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

| Emporia it was wipiDg out fences, and il
twisted Mr.. 1hrockmorton's barn in two
| A little further north at the same time il
was playing havoc, siX-room house JUS
| above Thirteenth street on North Emporis
having been pulled ali asunder, each OF the
SIX rooms having been separated by the
| terrible force of the wind.
WHEN IT GOT OUT OF THE TREES.
Here the big trees cease and the prairis
| is open and the absence of the col tonwoods
| began TO be felt \ block northeast oil
| Thirteenth street and the twisting, furious
| gale was going like mad
| For fully quarter of mile ii met with
| no Instructions and il had gained a terri
| bic velocity when it reached the house
| where the Gibson's lived Il grabbed up q
| buggy and turned it over and over In the
| air. 1t J-rhed two children off their feet
| ana threw them up violently against the
| side of a house without, however. hurting
| them outside of few scratches. II laid hold
OF the Gibson residence and shook 1T thor
| oughly. Pictures dropped from the wall,
the supper table fell over with smash
and the windows were ratified out. The
| terror-stricken family rushed for the door,
but before they could reach il the house
was wrenched from its foundations,
twisted around and dropped on the ground
! demolished. The inmates were thrown 10
| the floor, but were not hurt. Onward the
storm sped, going north of Paramount and
disappearing IN kechi township finally.
not, however, without first destroying q
school house
The excitement down town at the time
| of the blow was intense. M
intimation was given of the
street. When men in that part of
town heard of il they rushed home psli-
| NELL, TO find little damage and households
demoralized only by fright.
TWISTED FLAMES ADD TO TERROR.
The scene of the greatest excitement
| was at Fifteenth street aud the Rock
/ Island railroad track. The Old Paramount
| street car barns stood at this point and
| about $50 o'clock were struck by light
! Mug. The fire company was On hand
promptly, but being ont Of reach OF water
could do very little and crowd OF people
| gathered to see the large building
! go up. Suddenly and without the least
warning they were blinded and suffocsteG
! with smoke and the air was developed with
a tornado OF sparks. Everything was con-
| fusion, and meu and boys and women fell
| over one another in CONSERVATION. Some
were thrown violently to the ground, but
when they got to their feet were unable to
get out OF the predicament, as it was i'm
! possible to tell which way to run. Not
/ until it was all over did any of them real
| ize that they had been through a cyclone,
with fire and smoke added The twister
carried the smoke for blocks and gathered
| il up with the pieces of fence aud other
| bric-brsc.
DETAILS OF THE DESTRUCTION.
In detail the destruction is as follows:
| Twelfth Street depot wrecked. Mr.. Nc
Leans, Market aud Twelfth streets, barn
demolished. Mrs. Barbara Caldwell, North
Market street, house injured, windows
broken and chimneys wrecked. Mrs. Rog-
ers, barn demolished, No. 1851 North Mar
ket Mr.. Wilson, Eleventh aud Market
streets, house injured. DIR. Hupp, North
Market street, barn demolished ana part
OF residence wrecked. DR.. Lewis, Twelfth
street and Lawrence, barn demolished.
DIR. Ratnbone. barn destroyed. Mrs.
Nichols, North Lawrence, house in
jured. DR.. Hamilton, North Topeka
| avenue grape arbor destroyed. George
Hammann, North Topeka avenue, Chin
neys blown off and house wrenched. Mr..
| Abercomby, North Topeka avenue barn
blown down. \. c. Mcclure, chimneys
blown down. Mr.. Thockmorton, stable
destroyed ard house Injured. John klr-
win North EmporiA avenue. house wrecked.
MIR. Freeland, North Emporia avenue,
| house injured. Steven Gibson, Fifteenth
and Mead, house demolished. Frank
Gibson, house thrown from foundations.
George Pratt, North Emporia avenue,
fence carried away. Mr. Darling, Fifteenth,
house near Colonel Hutchison's demol-
ished.
There are manv stories of narrow es-
capes 1t is the first twister Wichita has
ever had and the oldest settler has for once
To take back seat. This city has had
them all around it but never before has it
enjoyed the original article Itself. There
is no doubt that if the trees had been miss
ing, il would have been II catastrophe. As
1t was it was only scare and all those
who We're in it will have n good laugh
when they get things To rights again.
WHERE THE GREAT FORCE CAN BE SEEN.
Outside of the destruction of the Glib
son house and the Missouri Pacific depot
the great force of the storm cal be seen in
front of the Bunnell and the Charles
Davidson residences. The streets there
last night were impossible, and 1t was
with the greatest difficulty that the fallen
trees could be penetrated. ct. PauPs
church which is nestled among the trr es
was not hurt and looked all right by the
light of a lantern except for being splashed
considerably with mud.
There was we last night too IN the
mind OF the Fairmounter. The trolley
wire north of Thirteen h street was lying
in the mud, and hack rates on rainy
nights are high. Belsted people from that
suburb were crowded around Thirteenth
and Topeka avenue discussing how to get
to their families, and it was late last night
before they all got home.
THE DEPOT WRECK.
Division Superintendent Tracy and
eleven other men were in the Twelfth
street depot. Mr.. Tracy said that the
wind struck the depot Unexpectedly. He
ran to close the door and Was thrown sew
eral feet, the depot swayiag like a ship in
an angry sea Finally the roof was
whipped off like piece of note paper in Il
whiriwind and they did not know where it
went lain poured down upon them like
as if it was split out of wash tubs. The
clock stopped, the telegraph instruments
ceased to tick, the lights went out and the
storm was gone. One man said: II saw
it come A storm cloud from the south
hit a rain cloud from the west about
Tenth street and both fused into a terrible
twister. There was no time TO dodge 1t or
to pray or TO do anything. | barely had
time TO think of my Lille Insurance. when
all was over"
STRUCK DIR. HCPP'S HOUSE.
The roof of the Missouri Pacific depot
galvanized in the air like a gigantic kite
tor about three seconds when IL struck DIR.
Hupp'S barn like a cannon shell and
crushed it, the timbers OF both miuGling
in a mass of smithereens- Mrs. Hupp
didn'g know what happened aud didn't
have time to think. She ran TO let down
the transom, but in moment the storm
ceased and a glance out through the back
window revealed 10 her senses what had
happened. She was In the midst OF a
cyclone and didn't know IL till il was all
over Her house was more than Z block
from the depot.
OTHER BARNES DEMOLISHED.
The i,arneS of DIR Rathbon and Mrs