and
forty-fve wounded; Augusta, seven
death and nineteen injured; Homestead,
five dead and seven injured; Strong
City, two dead and eight wounded; Sa-
lima, fifteen injured, three fatally.
These towns are the only ones from
which anything like a definite report
has been obtained, but from meager
reports received the dead at other
places will make up the estimate of
sixty, as stated above.
SALINA, Kan, April 4.-Reports from
various parts of TIE country bring news
of great disaster caused by the storm
Thursday night. The little village of
Vine Creek was wiped out. At Smolar
ever house is demolished and one child
reported killed. Oakville, a small viii
lsge, is blown away and not house
left standing. Several were injured
there but not seriously.
IN TEXAS.
SANTA ANNA, Tex, April Friday
night cyclone passed over this Cole
mani county. In this city many houses
were demolished. A boy was killed
and eleven inmates of the residence of
Mr. Bass were injured. At Bangs four
persons were killed Wires are pros
trated and it is impossible to obtain
details.
IN NEBRASKA.
OMAHA, Neb., April Friday after
noon at Norfolk the Episcopal church
was entirely destroyed The Congre-
gational church was unroofed and its
steeple and bell carried away. Whea-
tons planning mill was partly wrecked
and fifteen houses and barns were de-
molished. The cyclone swept track
through the city three blocks wide and
ten blocks in length. The little daugh-
ter of Mike Weir and a child of John
Palmer were seriously injured by fall
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