Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-09-14
BATTLING ELEMENTS.
Great Destruction by Storms In
Many Places.
Tho Town OF Grldiey, Kan, Nearly De-
stroyed by Wind and watcr-Dmm-
age by storms at Various
Other Points.
Gridiey's AIlsfortupe

Gridiey's Misfortune.
GRIDLEy, Kan, Sept lO.-This littl,
town OF 400 inhabitants down In Coffe,
county, one Of the termini of tn,
burlington branch of the Santa Fe, I
to-day shattered wreck. with not
single uninjurcd house In It's confines
most Of the buildings, and all OF tn,
stocks of goods Of every description
are utterly ruined. And what Is mos
remarkable Is the fact that not {
human being was more than slightly
injured
About o'clock Sunday a storm o.
wind and rain burst on the town from
the northwest The wind was what |.
known as straight blow" and II.
mischief was mainly confined TO the
unrooting OF buildings. A down
pour of rain Immediately fol.
lowed of n volume that can
best be appreciated by the state
ment that : inches of water
fell. This deluge completed the dc.
struction that had no. been accom-.
plished by the wind. In n few minutes
every stock of goods In town had been
soaked, and the household possessions
OF most of the inhabitants were in the
same condition. Strange to say, with
all of the falling roofs and walls, and
flying debris that broke windows far
and near. not Il person of the town re-
ported more than The mcrcst personal
injury.
- far hn
Methodist church. blown down: Chris
tian church. new, completely wrccked:
Pope's hardware store. building and
stock destroyed; Fc>ser den N Son, gen.
eral store. building damaged, stock
ruined; stockton, drug. building I'M
rooted, stock wet; Grove, general
store, building uuroo!ci. stock de-
stroyed: Gales. grocer. building I'M
rooted, took completely dcstroyed;
Richardson brothers. livery, barn
destroyed, some animals injured:
Bakers lumber yard, stock scattered
and shattered: He'll. hay shipper,
barn destroyed and and large quantity
of hay wet Adjoining the livery barn
were number OF frame buildings oc.
cupicd as residences, the fronts of
which were blown out and the con.
tents flooded. Oleson, hardware,
stock utterly ruined, building torn 10
pieces. In the second story was located
the Odd Fellows hall; Smith hotel, I'M
rooted, contents ruined 10y water; adj
joining livery stable destroyed; Find.
ley hotel, roof damaged and contents
wet; Powers, meat market, building
destroyed.
In Keywest township, near Gridley,
Mrs. Jayne and daughter were slightly
injured.
Damage nj EmporIa-
EMroIIA. Kan. Sept 9.-The new
wing of the Kansas state normal
school is in ruins. Part of the north
brick wall has been blown in and the
roof carried away. II had only lately
been finished and cost $4,000. The
Ices so far will be not less than
$4,000. with prospects of 1t be-
ing still worse, us Albert Taylor hall,
with its fine stage. fresco work,
chairs. etc. is open TO the rain,
which i still falling. Fortunately
no one was in the building when it
went down. Four inches of rain fell
in two hours. accompanied by n terrific
windstorm. William Clarke's whole
sale furniture store was drenched,
Easements and cellars are flooded
and sidewalks torn M all over the city.
q Hco-,n. No.
NEosno. Mo-, sept. l0.-A special
train IT four cars OF ties and lumber
and passcn er co ich on the Kansas
City, pittsburg, IL Gulf railway was
wrecked miles south of here at
$50 o'clock yesterday by running
into washout. In the coach was
Superinten lent Morley and sew
eral others. John Fore, the engi-
neer. WIS killed. lie lived at
Pitts urg and left wife and four
children. William Fitzgerald, fireman,
was also killed. lie was unmarried. !
Jasper Rowe, brakeman. was badly in
jured in the back. IL is thought that
there was clouibust in the vicinity.
Fort Scott Catches 10.
FORT SCOTT. Kan, sept. l0.-A heavy I
rain. which continued all last night in
southeast Kansas, flooded the creeks 4
and dana red the crops greatly. The
lower portion of this city is submerged 1
by the Marmaton river and Mill creek,
which are out of their banks. and
trains are coming In over the Mem I
phis, Missouri Pacific and Missouri,
Kansas & Texas roads In water al ,
most mp to the fire boxes. All commu- .
with the country north and
west Is shut of. Water Is now up to .
the highest water mark of recent
years and Is still rising. Many resi-
dences are submerged and families are
moving out of houses.
Zinc Furnaces Destroyed
WEIR CITY, Kan, Sept 10 About
$50 o'clock last night, heavy storm
of hail. rain and lightning struck Weir
City, increasing in fury until o'clock.
1t blew down furnaces /, and 3 of the
Cherokee Zinc Co. smelter. which
then caught fire and was
totally destroyed. The men were
all out just at the time. George New
ton was injured about the back, breast
and arm by falling timbcrs, aud Frank
Spencer was struck on the head and
knocked down, but not seriously hurt
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