St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-02
SIX WERE KILLED OUTRIGHT
And a Score of Others In
jured by the Flying
Debris.
NOT A HOUSE STANDING
In the Path Of Desolation--
Loss Not Less Than
100000.

HALSTEAD, Kan, May 1.-About
80 this afternoon fearful cyclone
devastated strip of country several
hundred yards wide and at least
sixteen miles in length, killing six
persons outright and seriously in
juring several others, while many
have received slight injuries.
The cyclone struck the house of
Mrs. Frye, a widow lady who lived
about nine miles southeast of Hal
stead, completely destroying it and
slightly injuring Mrs. Frye. 1T
picked up the house of John Schultz
back and carried it in every direc-
ton. The two-story house of Joseph
Weir was entirely swept away, kill
ing Mrs. Joseph Weir, Grace Weir,
aged eleven; Herman Weir, aged
five, and a five-weeks-old baby. Mr..
Weir had previously left the house.
and when the cyclone struck was
about fifty yards away. He clung to
a tree, but Was badly injured by
FLYING DEBRIS,
and will die. Joseph Weir Jr. and
sister, Maud Weir, the only ones in
the family who took to the cellar,
escaped with only Slight injuries.
The home of E. c. Caldwell, which
was 100 yards west of the Weir house,
was unroofed and one side torn away.
The family escaped by taking to the
cellar. The next house in the path of
the storm was William Armstrong;,
EDIxr frnyT tha
face of the earth Mr.. Armstrong was
killed; Mrs. Armstrong was seriously
and perhaps fatally injured, and Grand
ma Chaplin, who was there sick in bed,
was killed. About 100 yards east of the
Armstrong house the large, two-story
residence of B. e. Frizzle was picked
up, as was also a large two-story house
) of j. f. Frizzle, across the road, and
both, together with all the outbuildings,
were completely swept away, leaving
only enough debris to show that a
house had stood there. The families
of both the Frizzles' escaped injury,
with the exception of Mrs. j. r. Frizzle.
who was considerably bruised about
the head.
The next place visited was the home
of Capt. White, which was only part
Iy destroyed, one wing of the house
being torn away. Across from the
Whites, the home of Cyrus Hinkston
was entirely carried away. Mr.. Kinks
ton received painful, but not serious,
injuries. Spencer Ross house was in
the line of the tornado and was car
ried away as was also the house of A.
S. Powell, J. A. Gomas, Andrew
Thompson and Memo Hege. Miss
Daisy Neff at Powell's house, was
badly injured, as was Mrs. j. Comas.
AT the Hege district school, the school
children had just been dismissed.
Hege saw the storm approaching and
fearing its results, hurried the scholars
to his cyclone cellar. His foresighted-
ness prevented an awful holocaust, for
just as the last child had been safe
ly slowed away in the cellar, the cy-
clone struck the house over them and
demolished it. AS it was, not one of
them were even slightly injured.
FURY OF THE STORM
seemed to have done it's worst about
five miles west of Halstead, where all
six of the persons were killed. Near
the Frizzle home, dead cattle, horses,
hogs and chickens are scattered all
over the wheat fields. Those who first
saw the disaster coming say it made
very slow progress, travelling not fast
er than a person could run. 1t seemed
to waver, first in one direction, then
in another. AS far as heard from,
covering a distance of eighteen miles
across the country from southwest to
northwest, twenty residences, nearly
all of them large ones, were complete
ly destroyed. The loss will not fall
less than $500, ,00O besides the six deaths
and injured, not less than two of whom
will probably die. Physicians from
Wichita went to the relief, and local
assistance is given. Everybody in the
track of the storm lost everything;
outside aid will probably have to be
called fer.