People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — TORNADO IN KANSAS. [ARTICLE]

TORNADO IN KANSAS.

Several Lives Lost and Much Property Destroyed—Seven Victims of an Arkansas Storm. Topeka, Kan., April 19.—The Capitol’s Osage City, Kan., special says: About 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon the worst windstorm, accompanied by rain and' hail, ever experienced in this country passed over Osage City and in the space of two or three minutes destroyed about forty buildings of an average value of 1500 each. Many others were more or less injured. Nearly all the buildings in the business part of town suffered in some way. Two persons are known to have died from injuries received—Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Waggoner (colored)—and at least thirty are badly hurt. Little Rock, Ark., April 19.—News was received here Tuesday of a cyclone in Foreche valley, Scott county. The town of Boles was almost entirely destroyed. Seven persons were killed and a large number injured. The path of the storm was a half a mile in width and everything was swept before it. The bodies of a number of the killed were carried over half a mile by the storm. It is impossible to get full particulars, but it is known that at least seven persons were killed and the number may be much larger.