Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-04-02

a.o at Wellington, hil4luS SONOioA ohu uS-
roisbed several buildings at Kiowa. Par
ticu,ars may be diHicult to obtain on &C
,oYp. Of continued prostration Of tele-
graphic service
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April IA tor
rado of mad deStructiveneSs swept over
Kansas last night. Butler county
ssems TO have been the scene Of the
greatest havoc. The town Of Towanda
VA, entirely wiped of the face of the
earth. aud Augusta, few miles distant,
va, buffetted out Of all Semblance OF its
former self. Not house or building
va, left standing in TOwanda.
The town was asleep when the storm
swept down upon IL. The roof Of the
Great Western Machine Works w9s
lifted several feet at once and dropped
again. A dispatch from Lawrence,
Kan, says.
The wind has been blowing gale
here since midnight. Observations
taken by Chancellor Snow, Of the State
University showed that the wind at
times attained a velocity OF eighty-fOur
miles an hour. Many buildings were
uuroOfed and OuthOuSeS demolished.
No one was injured, and the patients at
the hospital are being cared FOR.
Iu this city kansas City, the wind
reached a velocity OF SiXty-four miles.
The damage consisted principally Of
roofs being blown away aud plate glass
windows broken. The roof OF an apart
ment house at 10th and Charlotte
streets was blown away, and a grocery
store. Ninth street aud TrOOst avenue
lost its roof and a portion Of It's front.
S.rns were blown down all over the
city. some of them crashing through
costly plate glass windows In the cen
Ter of the business portion Of the city.
Telephone wires throughout the city
were Frustrated. The SmOkeStack OF
The power house, on the northeast cleo
irc line, was toDDled over. There has
been no loss Of life. The greatest dam
age was suffered by the telegraph COM
pauies The Western Union reports no
communication whatever with points
west OF the center Of the State or Kan
,as aud but few workable wires east.
-Four dead. bodies have been recovered
from the ruins already searched at Tow
anda. Twenty persons are fatally hurt
and forty more seriously injured, be-
ssdes a large number more or less
MANNED.
Az Augusta three were killed out
right. James Barnes and the infant
child OF Will Rhodes, who was blown
out Of his mothers arms and dashed
against a brick wall. Rhodes himself
is fatally injured, as is also the wife OF
Harmon HOskinS.
Fifteen others we're hurt more or less
seriously, according 10 present reports,
but all wires are down and is lmpOsSl-
b,e 10 get any detailed account from
either place.
Apparently the same storm touched
Ei0wa and Wellington. In kiowa the
Missouri Pacific depot and number OF
dwellings were demolished, and though
no loss OF life is known, several minor
m.shaps are reported. The damage TO
property is said 70 be great yelling
ton and vicinity suffered considerably
and several people were killed.
William Little'S house at South Wei
lugton was blown 10 splinterS. and Lit
tie and four children were killed. Joe
Walters's house was picked up, and
thirteen Of the occupants were more or
less injured.
Sam Butterworth's house and its oc-
cupants were carried 300 yards In the
air, and some of the family were fatally
hurt. The storm swept across the
country from the Indian Territory, in
the southwestern part OF Barber coun-
ty, Kansas, taking the little town OF
hi0w ir It's path, in a nOrtheaSterly
direction. Ii passed through Frazier
county and through the centre OF Sum
uer county. Bending as a bow, IL passed
almost directly north. Villages and
farm houses were carried away as it
swept along.
A dispatch from Ft. Scott states that
southwestern Kansas was visited last
night by one OF the strongest wind
storms Tor years. Many hay stacks,
barns and out buildings, and weakly
constructed residences were wrecked.
At AtchiSOn, the gale began at mid
night last night but no damage to speak
Of was done until nearly noon to-day,
when a tornado visited the city and un-
rooted and demolished several large
buildings and scattered signs and avn
ngS To- every direction. The warehouse
oi Ihrall & Co., was destroyed and the
grocery of the SaylOr Co., IS In ruins.
The roof OF the prison was carried on
and a portion Of the Guiding demoliSh-
ed. Heavy damage in the country was
done 20 fruit trees but no one injured:
Az Olathe, KaS., the general store OF
Mariner a Marcut was partly wrecked
oy the storm. Farm houses IN the city
were unroOfed, but no one was injured
AT Marshall, Mo-, considerable dam
age was done; the cUpaiO OF the Meth
ollSt Church was blown down.
At Salina, kas., the house OF NJ. a.
brather was carried from its foundation
ond wrecked Two of the inmates re-
S,e'yed slight injuries The house OF
Mrs. Zimmerman was demolished. and
Mrs. Zimmerman was fatally injured.
AT Ottawa, kaS., the tower OF the wa
'er company'S building was toppled
over, roofs were carried away and Side-
"a.NS turned over.
AT WarrenSburg and ChillicOthe, Mo-,
considerable damage was done, no
buildings being unrOOfed. No one was
hurt.
Al Kansas City, Kas., two girls we're
violently thrown to the ground and Sus-
@ned severe injuries. The great ele-
'alor was badly wrecked.
4ne storm set in at st. Joseph, Mo-,
= midnight Thursday and continued at
m. tonight with almost undated
.sfy' There is hardly house In the
w not damaged more or less. The loss