The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-08
A PATH OF DEATH.
Ten Persons Killed. ana Twenty Injured,
Several Fatally.

Several Fatally.
HUTCHINSON, kans. May Wreck
and ruin and loss of life were crowded
into brief space of time by cyclone
in the farming district, twenty miles
east Of this city this afternoon. Ten
lives were crushed out. About 4.20
o'clock. the twisting, hurting cloud
was seen to approach Patterson,
small station on the Frisco road about
six miles from Burton. Those who
saw it say it resembled a great mass
Of flying smoke and dust from a para
rie fire. The air was hot as if it came
from furnace, dry, and filled with
electricity. The storm struck about a
mile south of Patterson. and for six
teen miles in northwesterly direc-
ton left death and ruin IN a path 100
yards to quarter of a mile in width.
Ten persons were killed as follows:
Mrs. Joseph Wear. Grace Wear, -
years old; Herman Wear. 10 years
old; a babe, William Armstrong, Mrs.
Chapin, John Schmidt, Miss Schmidt.
Dora Schmidt, Frank Schmidt. Others
were injured, but their names could
not be ascertained The residence of
Cyrus Hinkstein, VIM. White, B. E.
! Friselle and a. S.. Powell were de-
molished and many others damaged.
The pupils of the Hege district school
in the path of the storm were hurried
out of danger by the young lady
teacher and she is the heroine OF the
hour. 4 few minutes after the last
pupil left the building fell
The 81 ~ was oyerspread with black
clouds and the storm cloud as it ap-
preached the town wound about like
the swaying form Of a giant elephant.
After the cyclone swept by, leaving
devastation and death in its wake, the
citizens went to work caring fer the
wounded and removing the dead bod
les from beneath the heaps of debries.
Rain has been falling throu ghout
southwestern kansasat intervals since
yesterday afternoon and there was
severe hail storm IN this section to-
night. Of the twenty injured, Mrs.
Frye. Jos. Wear and Mrs. Friselle
Will die. Among the others injured
are Jacob S. Stichey, Cyrus Henson
and Mrs. William Armstrong. The
first house demolished was that of
Mrs. Frye, a small structure. The
houses of Jake Salmiskv and John
Sultzbach were wrecked. but no one
was killed. George Wears tine resi-
dence was reduced to kindling wood.
His wife and three children were
killed. Two of the children escaped
by going to the cellar. E. G. Cald-
wells house on.the west side, was des-
troyed. The family escaped by going
to the cellar D. E. Friselle's new
s3, 900 house was wiped out, leaving
only the cellar, in which We're his
wife and three children, uninjured.
Across the road was the large house of
J. R. Friselle, which met the fate of
all in the tornado's path. Mrs. Fri
selle was fatally hurt William Arm
strongs house was torn to pieces; he
was killed and his wife seriously in
jured His house was torn by the
wind. The homes of VIM. White and
Cyrus Henson were also destroyed
and the latter was injured fatally, it
is feared. The house of a. II. Par
nell, Spencer Ray, J. A. Cummings
and NJ. G. Hege were demolished, but
the only person dangerously injured
is Mrs. Cummings.
Jacob Stinchey saw the storm and
hastened from the field where he was
working. He turned his horses in the
barn and ran to the house, taking the
family into the cellar. The storm blew
away the barn, lifted the house from
its foundation and landed one of the
horses on Mrs. Stinchey. probably in
juring her fatally. The horse was
taken from the cellar harnessed and
unhurt. The Schmidt family of four
were all killed. From here the storm
lifted and no further damage so far as
heard from was done. A westbound
passenger train from the Santa Fe was
held at Halstead until the storm had
passed. Where it crossed the track,
telegraph lines, poles. wires and all
were swept away. The train would
certainly have been wrecked had it
gone ahead. In addition to the houses
destroyed, were barns. outbuildings.
orchards, etc., while the pathwayso:
the storm is lined with the carcasses
of horses, cattle, hogs and other ami
mails. The loss will be great, as the
district visited was settled by well-to
do farmers.