The record-union., 1897-03-31
Reported That Only Two Buildings
We're Left Standing.
Twenty Persons Reported to Have
Been Killed, While One hundred
and Fifty Others Were Badly In
iured-KanSas and Wyoming Also
Feel the Effects of the Storm.

KANSAS CITY CMo), March 30.-A
special to the journal from Guthrie,
o. T., says:
At o'clock this evening a terrific
tornado, followed by hail and flood,
swept through the town of Chandler,
forty miles east of here, completely de-
vastating the town. Three-fourthS OF
the residences and business houses of
the town were totally wrecked or bad
ly damaged, scores of people injured
and many killed.
Darkness at once came on, and the
work of rescue is carried on under
greatest difficulties.
The telephone office was carried
away, and at 10 p. m, telephone was
connected with the wire two miles this
way. and a message sent here for as
Sistance. Up to that time Mr.. and
Mrs John Woodman, Mrs. Henry
Mitchell, Mrs. Tom Smith, Attorney
John Dawson and two unknown per-
sons had been found dead, and fully
80 people were known to be badly in
jured. Mrs. Emery Foster and baby
are thought to be fatally hurt.
Chandler is a town of 1 800 people,
built on a hill in thick timber, and the
mass of torn trees and wrecked houses
makes it impossible to reach near all
of the people in the dark. On every
side can be heard groans and cries for
help, and the scene is indescribable.
A large number of physicians and
other citizens have left here for the
scene with surgical instruments, drugs
and other supplies.
A later message states that a larger
number of people known to have been
in business buildings are missing, and
it is feared that they are buried under
the ruins. The true state of affairs
cannot be learned until daylight.
Reports received here indicate that
the cyclone which destroyed the town
of Chandler, o. T., tonight also passed
across the State of Kansas, though in
less destructive force.
Florence, Kansas, reports a severe
windstor1n between ; and 8 O'Clock
that unroofed portion of the Santa F'e
round house, blew down several wood
en- buildings and blew box cars from
the tracks.
Great Bend reports a very heavy
wind accompanied by hail and rain.
Wichita reports the heaviest rain
ever experienced there, accompanied by
wind and hail.
At Haven box cars We're blown from
the railroad tracks.
Barton reports a very heavy wind,
which wrecked several small buildings
and blew cars from the track.
Telegraph service throughout the
State is badly crippled.
WORSE THAN FIRST REPORTED.
GUTHRIE 90. To. March 30.-A re-
port is received here that twenty lives
We're lost this evening in the cyclone
that swept over Chandler, a town of
800 inhabitants, fifty miles east of
here It is reported that only two
buildings were left standing, the Mitch
ell Hotel and the Grand Island grocery
store In addition to the twenty per-
sons reported killed, rumor has it that
fully $50 were badly injured.
The following names are given as
among the killed: J. w. woodward
and wife, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. John
Smith, John Dawson, lawyer.
The following are reported as among
the injured: John McCartner, broth
er-in-law of United States Marshal Ma
gle: F. n. Niblack and father, John
Foster, Mrs. Emma Foster, two daugh-
ters of County Treasurer Ulam, Samuel
Winthrop and George McHenry.
The cyclone struck at , O'Clock this
evening The courthouse, in which
Chief Justice Dale was holding court,
was taken off its foundation.
All communication with Chandler is
now cut off. The telephone office was
destroyed, and the only information re-
ceived here was from a telephone con-
nection made a mile and a half out of
Chandler. That has since been lost
At / o'clock this morning twenty
one dead bodies have been taken from
the ruins at Chandler. Seventy-five TO
a hundred persons are badly injured,