Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-06-04
PARTICULARS OF RUIN.

Harper. Ending With a Twis-er In
Summer.
As the more full reports come in from the
.tor,,, IN Swimmer and H.rner counties Kan,
=,
sas, the nrst reports, thousn 1hougnt 10 have
been exaggerated by some, are confirmed
and added tn
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Ine s'orni pas'eo iirou9h 'lfe nor'lefn pa.'
OF Harper county at about Z ~ p. m, wnlie
quick destruction encompassed WELLINGTON
lust after On. M.
In HarDer county the storm is described as
a straight blow, six miles wide, with severe
hail along the outside. 1t swept about thirty
farm buildings between Attica and Harper,
and at Harper the ruin is said to be fearful.
A hundred or SO of houses were blown down
or more or less damaged and many families
are left destitute and without shelter.
The dead in Harper county, SO far as re-
ported, are: William Shanahan, farmer
Mrs. Thomas Gallaher and her son, at the
farm west of Harper: Mrs. E. Maloy, fatally
hurt and her child killed, and Mrs. Harri-
son; these all before Harper was reached.
The injured are F. A. Beatty, wife and
daughter, S. 81. Challis and wife, James
Dickerson, S. E. Cole, Mr.. Corley, Peter
Gerard, boy, Mrs. c. A. Frey, two OF the
name of Lebrecht, Mrs. Florence Sayers, Mrs.
Felrath, Gottleib Handraft, NJ. NJ. Munger's
family, he was away from home, j. A. Sell
bert and wife.
The report says that the village of Chrystal
Springs is swept away; that Attica was
slightly injured, but that other towns in the
county were not injured.
In Harper the Catholic church and German
church are both clear down. The Baptist
and Christian churches are greatly injured.
The NJ. +. church is safe.
The Mason block on the corner, in which
the Harper Mercantile company was located,
was burned.
The Queen City block and the Opera house
block are almost wor. HESS.
vi the eleven houses north OF the Santa Fe
track eight are crushed to the floors and the
contents are total losses.
The Murphy's are greatly damaged. The
store is a wreck and the three residences
more or less total loss.
The stand pipe stands intact, but small
building beside 1t IS completely crushed and
the contents are all smashed.
In the Odd Fellows cemetery, one mile
northeast, over one-third of the monuments
are Frustrated, toppled to the northwest. The
north fence is down and nearly all the head
stones are leaning. A four-wheeled vehicle
has landed among the graves.
The grand stand, box stalls, and buildings
at the fair grounds, one mile south, are lev
eled to the ground, save the east end OF the
agricultural hall.
At Wellington the body of James Mayer,
piano tuner OF Kansas City, was taken from
the runs OF the Phillips house, with his open
bible IN his hand.
Other 6odles taken from the Philips
mouse include Hart Epson, the barber, and
MI. haste, who was being shaved at the
qme; Ihomas Cornwell, OF Belle Plalne;
Jesse Bower, barber; Ed Forsythe; Ed
Jones, waiter.
MIS-. Sasher and her sister, Miss Katy
otrahn' were burned 10 death IN the hooln-
son plock.
4, FRANK campbell was among the Killed at
tne fnllps mouse; henry Adamson, laborer,
was pierced IN the back by fragment OF
plate glass and killed.
among the wounded, many OF them sup
posed to be fatal, are: James Weaver, Ida
zones, Charles Adamson, Mrs. Captain
Mahan, Mrs. L. j. Hanna, Mrs. Murphy,
charles Steiner, Maggie King, Ed, Sylvia and
Walter Forsythe, child of ex-Sheriff Thrall,
Mrs. Robert Willard, James Lawrence, VIM.
french, MI: Sammons, Matty Hodges, Guy
Colby, Dick Weaver, Carry Mitchell, E. j.
forsythe, with forty or fifty more whose in
]urleS are less serious.
among buildings destroyed are the Luther
an church, the Old court house, the Presby-
terrain church; the Splcknall block, row OF
SIX brlck buildings, IN which were the offices
standard block OF SIX two-story bricks, IN
which were the Daily Mail and Standard
newspapers, and the postoftice; the foundry
and stove works, the brick block in-which
was the Alliance Mercantile Exchange, and
which burned; the Episcopal church, the
new and beautiful First ward school house.
The list of buildings is stated in the report
to be only partial list, comprising the most
with no mention of the many
destroyed.
WELLINGTON cyclone vista
ton has made it for the time the chief object
of interest for all southern Kansas. No such
crowds have visited this city before as those
which have been pouring in on every rail-
road and highway. On all its four lines CEN
terlng here, the Santa Fe has been running
excursions from as far north as Hutchinson,
south from Arkansas City ana west from
Medicine Lodge, while the Rock Island has
been equally industrious In forwarding sight
seeps to the stricken city. Division Passen-
ger Agent Murdoch, OF the Santa Fe, esti-
mated the crowd IN town at 15,OOo.
The Presbyterian and Lutheran churches
were we'll protected by cyclone policies and
will be rebuilt at once. The $4,000 school
mouse aestroyea VIII, III IKE MANNER, pe IN
I Rt restoreu 10y llle lnsure1ce companies
VI TORNADO insulance on resloenSe ana ousl-
ness properly, lhe!e was so NIUE as 10 oe