The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-02
THE STORMS WORK
Entire Villages Swept Away in
Kansas.
MANY PEOPLE KILLED OUTRIGHT
Missouri Is Also Visited by the Tornado
Houses Uuroofed-Great Financial
Loss-SOme Incidents.

KANSAS CITY, April The tornado's
mad destructiveness swept over Kansas
last night. Butler county seems to have
suffered the greatest havoc. Tonawapd
was wiped OFF from the face of the earth
and Augusta, four miles distant, was buff
1eted out OF all semblance to its former
self. AT Touawand the town was asleep
when the storm swept down, and not
house or building was left stand
irg. The storm RACED everything in
Its path and left dead bodies lying in its
wake. -Four have already been recovered
from the ruins searched. Twenty persons
are fatally injured and forty more or less
seriously, besides large number slightly
injured. AT Augusta, Herman Haskills,
James Barnes and an infant child of
VIII Rhodes were killed outright. Fifteen
Othefs were hurt more or less seriously
The wires are all down, and tits impossi-
bic to get detailed account from either
place.
In kiowa, Mo, the Pacific depot and q
number OF buildings were demolished.
Though no loss of life is known, several
mlshaps are reported. The damage
TO property is great. AT Wellington
William L1ttle's house was wrecked and
Little and four children killed. Joseph
Walters house was carried from the foun-
datlon and thirteen inmates more or less
injured. The Butterworth house, with its
occupants, was carried several hundred
yards aud some fatally hurt.
From indications the storm swept across
the country from Indian territory through
Bourbour, Frizier, Summer and Butter
counties. Villages and farm houses were
carried away as 1t swept along The tor
nado continued in Kansas aud the north.
west territory, but was less destructive.
Southeastern Kansas was also visited last
by the most destructive storm in years.
NO fatalities are reported, but considerable
damage was done.
Atchison was visited by tornado to-day
at noon Several buildings were unroofed
and demolished. and signs and awnings
scattered IN every direction. The Santa
Re depot was unroofed. The Cholastic
convent was demolished. Thrall & Co.'s
warehouse was destroyed, and the
grocery store Of the Taylor company
is IN ruins. The prison roof was carried
eff and the building partly demolished.
small house in the Missouri Pacific wards
was blown into the river. Hundreds of
ch,mneys were blown down and a great
deal OF minor damage DONE Fruit suffered
badly In the country. No one was injured
At Leavenworth the Great Western
Stove works were partly uuroofed, and
worked suspended for the day. At St.
Joseph almost every telegraph and tele-
phone wire in the city has been torn down.
a number of small houses demolished
and large ones unroofed. Thousands
or dollars OF damage was caused by the
breaking of plate glass In store windows.
In the eastern part of the city brick
house was blown down, seriously injuring
q child. At the factory of Tootle, Hoosea
q Co. there was a stampede of several
hundred girls when the wind tore por
tion OF the roof off. No one was seriously
injured.
A dispatch from Lawrence. Kan, saws:
The wind has be blowing q gale here
since midnight. Many buildings are un-
rooted and houses demolished. The roof
the Haskell hospital has been blown away,
and it is necessary to anchor the building
with cables to prevent it blowing away.
In Kansas City the damage consisted
principally of roofs being blown away and
plate glass windows broken. TIE roof of
the high school at Locust and Twelfth
streets was blown off. There was not a
panic, but the school was dismissed. Signs
were blown down oil over the city. some
OF them crashing through plate glass win
doUs in the centre of the business portions.
Telephone and telegraph wires are pros
trated. There has been 10 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
Kansas and has but a few wires
east. Messages are being received subject
to delay. Telegraph poles along all rail-
ways east eff here are Frustrated, causing
a woeful tangle OF wires, with which the
wire men struggled all day, apparently
with little success.