The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-06-23
M0REDEADLY CYCLONES
SETtRdL People Killed IND
MdNF INJURED ~ KANSAS.
The Fatal Winds Also Visit Missouri,
Causing Much Destruction--Other
Places Affected.

TOPEKA. KAN, June 22.-About
o'c'ock last night one Of the worst cy-
clones that ever visited Kansas swept
over a section Of The country I'm the Kan
sas River Valley, twenty miles east OF
here. one mile wide and six miles long.
completely destroying every house. FENCE
and building and killing instantly fifteen
people.
The bodies Of all those killed were
shociiingly manglcd. Mrs. Hutchinson s
arms and legs were found in a tree a mile
| from the house. Eva Kincalde's head was
severed from her body. Samuel Stewart
and l.. NJ Grimes were carried three
! hundred yards i'm different directions and
mutllated almost beyond recognition.
! SteWarts body was cut in two as II by
| stroke OF a great knife. After the storm
had passed last night the people Of Perry
| ana Lawrence were summoned % the
| iRsne. The demolition was awful and the
! hunt with lanterns over the wind-sweut
spot for the dead and dying commenced.
| All night long this work was in progress.
/ A corps Of physicians from two towns
was quartercd at Perry two miles dis
| tant. administering 20 the wants Of the
| the towns Were gathering the dead and
| dying from the prairie and laying them
out I'm a large building provided for that
purpose. II was I o'clock ia the after
noon before all OF the dead bodies were
found. The strip Of country swept by the
cyclone Is as barren as a floor. In WI
liamstewn schoOl-house were found the
dead bodies Of the Klncaide family. con-
slsting of father mother. and four chill
dren. The youngest child is without its
head, IT being blown or cut off and car
ried away by the wind. One Of the chill
dren was found three miles from the
house.
At Arthur Evans farm. n quarter Of n
mile northeast Of WILLIAMSBURG every
thing is destroyed. Evans ran into bis
basement, but was found dead three
rods from the house I'm the field. Mrs.
Evans also took shelter I'm the basement
and escaped with her life but is badly
injured Evans father was iH the rear
portion Of the basement. which was dug
in the bluff and he escaped unhurt AT
the Hutchinson farm. which is north
east of WilliamstOwn. Mrs. Hutchinson
lost her life and hir. Hutchinson was
slightly injured. Seven horses were
killed here Some of the horses We're
blown a quarter Of mile away. In the
cemetery at Wiliamstown the monI-
ments are all blown away, and some Of
the base stones were blown many rods.
Where the storm struck the timber it
literally leveled 10. besides stripping the
trees Of foliage and bark. Trees are torn
up by the roofs. broken of at thc ground, !
and at all distances from the ground.
THE Cyclone In Missouri.
ST JOSEPH MO. June 22.-News has |
reached this city Of q disastrous cyclone !
at Conception Mo. sixty miles north OF /
here. The house Of John Doyle was /
blown down and Doyle and his wife and |
an old man killed the latter being de- /
capitated. The solid front wall Of the 1
Abbey OF New Engleburg. erected by the
Benedictine monks was blown down.
ana torrents Of rain completed
the destruction Of the edidce.
Houses and barns were blown down and
a number Of people hurt. The Omaha and
St. Louis railroad depot was unroofed.
rardships At Sea.
LEWES. DEL. June 22.-The American
bark Edmund Finney. Captain Young.
from Cienfuegos. arrived at the Break
water last night, having on board the
shipwrecked crew Of the schooner Mary
A. Power Captain Wyman. from Fernan-
dina. Fla, with lumber for New Bedford.
Mass
Oh the 10th the Mary A. Power met
a severe wind from the south with
heavy sea. About =. NJ, on the nth.
with moderate weather the vessel began
leaking, and in two hours was water
logged, with the crew in the rigging and
the sea making a complete breach over
her, washing her deck load off, The |
crew took 10 the boats al T. NJ and |
laid under the lee of the vessel am night.
At i. NJ. on the 18th, the crew was
picked mp in latitude 1922. longitude "a
by bark, and landed here this morn
ing