Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-05-28
AT LEAST FIFTY KILLED
Awful Work of the Cloudburst That Laid Low the Kan
 sas City of Wellington.
HUNDREDS OF THE INHABITANTS
 CRUSHED AND NAMED.

Fire Broke Out in Several of the Ruined
 Buildings and Added to the Horror
 Several Lives Lost in the Flames---The
 Principal Business Street in a State of
 Total COIapse---AIany Bodies Stiu Under
 the DSbris---The Loss VIII be Enormous.
 WELLINGTON, Kan, May 28.-The oy- clone which passed over the northern part of this city last evening was terri ble in its work of destruction. The con- fusion is still so great that the loss of life cannot be accurately determined, but 1t is believed that at least fifty are dead. The injured number hundreds.
 A heavy storm of wind and rain pre- Ceded the cyclone about half an hour. A few minutes after 9 o'clock the cy- clone struck the city, coming from the southwest. There were no premonitory signs. Everybody was indoors and the cloud-burst passed with it's destructive rush and awful roar unseen.
 Washington avenue, the principal business street is lined on both sides for blocks with ruins. To add to the hor- TOT fire broke out among the debris of Col. Robinson's block and a woman, Mrs. Susan Asher, periShed in the flames.
 The 'tMonitor Press and Voice" print ing office lies 6 tumbled heap of bricks and mortar.
 Hundreds of dwellings are totally de- Btroyed or more or less damaged. Broken mains made it necessary to shut down the gas works and save destruction from fire.
 The streets are filtered with tin roof ing, cloth awnings, broken glass and timbsrs.
 The destruction is simply awful. The S'Standard' and "Mail' offices are wrecked. The Opera House and dozens of the best business buildings are use- es are ruined, and the loss will foot up into hundreds of thousands of dollars. No reports have been received from other points.
 Seven bodies have been taken out of the Phillips House ruins, and large force of men are hard at work removing g the debris. Two members of the Salva- tion Army are expected to die from in juries received. At Squire Smiths resi- dence seven persons are more or less in- jured.
 Ida Jones was in a dining room in the Phillips House and was instantly killed. Her body was the first to be taken from the ruins.
 Beyond demolishing few residences the cyclone did no material damage un- til Jefferson avenue was reached. Here the Lutheran Church was totally de- stroyed. Then it continued eastward razing every building in the two blocks bound by Jefferson avenue, Sixth, Sev- enth and Ninth streets.
 Mrs. Sashen and Mrs. Strahn were sis ters. They were killed by the collapse of the Sashen 6 Kirk carriage factory, and their bodies are in the burned ruins of the structure. Silva and Walter Forsythe received fatal injuries in Conrad's restaurant.
 Grand Army Hall has been converted into 8 hospital, where the injured are receiving every attention. Physicians from neighboring towns are assisting the local doctors.
 Wellington is the county seat of Sum- ner county and has a population of over 10, 00O inhabitants. It is in the centre of thickly settled agricultural district. It is the most prominent town in south ern Kansas.