Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-04-15
SWEPT BY FEARFUL WINDS,
TOrnadOes Play Havoc in Five
Western States.
Towns Demolished, Lives Lost
and a Train Blown Away.

w estern States, killing and injuring many
people. A dispatch from Kansas City, No,
says. The tor nado destroyed Towards,
Ka2., killing six people; wrecked Augusta,
killing four and injuring many others; did
great damage at WELLINGTON. killing several
and demolished several buildings at kiowa
The town of Towanda was asleep when
the storm swept down, razing everything in
its path and leaving dead bodies lying in its
wake. Four bodies have been recovered
from the ruins already searched. Twenty
persons are fatally hurt and forty more are
seriously injured, besides a large number
more or less MANNED.
The fatally injured were: A little girl
blown from the second story OF the hotel a
distance of $50 feet, badly crushed; Mrs. G.
A. Robbins. skull fractured by flying tim =
hers: Elmer Hahn, internally injured; Mrs
Walter Mooney, head crusheG; Alice Thorn
ton and Mr.. and Mrs. George Cornelius.
Ten were seriously injured.
AT Augusta, Kan, three were killed out
right-Harmon Hoskins James Barnes and
the infant child of Will Rhodes. The child
was blown out of his mothers arms and
dashed against a brick wall. Rhodes him
self is fatally injured, as is also the wife OF
Harmon Hoskins. Fifteen others were more
Or less seriously hurt.
At South Haven, kaU., the house of John
MoOrhouse was leveled to the ground and
Moorehouse and one child were killed.
John Burmaster's house was crushed
like an eggshen and the whole
family (Mr. and Mrs. Burmaster and
three chidren) were killed Mrs. Frank
Shepard was killed by flying tinbers. A
score of others were injured, but it is be-
heved no more fatalities occurred
At Strong City, Kan, the house of James
Glassen was demolished, and his wife, son
and little child were killed outright. Several
others were injured.
AT IA The house of NJ
Brather was carried from its founda-
ton and wrecked. The family were at
supper at the time and all were
more or less injured. One daughter had
a limb broken and was internally injured.
Another was hurt about the back and in
ternally. Neither is likely to recover. A
young son was badly injured and bruised
about the head.
The house of Samuel Buckholder was de-
molished, but the family escaped injury.
Mrs. Zimmerman took refuge in the cellar
Of her house, which was demolished, and she
was fatally injured
Wellington and vicinity suffered con-
siderably and several people were
killed William Little's house, south
of Wellington, was blown to splinters.
and Little and his foar children were
killed. Joe Waltons house was picked
I'D and thirteen of the occupants were more
or less injured. Sam Butterworth's house
and its occupants were carried three hundred
YARDS IN the air, ana some OIL the
were fatally hurt.
At Atchison, Kan, the gale began at mid
night, but no damage was done to speak of
until nearly noon, when q tornado visited
the city and unroofed and demolished several
large buildings and scattered signs, awnings.
etc, in every direction. The Santa Fe depot
was unroofed and the Scholastic Convent
demolished.
In Kansas City the wind reached velocity
Of sixty-four miles an hour. The damage
consisted principally of roofs blown away
and pIateglass windows broken.
The storm in st. Joseph. Mo. began at
midnight. There is hardly a house in the
city not damaged more or less, and many
barns outhouses and fences are leveled. The
large trotting barn Of the King Hill stock
farm was destroyed, but all the valuable
stock was removed before the building was
swept away.
In the river the steamboats, Yazel and
Savannah and the ferryboat Belle. of
Brownsville are swamped ashore.
Dispatches from Hiawatha, Kan, Seneca,
Oneida. Horton, Lawrence, Bolckow and
Maryville, Mo-, report great loss.
At about 6 80 in the evening at Chicago,
ILL.,, the sky, which had been threatening all
the afternoon, became black as night. and
in another minute clOudburst occurred.
The wind blew at a hurricane rate and
drove the rain in sheets along the streets,
sweeping every movable object before it
n
blew down q house and killed three people.
The building was seven-story brick struc.
ture. 1t was surrounded by one and two
story frame and brick buildings, the homes
CT humble laborers, and crashing upon them
instantly crushed out the lives Of three IN
fortunates and fatally or seriously injured
many others.
Those instantly killed are David Hulett,
aged six months: Horace Mott aged five
years, and eddie" Mott, aged two years.
The fatally injured were Alice Hulett,
aged eight crushed about the head and
shoulders; Mrs. Ada Keown, buried be-
meath a mass of bricks, which crushed her
through the chair in which she was sit
ting: Horace Wigant whole body fear
fully bruised; Mary Wigant, arms head
aud body badly crushed; James Mott, head
crushed: Mrs. James Mott head and shout
ders crushed; James Mott, Jr., back strained
and injured internally; Mamie Mott, badly
wounded about the head and shoulders.
A storm prevailed in Burlington, Iowa,
and vicinity all day; .. train on the
gauge was blown from the track,
forty miles from there while
running at full speed. Two passengers, mail
clerk and baggagemaster were reported to
be seriously hurt while others were badly
bruised.
The storm Frustrated wires all over Ne
braska.
Reports received show that the town OF
Nelson, Neb., the county seat of Nuckolls
County, was laid waste, and many build
ngs, including two churches, were wrecked
lat Norfolk.
Reports from other points indicate that
the storm swept northward and eastward
from Nelson with great fury. The storm
included in its track the town OF Edgar and
other places in Clay County. continuing on
to Norfolk.
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