Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — STRICKEN BY CLCLONE. [ARTICLE]

STRICKEN BY CLCLONE.

Three Comities of Kauaua Are Devastated by a “ Twister.** \ emu ha, Marshall and Cloud Counties were swept by a death-dealing cyclone late Sunday afternoon. Disniatitled buildings mark the path of the fierce storm, fourteen persons are known to have been killed, from forty to sixty are reported injured, several of whom will die, and seorea»of .families are homeless. The small number of casualtipai i» 11ccounted for by the fact that nearly all l it the people lied to their cellars and eyelone caves. Seneca, the futility se:i* o£ Nemaha County, appears to have been the chief sufferer. One third of the resident part of the town, according to a dispatch, is in ruins, five persons were killed and fifteen badly injured, and 500 people have no roof to shelter them. The property loss at Seneca is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Snbetha, also in Nemaha County, according to report, was a severe sufferer. A brief dispatch stall's that twenty or twentyfive persons received injuries more or less severe, and that iit least three or four of the victims Will probably die. Twenty families lost all their worldly possessions and are temporarily dependent upon charity for subsistence. Sabctlm is a small place north of here, near the Nebraska line. After leaving Snbetha the cyclone took a nnrrow path toward Falls City, uprooting trees and dismantling farm buildings In its furious progress. 111 Frankfort, in Marshall County, the entire western and northwestern part of the town is in ruins. The property damage was far greater than at Snbetha, but the number of human victims of the storm’s fury is happily considerably less. As fur us heard from there was no loss of life there, and the number Injured was hurdly more than a dozen. Probably three-score of buildings were razed to the ground. Some of the best residences of Frankfort were blown to atoms, and reports from the surrounding country, where heavy damage hns been done, will materially swell the loss. Many head of horses, cattle and other Btock were killed. Two couriers reported that everything in the village of Reserve was demolished by the cyclone, ami that six people were killed at Reserve and many others injured. The little humlet of Bodaville, in Riley County, was entirely swept away by the eyelone. At Spring Valley, some six miles south of Barnes, it tore down a church, in which 150 people were worshiping. Many were injured.