Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-02

NOT 4 BuILDrNo LIFT STANDING At rowANpA,
KAN.-oP THs EIaBTY FAMILIES EVERY ONE Is
MoURNIxo-TALL OF a 6ue CHICAGO BUILD
ING.
As details Of the recent cyclone in the west
are learned more distressing state of affairs
IL disclosed than was intimated in the dis
| patches to last evenings STAR
The tornado entirely DESTROYED Towanda,
Kan. killing twenty people; wrecked Augusta,
killing four. and seriously injuring many
others; did great damage at Wellington, kill
ing several, and demolished several buildings
at Kiowa Not house or building was left
standing in Towanda. The town was asleep
W hen the storm swept down. rased everything
in in path, and left dead bodies living in
its wake. Four dead bodies have been re-
covered from the ruins already searched.
Twenty persons are fatally hurt and forty
more seriously injured, besides large number
| more or less manned.
| MOURNING IN rowANpA.
| Towanda is village Of 1900 inhabitants sit
uated ten miles west of Eldorado. The storm
laid the whole town fat with the earth, and left
not single house standing. or the eighty fam
lilies comprising the population there is not one
That Is not either mourning for n dead or dying
member or sorrowing with the suffering. Four
persons were killed outright, and several are SO
| badly injured that they cannot live
The killed are Herchid Cupp. William BARLEY,
Or. d. ID. Godfrey. infant child of John Blake.
Fatally wounded-Little girl blown from second
story OF hotel, distance of $50 feet. badly
crushed; Mrs g. A. Robbins. skull frac' red
| by flying timbers; Elmer Hahn, iaternu in
jured; Mrs. Walter Mooney, head crushed;
Alice Thornton, George Cornelius and wife.
badly crushed.
| Among those seriously injured are A. Roche,
Mrs. Tcne Carey. Mrs. John Kerr. H. H. Gu
Der and wife, Z. c. Wescott. Louis Peterbo-
| rough. Mr.. and Mrs. J. n. Sorter, Frank Cheel
and vile, George Maxwell and three children.
| W lillian Mitchell. wife and child. Mrs. Homer
Blick, Mrs. Morton and young son. Postmaster
Gordon. Many others were less seriously hurt
Physicians are attending the wounded. They
came from Eidorado on the first train, and but
for their timely assistance many more OF those
| injured must have died.
At Strong City the storm ragged furiously
The house of Joseph Glarze was completely de-
| molished.
The house of James Glassen was completely
demolished. His wife, son and child were
| Killed outright Several others were injured,
| but none fatally.
| OTHER PLACES IN KANSAS.
At Augusta three we're killed outright Har-
mon Hoskins, James Barnes and the infant
child of Will Rhodes, who was blown out of his
mothers arms and dashed against u brick wall
Rhodes himself is fatally injured. as is also the
wife of Harmon Hoskius. Fifteen others were
| hurt more or less seriously. according to pres
ent reports, but all wires are down and it is i'm
possible to get any detailed account from
| either place.
Apparently, the same storm touched at
hiowa and Wellington In Kiowa the Mis-
souri, Pacific depot and a number of dwellings
and buildings were demolished, and, though
| no loss OF lie Is known. several minor mishaps
are reported. The damage to property is said
| to be great. Wellington and vicinity suffered
considerably and several people were killed.
| VIM. Llttles house, south OF Wellington. was
| blown to splinters and Little and four children
| were killed.
Joe Walton's house was picked up and thir-
teen OF the occupants were more or less
| injured.
samuel Butterworth's house and its occu-
pants were carried 800 yards in the air and
| some OF the family were fatally hurt.
| PATH OF THE STORM.
The storm, as far as can be determined. swept
across the country from the Indian territory,
in the southwest part Of Barber county, Kan
sas, taking the little town of Kiowa in its path.
In northeasterly direction, it passed through
| Frazier county and through the center Of Sum-
| ner county. Bending a bow. it passed
almost directly north, through the remainder
of Sumner county and along the western part
| Vi cOuHty. NIidStb anu ldTul houses
| were carried away as it swept along. The tor
| nado continued Ill Kansas and the north western
part OF Missouri yesterday, but was less de-
structive.
| A dispatch from Fort Scott states that sor m
| eastern Kansas visited Thursday nigh, by
| one OF the strongest wind storms for years. No
| reports OF injuries to persons have been re-
ceived, though many country barns and their
| outbuildings and haystacks and occasionally
well-constructed residence we're destroyed
Thn, III
a hurricane and blew away part of the roof of
| the great Western stove works. and work was
| suspended for the day. Men were put to work
| to securely anchor 1t.
| The tin roof of Carwird's Opera House and
| the roof of the Caldwell building on Delaware
street were blown away at noon.
At ST. Josephs nearly every telegraph and
telephone wire in the city has been torn down,
numerous small houses demolished and many
| large ones unroofed. Thousands OF dollars
worth of damage was caused by the breaking of
| plate glass in store windows. In the eastern
part OF the city n brick house was blown down.
burying Tillie Bushnell, aged seven years, and
seriously injuring her. At the factory of
Iootle, Hosea q Co. there was a stampede of the
| several hundred girls. About 10 O clock a vio-
| lent gust OF wind tore portion OF the roof off
the factory. No one was injured, however.
BLOWING EIGHTY-FoUR MILES AN HOUR.
| dispatch from Lawrence. Kan. says: THE
wind has been blowing a gale here since mid
night. Observations taken by Chancellor Snow
of the State University showed that the wind at
| times attained velocity of eighty-four miles
an hour. Many buildings were unroofed and
outhouses demolished. The roof Of the Haskell
Hospital was blown away and it was necessary
to anchor the building with cables to prevent
| their blowing over. No one was injured, and
the patients at tho hospital are being cared for
| elsewhere.
In Kansas City the wind reached velocity
of sixty-four miles. The damage consisted
principally of roofs blown away and plate glass
| windows broken. The roof the high school at
Locust and 18th streets was blown of. There
was panic, but school was dismissed, it being
feared that the building was unsafe. There
has been no loss Of life. The greatest damage
was suffered by the telegraph companies The
| Western Union reports no communication
whatever with points west Of the center of the
state of Kansas and has but q few workable
wires east.
| IN TIE CYCLONES TRACK.
At Olathe, Kan, the general store Of Mariner
& Marvin was partially wrecked. Farm houses
and stables in the country were unroofed, but
no one injured.
At Marshall, No., considerable damage was
done the cupola Of the Methodist Church,
which. was blown down. Plate glass windows
were blown in and roofs carried away. At Sa-
lina Kan. the house of NJ. A. Brather was car
ried from Its foundation and wrecked. The
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