People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — DID GREAT DAMAGE. [ARTICLE]

DID GREAT DAMAGE.

Heavy Lom Reanlt* from * Tornado In Kantai. Emporia, Kan., April 12. —Later new* from the tornado in Coffey county say* the storm came up from the southwest and whipped around into the north. Most of the damage was done when the winds met at the turninsr point. The following additional damage Las been reported: On Big Creek, the Presbyterian church and a schoolhouse were wrecked; N. Blane’s bouse and barn were blown down; Dan Sullivan and George Lapsley had houses destroyed; every building on William Stanley’s farm was off; the Hampden schoolhouse was badly damaged. One church, one schoolhouse and three houses southwest of Burlington were completely destroyed and ten others damaged. One woman, Mrs. Blanek, was badly injured and her house completely wrecked. Capt Taylor’s horsebarn and sheds were blown down and six horses had to be killed. At J. D. Weaver’s farm, 2 miles from Burlington, the house was blown away and the barn blown half a mile and wrecked into kindling wood. All his trees were twisted, torn and pulled up by the roots. A Mr. Wreeman, living 2 miles in the country, had every head of stock on his farm killed. Houses, barns, etc., were wrecked. He lost everything. The people are subscribing to a fund to help the destitute. Topeka, Kan., April 1 .—A destructive tornado passed over a part of Greenwood and Coffey counties late Sunday night. No deaths are reported, but much property was destroyed and at least fifty barns, outbuildings and a few farmhouses were totally destroyed. Near Virgil, a small town in Greenwood county, the tornado was most destructive. A half-dozen large houses were leveled to the earth. The families living in them had heard the terrible roaring of the storm in time to flee and save their lives by taking refuge in caves and cellars. A herd of fifty head of cattle just ready for the market was in the track of the storm. All but about a dozen were slaughtered and piled up in one mass of broken bones. Sweeping on to the east with terrible force the storm leveled houses, barns, schoolhouses and churches. Graceland cemetery, south of Burlington, was in its path, and not a monument is left standing. On the Tyler farm it picked up a colt, carried it several rods and dropped it into a4O foot well. No one was killed in that section but several people are badly bruised, some with broken limbs. The damage to stock and buildings is estimated at fully 550.000.