The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-04-09
A TORNADO.
One Of the Greatest snd Most Destructive
ON Ree6Id-There werc Many People
Killed and Fatally MangIed.

One of the Greatest snd Most Destructive
ON Ree6Id-There werc Many People
Killed and Fatally NIangled.
CHICAGO, April 2.--Thnt the storm of
Thursday night and Friday has been
one of the most far-reaching and de-
structive on record is borne out as frag-
mentary scraps of information straggle
in from the northwest, the far west and
southwest over the badly crippled al
most unworkable wires which escaped
the fury of the warning elements. The
justly famous-though not popular
kansas cyclone seems in this instance
to have comprehended vast expanse of
territory upon which to wreck its fury,
and any estimate approximating the
amount OF damage done TO property or
the number of lives lost Is out of the
question.
The Western Union officials at 1890
Friday night report that of their hum
dreds of wires west, northwest and
southwest, they have not one upon
which TO receive or transmit the Asso-
ciated press dispatches.
North of Milwaukee swath has been
moved through the fimsy metallic
lines, isolating the twin cities and in.
termediate points. TO Omaha not one is
left. The Pacific coast Is as inacces-
sible by telegraph as the dark un-
known and beyond Kansas City havoc
reigns supreme.
The area of low barometer which has
hovered so long over the lake region
and northwestern states seems to have
invited this onward rush of high pres
sure, the weather map indicating two
distinct storms, branching from point
apparently in northwestern Texas, like
a huge V, and taking their course one
northerly and one northeast
In the onward march north, in whirl-
ing shrielSing eddies bleeding Kan
sas' first fell under its mighty power.
Death and destruction marked its bale
full progress from the moment it left the
rolling prairies of the Indian territory.
Grasping in its pitiless clutch the pretty
little city of Towauda, Kas. it bounded
on with ever increasing volume, leaving
iii its wake maze of shattered build
ings, a score of mangled corpses, and a
hundred torn and bleeding victims.
Wellington, Caldwell, Augusta and
klowa, Kas., then furnished their
quota to the death harvest.
Passing northward through Kansas,
Nebraska, the Dakotas and Minnesota
a track of desolation miles in width
marks its passage, and feeble walls
straggle through the fag ends of pros
trate wires from interior towns anxious
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to tell their tale OF woe.
From Omaha and Council Bluffs the
tale is but repetition of that from the
southwest-crippled wires, buildings
unroofed, fences and trees laid waste,
chlmneys, signs and plate glass fronts
smashed and scattered.
Minneapolis and St Paul have no
outlet, and their story is yet untold, and
only cessation OF the awful visitation
Will admit of summary of its results.
Following the northeast prong of this
remarkable atmospheric outburst, the
south and east portion OF Kansas is
shown to have been attacked with the
same irresistible force that characterized
the increment OF the disturbance in the
northward tangent. Kansas City was
again torcibly reminded of the
Lathrop schoolhouse horror of 1856, in
which many little children were crushed
and numerous homes were wrecked and
made desolate by the heavy hand
OF death; when the building at Fourth
and Main streets was collapsed, adding
i've victims to the list of fatalities, and
when the great Hannibal and st. Joseph
bridge was blown bodily from its mas
Slve stone foundations into the treacher-
Gus Missouri, for Fridays reports indi-
cate That another school-house has been