The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-18
WILD HAVOC BY THE WINDS.
4 BAPTIST CHURCH BLOWS DOWN
AT SOUTH MACON.

| stmH0mtu-Oue 1nAE0 OF the Resi-
dence Portion OF Seneca, Ixans.,
Destroyed and Five Lives Lost.
! Twenty-Five People Injured at
snbetha, Kans.
! Macon, Ga. May 1.-THE wind last
night blew down several houses in South
! Macon, among them a recently rebuilt
] Baptist church. The organ was splintered-
Benton. Ky. May IA cyclone passed
over the southwest corner Of Marshall
county about 1 o'clock this morning. II
! demolished one house at Elva and killed
| the five occupants, Anderson Johns, aged
| S0' his wife, aged s.; a son, aged II, and
/ two daughters. aged u and 10. The storm
| came out of Graves county.
AT SimsOuia two stores, a school house
and several farm houses and ba'ns were
! destroyed but no loss OF lie Is reported
| there. Five collins were sent to Elva. and
| the Anderson family were buried in one
grave.
Frankfort. Kan, May 1s.-The most de-
structive cyclone that ever visited this
| portion Of the state struck this city about
o'clock Sunday afternoon. The cyclone
| came from the southwest, and was pre-
| coded by heavy fall of rain and hail.
| The funnel shaped cloud came from the
! opposite direction 10 the wind that was
| prevailing, ana Travelled slowly. which
| gave the people ample time to go into
| cellars ana caves, which most of them did.
| , several farm houses were destroyed BY
| the storm.
Nearly nifty residences. besides barns
ana outhuildings, were totally destroyed
At least 200 people are rendered home
| less. NO one was killed, 50 far as learned.
! henry Kennedy and +. Cudmore were
The Methodist and Christian churches
are total wrecks Many buildings are
The storm passed on to the northeast.
! 9eaIhg deslruction in its path, but the
| track or the storm is only about eighty
rQds wide. II Is reported that the storm
| also dld much damage near Blgelow and
at Nleitz.
The entire western part OF this city Is
| RACED to the ground.
some miraculous escapes are reported,
| and had the cyclone come upon the city
| without warning the loss ~ ice ,yo,,fg
have been terrible.
Seneca. Kas., May 1s.-A terrible cyclons
struck this city tonight at 6.lO o'clock,
| The cyclone was followed by a heavy hail
| storm, hail as large as walnuts falling.
| ABOUT seventy houses are totally wrecked.
hurt.
The opera house was entirely swept
The new $4,000 school house is a wreck.
ana the court house IS completely de-
There are few houses IN the city that
are not more or less damaged. The entire
north part OF the city Is covered with trees
boards, etc.
The loss in This city viii be about 100000.
me cyclone lasted ten minutes.
Tine west part Of Baileyville, xaus., eight
miles west, is also swept away.
Oneida. Kan, eight miles east, is badly
damaged, and four people killed. three OF
them IN the family Of James shearn.
Much damage Is reported in the country
near the east Of here.
Reports are being sent from a temporary
city All the wires are torn down. and q
run report cannot be sent.
The killed at Seneca are:
Two Of r. NJ. Connells children.
| one OF Pete A. senmacher's children.
one of NJ. Il. Voorhees, children.
There were many escapes from instant
death.
sabetha. Kan. May 17.-Twenty-hve
people were injured and twenty residences
destroyed by cyclone here this evening.
Chicago, May 17.-Dispatches received
tonight from interior points in Illinois,
report much damage done by a heavy
wind ana rain storm last night. At Gales
burg the telegraph and telephone service
was demoralized.
At Peoria trees were blown down and
great damage done TO buildings under con-
structfon. An engine on the Burlington
railroad ran into a corn crib which had
been blown across the tracks at st Angus
tine, and was deraied. The engineer was
AT Pekin lightning wrecked the new st.
Paul church and the wind uprooted trees,
| blew down fences and unrOOfed houses
The country contiguous to Toulon was
storm-swept and many farmhouses were
| wrecked.
AT Bushnell It was reported that the
| town Of Scioto had been swept away, but
the wires were down and nothing definite
could be learned.
Sherman, Tex, May 17-six people in
jured In Fridays cyclone died here to-
day. Their names are:
- Jenkins. aged l6 Every other mem
Der of his family was killed outright
ali
| Charles Weddle.
Mrs. Lyman and her child.
An unidentified woman
1t was learned this afternoon that the
| Dooley family, consisting of father, moth
er and four children, living on Glass
| HILL were blown away In the storm, and
as none Of them has been heard from, 1t
| is believed all are dead. The spot where
their house stood was swept bare
| The death list now reaches los.
l.. II. Montgomery, a furniture dealer,
whose family, consisting Of a wife and
three children, perlshed, Is now confined in
| Jail a raving maniac
The people of Sherman have buried the
dead, and are taking care of the wounded,
| ty are left destitute
News was received here tonight from
| Doctors Hastings and Morrer Of Howe
| Tex, who went with the Carpenters
! Bluffs searching and relief party and who
| state that at Carpenters Bluff five are
| dead and eight more seriously injured.
| A relief committee left Denison at
| O'Clock this morning and have been la
| boring among hhe dying all day. The news
| was brought in by members of the COM
| mittee. who returned for additional aid.
The loss Is so much greater than was
| anticipated, that floats have been pressed
| int: service to supply the stricken dis
trcts with bandages, medicine and food
| About 40 people are homeless and half
| clad and without means.
| Two houses, which We're known to have
| been occupied, were picked up and set on
an island in Red river. The searchers dis
covered them about o'clock this after
noon and the work Of preparing RATS on
| which to reach them was begun. Both
| houses are lying on their sides. 1t is sup
! posed that the bodies of those who, occu-
| pied them are within