Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-05-01

TERRlBLE CYCLONE PAssEs OVER
CLAY COUNTY, MO.
Five Pers1gs killed, seventeen m
inrsd. -H&tses Wrecked and
yfSbps Ruined.
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Kansas CITY, April "a 9PSN ~
Times from Topeka, Kan, says:
Five persons, at least, We're Kliieu OUT
right; three fataIIy, ana II more VI 1858
seriously injured and great destruceioh
OF property was wrought by cScione
which passed over Clay county last night
The dead are:
Frank Peterson, wife and child
Mrs Ole Halverson.
A grandchild of Peterson.
The injured belong to the families Oh j.
Morris, F. Welkin, Peter Anderson ana
Fl. Gardner.
Passengers on the Rock Island train
from the northwest this afternoon
brought partial details of the cyclone. IL
started about six miles south OF Chltoh
and went in a northeasterly direction for
l. or Is miles. then lost its force by
spreading II passed about half way be-
tween Clifton and Morganville. Its track
varied from $50 yards to quarter OF
mile in width. 1t tore through farming
community, and left nothing at all stand
| ing.
Houses and barns were wrecked, trees
| torn up or broken, fences leveled ana nay
stacks blown in every direction. The cy'
clone was followed by terrific rain
| storm, which lasted several hours, Hood
| ing the devastated district.
| The cyclone took the people unawares'
There had been indications of heavy
| rain all day, with local showers, but no
body expected storm. SO far as learned
| the victims We're in their houses, and the
NEST of them had retired.
The storm struck Peter Anderson's
| house at $50 o'clock. This was about a
nile from the starting point. The house
| was demolished in an instant, every
member of the Anderson family being
| injured. When they had extricated them
selves from the debris they discovered
that Anderson's grandchild was missing.
The dead body of the child was found
this morning in a ravine half mile
away. 1t evidently had been carried ther,
by the wind.
Anderson alarmed the neighbors who
lived out of the track of the storm ,and
search was made for the victims, but
little Roadway was made in the rain.
Couriers were sent to Clifton and Nor
ganville for doctors, but it was daylight
before they arrived and the extent of the
Injury and damage was known.
At noon today it was thought that al
the victims had been found. A large
|
and the fruit in the storms track was
ruined.
1t is impossible at this time to esti
mate the damage to buildings and othel
property
Heartrending tales of suffering are tol(
by persons who visited the scene of tht
storm.
Many of the injured lay all night pin
mad dOuO NV uranlxapa mr. M RI Ivzad |,
the mud. while others crawled or hobblet
across the country to neighbors' houses
In several instances people were lifteC
into the air by the cyclone and carried
for distance and then suddenly drop
PED Buildings were lifted up and thel
hurleu to the ground with force enough
to demolish them.
| The wife and daughter of John Morri
were reading when the shock came TIL
house was divided. The women manage
to get out, when the wind picked then
up, carrying them 200 yards, and let then
down safely on pile of straw just ava
from the storms track.
The people for miles around today gath
cred at different points where damag
had been done and rendered assistance i
every possible way
The conductor of the Rock Island trail
said that the track of the storm locke
like piece of ground which had bee
leveled with a roller
DEATH LIST INCREASES.
Kansas City, April ga special to tn
: Journal from Clay City. Kan, places I'll
number of killed in last nights cyclone a
r eight. There are rumors of other death
{ south and west of Clifton and it is feare
t that when communication with n
/ stricken towns is re-established the los
of life will be shown to have been grea
The Journal correspondent gives til
following list of killed:
2 F. Peterson, wife and one daughter.
Ed Ralthaser and wife.
Jess Ham.
Mrs. Halberson.
The injured: The daughter of Fran
Peterson, can not live; Frank Wilkinson
can not live; entire family of John Mo
| rlS, badly mangled: six children of z