Shawnee County, Kansas
Tornado
May
2, 1892
A KANSAS CYCLONE
A GENUINE TWISTER.
It Does Considerable Damage to Topeka -- Several
People Killed.
Mission township in Shawnee county, in which
Topeka is the county seat was visited by a
cyclone on the night of the 2nd ________ [?]
great damage.
It was a genuine rotary cyclone, and it
demolished everything in its path. In some
places the very bark was peeled from the trees.
Houses were torn in fragments, trees uprooted
and crops ruined. The house of
JAMES MITCHELL,
a farmer, was in the path of the storm. It was
occupied by Mitchell was fatally injured.
MRS. MITCHELL
escaped, but the children were all seriously
hurt and are now in a dying condition.
The house of PHILIP LOX
was demolished, but the family escaped by taking
refuge in the cellar. The residence of
CHARLES THRASHER
was blown down and THRASHER was badly hurt.
THOMAS BROOKS'
house was destroyed and the family were
more or less injured, but none were killed. An
unknown woman, who had just moved into a house
which has long been vacant, was killed outright
when the house was demolished.
The house of JOSEPH
HURD was blown down and
MRS. HURD
was killed. JAMES
PLAXTON'S house was carried from its
foundations and wrecked, and PLAXTON was
instantly killed in the fall of timbers. The
other members of the family escaped with slight
injuries.
SWAN ANDERSON,
a farm hand, was working in a field when
the storm came up. He was hurled against a stone
fence and killed. GABE
HALDERMAN, a farmer, was fatally
injured in the destruction of his barn.
The Pleasant valley school house was
demolished. A number of children had taken
refuge there from the storm, but they
miraculously escaped death, though some received
severe injuries.
Davis County Clipper Utah 1892-05-13
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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