The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-29
ghs 1aiu Eaa Saturday 7Morniue april 3e, 1888

a height of fifteen feet from the ground
| Within the next two miles east from the
| Mullenix farm four farm houses were de-
| stroyed, but no one injured. At Curtis
saw mill, about two miles further east, an
other scene of complete wreckage was
| found. All the machinery was ruined and
| the heavy timber surrounding WAS mown
| like grass. Two men were injured. In
| the immediate vicinity three dwelling
houses We're demolished, and man named
Pooler and his wife were both fatally in.
| jured. A party of campers were blown
into the creek. but succeeded In getting to
land again. East of this place half mile
farmer named West lost his house and
all personal property.
The kirkman school house was wrecked.
Just before the storm struck the building
the teacher, Miss Albright, aud six pupils
left the building and endeavored to reach
home through the timber. In the roar Of
the storm, with the hail falling in chunks
as large as teacups. with The giant oaks
that had witnstoo;: century OF storms,
crashing and topping around them. Miss
Albright and her charges made their way
a full half mile across fhe storm belt with
out serious injury other than from hall
stones.
On the adjoining farm James Kirk, who
was the Peoples party candidate for SEN
atOr in the last campaign, was seriously
and probably fatally injured. His left leg
is broken and his skull fractured. Two
children We're also seriously hurt. At the
farm of Y. Kirk only two young children
were at home. The house was demolished,
but the children, exercising a caution
which might have been a credit to their
elders had sought the cellar and escaped.
A mile further on J. X. Ward and wife,
two old people upwards of seventy, were
caught in the wreck of their log house,
but finally freed themselves. Both were
somewhat IN ured.
Your correspondent did not follow the
storm track further east, but learned OF Il
number of houses being blown down and
of two fatal injuries. A belt of country
from one to three miles wide has been de-
vastated of everything in the shape of per-
sonal property for Il distance of thirty
miles across Payne county, and about two
hundred families are rendered destitute
and homeless. The citizens of Saltwater
have organized relief committees and so
far as able are relieving distress. Some of
the wounded are being brought to the city
for treatment and temporary hospital
has been established Over one hundred
houses have been destroyed, ten persons
killed or fatally injured and property to
the value OF a half million destroyed.
GUHIEfE, o. L, April 2s.-Relief meet
ings are being held in every town in the |
hOucy Is DcIbS SuDSCiiUcu iAii
clothing and provisions gathered and |
shipped to the destitute victims Of the re- |
cent storm. But not enough can be secur |
ed from this part of the country, and out
side aid has been asked. An appeal issued |
by the citizens of Norman, signed BY the |
mayor and other prominent citizens, reads: |
No one can describe the scenes that |
have been witnessed today by hundreds of
our citizens. Whole families have been
killed outright. Seventy-seven are known
% be dead and one hundred wounded in a
district five miles along its march. Our
people are doing ali they can to relieve the
but cannot provide more than
temporary relief A citizens committee
las been appointed to solicit aid. ID. W
Narquart, postmaster, is treasurer and all
iouations sent TO him will be judciously |
distributed. The loss will reach over
100, 0G0 in this county. With their houses
their stock gone and their
roDs and implements with which to start
new swept away. the aspect to the
lomesteaders, who ut best had none too
much of tue worlds goods before the
torn, is gloomy"