St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-07
FIVE KILLED HERE.
Baxter Springs Victims of a Ter
rifle Wind.

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan, July 6.
"A cyclone, which struck Baxter
Springs last night killed five people
outright, and several others were in
Jured, and are not expected to live,
A dozen people were seriously in
Jured, Cooper e Hodgkin's dry goods
store was destroyed, the Methodist,
Christian and Colored Methodist
churches were blown down, and a
dozen residences and many barns
totally wrecked. A complete list Of
the dead is as follows:
SALLIE WEBSTER, aged 70.
FLORENCE WEBSTER, aged Sc.
RALPH WEBSTER, aged g.
THOMAS SHIELDS baby.
/ II. H. HIBBS.
The injured are: Mrs. Neal, both
collar bones broken and internal injur-
les; James Neal, scalp wound and in
ternal injuries; Roy webster, right arm
broken, right hip and left elbow dislo-
Gated; Mrs. Martha Smith, hips dislo-
Gated and internal injuries; Ella Smith,
internal injuries; George A. Dicker,
head injured; A. G. Hanback,, head in
Jured; three members of A. Sharpe's
family, badly injured; Mrs. Thomas
Shields, living nine miles south, fatally
injured. The injuries of the mother of
James Neal, and A. G. Hanback, will
prove fatal.
CAME WITHOUT WARNING.
The storm struck the city at o'clock,
accompanied by violent rain storm,
which was as quick and destructive as
waterspout. Fully twenty people
were more or less injured. The storm
was not anticipated and no prepara-
tions were made by the citizens to get
out of the way. When it had abated
and the work of rescue begun a dozen
homeless families We're found in the
streets or in the ruins of their homes.
Mrs Webster and her mother and
daughter were found in their wrecked
house. Hibbs was killed in his house.
Cooper &Hodgkin's brick store build
Ing, the best structure in town, was de-
molished, one wall and rear end hav-
ing been blown in, destroying the stock
of dry goods. Twenty-ssven box cars
were blown from the Kansas City, Fort
Scott & Memphis track. The freight
and passenger depots were almost de-
molished, and much damage to freight
resulted. Several fine residences and
many small buildings and outbuildings
We're blown away. In Shaft 49, of the
City, where many miners were engag ged,
the water rushed in with such rapidity
that the miners barely escaped with
their lives. Every mule in the shaft
was drowned. Three creeks were
swollen beyond their banks within
few hours, and fuller reports from the
news. of. damage to life and property
tsrorn the combined forces of wind and
water. The Memphis railroads wreck
ing train and bridge crews were called
from this city this morning to repair
its depots and small washouts, which
will not interfere with traffic.
CAME WITH A ROAR.
There seem to have been two cur
rents of wind which struck Baxter
Springs, one from the north and the
other from the west, and they met near
the Methodist church, joined forces and
turned east, doing serious damage to
property before meeting and complet-
ing the destruction after coming to-
gether. In the track of the current
from the north the passenger depot
was the first thing damaged. The cur
rent from the west seems to have been
the stronger. 1t struck some of the
doing serious damage, and then it
came to the yards of the railroad,
twenty-eight freight cars were thrown
from the track the depot moved on it's
foundation, and it's contents were badly
flooded by the downpour of rain which
closely followed the wind. From the
railroad track on the point of meet
ing the other current, the damage to
property was not so great The first
object struck then was the NJ. E.
church, which was totally destroyed
and lies in heap of ruins. The cur
rent turned slightly to the southeast,
doing great damage until it reached a
point just west of ]. NJ. Coopsr's large
store, where it turned directly east and
struck the store building. The Chris
tian church was directly in the path
and now lies like a pile OF kindling
wood. The Episcopal church was not
touched, but the storm struck further
up the street, on the south side, and
from there not a residence escaped.
THREE KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
The members of the Webster family,
recently from Nebraska, the mother
aged sixty, daughter aged thirty, and
the grandson, aged four, were killed
leg broken and his shoulder dislocated,
and will probably die. Hibbs died
/ from excitement, falling dead in one
of the stores on Military street. The
old Occidental hotel, now used as an
opera house, was struck by lightning
and badly damaged. Four large hay
barns in the neighborhood of the
freight depot were completely wreck
~
damage places it at s1O0, 600. There was
little, if any cyclone insurance. The
damage to the property west of Bax-
ter Springs cannot be fully determine
ed. 1t is reported that for miles in the
track of the storm fences and barns
are blown down and crops more or
less destroyed. The west part of Lyon
township seems to have had a touch
of perhaps the same twister that
visited Baxter. 1t struck the prop
erty of Thomas Shields of Lyon, demo-
fishing his house and barns. Mrs.
Shields and two children were in the
building at the time the storm struck
it. One of the children, two-year old
babe, was killed, the other child's leg
was broken, and Mrs. Shields had her
shoulder dislocated and is injured
III lteI pdCh anu SplilS. SiS Will oiS-
One or two other farms in the vicinity
were damaged. w. I. Archer, of
Sheridan township, who left McCune
yesterday afternoon about o'clock,
where he had been on business, is sup
posed to have been drowned while
! crossing a creek.
CIOudburst in Illinois.
s EANDAITA I'll Ju1y 6-NewS
reached here this evening that a
cloud burst at Highland. fifty miles