Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-06-09
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Harper Ending With a TWISter In
Sumner.
As the more full reports come in from the
storm in Sumner and Harper counties, Kan.
sas. the first reports, though thought to have
been exaggerated by some, are confirmed
and added to.
The storm passed through the northern part
of Harper county at about 30 p. m, while
quick destruction encompassed Wellington
just after 9 p. m.
In HARPER 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 Attlca and Harper,
and at Harper the ruin Is said to be fearful
hundred or of houses were blown down
or more or lees 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. z 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. H. Challis and wife, James
Diekenson, S. z Cole, Mr.. Corley, Peter
Gerard, a boy, Mrs. q. A. Frey, two OF the
name OF Lebrecht Mrs Florence Savers Mr.
Felrath, Gottleib Handraft, NJ NJ. Mungers
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 Attlca was
5uSnlly injured, Out t1hI Ot4AcI bOhHS III TIC
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. L. 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 worthless.
OF the eleven houses north OF the Santa re
track eight are crushed 10 the floors and the
contents are total losses.
The Murphy's are greatly damaged. The
store is wreck and the three residences
more or less a total loss.
The stand pipe stands intact, but small
| building beside it 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-Bheeled 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, a
piano tuner of Kansas City, was taken from
the ruins of the Phillips house, with his open
| bible in his hand.
Other bodies taken from the Phillips
/ house include Hart Epson, the barber, and
| Mr.. HASTE, who was being shaved at the
| time; Thomas COrnWell, of Belle Plainei
Jesse Bower, barber; Ed FOrsythei Ed
Jones, waiter.
Mrs. Sasher and her sister, Miss Katy
| Strain, were burned to death in the Robin
| son block.
Frank Campbell was among the killed al
the Phillips house. 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
Jones, Charles, Ademson, Mrs. Captain
Mahan, Mrs. L. ]. Hanna, Mrs. Murphy
Charles Steiner, Maggie King, Ed, Sylvia anc
Walter Forsythe, child of ex-Sherih Thrall
Mrs. Robert Willard, James Lawrence, VIM
French, Mr.. SammOnss Matty Hodges, Guy
Colby, Dick Weaver, Carry Mitchell, Z. >
Forsythe, with forty or fifty more whose in
juries are less serious.
Among buildings destroyed are the Luther
an church, the old court house; the Pres6y
terrain church; the Spicknall block, row o
six brick buildings, in which were the office
of the Monitor-Press and the Voice; tn
Standard block of six twO-story bricks, Il
which were the Daily Mail and STANDARD
newspapers, and the postothcej the toundrI
and stove works, the brick block IN whlcl
was the Alliance Mercantile Exchange, AM
which burned; the Episcopal church, tn
new and beautiful First ward school house.
The list of buildings is stated in the repor
to be only partial list, comprising the mos
important, with no. mention of the man
residences destroyed.
WELIisGFoNs- cyclone vista
ton has made 1t for the time the chief objec
of interest for all southern Kansas. No sue
crowds have visited this city before as thos
which have been pouring in on every ran
: road and highway. On all its four lines GER
tering here; the Santa Fe has been runnin
excursions from as far north as Hutchinson
south from Arkansas City and west froI
Medicine Lodge, while the Rock leland ha
been equally industrious in forwarding sigh
, seers to the stricken city. Division FasseL
ger Agent Murdoch, of the Santa Fe, est
Q mated the crowd in town at 1900.
] The Presbyterian and Lutheran churche
e were well protected by cyclone policies an
{ swill be rebuilt at once. The S2O,OOO schoS
+ house destroyed will, in like manner, be
1 part restored by the insurance companies
}, | Of tornado insurance on residence and bus
e ness property, there was SO little as to /
| hardly worth mentioning. Inc lew second
| work of that whirling cloud wiped out a qua
| of a million dollars' worth OF property thi
stands q dead and absolute loss to the VI
| lucky owners.
Freight cars were taken from the track an
= carried a distance of 200 yards without beln
| harmed.
A h6rss was carried to the top of tW
: story house and Deposited there, while bat
' was taken from its cradle and carried twenl
5 yards and deposited on the grass 80 gent
a that it did not receive the slightest injury
While in Harper county the storm was
wide one, at Wellington its center was hard
wider than two city blocks; but tins dld n
L, | cOmprise the entire field OF its destfuctl
! | operations. An arm seemed to swing o.
from The main storm to the south, and tai
Q In the reverse a whole line of buildings ru
8 ming south on Washington avenue, blown
a IN the front and throwing down the re
4 walls and Establishing tbs ROOFS while lea
$ ing the entire row standing.
Q Around on Harvey avenue the handson
70 Standard block, standing at right angles Wi
the storms general course, was served IN {
same capricious fashion, leaving the bulldn
with front stove in and rear walls gone, u
Is held mostly by their party walls.
/ WIcHIrA-A special to the Eagle says
T. tornado passed about two miles north
Medicine Lodge. The brick house of s.
7 Field. farmer, was demolished.
The report of tornado at ArgOnia is u
true. A hail storm did some damage to {
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