The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-06-02

| nduOeS, 66Sf the list or ruin Is long.
July 26, 49,, a tornado passed through
Erie and adjoining counties of Penn
sylyania, in which 134 persons were
killedSswith a property loss of 100000.
That which struck Quincy, H., March
16. 1876, killed many persons, and June
6 of the same year eleven persons were
killed in Saline county, Kansas.
In 1877 tornado struck Mt Carmel.
Ill, killing twenty-five persons, and de-
stroying lbs buildings. and other places
in southern Illinois suffered injury.
July Z. 1877, at PensauAee, Wis, eight
lives were lost The storm record of
1878 included one in Casey county,
Kentucky, March 2; one in Kansas,
April ID; one April %, which swept
Illinois and Iowa. causing great de-
struction: one in Iowa county, Wiscon-
sin, May %, by which thirty lives were
lost; another June 1. in Ray county,
Missouri, where thirteen were killed;
at Wallingford, Conn, Aug. 8, with
thirty-four killed and twenty-eigh in
jured, and one at Philadelphia, in DC
tober, which caused a loss of property
to the extent of $2,O0O,OOO. In 1879
Marlborough, S. c., was the scene Of
a tornado on April is, and sixteen per-
sons were killed. One of peculiarly de-
structive power passed through Kansas
May so, leaving death and ruin in its
path; and nine were killed and thirty
injured in Goodhue county, Minnesota,
July 3; great loss of life was reported
from a tornado that laid waste much
country in Ohio and Pennsylvania July
IL; and July 16 thirty lives were lost
in storm that passed over Massachu-
sets.
April Is. 1880. ushered in the tor
nado season Of that year with storm
that swept through four counties in
Missouri, and one in Arkansas, killing
ITO persons, manning $40, and destroy
mg several hundred buildings, with a
property loss besides Of over 81 100000.
Taylorville, Ill. was struck on April
"a, with loss of six lives, and Noxu-
bee county, Mississippi, the following |
day had twenty-five killed and seventy |
two MANNED May 2S, in Fannin coun-
ty, Texas, forty were killed and eighty |
three injured, and in Pottawatomie |
county, Iowa, June 10, twenty were |
killed.
The tornado record for 1881 was as
follows: DeSoto county, Mississippi, /
April II, 1881, 10 killed; Usage county,
Kansas, June Il, killed, and % MAIN
ed; New Ulm, Mimi, July 10, killed,
IS MANNED. That Of 1882: Henry and |
Saline counties, Missouri, April is, s
killed, 100 injured; Grinnell, Iowa, June
II, 100 killed. 800 injured, with a loss
of 81 ,000,000; Emmetsburg Iowa, June
"a, 100 killed. That Of 1888: In five
towns. April %, 81 killed.
200 wounded; Racine, Wis, May Is, 10
killed, 100 injured; Dodge and Ohm
stead counties, Minnesota, Aug. 81, 20
killed, so injured; lizard and Clay coun-
ties, Arkansas. 5 killed, 1872 injured.
In 1884, unreasonable warm weather
occurred early in February, brought IN
an unparalleled series Of tornadoes. On
one day, Feb. 8, there occurred in the
territory extending over Mississippi,
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois,
to the Atlantic, more than
sixty tornadoes, which destroyed over
10000 buildings, killed 800 persons, and
wounded over $500. with incalculable
destruction Of property. On Feb. 10,
n Richmond and Harnett counties,
North Carolina, eighteen persons were
killed and 125 injured. On July %,
,hree Dakota counties being storm
swept, fifteen persons killed and eigh-
cen wounded, while on Sept 9 storm
passing through Wisconsin and Min
lesota, killed six and injured seventy
i've. with a property loss of S4,0O0,0 900. (
The record of 1885 was light, includ-
ng tornadoes in Camden county, New
Jersey, Aug. 3; in Fayette county, Ohio,
Sept. s. and in Dallas and adjoining
counties. Alabama, Nov. 6, with total
oSs in all Of twenty-five killed, about {
80 injured, and nearly 100000. In I
$50 tornadoes occurred IN Minnesota
N April IA, in which seventy-four were
TILED and 136 wounded, and in Ohio
N May Il, fifty-seven being killed, {
With a property loss in the latter case
* 100000, the town of Xenia being |
he scene of greatest destruction. In I
SS7 but one disastrous tornado was ,
April 81, in which twenty I
,ersons were killed. 237 hurt, and prop {
rty amounting to 81, 100000 lost. On I
FEB. -. 1855. the town OF Mount Yer {
ION, Ill. was stormstruck. with 4 loss {
f life Of thirty-nine and injuries TO 125 I
'ersOns. The first severe tornado OF I
Isryland occurred on Aug. IS of that s
ear, eleven persons being killed in 8
he vicinity OF Still Pond. In 1880 a 6
Ornado swept western Pennsylvania, I
an. Q. thirty-three lives being lost. s
Ieavy storms prevailed in May. and |
gain in July, with loss Of property and L
fe through food and wind, but with I
o other actual tornado. /
The two noteworthy tornadoes of ;
$50 were those of March "a, which I
truck ST. Louis and cut a path 1000 8
eet wide through the city. killing sew C
nty-six persons, injured 200. destroy I
1g 900 buildings and property 10 the '
mount of s2.1J0,oo0, and Of July %, I
-hich passed through the town OF Law q
ance- Mass DESTROYING eye-vthfns, in 3