People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-31
TORNADO TORN.
Destructive Storms Visit the South.
ern Country.
sons Killed and Injured-The Missis-
sippi Valley suBers Severely-The
Storm Extends Into Indiana.
Torn BY the Torn ado.

The tornado first appeared at Kelley.
Miss, about $40 o'clock in the after
noon Long before the wind struck the
town a strange atmospheric condition
was noticed. The air grew very dark
and then moaning sound was heard,
and finally a greenish colored cloud was
seen rapidly appearing from the south
west The path of the storm was about
a half mile wide, and everything with
in its course was picked up like straw
and dashed to pieces. Houses were
crushed like eggshells while forest
trees were uprooted and the trunks
picked up by the whirlwind and carried
for miles.
The public school building was the
first to go down before the fury Of the
storm. The pupils had been dismissed
but few minutes before and most of
them had left the building. which fact
prevented an appalling loss Of life.
Several of the children were caught in
the ruins and badly hurt A row of
frame buildings next fell prey to the
cyclones fury, and were literally torn
to kindling wood and the fragments
scattered over a wide area. Other
, buildings were overturned. One man
was killed and another fatally injured.
The property loss is at least $50 1000.
At Tunica the court house was seri.
ously damaged, a church and other
buildings destroyed, and the colored
school blown to pieces Many of the
children who filed the school house
were hurt, but none killed. The dam
age to property will run into the thou
sands Of dollars.
About $50 in the afternoon the sky
in the southwest began to darken and
in few minutes the wind came along
with terrible velocity. On one side of
the square there stood a building occu-
pied by the Knights of Pythias and Ma.
sons This was soon only a heap of
timber and jutting beams Other
structures were damaged
Before citizens could think about the
loss Of property cries of children were
heard. Men rushed to the colored
school house, where $50 children had
been gathered at their lessons. The
building, a two story frame, had been
blown down and beneath the ruins was
a mass of struggling children. No
lives were lost, but many were manned
and bruised, some with broken arms
and some with fractured ribs The
work of relief was at once directed to
the school house and the children were
extricated.
Many Victims.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 26.-The
damage done by Thursdays tornado in
the Mississippi valley is enormous The
telegraph wires are still demoralized;
reports are coming slowly from the
storm districts and it will be several
days before the full extent of the disas-
ter will be known. The death list now
foots up twenty-three, while the list of
injured will run up into the hundreds
The property loss is $1,000, 900. The
names of the dead so far as known are:
Indiana Catches 1t.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March 95.-A
storm which assumed the proportions
of tornado before it departed visited
this city about o'clock last night
Fifty houses were wrecked in one
neighborhood in the northwest portion
and many families were rendered TEN.
porarily homeless.
At Tuxedo, suburb, many houses
were wrecked and several small ones
were carried away piecemeal. Many
of the residents passed the night in
their cellars. The storm was accompa-
MED by heavy fall of rain and a fam
tastic play of lightning.
The cerealine mills on the northwest
ern edge of the city, three story brick,
suffered much damage, its walls being
shattered. The Capital City cotton mill
lost its first story and $50 men are
thrown out of work. Along Fall creek
dozens of great trees were uprooted.
Advices from all parts of the state in
dictate much property damaged and
some persons MANNED The loss, while
not accurately known in this city, will
amount to many thousands of dollars.
At Loogootee the three story Touring
mill was wrecked and part of the
debris was thrown against the Central
hotel. The Catholic church and the
City hotel were also badly damaged.
At Evansville the south wing of the
southern Indiana insane asylum was
damaged, and the suburban railway
depot was blown down.
At McCordsville the farm house of
James McCord was blown to pieces and
Mrs McCord was fatally injured.
Two Fatalities.
ELwOoD, Ind, March 25.-Last night
at Alexander fierce wind partially