Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-05-21
STORM In KANSAS
FUNNEL-SHAPED CYCLONES STRIKE
SEVERAL SMALL TOWNS.
AZ One Place Fifty and at Another
Town Twenty Houses Are De-
stroycd-A Large Number of PEG
pie Are Injured, Some Fatally
Great Damage I'm the surround
ing Country.

Topeka, Kan, May 10. - A funnel
shaped cyclone struck The north part
of Sabetha. a small town northeast
of here near the Nebraska line late
last evening, destroying the Grand
Island depot and elevator and about
twenty residences. 1t is thought that
twenty or twenty-five people were in
jured. and that several of them will
die. Twenty families were rendered
homeless, losing everything they had.
The cyclone disappeared off toward
Falls City, and evidently did great
damage. Owing to darkness and heavy
rain details have not yet been OBJ
tanned. Earlier in the evening a cy-
clone was seen to form over the town
of Miltonyille, Kan, and struck the
ground a few miles out of town, but
did not do much damage there. 1t
Is probable this is the same wind
storm that struck Sabatha.
Five People Killed.
Kansas City, May 19.-Reports re-
ceived here indicate that the cyclone
which passed Owe Marshall and Ne
maha counties, Kan, late last evening,
swept over an unusually large terri
tory, dealing death and destruction
through the two counties. A dispatch
to the Times from Bern, Nemaha coun-
ty. reports that Seneca, the county
seat. was struck by n cyclone at Z
o'clock. One-third of the business por-
ton of the town was destroyed and
five persons killed and fifteen badly
injured. The connty's magnificent new
court house, the towns big school
house and the Catholic church are
among the wrecked. Five hundred OF
the citizens of Seneca are reported 10
be homeless to-day. The property loss
Is estimated at 100000. The five
dead are two children of Nj. Il. Noor.
hees, two children of Mr.. Connell and
a son of Peter Assemacher. The cy.
clone also swept the towns of Sabetha,
Nemaha county, and Frankfort, Mar
shall county, and the reports indicate
that many other smaller settlements
have suffered, but up To this hour II
has been impossible to get detailed &C
counts of the damage.
Many Buildings Destroyed.
Frankfort, Kan, May 10. At :
o'clock last evening a terrific cyclone
swept down upon the town of Frank
fort from the southwest. Everything
in the north and west ends of town
were completely wrecked. Probably
three score of buildings We're RACED to
the ground. Some of the best resi-
dences of the town were blown tc
atoms. Reports coming in from the
country, where heavy damage has
been done. will materially swell the
loss. Many are reported painfully in
jured, but so far as known. no one was
killed. Many head Of horses. cattle
and other stock have been killed. The
Methodist and Christian churches
were demolished and the Presbyterian
church was badly wrecked. Scores OF
people who are left homeless are be
ing cared for in public halls and In
the houses Of more fortunate citizens
Texas Tornado.
Sherman, Tex, May 19.-To-day the
waters in the creeks and brooks have
subsidized and thousands of spectators
have ira the path of the tornado
which caused the death of about In
persons. Every business house in the
city except the drug stores and eating
houses suspended business at al
early hour at the request Of the pres
ident Of the city council, and the at
tention of everybody has been turned
toward caring for the wounded anC
the dead, the number Of which hourly
increases from deaths in the hispitals
and bodies found in the subsidins
streams. The city's street grading
force, supplemented by a number il
men. have beer transferred by Stree
Commissioner Moorhead to the GENE
teries and have been busily engaged
in preparing graves for the victims o.
the storm. The undertaking establish
m are being taxed to their limits.