Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-06-23
BLASTS OF DEATH.
Cyclone i'm Kansas Has Twenty.
Seven Victims,
FIFTEEN OF WHOM ARE CORPSES.

Three Fatally Hurt aud Nine Seriously So
Heads, Arms and Legs of the Dead
Blown Away-Hunt for the Unfortu-
mates by Lantern Light-A Child Blown
Three Miles Another Mine Horror
Five Persons Killed.
TOPEKA. Kan. June 23.-The cyclone
that swept over the region near Perry was
the worst that is on record for that section
of country, which is twenty miles east of
here. For a space of six miles long and a
mile wide everything is swept clean-left
as barren as a floor.
Twenty-Seven Dead and Wounded.
Following is the list of casualties:
Dead-L. l.. Evans, Emery Evans, l.. NJ.
Grimes, Mary Grimes and two children,
Mrs. John Hutchinson, Samuel Kincaid,
Clara Kincaid Sadie Kincaid, Walter
Kincaid, Eva Kincaid, William Kincaid,
w F. Peters and Samuel Stewart-15.
Fatally hurt-James Baker, William
Geopfert, and Mrs. Geopfert.
Seriously injured-Rose Gray, Horace
Gray, Stephen Harris, Arthur Jones, John
A James, Lizzie James, William Jones,
Walter McCracken, and Emily Nichols-9.
Some of the Victims Dismembered.
The bodies of all those killed We're shock
ingly mangled. Mrs. Hutchinson's arms
and legs We're found in a tree mile from
the house. Eva Kincaid's head was sew
cred from her body. Samuel Stewart and
l.. NJ. Grimes Were carried 300 yards in
different directions, and mutilated almost
beyond recognition. Stewards body was
cut in two as if by one stroke of great
knife As soon as the storm had passed
the people of Perry and Lawrence were
n rho The GISpl1fiOn
was awful and the hunt with lanterns
over the wird-swcpt spot for the dead and
dying commenced All night long this
work was in progress.
Picking Up Dead and Dying All Night.
\ corps OF physicians from the two
towns was quartered at Perry, two miles
distant administering to the wants of the
crippled and MANNED while citizens from
the towns were gathering the dead and
dying from the prairie and laying them
out in large building provided for that
purpose II was ! O'Clock the next after
noon before the last of the dead bodies
We're found. In Williamstown school
house were found the dead bodies of the
Kincaid family consisting of father,
mother and four children. The youngest
child i without its head. being blown or
cut off and carried away by the wind.
One of the children was found three miles
from the house.
Blown ont of the Basement.
At Arthur Evans farm. Il quarter of Il
mill northeast of Williamstown. every
thing i destroyed. Evans ran into his
basement but was found dead three rods
from the house in the field. Mrs. Evans
also took shelter in the basement. and es-
caped with her life, but i badly injured
Mr. Evans father was in the rear portion
of the basement. which was dug in the
bluff and escaped unhurt. At the Hutch
inson farm, which was northeast Of Will
Jamestown, Mrs. Hutchinson lost her life
and Mr. Hutchinson was slightly injured
Monuments in "a Cemetery Levelcd.
Seven head of horses were killed. Some of
them were blown aquarterof a mile away.
In the cemetery at WilliaMstown the mon
uments are all BLOW away and some of
the base stones Were blown many rods.
Where the storm st:Uck ti-x timber it IT.
orally levcled il he@:I~s stripping the
trees OF foliage aid bark. Tree are tom
up by the roots. broken of at the ground
and at all distances from tt ground.