The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-10
In THE STORMS PATH.
Much Damage to Property in
Kansas and Missouri.
GRrpIEY. KAN. SEVERELY HURT.
Buildings Tnroofed and Then Flooded
1t Was a Straight Wind. Fol-
lowed by Heavy Rain.

Topeka, Kan. Sept. "A special from
Burlington says that the storm that did so
much damage in Gridley extended from
the north TO the south end Of CofTey coun-
~ destroying houses. barns and granaries
and greatly damaging orchards and crops
A boy in Key West township. near GRID
ley. was killed. q. o. Rodnan, his wife
and three children were seriously injured.
Mrs James and daughts- were badly hurt
AT Strawn Many others were slightly III
jured.
A special from Yates Center says that
during the terrible storm which prevailed
in that section Sunday night Miss Riley,
living near P!oua. was killed by lightning.
A house was struck at Yates Center and
five persons badly injured. At Verona. in
the same county, three persons were stun
ned BIZ a bolt OF lightning. The report
is that tho storm was the severest that
has visited Woodson county in twenty
years.
Another special from Independence says
that Elk City. fifteen miles west OF that
place. Is entirely under water, and the
inhabitants have been forced 10 flee Tor
their lives. Many houses have been wash
cd away. and hundreds OF persons render
ed homeless.
Pi.tsburC, Kan, Scot e.-Never have
such rains been known here as have fallen
for the past three DAYS. The whole couh-
try is flooded. and the tracks OF all the
railroads leading into the city are vashed
away and trains delayed
Webb City, Mo, Sept. s.--Last night
rain poured down for hours. until many
people took refuge on second floors. The
streets were sheets Of water. Easements
were filed, and general confusion pre-
vailed A careful estimate shows the
damage TO be from $4,000 TO 100000. To-
dav the water is slowly subsiding.
EFedOnla a.
Kan, the storm was the heaviest
ever known. The town OF Neo-
sho Rapids. near Emporia. suffered
severely. as did Emporia. Two business
houses a Neosho Rapids were destroyed,
and a number Of dwellings, carried away.
The Neosho river is higher than II has
been for years At Fort Scott the lower
mart OF the city is submerged by water
from the Marmaton river and Mill creek,
which are out of the banks. and the water
is rising with alarming rapidity.
A train on the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf railroad ran into washout five miles
south OF Neosho, Mo. and Engineer Jonn
Fore and Fireman William Fitzgerald were
killed.
thousands of rabbits and small game
are congregated on portions of the Mis-
souri,. Kansas e. Texas tracks above nigh
water mark Many are run over by the
cars. while others take TO the water. The
railroad track is under water al places
never before known TO be.
At Hartford Mrs. Elizabeth Henry was
badly injured by house she was in blow
ing down.
ottawa, Kan, Sept. 9.-Gridley, town
of 400 people on the Santa Fe road, hfty
miles southwest OF here, suffered the to-
tai destruction of many of its best build
ing by last nights storm, while hardly
a structure in the place escaped injury.
About 3 o'clock yesterday storm on WIND
and rain burst on the town from the
northwest. The wind was what was known
as a straight blow, and its mischief was
mainly confined TO the unroofing or build
ings. A downpour of rain Immediately
followed. and amounted TO a deluse'
twelve inches of water falling in an In
credIhly short time. The rain completed
the destruction that had not been accom-
vlished by the wind. and in few min
utes every stock of goods had been soak
cd. and the household possessions OF most
Of the inhabitants were in the same con-
dition. Strange to say. with all the fall
ing roofs and walls and flying debris that
broke windows far and near, not per-
son OF the town reported more than the
merest personal injury. a great deal or
damage is feared in the contiguous coun-
trv. one farmhouse half a mile from town
was completely destroyed, and one inmate,
supposed to be Mrs. Clara Massie, was Ia
tally hurt.