Phillipsburg, Kansas
Tornado
June
27, 1882
(Special to The Kansas City Times.)
Atchison, June 27. -- A special from
Phillippsburg [sic] states that the cyclone
struck that town by which the wooden baptist
church, 40x50 feet was completely crushed and
splintered. The dwellings of
Messrs. Stockman, Nash,
Snodgrass and
Hale are totally destroyed; the brick
building of Wm. Bissell
was wrecked; the livery stable of
Dallas Harmon
and saloon of Wm.
Taylor both have roofs off and walls
crushed in; the frame building
Louis Hax of
St. Joe had the roof blown in and the roof taken
off the two story double store of
Geo Young, the
whole building unroofed and the east half blew
over. Ross Hale,
wife and two babies were carried
through the air in their house a great distance
before it went to pieces. Not a person was
lost. The stores of
Winship & Leffingwell, James Woods, McCormick
and Taylor and
D--- Huling are all damaged but not
ruined.
The Evening Star, Kansas City, MO 28
Jun 1882
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