Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-04-30
CYCLONE-SWEPT.
Eight Persons Killed, Three Fatally
Wounded and Seventeen Injured.
Large Number of Horses and Cattle hiiie"
Immense Damage to Farm Properly
Its Track Varied From $50 Yards
toa Quarter of a Mile In width.

CLAY CENTER, Kas., April GA cy-
clone of tremendous force sped through
Clay county late Saturday night. AS
far as known Sunday night five people
were killed, three fatally wounded and
II injured. The dead arc: Frank Pc
terson, Mrs. Frank Peterson, child of
the Petersons, Mrs Ole Naverson,
grandchild of Peter Anderson.
A full list of the injured is unobtain-
Bile, as the doctors have not returned
from the scene of the disaster. 1t is
known, however, that every member
of the families of John Morris, +. We'll
kin, Peter Anderson and Henry Gard
ner was hurt, and three of them have
wounds said to be fatal.
A large number of horses and cattle
were killed and the damage to farm
property is immense.
The cyclone started about six miles
south of Clifton and went in a north
easterly direction for twelve or fifteen
miles, and then lost it's force by spread
ing. 1t passed about half way be-
tween Clifton and Morganville. Its
track varied from $50 to a quarter
of mile in width IL tore
thu ugh a 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 fol-
lowed by a terrific rainstorm, which
lasted several hours, flooding the de-
vastated district.
90 70 ,al 80, g . l,a
cyclone had retired. The storm struck
Peter Anderson's home at $50 o'clock.
This was n mile from the starting
point. The house was demolished in
an instant. Every member of the An
derson family was injured and
when they had extricated them
selves from the debris they dis
covered that Anderson's grandchild
was missing. The dead body of the
child was found Sunday morning in a
ravine half n mile away. 1t evidently
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 vic
tins, but little Roadway was made
in the rain. Couriers were sent
to Clifton and Morganville for
doctors, but it was daylight before they
arrived and the extent of the injury
and damage was known. At noon
Sunday it was thought that all the vic
tins had been found. IIeartrending
tales of suffering are told by persons
who visited the scenes of the storm.
Many of the injured lay all night
pinned down by wreckage, while others
crawled or hobbled across the country
to neighbours house.
The wife and daughter of John Nor
ris were reading when the shock came
The house was divided. The ladies
managed to get out, when the wind
picked them up, carried them 200 yards
and then let them safely down on a
pile of straw just away from the
storms track.
Telegraphic communication with
Clifton was cut off from the hour OF
the storm till late Sunday morning.
1t is believed that much damage was
done in the vicinity of Palmer, Wash
ington county, but the details can no,
be learned.
CLAY CENTER, Kas., April 27.-The
number of killed in Saturday nights
cyclone was eight. There are rumors
of other deaths south and west of Cliff
ton, and it is feared that when com
munication with the stricken town is
established that the loss of life will be
shown to have been great The pecun-
larry loss west of Clifton at one point is
estimated at $50,