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Show DIRE DESTRUCTION. Daylight Throws a Horrid Cast Upon the Tornado Path of the Kansas Cyclone. THE LOSS OF LIFE IS APPALLING. A Horse Is Lifted Up and Deposited in a Two-Story Building A Child Gained Gai-ned In the Air by the Storm. Wki.i.i.vgtox, Kan., May 38. The destruction de-struction to life and property by last night's cyclone is terrible. In the darkness and confusion last night, it was impossible to realize the enormity of the calamity. The light of day invests the scene of destruction with a distinct and awful realization of its scope. The loss of life is appalling, the destruction de-struction of property great. The storm was rotary, coming from the southwest, and descended de-scended on the city with appalling force. Suddenly it rose, sucking everything up and as suddenly dropping it. Trees were torn from thei" roots, houses spun 'round, freight cars lifted and carried 200 feet. Stoves were lifted up to second storys. In one instance a horse was takeu up and deposited de-posited on a two-story building. A LITTI.n CHILI) WAS TAKEN' Ol'T of the cradle, carried two blocks and deposited depos-ited on the ground uninjured. The I06S of property in this city alone 1b half a million; nearly all large stock goods in the city wit; dr-troyed by the cloudburst w hich followed the cyclone. Reports from all the country west are very discouraging while there is no definite news. The indications in-dications of destruction is terrible. It is 6l.1V to say that 180 buildings arc wrecked and as many more partially demolished. All tin- casualties, are not yet known, but the following is as accurate as can now be made; 1; 1 1. I.ED. Mus. Sash en, bride, young husband ravin-. Miss Stuand, Mrs. Sas'uer's sister. IlExny A damson". James Weaver. Ida Jones. fatally wounded. Charles Adamsou, Mr3. Captain Mahan, Mrs. ,1. T. Hannah, Mrs. Murphy, Charles Sloner, Santa Fe conductor; little Maggie King, Ed Forsythe, Silva Forsythe. Walter Forsythe, ex-Sheriff Thrall's child, Mrs. Robert Millard, James Miller, republican candidate for attorney-general, leg and arm broken ; Lieutenant William French and Cadet Simmons of the Salvation army; Mattie Hodges, Guy Colby, Dick Weaver, Carrie Mitchell, E. J- Forsythe. missing. Prof. Xayor and Hart Upson. Forty or fifty more were injured but not seriously. The greater portion of the city is completely com-pletely devastated, and the entire community consisting of five to six thousand people, thrown into consternation. The shouts of rescuers aie miugled with cries of suffering, while the unhurt rushed from their homes partially dressed. As soon as the wiutl sub-tided sub-tided every able-bodied available man in the city engaged in the work of rescue, under the leadership of George Whitler, president of the council. It was 9 o'clock WHEN THE TORNADO DESCENDED on the town. The Lutheran church was turned completely over. The courthouse w as demolished. The Presbyterian cl&reb was reduced to splinters, and of the Speck-no. Speck-no. 'k btoxk OO the principal street, composed of half a dozen 'brick buildings, 'Ruth. " 'ing was left but a pile of brick, mortar and laths. The Standard block, consisting con-sisting of six brick buildings, was completely com-pletely wrecked. The Wellington Daily Mail and the Sumner County titairlard were pub-lisbed pub-lisbed in this block. Their plants are utterly destroyed, as were the Monitor, Press and Voice in the Speeknock block. The foundry foun-dry and stone works were leveled to the ground. Oa Washington avenue every house on each side of the street is unroofed. The opera house is a wreck, and the Phillips hotel is ruined. )ver half a dozen or more bodies will be taken from its debris. The principal church is in splinters, and the school house is a total wreck. Only one telegraph tel-egraph wire is in operation. Messages from Danville report a very disastrous cyclone at Sarper. Two hundred men are at work clearing away the Phillips house wreck. At least two more bodies are expected to be found there. A special train brought twelve physicians from Wichita. TWO OTHERS. Topeka, Kans., May 38 Meagre advices to :ama re road state the cyclone which demolished de-molished Yellington also struck Harper ami Argonia. The latter town has 750 inhabitants, in-habitants, and is ih Sumner county. The former is the county seat of Harper county and has 2800 inhabitants. It is not known whether there was any loss of life, but the train w hich took the physician from Wichita Wich-ita to Wellington has gone onto these places with all doctors who can be spared. |