Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-04-04
FEARFUL STORMS.
Terrible loss Of Life Throughout the
Central West-Death- Dealing
cyclones and Billiards..

CHICAGO, April 4.-Carrying death and
devastation before it, the worst and mos
widespread tornado ever experienced
since the settlement of the west, swept
across the western plains on Friday, Satur.
day and Sunday. From all points come
but one story ruin and loss Of life. Not
a town in Kansas, Nebraska and north
ern Texas escaped without damage. Iowa
and northern Missouri Jared but little
better. Illinois received it's share. From
points beyond but little has as yet been
learned, owing doubtless to the destruc.
ton of all wires. That the loss of life
and property on the great lakes has been
great there is no doubt. Its extent can
not be known for many days.
At Chicago at least twenty five persons
were instantly killed or fatally injured.
At Tonawanda, Kas., village Of / 300
people, not building is standing. The
deaths can be but estimated.
At Chilicothe, Kas., the list of dead
and injured numbers twenty-three.
In Texas, towns were swept out of ex-
istence. AT Santa Ana a score were in
jured. Three were instantly killed.
More than fifty lives have been lost
throughout Kansas.
At Norfolk, Neb., thirty houses we're
demolished, and at Sutton the family of
Joseph Needon, ten in number, were
buried by the fall Of their house. All
were dangerously injured. Considerable
stock near the town was killed.
At Lawrence, Kas., many buildings
were demolished. The roof Of the Hask-
ell hospital was blown away. and as it
was the building had to be anchored with
cables.
Telegraphic communications with the
majority Of towns in the cyclone-stricken
district is yet very imperfect, and there is
still no connection whatever with few
points that were in the very path Of the
storms greatest fury.
STORM NOTES.
Snow is drifted badly all over Nebraska.
At Lamar, Colo, about $1,000 damage
was done.
Snow drifts are ten feet high at Jules
burg, Colo.
At Ottawa, Kas.. a water tower was
overturned.
Wind blew sixty.four miles an hour at
Kansas City.
All telegraph poles are down in western
Kansas and Nebraska.
At Kiowa the Missouri Pacific depot
was demolished.
The Pevy elevator, Kansas City, Kas.,
was wrecked.
At Wellington John Little and his wife
were both killed.
The court house tower was de stroyed at
Las Animas, Colo.
At Cheyenne Wells, Colo, the court
house was unroofed.
The house of James Pather, Chilllcothe,
Kas, was demolished.
Flying glass badly injured Mrs. H. G. |
Evans, Bloomfield, Iowa.
Joseph Classen, wife ard child were
killed outright at Stong City, Kas.
Seven dwellings blew down at Des
Moines. Loss, 100000.
At Lawrence, Kas., the wind blew
eighty-four miles an hour.
An old soldier was struck by fl wing
sign at Leavenworth, Kas., and badly in
jureG.
More than rs per cent of the telegraph
poles are down for 175 miles east of Oak |
ley, Neb.
Methodist churches at Warrensburg,
Chilicothe and Marshall, Mo-, we're
wrecked.
Over lCo cattle were killed in the vicin-
ity of the state line between Colorado and
Nebraska.
The big stove works, Crawford's opera
house ard other structures were unroofed
at Leavenworth.
At st Louis building being erected at
i54O South Broadway, fell, seriously in
junng five workmen.
Mrs. Zimmerman tried to escape harm
by going down cellar in her house at Sa.
lima, kas. 1t fell and killed her.
The store of Mariner & Marvel, Olathe,
kas., was wrecked. Farm houses and
stables were wrecked, but no one in
jured.
At Wellington four children were killed
in a falling house. Joe Wallers house