Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1893 — THE STORM GOD'S WRATH [ARTICLE]

THE STORM GOD'S WRATH

BAd Scenes In tfee Awful CyeloM’S Path, The town of Akron, la., on tho Hoe «f the Chicagq. Mflwantree A St. Panl rallway, thirty miles north of Omaha, which has a population of abont 10,000 persons, was devastated by a cyclone, Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after 3 o’clock It commenced to grow dark and in a half hour ft was necessary to have artificial flight. About 4 o’clock the storm struck the place. It was a regular whirlwind and came from the northeast. Houses were torn from their foundations and overturned and many of them blown to pieces. A double span wagon bridge across the Sioux rive# was wrenched from the pier* av dashed against the river bank. "The iron rods were twisted and bent out of all shape. A large elevator was demolished and the debris carried across the railroad tracks and deposited on the site of a lumber yard, while the lujnber yard and buildings were carried back and deposited where the elevator stood. Cars loaded with stone that were standing on the railroad tracks were piled up by the wind and turned completely over. Nearly every building in the town was wrecked and many people killed. At Page, la., much damage was done. At Hiawatha, Kan., reports were received of great damage throughout the State. The town of Parker Mo., was completely wrecKed. Several were killed. Reports from various Sections of the West indicate that the storm was general and unusually violent and destructive. Reports from various sections of Missouri Indicate that the storm was even more destructive of life and property than in other sections of the West. At Coudray, a mining town of about three hundred inhabitants, only three houses are left standing. Nine persons were killed outright and fifty injured, many of whom may die. The damage to crops throughout Kansas and Missouri is incalculable.