People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — SEVEN KILLED BY CYCLONE. [ARTICLE]

SEVEN KILLED BY CYCLONE.

Only Five Houses Left Standing a* Reserve. Kan. Kansas City, Mo., special: News of the loss of life and destruction of property by Sunday’s cyclone in Kansas is slow in coming‘in, caused by the crippled condition of telegraph wires. What has been received makes it plain that previous estimates of the damage done were none too high, and, in fact, may be added to when communication is completely reopened. Fully half a dozen towns were struck by the “twister” and the knewn dead is seven. The injured number fully thirty , many of whom, it is feared, are fatally hurt. Reserve, a village on the Missouri Pasiflc, in Brown County, seems to have felt the brunt of the storm. But five houses are said to have been left standing there.