Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1889 — THE DEADLY CYCLONE. [ARTICLE]

THE DEADLY CYCLONE.

A Kansan Town Almost Wiped Out..-Sev-erul People Kill, d, and Many Injured. The town of Stafford, Kan., was wiped out by~a Ttlesda3r“mfH£r A number of people were killed and about thirty wounded. The wind had been blowing a gale for three days, and developed into a cyclone that swept over the counties of Stafford and Rice in a northeasterly direction. Croys, farmhouses and barns were moved down, and the full extent of the damage is not yet reported. The town of Stafford wag almost entirely destroyed, but fortunately the people saw the cyclone coming, and had time to escape to cellars and places of safety. Three are known to be killed and thirty badly injured. Among the lattar were E. Slade, Mrs. E. Lindsay and daughter, George Davis and two children. William Crawford was instantly killed, and his father, 8. 8. Crawford, fatally injured. Mrs. John Love was blown fifty feet from her house, into a wagon. She was fatally injured. The Eureka school-house was entirely bl&wn away, there being nothing left but a few foundation timbers. A 1 the houses were frame, and were lifted up and distributed over the adjoining fields.