Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-05-22
Sabetha and Frankfort are
Among the Sufferers.
Many s'ersons InJnred-A Large
Number W. Die-Nceres OF Build
Ing- " e. and Horses. stock
aad Or nimais KILLED.

sy 1 trough the business and resi-
der g 20 ion Of the town. A score Of
~ q. s are destroyed and several per
So badly injured, two Of whom will
oJoyly die. The Rock Island depo.
was ized. together with a dozen resi-
denc IN les vicinity. Five persons
were Ia the depot at the time but es-
ca-ed without serious injury, though
Mr. Austin, the telegraph operator, was
car ried several blocks by the force Of
ne wind On Main street the front of
nearly every store building was blown
n. Tonight a large force of men with
lanterns are patroling the streets and
doing all they can 20 relieve the home
less. G.. A. Il. hall has been thrown
open TO the injured and all the doctors
of the iown are ia attendance. The
most seriously injured are;
William Carey and wife and eldest
daughter, all badly burned, the latter
probably fatally.
Mrs Eliza Murphy, oolored, will die.
s. p. Hayes, buried beneath the ruins
OF his house, jaw broken and serious In
tefnal injuries.
The family of L. Horton were In their
big brick block when the whole side was
blown out and the walls came tumbing |
down, but all escaped uninjured.
Frankfort, Kan. May I7.--At S o'clock
this evening a terrific cyclone swept |
down upon the town OF Frankfort, from
the southwest. Everything In the north |
pletely wrecked Probably three score
OF buildings were RACED 10 the ground.
Some OF the best residences of the town
were blown TO atoms. Reports coming
in from the country where heavy dam
age has been done, will materially swell
the loss. Many are reported painfully
injured, but SO far as known, no one has
been killed. Many head OF horses, cat
tie and other stock have been killed.
The Methodist and Christian churches
were demolished and the Presbyterian
church was badly wrecked. Scores of
people were left homeless and are being ,
cared for.tonight In public halls and in {
the houses of more fortunate citizens.
Those most seriously injured are;
Henry Kennedy, nose broken end badly
injured.
y. cudmore. head bruised.
Mrs Moran, badly hurt.
Mrs. Arthur and two children.
Jack Rodgers.
Captain b. Todd.
The small number of casualties is =
accounted for by the fact that nearly all ;,
the people fled to their cellars and cy- .
clone caves. =
Reports coming in from Vlete and n
and Seneca say that the eylone was Sc {
we're at those points The latest estI. =
mates are that fully 100 buildings have >
been destroyed In the town and sur n
rounding country. n
Kansas, City, May IA special to /,
the Journal from Concordia, Kan, says :,
Another cyclone visited north central .,
Kansas this afternoon. II is impossible
10 gather the details because the tele-
graph wires on the Missouri Pacific and
Grand Island railroads are down. The
syelonc started Ia he northern part of
Clay county, seven or eight miles south al
,f the little town Of Palmer, and passed OF
IN northeasterly direction through q
Riley county and into Marshall and Ne /
naha counties x
II crossed the Blue river country at u
ne junction Of the Missouri Pacific and al
Union Pacific and passed near the town az
4 Axtell The little hamlet of Bodville, az
n Riley county, was eRtirely swept &c
way. Several are reported killed there
nd many injured. but nothing can be AZ
earned definitely. In
Az Spring Valley some six miles south m
( Barnes, the storm demolished a "a
hurch In which $50 people were wor A
hiping. Many were injured The pas Ii
Or, Rev. Mason. suffered a broken leg.
urgicaf aid was asked from Barnes and IA
eighboring towns.
The storm formed about s o'clock al J..
iost in the track of the one that visited da
nis section three weeks ago. The cy- TO
lone was followed by heavy hail and Nj
ain storm and great damage was done
, crops. 81
The valley OF the Blue river, In Mar In
hall county, ia one of the richest In the MI
ate and thiekly populated. wa