The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-04-29

KANSAS VISITED AND EIGHT DEAF
ARE TIE RESULT.


Three Others Fatally Hurt aud ssveutees
More or Less Notwithstanding Com
munity swept by the Twisting Terror
and Left Bare of Houses, Harms, Trees,
Fences and Everything Allowable.
TOPEKA. Kas., April 27.-Eight persons,
ct least. were killed outright; three IA
tally, and seventeen more or less. in
jured, and great destruction OF property
wrought by "a cyclone which passed over
Clay county Saturday night
The list of the killed and injured. so far
as their names are known. Is as follows;
Killed-Frank Peterson, wife and one
daughter; Eli Balthazar and wife; Julius
Trembly, Jesse Ham and Mrs. Halverson.
Injured-Daughter of Frank Peterson,
cannot live; Frank Wilkinson. cannot
live; entire family of John Norris badly
mangled; six children of Eli Balthazar,
more or less injured
People on the Rock Island train from
the north last evening brought partial de-
tails of the cyclone. 1t started about six
miles south of Clifton and went In
northeasterly direction for twelve or fiji.
ing. 1t passed about half way between
Clifton and Morganville.
Pathway Marked by Devastation.
It's track varied from $50 yards to a
quarter Of mile in width. 1t tore through
farming community and left nothing
standing. Houses and barns were wrecked,
trees torn up or broken, fences leveled and
hay stacks blown in every direction. The
cyclone was followed by terrific rain
storm which lasted several hours, flooding
the devastated district There had been
indications of heavy rain all day, with
local showers, but nobody expected a
storm So far as learned the victims were
in the houses and the most of them had
retired. The storm struck Peter Ander-
sons house at 9:3) o'clock. This was
about a mile from the starting point. The
house was demolished in an instant Ev-
cry member of the Anderson family was
injured. When they had exericated them
selves from the debris they discovered that
Anderson's grandchild was missing.
The dead body of the child was found
In a ravine half a mile away. 1t evident
~ had been carried there by the wind.
Anderson alarmed the neighbors who
lived out of the track Of the storm and
search was commenced for victims. At
noon yesterday IL was thought that all the
victims had been found. A large num-
Der Of cattle and horses were kill ed, and
fruit in the storms track was ruined. 1t
is impossible at this time TO estimate the
damage to buildings and other property.
Heart-rending tales Of suffering are told
by persons who visited the scene of the
storm. Many of the injured lay all night
pinned down by wreckage or parayzed
in the mud. while others crawled or hob
bled across the country TO neighbors'
houses.
Wreck of the Morris Home.
In several instances people were lifted
into the air by the cyclone and carried for
distance and then suddenly dropped.
Buildings were lifted up and then hurled
TO the ground with force enough to de-
molish them The wife and daughter of
John Morris were reading when the shock
came. The house was divided. The
women managed TO get out, when the
wind picked them up, carried them 200
yards and let them safely down on a pile
of straw, just away from the storms
track. The people for miles around yes
terday gathered at the different points
where damage had been done and rem
dered assistance in every possible way.
Like Roller Had Gone Over the Ground.
The conductor on the Rock Island train
said that the track of the storm looked
like piece of ground which had been
leveled with a roller Half dozen tele-
graph poles were torn down where the
cyclone crossed the road Telegraphic
communication between Topeka and Cliff.
ton was cut off from the hour of the
storm till o clock.yesterday morning 1t
is expected that much damage was done
in the vicinity of Palmer, Washington
county, but the details cannot be learned.
GIVES THE SPANlAROS A SHOCK.