The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-01
Kansas Cyclones Awful work.

Acycl0ne of tremendous force sped through
4y county, Kan, late Saturday night, dealing
lealh and destruction on every hand. a. far rs
AloWn live people were Killed, three fatally
Wounded and Il injured. A large number OF
13rse, and cattle was killed and the damage to
AFm property is immense, The cyclone started
4'1at 'lN miles south of Clifton and went in a
AOTilea-terlv direction for IL or IL miles, and
l5a Iost It. force by spreading. Its track varied
ron 100 yards to a quarter of Il mile In width.
ND!e through farming community ana moth
Hs !: left standing. Houses and barns were
wicked, trees were torn up or broken, fences
were leyeed and hay stacks were blown in
very direction. The cyclone was followed by
FERTILE rainstOrm which lasted several hours
cooling the devastated district, AS far as
earned, the victims of the cyclone were IN their
l1uses anu the most of them had retired. Inc
':oIm struck Peter Anderson's home at 8 80
oclock, This was about & mile from the start.
" point. The house was demolished in an IN
,Ah,' livery member of the Anderson family
e+s injured. When they had eNtricated them
'eFes from the debris they discovered that An
'5i'on grantchlld was missing. The dead BODY
o he enid was found Sunday morning in ri-
..le nara mile away. In several instance
persons were lifted into the air by the-cycl one
anu carried for a distance and then udden'y
POPPED The track of the storm esembicd a
N9e Of ground leveled with a roller.
A Commendable Purpose
Ny { Hood, the proprietor of Hoods Sarsa
@flIla, Is known 10 be a great lover of animals
az IS the owner of Hood Farm, which Is stu
-'e,. lew miles from Lowell and is well known
4 the home of the famous Jerseys which won
,ss prlzes at the Worlds Fair. There are over
" lead and II is undoubtedly the finest herd
HJerseys in the world.
vi HOOD Is making an effort to distribute
oue OF TINS high bred stock over the farms OF
~ section, believing that the interest OF Ihe
,aiAlefs viii thus be greatly promoted. Inc
Nst annual auction sale of Hood Farm Jerseys
q 10 DC held Friday, MAYS. 4 handsome, Illus
I4leH catalogue of the sale may be mad by SEND
III. aduress TO Hood Farm, Lowell, Mass.
\ terrible catastrophe occurred at the santa
t1ls nine, near Chihuhua, Mexico, thursday
lsnt - men were working in the mine when u y
Sec IN, hnrylng alive ca of the men, all OF
WON were Aiexicans. In their eagerness TO
. Fyuie large quantities of ore these contractors
Fsah tamping down the ore pillars which sup.
FY4No tue roof OF the mine. They also Jug
away masses of ore that had been left between
ae chambers. Thus weakened, the mine gave
away.
Inc main portion of the business section oil
nipple Greek, Col is in ashes as the result OF y
ny, IN sunday night. The loss was about sl,VV,op
,s III only $4,000 insurance. Evidence has
zen secured which indicates that the IRE was
w WORK OF an incendiary for the purpose OF
l-aAlhg raid on the First National bank. winch
~ appears 20 have on deposit more than Siuv,
I'm account of the near approach OF pay uat
:. \. NE leading niRes. The chief says there y
r raI Vi the most desperate gangs IN the Guy an
s has organized an armed gang of $50 men 70
I ~ II. One thief was shot by policeman
-, ,Afec people were killed and many injured dur
'ls We IRE. IN explosion of boilers at the raj
are Aclel Killed two.
Inc little town OF Epiphany in South Dahota
~ completely wiped OFF the earth by eye one
n r. lhesday, not buildin. being left STAINING
.-5et persons were fatally and ID more or ess
FIl'nsly injured in that immediate vicinity
fete- Egberi, Young man % years of age,
- and killed Mrs Herman Hascke ana n9 Z,
~ ~ ehildren, Herman and Aegie, sherin w y
-..4 ana Constable W NJ Sween sunday al hoch
Ne lnd. lie then killed himself. HIS sister
u lprence Egbert, who was lying very ~ ol
:, liioia fever. died soon after the tragedy lIpn
~. ~ mock. EEbeTt was at one time coDnhen "a
IS insane asylum. but had been dischargen a.
- The general belief is that lhsah'H
az NE cause Of the crime.
l,sietlce burglaries in the rural disuieis %
S-.lal New York have been frequent nutlhs
-4si lev months. Another such attelnl ~.
-.--efE Al l-eonar,iSville, Madison county, W. W.
-.sffl iiet 81 30 O'Clock Friday morning anu
~ ~ NE burglars was shot IN the aouo"SN
Ut WI. Probably die