The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-06-28
A Terrible Cyclone.

swept for fifty miles across the counties
above Atlanta this afternoon. Dallas, a
SIN all town on the East Tennessee, Vir-
eiria and Georgia Railroad, thirty-fve
mites above Atlanta, was badly wrecked
and the following buildings destroyed:
Residences of T. J. Foster, D. w. Law
rerce, Mrs. Harden, j. B. Hunt, Connolly
& Connelly's drug store and Owens's
brick hotel. Twenty houses were un-
rocfed, but no lives were lost.
Crops were ruined over large tract.
rs the storm approached Atlanta many
became frightened and ran to cellars.
Two hundred people collected under the
new Forsythe 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.
AUGUSTA, GA, June pa terrific
wind and rain storm visited Ellenton, S.
c., last night, which blew down the
Baptist church, which was dedicated last
March, and the roof of house was taken
off. Great damage was done to corn and
other crops. It was the severest storm
ever seen in that section by the oldest
| inhabitants.
TOPEKA, KANs., June 22.-About Z
o'clock last night one Of the worst lorna
does that ever visited Kansas swept over q
section of country in the Kansas River
valley, twenty miles east of Topeka, one
mila wide and six miles long, completely
destroying every house, fence and build
ing and killing Instantly fifteen people.
the dead are: l.. l.. Evans, Emery
Evsns, l.. NJ. Grimes, Mary Grimes and
two children, Mrs. John Hutchinson,
Samuel Kincaide, Clara Kihcade, Sadie
Kincaide, Walter Kincaide, Eva Kin
caide, VIM. Kincaide, w. F. Peters and
Sanuel Stewart.
Fatally hurt, James Baker, VIM.
Geophfert, Mrs. Geophfart; seriously in
jured, Rose Gray, Horace Gray, Stephen
Lizzie James, VIM. Jones, Walter Nc
Cracken, Emily Nichols.
Tie bodies of all those killed were
shockingly mangled. Mrs. Hutchinson's
arm, and legs were found in tree mile
| from her house. Eva Kincaide's head
was severed from her body. Samuel
Stewart and l.. M. Grimes were carried
three hundred yards in different direc-
tionH and inutilated almost beyond recog-
niticn. Stewards body was cut in two as
| if by the stroke ofa great knife.
After the storm had passed last night
the people of Perry and Lawrence were
summoned to the scene. The demolition
was awful, and the hunt with lanterns
over the wind-swept spot for the dead
and dying was commenced. All night
long this work was in progress.
A corps Of physicians from two towns
was quartered at Perry, two miles dis
tant, administering to the wants Of the
cripi,led and manned, while citizens from
the GOWNS were gathering the dead and
dyinz from the prairies and laying them
cut IN large building provided for that
purpose. It was O'Clock in the aftor-
noon before all the dead bodies were
| founl.
The strip Of country swept by the
cyclone Is as bare as floor. In Williams
/ town school house were found the dead
bodies of the Kincaide family, consisting
of tie father, mother and four children.
The youngest child is without its head,
it being blown or cut off and carried away
blythe wind. One of the children was
found three miles from the house.
At Arthur Evans's farm, q quarter of q
mile northeast of Williamstown, every
thing Is destroyed. Evans ran into his
basement, but Has found dead three rods
from the house in field. Mrs. Evans
also took shelter in the basement and
escaped with her life, but is badly injur-
1 .CNduS . ldbuO& was AZ t1O AOoA PVA
| ton cf the basement, which was dug in a
bluff, and he escaped unhurt.
At the Hutchinson farm, which is
northeast of Williamstown, Mrs. Hutch
inson lost her life and Mr.. Hutchinson
was slightly injured, Seven horses were
killed here. Some of the horses were
blown quarter of a mile away.
| In che cemetery at Williamstown the
monuments are all blown away and some
of the, base stones were blown many rods.
Were the storm struck tho timber it
literally levelled it, besides stripping the
trees Of foliage and. bark. Trees are torn
up by the roots, broken off at the ground,
and at all distances from the ground.
ST. JOHN, Mo-, June 22-News has
reached this city Of a disastrous tornado
at Conception, Mo-, sixty miles north Of
this place. The house of John Doyle was
blown down and Doyle and bis Wiii and
an old man were killed, the latter being
decapitated. The solid front wall Of the
Abbey of New Engleburg, being erected
by tie Benedictine Monks, was blown
down and ten thousand feet of brick wall
tumbled inside the structure. Torrents
Of rain completed the destruction Of the
edi6cs. Houses and barns n ere blown
down and number Of people were hurt.
The Omaha and St. Louis Railroad depot
was unroafed.