The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1892-06-01
SCORES OCRD.
Wellington. Has. Devastated
Rayaged at Night by 4 Death Deal
ing CyclOne,-Twelye Man
gled Bodies Already TAX
Ell From the Ruins.
Fully Seventy-Fiys People Seriously
iuiured-More | unu Dne Hundred
Buildings tr- destroyed.

luiured-More | n"m One Hundred
Buildings hr- Destroyed.
Wellington, ku =, May 27.-A ter
rible cyclone, Lurlowlng in all its
details, swept over this city at $40 |
. clock tonight, utterly destroying
two blocks Of business buildings.
and under the heaps of broken brick
and splintered, twisted timbers
scores lie dead or dying.
Twelve bodies have been taken
from the ruins dead, while fully
seventy FIVE injured are sheltered in
an improvised hospital from the tor.
rents of rain now falling.
Darkness prevents the searchers
for the victims of the winds wild
wrath from doing effective work,
and not till morning gives it light
can any accurate estimate Of the
number of the dead be made.
The storm came from the west
with frightful velocity. A few resi-
dences III the western rart Of the
city were damaged, but beyond that
no great loss In that section of the
city was sustained. As it swept III
and down upon the central portion
of the town the storm seemed to
grow in cyclonic intensity.
At Jefferson avenue the Lutheran
church was totally destroyed. Then
it swervtd eastward and in it's de
vastating course razed every build
ing in the two blocks bounded by
Jefferson avenue, corner seventh and
ninth streets.
Outside of this utterly destroyed
and completely ruined district the
circling storm wrought frightful
damage
The Phillips house was crushed
as if it were but house of cards
Six bodies have already been taken
from this building alone and the
fear is general that when the debris
is cleared away many other bodies
Will DC found.
Every newspaper building in the
city is wrecked The Monitor
Press. Peoples Voice, Standard and
Daily Mail lose everything.
HUNDREDS OF BUILDINGS WRECKED.
The Wellington foundry, first
ward school building and it is said
fully eighty private residences yield
ed to the terrible force of the storm
and went down in shattered heaps
Such u rainstorm followed The
flight of the wind as no mar here
ever saw.
The water fell as if the flood
gates 10000 torrents had beer
= loosed at once. 1t burdened the all
with the thunder of its noise ant
made rivers of its streets
, SO excessive was the downfall tha
immediate organized search for th
dead and injured was impossible
and by the time the people of tn
stricken city had recovered from th
great excitement and confusion int
z which the storm had cast them, th
rain had somewhat abated
NAY BE FORTY OR FIFTY DEAD.
T. As the search went on the iniu
e ed were carried to the Grand Arm
g hall, which was speedily converte
t into temporary hospital.
o In the ruins of the stores and vi
d der the broken timbers of the res
V dences it is thought that forty
t fifty dead and injured lie victims {
It the storm. The bodies o. mt
@ never be recovered as here and the
u fire added it's consuming horror
D. those of the storm.
If Mrs. William Taa---- = body Ii
s buried in the burning ruins of Tas
Is er & Kirk's carriage factory. 1t
is known that the body of her sist,
sk Kittie Straher, is also hidden b
a meath the mass of burning debris
d. Y Silva and Walter Forsyth we
,e taken out of the ruins of ConraG
he restaurant, each in dying conditi
r and 1t IS said have since died.
NJ Ida Jones. a dining room gi
i. was killed in the wreck of t
's. Phillips house and is supposed
IS have besn struck by falling timbe
ne Rescuers are diligently plosecuti
ol the search for the victims with I
u rem:ttin@ energy
- FIFTY IN AN IMPRovIsED HOSPITAL
IS The Grand Army hall has be
III converted into a hospital. and the
more than fifty of the injured ha
been conveyed, 1t is said that
90 will be impossible for many of tn
in to survive.
ks The exitement is so intense, a
the unfavoring darkness rend