The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-13
A1ATER REPORT.


great.
LATER REPORT.
As communication gradually becomes
opened up with the small towns and
hamlets through Kansas and Missouri,
which we're cyclone swept yesterday,
and rs tho news always making access
sions to tho list OF lives sacrificed and
property damaged Is received, tho real
extent OF tho storm becomes known. 1t
Is impossible to get the names OF the
victims, however, and In most instances
tho accounts OF destruction wrought are
incomplete. Even in some places
where communication has been re-
stored news is not available, the stricken
citizens being engaged with the i'm
portant duty OF caring for the injured,
in taking care OF the dead and in put
ting together what was once their
happy homes. Fifteen people are
known to have been killed, thirty or
forty were injured while numberless
houses as well as smaller property was
destroyed. Much stock was also killed.
Fruit trees were broken and twisted
and hay stacks were scattered in all
instances and some anxiety is felt lest
there be a shortage in fodder. In Kansas
the storm was bounded by three tiers
OF counties from the eastern border,
nearly every county suforirg moro or
less, Montgomery county, in the eX-
treme southwestern portion, suffered
the most. Parker, hamlet ton miles
south Of Independence, was almost total
ly destroyed. Many houses were demo-
lished and many others were badly
wrecked. Walnut, village in Craw.
ford county, also in the southeastern
portion OF the state, suffered severely in
wrecked houses, but there was no loss
Of life.
A meager dispatch from that place
states that 1t is feared that the loss OF
lilo in the outlying county districts has
been great A dispatch from Hiawatha
states that the storm wrought great
havoc In Brown county in tho north
eastern portion Of the state. Several
towns in the county we're more or less
damaged and muny lives arc reported
lost The cyclone struck Garnett,
Kansas, about 5 o'clock, going from
southwest to northeast and leaving
much debris in its wake. Nobody was
seriously hurt here, though tho houses
OF Walter HOwley and Henry Sykes,
among Others, were completely do.
molished.
The town OF Willis, Everest and Pow
hatan were partly demolished and sew
oral people injured, though their names
arc unobtainablo, Near Robinson Z. p.
Holton was struck by lightning and
Killed. At Mascotah several houses
were unroofed and Mrs. Burns and
her baby wore badly injured, That
part Of the cyclone which struck Wal.
nut, Kansas, continued northwRrd aud
entering Missouri struck sucCespivoly
tho small towns Of MayWow, Page City
and Higginsvlllc, whore, after doing
considerable dNmugc, II spent its force.
At 81. Joseph cyclone working from
west to east, and covering a strip OF
country two miles wide and tivo milas
long, caused considerable damage.
Several people were killed, among them
NJ rs. Ward. Her husband was seri-
ously injured, rs was also John Shelton.
An unknown woman was also killed
Most OF tho people saw tho storm com.
ing In timo TO got into tho cyclone
caves and escaped injury. The loss
nero Will amount 10 thousands Of dol
lars, Tho damage TO crops over both
states will bU great Fortunately In
most p placCs In Kansaa tho corn had not
been plnnted had II been, II would
surely have been wished out,