The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1895-07-12

Kansas City, Mo-, July S.-Reports
OF the storms during the past three
uayS snow the entire eastern water
shed from the Rocky mountains to the
Nebraska and Iowa lines and to Texas
were swept On Friday night the Sc
verest blow came. Fields of grain
that promised the most bountiful yield
Oh many years were swept bare of veg
citation. The seas of rain were abetted
IN the work of destruction by lorna
does. III is too cary vet 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 a center The
greatest loss of life is reported from
Wiona where eleven corpses have
been found, with as many more miss
ing. AT Baxter Springs, in southwest
ern Kansas, five were killed and eleven
seriously injured by the cyclone that
accompanied the storm. One person
was drowned at Columbus and two at
Ottowa, Kan. At Van Buren,, Ark. a
mother and babe were 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
PiiS VI uIlllWOOu. AT
MO-, where the rainfall was four inches
In one hour, five persons were lost.
unconfirmed reports are received Of
loss of life as follows:
Three as Fayetteville, Ark; one at
Paola. Kan. one at Richards, Kan.
SIX of hunting party in Indian Terri
tory. This gives known and prob
able loss of thirty-four lives. This to-
tai will be increased when the reced-
ing water permits-of thorough search.
GREAT PROPERTY LOSS.
The loss of property can be placed In
the millions. Dwelling, fences and
farm buildings were carried off and
highway and railroad bridges swept
away. Thirty of eighty buildings in
Winona succumbed. Five residences.
church and warehouse went down al
Baxter Springs. Six bridges went out
in Russell county, Kansas. About Jet
ferson City, Mo-, many square miles nf
growing grain were destroyed. The
traffic on the Fort Scott & Memphis
Railroad is temporarily suspended Re-
ports of damage to property other than
above noted come from five points in
Kansas, nine in Missouri, six in Arkan-
sas and two in Indian Territory. The
storm spent itself in Illinois, but hav-
ing lost its force, proved q blessing to
the crops
The above summaries are only
traction Oh the loss OIL property. Inc
greatest burden falls upon the farmers,
as the season is too far spent to plant
new crops. The country's granary has
been cleared out. The details of indi-
vidual suffering and experiences would
fill volumes and repeat the horrors OF
the Johnstown disaster
THE WINONA DISASTER.
Springfield, Mo-, July S.-The reports
of the flood at Winona, Mo-. published
heretofore, are now known to have told
only a part of the horrors of the dis
aster.
The bodies of Rev. G. w. Duncan and
daughter Matte and Miss Norma
Nevins were found under a large drift
of broken timbers about a mile below
Winona, and also the body Of an I'M
known man stopping at one of the no.
tells.
A terrible stencil, arises from the
mass of hogs, horses, cattle, and other
animals drowned. 1t is charged that
some visitors are stripping the bodies
of everything of value.
For several miles below Winona may
be seen wagons and household goods Of
all kinds and dead animals. over two
hundred persons were seaching yester-
day for bodies. The body of George
Evanss daughter was found this fore
noon The body of Lloyd Wright's
daughter is still missing.