Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — STRICKEN BY CLCLONE. [ARTICLE]

STRICKEN BY CLCLONE.

Three Comities of Devuatated by a “Twister.** Nemaha, Marshall and Cloud Counties were swept by a death-dealing cyclone late Sunday afternoon. Dismantled buildings mark the path of the fierce .storm, fourteen persons are known to have been killed, from forty to sixty are reported injured, several of whom will die, and scores of families are homeless. The small number of casualties is accounted for by the fact that nearly all of the people fled to their cellars and cyclone caves. Seneca, the county seat of Nemaha County, appears to have been the chief sufferer. One third of the resident part of the town, according to a dispatch, is in ruins, five persons were killed and fifteen badly injured, and 500 people have no roof to shelter them. Tin* property loss at Seneca is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Sabetba, also in Nemaha County, according to report, was a severe sufferer. A brief dispatch states that tiyenty or twentyfive persons received injuries more or less severe, and that at least three or four of the victims vi[l probably die. Twenty families lost all their worldly possessions and are temporarily dependent upon charity for subsistence. Sabetha is a small place north of here, near the Nebraska line. / After leaving Sabetha the cyclone took a narrow path toward (Falls City, uprooting trees and dismantling farm buildings In its fhrious progress. In Frankfort, in Marshall County, the entire western and northwestern part of the town is in ruins. The property damage was far greater than at Sabetha, but the number of human victims of the storm’s fury is happily considerably less. As far as heard from there was no loss of life there, and the number injured was hardly more than a dozen, probably three-score of buildings were razed to the ground. Some of the best residences of Frankfort were blown to atoms, and Veports from the surrounding country, Where heavy has been done, will materially swell the loss. Many head of horses, Cattle and other stock were killed. Two couriers reported that everything In the village of Reserve was demolished by the cyclone, and that six people were tilled at Reserve and many others injured. The little hamlet of Bodaville, in Riley County, was entirety swept away- by the cyclone. At Spring Valley, some six miles south of Barnes, it tore down a ehifrch, in which 150 people were worshiping. Many were injured.