Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-07-08
A Repetition Of the Horrors Of tho
jOh1St0Wn Disaster.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
Many Square Miles Of Growing Grain
Completely Destroyed aud
Traffic Suspended.

the eevcrost blow came. Fields Of
grain that promised the most boun,iful
yield Of many years were swept baro
Of vegetation. The seas Of rain were
abottcd In the work Of destruction by
tornadoes. II is too early yet to sum up
the loss, but the total IL appalling, aud
those 10 whom the angry elements
spared life have little LOFT ~ sustain II.
| The stories OF the storm are 40 similar
that n atatiBtichl summary ~ all there
Ia loft to tell.
The storm focus embraced an area OF
| 200 square miles with the southwestern
corner Of Missouri as center. Too
gtestest loss Of lifo IL reported from
Wiona where eleven corpses have
been found with as many m ire mis-.
Sing. At Baxter SPRING, Ia south.
western Kansas, Ave were killed anu
eleven seriously injured by the
cyclone that accompanied the storm.
One person was drowned 81 Columbus
aud Two NJ OgtOwa, * lusas. At Van
| Bufun, Ark, u mother AMI babe were
| drowned, A family OF i've Waa en-
camped on tho banks Of Fish Crock,
Indian Territory. \ thing Ot them OF
their belongings was found except part
| OF a wagon on n pile oi drift wool. A.
| ThOma8villc, NO., where the rainfall
was four Inches IN 1no hour, five per-
nOaa were lost. Unconiirmci reports
are received o. los Of life a. follows;
Three At Fayetteville, Ark; one at
PaOla, Kansas; ono at kiohRfuf, Ksn.
"a; six OF hunting party In lniian
Territory. This gives tho known aud
probable loss u thlrly-'our lives. This
totsl will DO increased when the re.
ceding water permits n Thorough
search.
The loss OF properly eau he placed In
the millions. Dwellings, fences anu
farm buildings were carried OIL aud
highway anu railroad bfidgeR ewupt
nway. Thifty n eighty builiings Ia
WinunA tuocumbod. Five residences,
church anu warehouse went down ut
Baxter SpringS. Six bridges went out
la Russell county, Kansas. About JET.
ierson City, Mo-, many square miles Of
| growing grain were destroyed.
tbs tfafiic on Fort Scjlt x
Memphis railroad IL temporarily
suspended. Reports OF damage
10 property other lhan above noted
come from hye points Ia Kansas, niue
Ia Missouri, six IN Arkansas aud two
In Indian Territory. The storm spent
itsulf In Illinois. but having Loot it,
force, proved blessing TO the crops.
The above SUMMARIZE, are only
fraction OF the lias Ut property. The
| greatest burden falls upon tue farmers
Ne the season " too FAR spout ~ plant
new crops. Tho country's gtsnsfy ha,
been cleared out. Too details 0t ludi.
viduai suffering and experiences
would nil volumes aud repsat tho
horrors Of the JUhnIIown disaster.
sTREAMs RIsISG
ISDBPES DENCE, Kansas, July S,-A
severe rain sud wind storm visited
this section last night. The streams
Rro rising rapidly. Tue wind blew
dowh many trees AMI Outbuildings
aud took the roof on new mill. At
NsddtshA several buildings blew over.
HEAVY wISDsIOUM.
TOPEKA, Kansas, July s.-The Rock
Island Railroad company reports
heavy windtt0rm nj Canton, McPher.
son county, yesterday afternoon. a
dozen houses were blown down. No
fatalities.
/ DOING MUCH DAMAGE.
FoRT WORTH, Texas, July S.-A
report was received here today, giving
meRgts details Of = cyclone at Chlcka.
shA, /. L., last night. about 0 O'Clock.
Several buildings were blown down,
among which were tue Rock Islani
freight depot, anu = large gTist mill
near by. The storm passed Hennessy,
doing much damage.
ONLY PART OF 1T TOLD.
] sPRIsdFIELD, Mo. July s.-A severe
electric rain storm swept along James
river anu as far south n Ozark last
night. Live stock was killed by the
wind and lightning and tho crops
badly damaged by the storm. Three
hOmei at Sparta were Destroyed by
| lightning.
Tho report sol the food at wInona,
No., Published heretofore, are now
known TO have told only n part Of tue
hOTTOTs OF the disaster. Owing 10 tue
fact that WlnOna IL Ia mountainous
region, almost inaccessible by wagon,
and that the railway " washed away,
news Of the Hood Is h RI 10 OBTAIN.
Railway connections viii be es,ab.
| lished this afternoon by running "A
train on either end OF the river branch
OF tho Kansas CITY, Font Scott aud
| Memphis road, but II viii be several
| days before the gap eau Ov closed up In
tho road. Several officials OF tue rail.
way anu other parties left for Winous
| on a special train this m orning TO rem
der all assistance possible to tho Hood
| stricken people.
The bodies OF Rev, q. w. Duncan
ana daughter Matte anu Miss Norma
| Neyins we're found underR large arm
| OF broken tlmbers GbOuta mile below
Winona, anu also the body OF an un.
known man stopping at ono OF the
hotels,
A terrible stencil arlses from the
mas, OF hogs, horses, cattle, anu other
animuls drowned. II 10 charged that
some visitors are stripping tho bodies OF
everything OF value.
For several miles below Wlnnna may
bs eeeu wagons and bousenold goods
q all kinds ana dead animals. |
Ovsr two hundred persons were
searching yesterday for bodies. Tho
BODY Of George EyEns's daughter was
found this forenoon, The boay OF Lloyd |
Wrights daughter 10 ttill missing,
Late news from ThomAsville, Ore |