Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-04-08
Town of Tawanda, Kansas, is Totally
Destroyed-Many Fatalities
and Casualties.

people ana seriously OF fatally III uIIHS
many others.
Thomas HuIett's house was immediate
ly in the rear of the seven story brick
building. The family was at supper
when the seven story building fell and
crushed the HueIl residence. Of the
thirteen at the table, the six-.months-old
baby Hulett was crushed to shapeles
mass. Others were pini0ned under the
broken timbcrs and brick and were soon
rescued.
Those instantly killed were:
HORACE MORT, aged 5,
EDDIE MORT, aged q, and
DAVID HULLET, aged six months.
The fatally injured are:
Alice Hulett, aged years,
Mrs. Alea Keown,
Horace Wygant,
Mary Wygant,
James Mott,
Mrs. James Mott,
James Mott, Jr,
Mamie Mott.
James MCGOWAN, wife, son and Mary
Walsh are missing and are supposed to be
in the ruins with but little hope that they
are alive. Gus Dlch, a team
ster, while driving along the street.
was struck by falling tree and severely
injured. Charles Heisler was blown from
q scafolding and received possibly fata!
internal injuries.
In residences adjoining the demolished
structure lived the families of Horace
Wvgant, James Mott and James Meow
an, BESIDES Thomas Hallett, all we're at
home except eight year old lizzie Mott,
and none escaped injury. Up to II P M.
none of those believed to be buried IN the
ruins had been found, and it is feared all
are dead.
The HuIett residence was thrown again s.
that of Thomas Allen, adjoining, and the
family buried under plaster, beams, etc.
Mrs. Allen and daughter were
crushed under a mass of
debris, but escaped without serious
injury. Miss Rach was pinioned against
the stove and frightfully if not fatally
burned before she was rescued. The other
occupants escaped with a few scratches
about the face and hands.
KANSAS CITY. april IA tornado of
mad destructiveness swept over Kansa s
last night. Butler county seems to have
been the scene of the create st havoc
Towanda was wiped off the face of the
earth, and Augusta, few miles distant,
was buffeted out of ali semblance of its
former self. Not house or building was
left standing III Towanda. The town was
asleep when the storm swept down.
Not house or building is left standing
in Towanda. The storm RACED everything
its wake. Four are already recovered
from the ruins searched. Twenty persons
were fatally injured and forty more or less
seriously, besides large number slightly
At Augusta, Hartman Haskins, James
Barnes, an infant child. and Will Rhodes
were killed outright Fifteen others were
all down, and it is impossible to get de-
tailed account from other places.
Tanawanda is a village of thirteen
hundred inhabitants, situated ten miles
west of Eldorado. -Four persons were
killed outright and several fatally hurt
The killed are:
HERsCHILL CUPP.
WILLIAM BARTEL.
DR.. GODFREY.
CHILD OF JOHN BLAKE.
The fatally injured are:
MRS. ROBBINS.
ELMER HAHN.
Mrs. MOONEY.
ALICE THORNTON
GEORGE CORNELIUS AND WIFE.
Among the seriously injured are: Mrs.
Carey, Mrs. Keer, FL. Fl. Gubber and wife
G.. G. Westcott. Lewis Peterborough, l.
Il. Sorter and wife, Frank Channees and
wife; George Maxwell and three children,
VIM. Mitchell, wife and child. Mrs
Blick and Mrs. Horton are injured.
In Kiowa, the Missouri Pacific depot
a. a number of buildings were demol
ished. Though no loss of life is known,
| several mishaps are reported. The dam
age to property is great.
At Washington VIM. Little's house was
wrecked and Little and four children were
killed. Joe Walters house was carried
from the foundation and thirteen inmates
more or less injured. Sam. Butterworth's
house, with the occupants, was carried
several hundred yards and some of the
emily fatally hurt.
| From indications the storm swept across
the country from the Indian Territory
| Though Barbour. Frazier, Sumner and
Butler counties. Villages and farm houses
were carried away as it swept along
! The tornado continued in Kansas
| and northwestern Missouri today,
but was less destructive. South
| beastern Kansas was also visited last
night by ore of the most destructive
storms in years. No fatalities are report
ed, but considerable damage was done
| Atchison was visited by a tornado
today at noon Several large build
ings were unroofed and demolished
and signs and awnings were scatter =
ed in every direction. The Santa Fe
depot was unroofed, the Scholastic con
vent demolished, Thrall & Co. ware
house destroyed, and the grocery store of
Saylor & Co. is in ruins
The prison roof was carried eff
and the building partially demolished.
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