The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-05-30
QHE KANSAS HORROR
List Of the Dead So Far cs at
Present Known.
sUDDENNEss OF TIE CYCLONE

now known to certainty that twenty
lives were lost in Friday nights cyclone
In this city and the fatally injured list
is adding hourly to the list of dead.
There are half dozen persons known to
be missing, but no trace of their bodies
can be found until the wreckage of the
Phillips House and the stores on Wash
ington avenue has been removed. The
Phillips House register cannot be found,
and the clerk, Henry Adams, is uncon-
scious from injuries, so that he cannot
tell who were in the building and not
now accounted for.
Following is a list of the dead SO far
as identified:
The Identified Dead.
Leonard Adamson, laborer, cut half
In two by plate glass; Thomas N Corn
wall, aged 80, Of Belle Plaine, Kan;
Frank Campbell, married, killed in tho
Phillips House; Matilda Carson; Caro-
line billiard, colored crushed under fall
ing walls; D. French, barber; james
Hastie was being shaved at the Phillips
House rlshed into an almost unrecog-
nizable mass, James Harrison; James
Hendricks, killed while crossing the
Il
beam; Henry James, Il boy tramp, killed
In box car; Ida Jones, waitress at tho
Phillips House. died from fright; Will
lam Jones, struck in the head by flying
brick; Wharton Mason; James Mayer,
piano leader, was reading his Bible in
the Phillips House when struck, being
killed instantly has a family in Kansas
City; Mrs. j. X. Sacher, bride of three
months, burned to death; Mamie Strand,
nister of Mrs. Sacher, burned to death
at the Sacher home;X. Silva; Hart Upson,
member Of council, supposed to be I'M
der the ruins of his home; James Weaver,
tailor, crushed to death at the Phillips
House.
The list Of injured is not SO large as at
FIRST reported, but thirty-tiye are known
to have received wounds which in many
cases will result fatally. Several MEM
hers Of the Salvation Army are in the
list. james Lawrence, Republican can
date for attorney general, had leg and
arm broken. The husband Of Mrs. j.
X Sacher, the youthful bride who was
killed, is insane from grief, and has been
placed under restraint.
Suddenness of the Storm.
The cyclone was not exceeding two
minutes in accomplishing its terrible
work Of destruction and death.
The resident portion Of the CITY that
was in the line Of the storm, which WAS
about two and half blocks wide, is laid
low. In its path We're located many of
the best residences in the city, us well
rs hundreds of small, comfortable,
though unpretentious homes. All are
laid on common level, and their late
occupants form a wandering army Of
homeless, clothesless citizens.
Every home left standing is hospital
for the reception Of the injured. The
country people are beginning to come in
to administer to the wants SO far as
human agency can alleviate the suffer-
ing and distress.
A special train from Wichita brought
corps of physicians and relief corps
of workers to relieve the tagged out men
who had worked all night and day in an
endeayor to get out more bodies.
There are many incidents OF the storm
that are remarkable. The ball that was
In progress at 1.-THE Phillips House had
just begun. The music had scarcely
struck up when tho storm came, Ladies
IN evening dress fled terror stricken into
the streets, where the rain of water and
bricks was falling. Strange to say none
who thus escaped from the hotel were
killed outright although nearly all were
injured to some extent. Where the ball
room stood is u dense pile of bricks and
lumber twelve feet high. Two hundred
men worked at the rri.1s all day, resell
ing one man, Henry Smthers, who was
found i'll box, where lie had taken
refuge. There We're two feet of brick
above him, but he had air and was
hardly hurt at all, although he was
frightened into state bordering on
kmbecility.
A Baby's Remarkable Escape.
a.. q ~
was its methods Of handling the infant
child of Henry Bowers. The Bowers
home WIS unroofed and the baby taken
from its cradle, carried four blocks, and
laid on the grass in the mayors yard,
where it was found crying in the heavy
rain storm unhurt. 1t had not even a
cold, and was not at all hurt from its
fall
Twenty freight cars We're standing in
khe Rock Island yards. Ten of them
were taken in one direction and ten in
smother, the two punches being found q
mile apart smashed to smithereens. 1t
was in one of the cars that Henry James,
the boy tramp, whose home is not
known, was found. The Rock Island
lumber yard was one of the biggest
yards in Kansas. The stock is scattered
al over Summer county, not enough of
II remaining in the yard to build hen
house.
The telephone system, except one line
wire, which is all right from end to end,
completely ruined, and the switch
board at the Central office was taken a
mile and dropped in pond. The cleo
tric Light dynamo and ponderous
Westinghouse engine were picked up
like shingles and carried over the town
and deposited not far from the Phillips
House ruins
Other Freaks of the Wind.
Another freak of the storm was tho
manner in which the plate glass was
taken from the elegant Spieknall block
and carried several yards, set up against
. frame house, and, aside from losing a
few chips around the edge, was not
broken.
Trees were torn from their roots and
houses We're turned right about face.
Stoves were lifted until they finally
landed in the upper floors of the ruins.
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