Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-09-14
A FURIOUS STORM.
Wind, Rain and Hail Have Wrought Great
Damage IN Kansas.

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OTTAWA, Kan, Sept. 1O.-Gridley, a
little town of 400 people down in Coffey
county, is wreck with not u single
uninjured house in its confines. Most of
the baildings and all of the stocks of
goods of every description are utterly
ruined. Not human was more than
slightly injured About o'clock Sun
day storm of wind and rain burst on
the town from the northwest. Twelve
inches of water fell in an incredibly
short time. This deluge completed the
destruction that had been accom-
plished by the wind In few min
utcs every stock of goods in the town
had been soaked and the household
possessions of most of the inhabitants
were in the same condition,
TOPEKA, Kan, Sept 10 special
from Burlington says the storm which
did so much damage in Gridley, this
state, extended from the north to the
south end of Coffey county, destroying
scores of houses, barns and granaries
and greatly damaging orchards and
crops. boy in Key West township,
near Gridley, was killed. George Rod
man, his wife and three children were
seriously injured.
FREDoNIA, Kan, Sept. lO.-A fierce
rain accompanied by high wind, began
ut o'clock Sunday night and con-
tinued most of the night, flood
ing this locality as was new
overlooking the bottoms as on July
23, 1859. The passenger trains on the
st. Louis s. San Francisco ana
Missouri Pacific railways are wa
ter-bound here and the Santa
Fe tracks are washed out. The
fair grounds and track are from 3 to
feet under water, and the fair, which
was to have begun to-day, now has been
declared off. The city is without fire
protection, the waterworks at the
river being entirely submerged and
the river is still rising and lps of
men are now at work making boats to
rescue several families in the river
bottoms.
BURLINGTON, Kan, Sept. 1O.-The
Neosho river here is bank full from
the terrific rainstorm of Sunday night,
when inches of water fell. North
west of here houses and barns were
blown down and orchards badly dam
in this section for years
OTTAWA, Kan, Sept. 10.-The little
town of Gridley, of 400 inhabitants,
down in Coffey county, one of the ter
mini of the Burlington branch of the
Santa Fe, is a shattered wreck with
not single uninjured house in it's
confines. Most of the buildings and all
of the stocks of goods OF every de-
scription are utterly ruined About
o'clock Sunday u storm of wind and
rain burst on the town from the north
west. A down-pour of rain Immediately
followed in volume that can best be
appreciated by the statement that IL
inches of water fell in an incredibly
short time. This deluge completed the
destruction that had not been accom-
plished by the wind. Strange to say
with all the falling of 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.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Sept. 10.-Pas-
sengers arriving here Monday night
who were tied up by washouts in the
storm-swept districts of Kansas, re-
port that they never saw so much
water fall at one time as came
down there Sunday. 1t was cloud
burst, accompanied by wind and
hail that was as large as walnuts,
some stones the size of goose egg
strewing the earth. For many miles
the fields are a perfect sea of water.
Houses are surrounded by water, and
the farmers are going about on RATS
rudely codntructed The hail did much
damage to the crops.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. TO- = A special to
the Chronicle from Webb City, Mo-,
says that on Sunday night rain poured
for hours until many people took ref
uge on second floors. The streets were
sheets of water. Easements were filed
and general confusion prevailed. A
careful estimate shows the damage to
be from $4,000 to $4,000, and it may
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