The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-29

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would be out on time, as usual To see
! the Mail office at the time this bulletin
was posted one would think 1t would be
| impossible to issue paper from the
Office for at least month; but the
! determination OF the young American is
| great, aud at O'clock Mr.. Bahama was
selling copies Of the Mail like hot cakes on
the street. E Eiitor Herring of the Standard
| also demonstrated the superior stuff he
was made Of; foa at 1:30 In he morning be
! had ii corps Of men rebuilding his oflce.
Both the Monitor office and the Voice are
such complete wrecks that it is not ex-
| pected That anything OF any value Will or
| can ever be recovered.
| Every window in that section of the city
| over which the storm travelled is broken
| as completely smashed and shattered as II
! dynamite had exploded in front of each
! window. Ii is unnecessary to partIcularlZe
| any further here. Wellington Is N ruins
| beyond the power Of a pencil to describe or
brush to portrays The scenes of last night
will be remem bered for a long time by
those who went through them, and when
| the boys and girls of today will have at
! tanned the age of ripe old grandsires and
grandames they will remember them
wildly enough to recite them to the
| grandchildren of their generations.
| CYCLONE FREAKS.
The story told by W. Shaefer. Joseph
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the strangest freak OF all. They were in
! Shaefer's store, in the brick building on
/ the corner of Washington avenue and
! Seventh street, when the cyclone carried
away the rear wall of the building. The
| wind dashed them up against The front
! door, withdrew them as it were, and by
! good luck Bolineer and Schaefer found n
| friendly counter under which they hid At
this time the gas went out and a terrible
| fash OF lightning fitting through the
air revealed Il feed box to them. They
rushed for the box, and when they had
about half way reached it the twister
! picked both of them up, dragged them
| along the ceiling, out of the opening
caused by the collapse Of the wall, and
clrriel them a distance of 140 feet toward
a street, where it laid Bolinger down at
the foot of tree, while Shaefer got re-
served seat on the limbs.
Dr. Keys, the Presbyterian minister,
started out 10 lock the stable door after
the storm, but instead of finding the stable
in it's usual place he found it completely
demolished and the horse browsing indo-
lently i'll the nicely kept lawn.
Engineer Charlie Marsh owned an old
hen and a brood of young chickens, which
were domesticated in empty barrel. The
cyclone struck the barrel, rolled it around
the yard at the rate of 100 miles an hour,
took il up in the air several feet and then
TWO trees that it was with difficulty the
stout engineer moved it. In all the cir
cumlOcutions Of the barrel not chicken
was spilled.
A Mrs. Mcdonald, who lived on A street,
when the storm set in sought safety in
Hight TO neighbor's house across the way.
VI hen she reached the middle of A street
she was lifted twenty feet in the air and
gently dropped down again. She lost
dress IN the ascension.
When the cyclone struck the Standard
block the national guards were drilling in
the armory. When the rear wall WAS
taken away Young Boliiuger WAS also
taken with it and landed about seventy
five feet on A street. Cropping around there
he found woman with barely any clothes
on her back. Upon being asked where she
had been taken from she replied that she
had been taken from the Alliance store, a
block and pne-half away. The cyclone
stripped most of her clothing off. She
must have been completely lifted over two
houses to reach the spot where she was
found.
In looking for sick people who needed
medical assistance man named Osborn
encountered a young man standing up
against tree. He saw him twice later in
the same position, and thinking it strange
he concluded to speak to the young man
and got no reply. A little personal investi-
actually unconcious while standing erect
on his feet Doctors were summoned,
who restored him TO couciousness. His
unconciousness grew out of fright
A residence on Jefferson avenue occu-
pied by Mrs. Wisehart was turned com
pletely around and left with the back
door of the kitchen facing toward the
front gate.
j. L. Hale, when the wind struck his
house, tried to close a transom. Being
unable TO succeed he called his two daugh-
ters TO his assistance. When they arrived
the house went to pieces and as he grabbed
each OF the girls around the waist the
three were picked uD and Carried through
the air. When they recovered conscious
ness, Hale was lying in gutter in the
roadside, while his daughters were 125
feet from him.
John AiIlard entered the Conrad house
rs the storm struck it, and the first thing
he knew he was standing on A street ii
block away, having been snatched from
the building as the roof raised and the
rear wall gave way, and uncOnciously
taken the distance of a full block In his
flight through the air he unconclOusiy
grasped flying umbrella and held it
firmly in MS hand when he had landed on
\ street.
When the twister struck the women in
Mr. Winters family it absolutely strip
ped them naked. 1t even took the stock
ings from the feet of Mrs. Winters.
One family near the corner Of Seventh
and a streets had 21S chickens before the
cyclone; now they have but three, and
every one of them is destitute of feathers.
The other 215 chickens could not be found
anywhere.
The barn of Rev Mr.. Stevens was blown
from around his horse without the animals
receiving a scratch.
Tee Lutheran church was turned mp
side down, while a chicken coop near by
WAS not disturbed.
A stake two feet long was driven by the
wind through the oak covering of a well
on the premises of Tom Hubbard so firmly
that it could not be removed by any ordi-
nary power.
While the family of Frank Ellis were
sitting around table II scantliug came
through the roof OF the house. shot like
lightning bolt across the room and buried
itself in the opposite wall. 1t came within
an ace OF killing the whole family.
The most curious FREAK of all, perhaps.is is
the caper the tornado cut around the real
estate Office OF George Fu,tz. 1t caught
up the wooden awning in front of the
building carried it around the corner of
the street to the rear of the
building and then shot it through
the rear wall, in which it is stick
ing yet. This freak OF the wnd is the
wonder of every visitor to the stricken
city.
When the first voices of the approaching
cyclone were heard Judge John G.. Wood,
who was in bed, suggested to his wife TO
SEEK refuge in another room, When she
asked him why run 10 another room, as
none could be safer than their bedroom, he
made no reply. but took hold of her and
lifted ber by main strength tc the room be