Show KANSAS TOWN IN RUINS Five People Killed and Many Injured by a Cyclone Baxter Springs Kan July 0 Baxter Bax-ter Springs was laid In ruins five people peo-ple were killed and twenty others badly bad-ly wounded by a cyclone that struck the town about C oclock last evening Dead SALLIE WEBSTER FLORENCE WEBSTER RALPH WEBSTER I HIBBS INFANT CHILD OF THOMAS SHIELDS Scores of men women and children in the town are more or less injured some fatally Those reported are Mrs Neal both collar bones broken and Internal Injuries James Neal head wound and Internal Injuries Roy Webster right arm and right hip broken Mrs Martha Smith hip dislocated and Internal Injuries Etta Smith Internal Injuries George A Dickey wounds A G Hancock serIous head wound Mrs Thomas Shields fatal Internal Injuries Three members or A Sharpe8 family were badly hurt There seems to have been two currents cur-rents ot wind which struck the town one from the north and the other from the west and they met near the Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal Church joined forces and turned east doing serious damage to property before meeting but at tem coming together the destruction was complete In the track of the cyclone north the passenger station was the first thing damaged Further on much damage was done to residence property tamale sll trees and everything In Its way To the west it struck some residences near the freight depot doing serious damage but when It came to the yards ynrts of the railroad twentyeight freight cars wore thrown from the track and badly damaged The depot was moved oft the foundation wrecked about the roof and the goods ant other contents badly flooded The first object struck after the meeting of the currents was the Methodist Meth-odist Episcopal Church This was totally to-tally destroyed and It lies I heap ot ruins The current turned slightly to the southeast doing I good deal of damage until It reached a point just west of J M Coopers large store where It turned directly cast striking the store building caving In the west end and badly damaging the roof The next object of the storms fury was an old blacksmith shop wliich wan completely com-pletely swept away The Christian Church was directly In the path so It lies like n pile of kindling wood The Episcopal Church was not touched but the storm struck further up the street on the south side and from there not a residence escaped KILLED BY LIGHTNING Three members of the Webster family fam-ily recently from Nebraska the mother aged 60 the daughter aged 20 and son aged 4 were killed by lightning light-ning Another son had his If I broken and his ehoulcler dislocated and will aged CO probably die M B Hlbbs aKed died from excitement falling dead In one o tho stores on Military street Tho Occidental Hotel now used as an opera house was struck by lightning e p < 4 n and somewhat damaged Four large hay barns in the neighborhood of the freight depot were completely wrecked A conservative estimate of the damngo I places it nt 100000 There were little If any cyclone Indications Indi-cations The damage to property west o Baxter cannot be fully determined I Is reported that for many miles In the track ot the storm that fences and barns aged are blown down and crops dam In the west part of Lyon township the country seems to have had a touch o perhaps the same twister that the little town of Baxter had 1 struck the farmhouse of Thomas Shields of Lyon Mrs Shields and her two children were in the barn at the time the storm struck and one of the children a yearold baby girl was killed the older childs leg was broken ant Mrs Shields had her shoulder die located and Is Injured In her back and spine She will die One or two other farms In the Immediate vicinity of viciniy Mr Shleldss were damaged W L Archer was found dead on the Nolan farm In Sheridan township He left McCue yesterday afternoon nt 4 oclock where ho had been on business busi-ness I Is supposed ho was drowned while crossing I creek trownet Forty miners at work In mine No 47 of the Kansas Texas Coal Company nt Weir City hat no knowledge of the storm until the mine was deluged with the torrents of water from above All had narrow escapes and every mule in the mIne was drowned Irownet The rain wa tho most violent ever known resembling a cloudburst and the entire country was flooded Reports Re-ports of further fatalities seem almost certain when the roads are opened up |