The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-02

edly nave been cruSQeu before IT'S ioICc-
| Their escape was miraculous. Mrs.
Nichols was almest Frustrated. She saw
the giant trees falling crushed on the
| ground and expected every moment to be
her last She realized that her home was
in the vortex of cyclone for 1t shivered
and trembled, although it is one of the
most substantial IN the city The coiored
girl said that everything was almost rs
dark as midnight. Mrs. Charles Davidson
| had similar experience. Nobody need
talk to me any more about cyclone Gel
| lars" said Mrs. Davidson, "ior people
| would not have time TO reach them the
storm came on so suddenly" The lawns
of both houses are strewn with massive
| trees twisted off and uprO0ted as II they
| were rushes.
WORKED TOPEKA AVENUE.
| At the corner of Topeka avenue and
| Thirteenth street 1t WAS not SO furious as
At the other places but il was bad enough.
Ii blew down the chimney of George HAM
mann's residence and the suction fairly
| lifted all the hes cut of the CRATE aud al
most ruined their handsome parlor. DIR.
/ Hamilton's grape arbor was torn all to
pieces, and the chlmneys of the residences
| of Mr. Mcclure and Mr. Abercrombie
were thrown down. The chimney brick
at all these places were tossed about as If
/ they We're empty sardine boxes.
KERwIN'S HOUSE SUFFERS.
! Everybody who travels on the Topeka
avenue line knows johnny kerwin, the
! motoTneer. Johnny has nice siX-room
| house on the corner OF Emporia avenue
and Thirteenth street, but it isn't nice any
more. His sister Rosa. handsome little
/ Miss of "A with ringing laugh and
| laughing eyes, was the only one at home
| when the cyclone struck. The cyclone
! caught this house in its vortex and actually
twisted it so that all the rooms were torn
/ apart, the middle of it sank down, the
( roof sway backed and the little
! home disfgureh generally. Little
| Rosa graspea at everything, and
when her mother. who was visiting
/ a neighbor was rushing home, she met
Rosa leaving the house in fsinting con-
dition. Johnny's number will be some
i thing else tomorrow, for the house is not
| habitable anymore.
| FLIRTED WITH THE FIRE HOUSE
| The storm fiirted little with the
| Thirteenth street fire station and the city
! will have to buy glass by the wholesale 20
/ fix the windown. Shortly before that the
! boys were having a quiet little game OF
old sledge when Il lightning bolt struck
! the telephone wire aud came shooting into
the building like a rifle shot, Dudley
| Johnson jumped nine feet in the air,
dropped tue paste boards aud told his
! comrades that the whole thing a
warning not TO play cards lie would be
we'll worth ones while 70 90 up to that
seCuesLered fire station 10 hear that
coiored member of the numerous johnson
family describe that lightning stroke.
His round. rich black eyes fairly jump out
of his head when he comes to the climax
OF the story.
FATHER AND son VISITED.
The home of Steven Gibson at the
junction of Fifteenth street and the Rock
Island track was whipped off its fonda
a /. H., H.. A,
west corner tilted In the air and chairs,
tables, dishes, dressers, pictures and in
fact everything dumped in unrecog-
nizable piles in the low corners of the
rooms Mother and children were thrown
against the walls but all of them miracu-
lousy escaped without scratch. They
fled to ueighb ors house when the storm
subsidized and they, too, will live at some
other number tomorrow. The house of
Frank Gibson on the opposite side OF the
track was lifted off Its foundation. turned
about and given an east instead OF west
trout.
OTHER PLACES VISITED.
All the tight board fence around George
Pratts residence was completely demol-
ished and the home of Mr.. Darling injured
Mr.. Love who came down from kechi
township, said the storm was furious there.
The school house near the home of Colonel
Hutchinson was demolished and the iadi-
cation was that serious damage was done
in the path OF the storm through the town
ship.
STREET CAR STABLES BURNED.
It was nearly o'clock when a bolt of
lightning struck the street car stables on
the corner of Fifteenth street and Mead
avenue and Notwithstanding the rain the
timber flashed up like gun powder. The
fire department turned out promptly but
in vain for the building was outside
ha pQuI1
done for it.. The building was burned to
the ground anu with IL the two engines,
Lizzie" and Maria" which used TO run
on the dummy line between here and Val
ley Center. The building was about %
feet by 100 feet. It was not learned whether
il or its contents Were insured. This
blaze was In the path of the storm
and the cyclone caught il while
the blaze was at its height. The result
was that smoke and fire were twisted into
such ghost-like shapes that they will never
be forgotten. The spectators of the fire
sHy the cyclone when 1t was about two
blocks away and the greatest excitement
prevailed. Some threw themselves fiat on
the ground, others ran pell-mell into the
corn field near by. while others caught on
TO the hose wagons or anything else in
sight. One man said: Il never was SO
near hades in my life before"
NOTES AND FREAKS.
III Is eSIifD aleu tnhI aOOuN MY Dull lungs
were more or less injured.
The trolly wire ali along the Farm cunt
line W IS demolished aud traffic stopped.
News came from the fair grounds that
some of the big teutS were blown down.
Two children whose names were not
learned were picked I'D and dashed against
a house. They were slightly injured.
The police department was notified that
two men We're killed bus they could not
ne found after search last night and the
report is probably without foundation.
Two boys living near the corner of Fiji
teenth and Meade were stunned by light
ming. One of them was reported killed,
but at a late hour the report was contra
dicted.
4 boy on Fifth avenue, above Emporia,
was whipped off his horse by the cyclone,
fioated ii few seconds in the air with the
bride still in his grasp and finally dropped
back onto the horses back agaiu.
There will be p boom on the hat market
today. Frank Burdett. living near the
Thirteenth street station, caught four
straw hats, but TO offset this the storm
picked UP a dozen or two OF his chickens
plucked them nicely and dropped them
dead II few hundred feet away. He wrung
their necks and will have a chicken feast
for several days
SAVED BY SPANNING.