The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-23
Wild WORK BY THE WINDS.
Twenty Houses URTOOfed at Dallas,
Ca, but No Lives Lost.

ses to the North and South of the
City - Fifteen Persons Killed and
Many Injured by Blow in Kansas.
Atlanta, Ca, June 22-A,cyclone swept
for SO miles across the counties above At
lanta this afternoon. Dallas, a small
town on the East Tennessee Virginia, and
Georgia Railroad, 35 miles above
Atlanta was badly wrecked
and the following buildings
were destroyed: The residences of II.
j. Foster; d. w. Lawrence, Mrs. Haiden,
and j. B. Hunt; Connolly & Connellys
drug store, and the Owens brick hotel.
Twenty houses were unroofed, but no
lives were lost. Crops were ruined over
large tract.
As the storm happroaced Atlanta many
became frightened and ran to their cell
lars. 200 people collected under the new
Forsyth street Iron bridge for safety.
The cloud split on the western edge of the
city and passed to the north and south,
unroofing small buildings and destroying
telephone communication.
Is KILLED IN KANSAS.
Topeka, Kas., June 22-About o'clock
last night one of the worst cyclones that
ever visited Kansas swept over a section
of country in the Kansas City valley 20
miles east of here, one mile wide and six
miles long, completely destroying every
house, fence and building and killing in
stantly fifteen people
The dead are: L. L. Evans, Emery Ev-
ans, L, M. Grimes, Mary Crimes and two
children, Mrs. John Hutchinson, Samuel
do
Walter Kincaide. w. F. Peters and Sam
uel Stewart.
Those fatally hurt are James Baker,
William Geophfert, Mrs.
Geophfert. Seriously injured:
Rose Gray, Horace Gray Stephen Harris,
Arthur Jones, John A. james, Lizzie
James, VIM. Jones, Walter McCracken
and Emily Nichols.
The bodies of all killed We're shocAingly
mangled. Mrs. Hutchinson's arms and
legs were found in tree a mile from
the house
WOMAN DECAPITATED.
Eva Kincaide's head was severed from
her body.
Samuel Stewart and L. NJ. Grimes were
were carried 800 yards in different direc-
tions and mutilated almost beyond recog-
milton. Stewards body was cut in two as
if by a stroke of a great knife.
After the storm had passed last night
the people of Perry and Lawrence were
summonsd to the scene. The demolition
was awful, and hunt with lanterns over
the wind-swept spot for the dead and
dying was commenced. All night
long this was in progress, A
corps of physicians from two towns was
quartered tt Perry, two miles distant, ad
ministering to the wants of the crippled
and MANNED. While the citizens of the
towns were gathering the dead and dying
from the prairie and laying them out in
large building provided for that
purpose 1t was l o'clock in the after
noon before all the dead bodies were
found.
The strip of country swept by the
cyclone is as barren as floor.
In the Williamstown school house were
found the dead bodies of
the Kincaide family, consisting
of the father, mother and
four children the youngest child is with
out its head, it being blown or cut off and
carried away by the wind. One of the
children was found miles from the
house.
At Arthur Evans farm, quarter of a
mile northeast of Williamson, everything
is destroyed Evans ran into his basement
but was found dead three rods from the
house in a field Mrs Evans also took
shelter in the basement and escaped with
her life, but is badly injured Evans
father was in the rear portion of the base
ment, which Vas dug in bluff and es-
capped unhurt.
At the Hutchinson farm Mrs. Hutchin-
son lost her life and Mr.. Hutchinson was
slightly injured.
Seven horses were killed. Some of the
horses were blown quarter of a mile
away
In the cemetery monuments are all
blown away and some of the base stones
were blown away. Where the storm
struck timber it intirely stripped the
trees of their foliage and bark. Trees
are torn up by the roots and broken off
all distances from the ground.
THREE KILLED AT CONCEPTION.
St Joseph, Mo, June 22.-News reached
this city of disastrous cyclone at Con-
ception, Mo, 60 miles north of here.
The house of JohnDoyle was blown down
and Doyle and his wife and an old man
were killed. the latter being decapitated.
The solid front wall of the Abbey of
New Engleburg being erected by the
Benedictine Monks was blown down and
10000 feet of brick wall tumbled inside
the structure Torrents of rain com.
pleted the destruction of the editice.
Houses and barns were blown down and
a number of people hurt. The Omaha
and ST Louis Railroad depot was un-
rooted.