Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-24
Lightning Kills Seven Persons at
River Falls, Wis.
AWFUL SCENES At A CIRCUS.
Fearful Storm In North Missouri-A Num-
Der OF Lives Lost-Great Storm and
Destruction of Property Mt
Winfield, Kan.

circus tent of Ringling Bros. was struch
by lightning while crowded with peo-
pie, instantly killing eight and injur-
ing more than twenty.
The performance was not quite over,
but the terrible storm caused the inn
mense throng to crowd out of the tent.
While the people We're passing out the
tent was struck twice by lightning with
the above result. Fire started, but was
eXtinguished.
Seven were killed instantly, n few
more are injured and the balance are
now regaining the normal use of their
limbs, which had been temporarily
paralyzed by the shock. The scene OF
CONSERVATION which followed when the
survivors realized the extent of the
fatality surpasses descriptions: when
men and women surged toward the
scene and it was only by the exercise
of rare presence of mind on the part OF
Messrs. Ringling and their employees
that a serious and probably total STAN
pede was avcrted. The Ringlings did
everything possible to alleviate the
sufferings of the injured. Rough can.
vas-men, stake-drivers, and animal at
PENDANTS wed with one another in their
attentions to the wounded.
Jay L. Louclis, proprietor of the
Gladstone hotel, was passing through
the tent with his wife, three nieces and
one child, when the shock came. Mr..
Loucks and family fell to the ground,
but none of them were seriously in.
jured. Mrs. Loucks' arm was hurt by
Il man who was killed falling against
her.
The bodies of the dead were taken to
the village engine house. Some of the
bodies were badly scorched, but the
majority presented no external appear
ance of the shock. Death was abso.
lutely instantaneous in all cases except
one.
Six men carried the paralyzed form
of young man named Lewis Rossois,
whose face and breast were terribly
burned and whose lower eXtremities
were paralyzed. At late hour he had
recovered consciousness and was re-
ceiving every care from nurse.
Mrs. Clendenning, one of the injured,
has recovered consciousness, but the
fact OF her husbands and sons death
has been kept from her. She thinks
they have gone home to attend to the
chores. She will receive sad awaken
ing. None of the show people were in
jured.
NORTH NussOVRI VISITED.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, June cat 5
o'clock last evening a cyclone struck
the town of Conception, sixty miles
north of this city. Two dozen houses
and barns were torn down and the
Omaha & st. Louis depot unroofed and
torn from it foundations. The house
of John Doyle was torn to atoms and
Doyle, his wife and an old man who
lived with them killed. The old gen.
tleman was terribly mangled, his head
being severed from his body. The
abbey of New Engleburg was wrecked,
over 10000 feet of the front wall
being blown down and the
rain pouring in, completing the
work of destruction. The dam
age to the abbey will amount to
over s25, ZOO. 1t was just nearing COM
pletion and was being built by the
Benedictine monks. The country all
about Conception was laid waste by the
wind.
STAYBERRY, Mo-, June GA terrific
wind, rain and hail storm struck Stan
berry at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
IL, 20 hull inn
and other property. Judge Maston's
house was struck by lightning and
burned. William Cummings, farmer
living five miles southeast of the city,
was instantly killed. Three members
of John Doyle's family in the same
neighborhood are reported killed.
Cher members of the family are seri-
ously injured.
PEOPLE AT LIBERTY FRIGHTENED.
LIBERTY, Mo-, Juue GA heavy
wind and rainstrom struck this city at
$3.50 last evening and lasted for half an
hour. Shade trees were blown down,
chimneys toppled over and window
panes broken out. The storm was the
most frightful one that has visited this
section for two years People took re-
fuge in their cellars A late session of
the circuit court was being held, and
Judge Broadus, the jury and number
of citizens fed to the jail Reports
state that the storm extended east
along the Hannibal & st. Joseph rail-
way as far as Cameron, but no serious
damage has been heard of. The wind
came from the northwest.
SHEDS DEMOLISHED.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, June 22.-During a
heavy storm last evening the amphi-
theater and sheds of the Lake Shore
Driving park were demolished and
much damage done to the surrounding
neighborhood. The loss on the sheds
and amphitheater is covered by cyclone