The Red Cloud chief., 1892-06-03
ACYCLONE AT NIGHT
wellington, Kan, Received O Se-
we're Blow.
MANY WERE KILLED and INJURED.
Twelve Persons Known to Have Been
Killed and Upwards OF setenty.ave In
jured-The Dread Visitor Came
About Nine In the Evening.

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jured-The Dread Visitor Came
About Nine In the Evening.
WELLINGTON, Kan, May os.-A ter
iible cyclone, narrowing in all its de-
tails, swept over this city Mt 10 o'clock
lastnight, utterly destroying two blocks
OF business buildings, and under the
heaps of broken bricks and splintered,
twisted timbers scores lie dead or dy-
ing.
Twelve bodies have been taken from
b ruins dead, while fully seventy-fve
are sheltered in an ~improvised
khl from the torrents of rain nov
ing.
Darkness prevented the searchers for
h victims of the winds wild wrath
from doing effective work, and not
till later can any accurate esti-
mate of the number Of dead be made.
The following have been identified:
Mrs. William Sasher, Kittie Strain, X.
Silva, Walter Forsythe, Ida Jones,
Frank ID. Campbell, James HASTE and
Leonard Adamson. Prot. Mayer and
Hart Epson are missing and are proba-
bly, killed.
Lient. William French and Cadet
Samms, of the Salvation army, Mrs.
Murphy and n child named Matte
Hodges are badly injured. Charles
Stoner, Guy Colby, Dick Weaver, Carrie
Mitchell and Ell. Forsythc each received
injuries more or less seriouR
The storm came from the west with
frightful velocity. A few residences in
h western part Of the city were dam
aged, but beyond hat no great loss In
that section Of the city was sustained.
AS it swept in and down upon the cen
trail portion of the town the storm
seemed to grow in cyclonic intensity.
At jefferson avenue the Lutheran
church was totally destroyed. Thence
the storm swerved eastward and in It's
devastating course razed every build
ing in the two blocks bounded by Jof-
ferson avenue, c, Seventh and Ninth
streets.
Outside of this utterly destroyed and
completely ruined district the circling
storm wrought frightful damage.
The Phillips house was crushed ~ n
II were but a house Of cards. Six bodies
have already been taken from this build
ing alone and the fear Is general that
when the debris is cleared away many
other bodies will be found
Every newspaper building In the city
Is wrecked. The Monitor, Press, Peo-
pies Voice, Standard and Daily Mail all
lose everything.
The Wellington foundry, First ward
school building and It is said fully
eighty private residences yielded to the
terrible force of the storm and went
down in shattered heaps. Such a rain
storm followed the fight Of the wind as
no man here ever saw.
The water fell as If the Hoodgates OF
10000 torrents had been loosed ut
once. 1t burdcned the air with the
thunder of its noise and made rivers OF
the streets. So excessive was the down.
fall that immediate organized search
for the dead and injured was impossi-
BILE. and by the time the people Of the
stricken city had recovered from the
great excitement and confusion into
which the storm had cast them the rain
had somewhat abated.
AS the search went on the injured
were carried to the Grand Army hall,
which was speedily converted into a
temporary hospital. In the ruins Of
the stores and under the broken timbers
of the residences 1t is thought that forty
or fifty dead and injured lie victims Of
the storm. The bodies of some may
never be recovered, rs here and there
fire added its consuming horrors to
those of the storm.
Mrs. William Tasher's body lies
buried in the burning ruins of flasher
& Kinks carriage factory. It is known
that the body of her sister, Kittie Stra-
her, is also hidden beneath the mass of
burning debris. X. Silva and Walter
Forsythe were taken out Of the ruins Of
Conrad's restaurant each In q dying
condition, and It Is said have since
died.
Ida Jones, o dining room girl, was
killed In the wreck Of the Phillips
house and Is supposed to have been
struck by o falling timber. Rescuers
are diligently prosecuting the search
for the victims with unremitting en-
ergy.
Among tho more important of the
ruined buildings are the Presbyterian
and Lutheran churches, the old stone
court house, the entire Smith & Spick-
nall brick block, the Stone brick block,
the Cole & Robinson brick block, the
Monitor brick building, and over 100
brick and frame business and residence
buildings are utterly and literally de-
stroyed. The Standard brick building
Is half down. The HASTE, Burgess &
Stone livery stables are blown away.
The streets are impossible and moth
ing but ruin exists everywhere. At
least twelve have already been taken
out of the ruins dead, and something
less than seventy-hve are injured Men
are working everywhere trying to res
cue imprisoned ones.
The Cole e. Robinson block ruins are
on fire, and strenuous efforts are being
made to rescue people known TO be
buried there. The Monitor and Voice
newspaper offices are utterly destroyed
and the Standard Office is demolished.
Large trees were uprooted and car
ried great distances. This Ia the first