Show A DOZEN DWELLINGS WRECKED rury OS OF A KANSAS CYCLONE many people injured some of c whom will di die an eye eyewitness vit witness nea graphically desal describes ibes tile tha appearance ol of the balloon shaped cloud everything was hazed in its pathway terrific boiler explosion kansas city mo 10 june 17 A special to the times front hartford ka kan n says about 6 this ev evening ening a cyclone struck this 3 place coining from the southwest arid and swept away everything from its path which was wa a clean cut and about f feet beet in width several persons were injured so badly that they are not expected to live no one as tar far as known was killed outright the known wounded are mr law sun run will die mrs lawson seriously injured sirs mrs mary 13 rawson probably fatally injured core cora rawson se as hurt ola rawson badly cut about had the head mrs H K smith severely hurt about twelve houses were destroyed as well as many barns and outhouses out houses among the houses destroyed were those of judge W J combs tirs mrs rawson clarence conley 1 L F P dudley J A Thom thompson NV a hoot root and godfrey schwartz T the he roof of clarence clarenca coneys house was was lifted off as clean as if f the elie house had been put up and tho the root left unfinished the remainder of the structure being unharmed many otsui houses are more or less damaged dam aeed the total loss is estimated all the way from froin ten to twenty thousand dollars an eyewitness eye witness of the storm F B tucker a traveling man f from rain em ein porla borla says 1 I was on the incoming missouri kansas texas train due at hartford at just as the train was stopping I 1 and other passengers noticed to the southwest a peculiarly shaped white cloud formed nearly like a balloon but a little more tapering its peculiar whiteness first att rard our attention in ft A few min ies ces it seemed to stretch out its no nes t to the ground and turn darker then clouds from all directions to cluster around the top ar ans as the small ind struck the earth tres fences and everything ery thing it astruck were lifted bodily ery thing it astruck were lifted bodily into spam iri in another second bearns beams furniture stoves beading arid and all kinds of material were sien seji shooting high into the air from all directions by this time th in passengers were beginning to notice that the funnel shaped cloud was coming straight tor for the car in which we were and inquiry iea felt began as to what was best to be done suddenly a methodist preacher 1 I do riot not know lils ills name solved the question by shouting here goes for the and rushed to the door followed by overy one oile in the car however this wes not for when only about feia eit from froin the car the storm center took a sudden turn eastward and swept past tho the rear of the train without touching it the storm after passing ih lh the town to the east seemed to lump jump the neosho river and then ripe rice ald disappear in the air al subscriptions wera started darted here this evening tor for the of the sufferers ferere euf |