The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-11

Near Oklahoma City and Dances Around
Dividing into spindIes and Playing
Great Havoc With Fences and'sheds-
Does the Usual Funny CaPers With
Wagon wheeIs-Another Twister Re
ported Near CIeveland-Bin Kaidler is
Convicted OF Train Robbing.
| Guthrie, o, r, April 10.-Thursday 5
Oklahoma City Times-Journal has the
following account Of Oklahoma's first
annual tornado:
| Mr.. E. G.. Flanagan was in from the
Berry neighborhood, nine miles south
east of the city, this morning, and re-
ported a destructive tornado in that
neighborhood last evening at 4:30.
Mr.. Flanagan watched the rope-Ike
cloud from its formation until it pull
ed apart midway like drawnout string
of taffy, and was able to give an inter
esting account of the unwelcome visitor.
The first indications of a storm was
the forma ton of a small rain cloud
| which appeared to be six or eight miles
! TO uhe southwest, over the South Cana
dian river. 1t at first appeared TO be
about twenty feet wide, from which
rain was descending part 10 the
| ground While maintaining the ap-
| pearance of a rain cloud ii was reced-
ing southwark. Its southwark move
ment was suddenly checked, and a rope
of Whitish gray color seemed TO rise up
from the ground and join the cloud.
Then began the terrifying writing ana
twisting that is a certain indication OF
a destructive tornado. The storm NOV
| - -rirN
thirty feet wide. Two miles east of
Moore 1t encountered sheds which were
totally destroyed. Every wire fence was
laid low and wires broken and parts
twisted off At the county line the new
| house of Mr.. Green was completely de-
moMshed. Mr.. Srokesbury's house bare
| ly escaped, and a mile further east the
| dissolution took place.
! Another funnel shaped cloud formed
| further southeast, but no report or
damage has been received.
The terrific force of the tornado was
shown in the destruction of new wag-
on. Both spindles were broken off the
front axle, and both hind wheels were
crushed. The Green house was unoccu-
pied, except THAT "a young man slept in
1T. His clothing left in the house was
all carried away, a pair of pants being
The force of the storm was such as TO
scoop out a pathway in the plowed
ground.
For about one minute during the pro-
cess Of the tornado the atmosphere be-
came intensely heated, and people two
miles from its track found it difficult to
breathe. An unusual phenomenon was
the prevalence for several minutes af-
ter the passig Of the storm, of foul
smelling sulpher Gus gas that was car
ried two miles north by the south wind
that sprung up Immediately after the
breaking up CT the tornado.
Mr.. William Jordon, who lives mile
and half west and six miles south of
the city, came in this afternoon and re-
ported the damage done by the tornado
in that region. He watched the ap-
proaGh of the storm and had got his
family into the storm cave, believing
that It was coming directly toward his
place It went south of his place and
struck the house of Mr.. Steador, who
lives one mile south of the county line.
The family had time TO get into the
storm cave, and by doing so saved their
lives, for the house was torn into frag-
mentS and every article of furniture eX- |
cept the clock was completely destroy |
ed. East of Steador's the storm struck !
the Sullivan house which was vacant, |
and carried 1t fifty feet. The storm 5 /
path was wider than 1t was further east |
and the cloud had the appearance of a |
big balloon carried onward by an i'm
menSe rope.
ANOTHER CYCLONE ACCOUNT.
Farmer d. n. Hanna drove into Nor
man yesterday and gave particulars Of /
a disastrous cyclone, which swept over /
oct y,r
Norman in Cleveland county at ) |
O'Clock Wednesday evening. The
storm came up without a moments
warning and took the same path as did |
the awful cyclone of three years ago,
when many lives were lost The blow
was over in four minutes and its path
was about mile wide
Farmer eHaton lost his house and
stock, and saved himself and family by
taking refuge in a dugout.
Newton Davis and his son, ]. G..
Davis, living on an adjoining quarter,
lost their dwellings and stock. Many
other farmers residing in the path of
the storm suffered heavy losses, and one
man is reported missing. Another far
mer, it is reported, sustained a broken
arm. The sufferers were in Norman
yesterday seeking financial relief.
WASN'T BURIED ALIVE.
The many rumors about Ella Meyers,
who died at Ella Illusions bagnio sun
day from the effects of morphine and
cocaine was buried before She was
dead, have no foundation. DR.. COtteral |
went TO see her between IL and l O'Clock
and found her dead. y galvanic bat
terry applied TO her produced no effect
In the afternoon Coroner Parker went
TO see the body and ordered il buried in
the morning. 1t was decOmposing then
SO badly that he did not think & was
necessary TO hold an inquest. Staple
ton arrived on the scene later on and !
gave an order that the body be buried
at the county's expense. There was an
seemly fight going on at the time over
the body and he could not get IN al first.
But being anxious that the body should
have decent burial, finally made the
persons in the house understand who he
was, and left an order that the coffin be
procured and hired man 70 take the
remains and bury them. He is not TO
blame that the woman was buried 50
soon but the inmates who wanted the
body out Of the way. However. she was
as dead as dead could be at the time she
was taken away.
GARLAND BADLY HURT.
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