The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-02
TEN LIVES LOST IN ACYCLoNE.
THREE OF THE 20 OTHER PERSONS
INJURED CAN'T RECOVER.


The Destructive Work of the storm
started a Mile south of Patterson,
Kan.-The Wind Then Played
Havoc i'm "a Path sixteen Miles Long
and Varying in Width From 100
Yards to u Quarter of IA Mile.
Hutchinson. Kan, May 1.-Wrecx and
ruin and loss of life were crowded into
a brief space of time by cyclone in the
farming district 20 miles easE Of this city
this afternoon. Ten lives were crushed
out.
About 4:20 o'clock a twisting, hurting
cloud was seen to approach Patterson,
a small station on the Frisco road about
six miles from Burton. Those who saw it
say it resembled a great mass of flying
smoke and dust from a prairie fire. The
air was as hot as IL it came from fur
mace, and was filled with electricity. The
storm struck about mile south of Pat
terson. and for sixteen miles in a north
westerly direction left death and ruin
in a path from 100 yards to a quarter of
a mile in width. Ten persons were killed,
as follows Mrs. Joseph Weir, Grace
Weir. p years Old; Herman Weir, 10 years
old; a babe, William Armstrong, Mrs.
Dora Schmidt. and Frank Schmidt.
Others We're injured. but their names
could not be ascertained.
The residences Of Cyrus Kinstein. Will
lam White, B. Z. Friselle, and A. S. Pow
ell were demolished and many others
damaged.
The pupils Of the Hege district school
in the path of the storm were hurried out
g. htrt lad foo ,s1,a
she is the heroine of the hour. A few
minutes after the last pupil left the build-
ing fell.
The sky was overspread with black
clouds and the storm cloud as it approach
ed the town wound around like the sway,
ing trung of a giant elephant.
After the cyclone had swept by. leav~
ing devastation and death in it's wake, the
citizens went to work caring for the
wounded and removing the dead bodies
from beneath the heaps of debris.
Rain has been falling throughout South
western Kansas at intervals since yester-
/ day afternoon and there was severe hail
storm in this section tonight.
OF the twenty injured, Mrs. Frye, Jo~
seph Weir and Mrs. Friselle will die.
Among the others injured are; Jacob s.
Stichey, Cyrus Henson and Mrs. William
Armstrong.
The first house demolished was that of
Mrs. Frye, a small structure.
The houses of Jake Salmisky and John
Sultzbach were wrecked, but no one was
killed.
George Weir's fine residence was reduced
to kindling wood His wife and three
children were killed. Two of the childreh
escaped by going into the cellar.
+. c. Caldwells house on the west side
was destroyed. The family escaped by go
B. E. Friseiie's new $1,000 house was
wiped out, leaving only the cellar, in
which We're his wife and three children
uninjured. Across the road was the large
house Of ]. r. F'riselle which met the fate
Of all in the tornadoes path. Mrs. Fri
selle was fatally hurt.
William Armstrong; house was torn TO
pieces, and he was killed aud his wife
seriously injured.
William Morris was severely injured
and Grandma Chaplin was Killed. Ills
mousse was torn by the wind.
The homes of William White and Cy-
rus Henson were also destroyed and the
latter was injured fatally, 1t is feared.
The houses OF A. H. ParneN, Spencer
Bay, ]. A. Cummings and NJ. G. Hege
were demolished, but the only person dan
gerously injured is Mrs Cummings.
Jacob Stinchey saw the storm and hast
ened from the field where he was work.
ing. He turned his horses in the barn and
ran to the house, taking the family into
the cellar. The storm blew away the
barn, lifted the house from its foundation
and landed one Of the horses on Mrs.
Stinchey, probably injuring her fatally
The horse was taken from the cellar har-
messed and unhurt The Schmidt family of
four were all killed.
From here the storm lifted and no fur
ther damage, so far as heard from, was
done.
A westbound passenger train on the
Santa Fe road was held at Halstead until
the storm had passed. Where 1t crossed
the track, telegraph lines, poles, wires and
all were swept away. The train would
certainly have been wrecked had it gone
ahead. In addition to this barns, build
ings, orchards, etc, were demolished,
while the pathway Of the storm is lined
with the carcasses of horses, cattle, hogs
and other animals.
The loss viii be great, as the district vis-
ited was settled by Well-to-do farmers.