Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-07-08
D--.CYCLONE HORRORS.
Widespread Ruin and DesOlatiOn
Wrought by the Angry
Elements.
Two Hundred Square Miles, with
Southwestern Missouri the Storm
Center, Notwithstanding
y
LOSS of Life-Immense
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Property Loss.

Kansas City, July 8.-The reports o
the storms during the past three day
show that the entire eastern water shet
of the Rocky mountains to the Nebraskt
and Iowa lines and south to Texas was
swept thereby.
On Friday night the severest blow
came. Fields of grain that promised the
most bountiful yield In years were swept
bare of vegetation. The seas of rain
were abetted in their work of destruction
by tornadoes. It is too early yet to sum
up the loss, but the total is appalling
and those to whom the angry elements
spared life have little left to sustain it
The stories of the storm are so similar
that statistical summary is all there is
left to tell.
The storm focus embraced an area OF
200 square miles with the southwestern
corner of Missouri as the center. The
greatest loss of life is reported from
Winona, Mo-, where eleven corpses have
been found with as many more missing.
ACCOMPANIED BY A CYCLONE.
At Baxter Springs, in southeastern
Kansas, five were killed and eleven
seriously injured by the cyclone that &C.
companied the storm. One person was
drowned at Columbus and two at Ottawa,
Kas. At Van Buren, Ark, a babe drowned.
A family of five was encamped on the
banks of Fish creek, Indian Territory.
Nothing of them or their belongings was
found except part of wagon on a pile
of drift wood. At Townsville, Mo-,
where the rainfall was four inches in one
hour, five persons were lost.
Unconfrmed reports are received of
loss of life as follows: Three at Fayette-
vile, Ark; one at Paola, Kas.; one at
Richards, Kas.; six of hunting party in
the territory. This gives known and
probable loss of forty-three lives. This
total will be increased when the receding
water permits thorough search. The
loss of property can be placed in the
millions. Dwellings, fences and farm
buildings were carried off, and highway
and railroad bridges swept away. Thirty
or forty buildings in Winona succumbed.
BUILDINGS SWEPT AWAY.
Five residences, church and ware
house went down at Baxter Springs. Six
bridges went out in Russell county, Kas.
About Jefferson City, Mo-, many square
miles of growing grain were destroyed.
Traffic on the Fort Scott & Memphis rail
road is temporarily suspended.
Reports of damage to property other
than above noted come from five points
in Kansas, nine in Missouri, six in Ar
kansas and two in Indian Territory.
The storm spent itself in Illinois, but,
having lost it's force, proved blessing
to crops.
The above summaries are only frac-
tion of the loss in property. The great
est burden falls upon the farmers as the
season is too far spent to plant new
crops. Details of individual suffering
and experiences would fill volumes and
repeat the horrors of the Johnstown dis
aster.
STORM IN KANSAS.
Independence, Kas.-A severe rain and
wind storm visited this section last
night. The streams are rising rapidly.
The wind blew down many trees and out
buildings and took the roof off the new
mill here. At Neodosha several build
ings were blown over.
Chetopa, Kas.-Last evening tornado
swept over this region doing considerable
damage to growing crops and buildings.
The smoke stack of the electric light
plant was blown down, throwing the
5own in darkness.
Topeka, Kas.-The Rock Island rail
road reports a heavy wind storm at
Canton, MCPHERSON county, yesterday af-
;ernoon. A dozen houses were blown
lown. No fatalities are reported.
Winfield, Kas.-This section was visited
oy windstorm yesterday followed by the
heaviest rain of the season.
WIRES PRosTRATED AT MILWAUKEE.
Milwaukee.-As result of last nights
storm, the only reliable means of quick
this morning was by the
ong distance telephone. The Western
Union lines, as we'll as those of the Postal
and Chicago and Milwaukee telegraph
were prostrated to such an
sxtent that, aside from the telephone, the
railroad trains were the best substitute
available to move the staggering &C.
of commercial messages and
press dispatches.
sAooA1N' Dh''
Springfield, Mo.--A severe electric rain
storm swept along the james river and
rs far south as Ozark last night. Much
i've stock was killed by the wind and
lightning and crops badly damaged.
Three houses were DESTROYED by light,
ming at Sparta. The reports OF the Hood
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1T Winona, Published heretofore. are now
known to have only told part OF the hor.
rors OF the disaeter. owing to the TACT
that Winona is In mountainous region,
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me ralitoao 10 was"ou away nows VI
.;.,s ~ tha railroad ana other nartiaa
'as. ~ W,nona nm a sneciai train this
,o.v morn;no min 10 render ali tie assistance DOS
s;hia The hodies of Rev. q. W. Duncan
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