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It was first seen near Nineveh, on the Arkansas river, three miles from Mulvane 

 Junction, and traveled rapidly in a northeast direction, striking a corn-field near 

 Mulvane. It passed within a mile of Mulvane, and picking up a frame house 

 turned it over twice and smashed it to smithereens. The sewing machine and 

 stove were broken into little pieces ; a lady and her child were seriously injured 

 internally, as well as bruised, and the chances are that she will die. The resi- 

 dence of a man named Egan, 20x35, was demolished. This was done by one 

 branch of the cyclone, or water-spout, and another did much damage at Belle 

 Plain. The two united near Mulvane, and it was the two combined that did 

 the work. During the destruction hail-stones as large as a sugar-bowl fell in 

 immense quantities and a hot wind prevailed, making it hard to breathe, and 

 turning the leaves of the corn black. After leaving Mulvane the cyclone wheeled 

 off in a southeasterly direction and struck Flora. 



The locality of Osage City, Kas., was visited by a terrible storm yesterday 

 afternoon about 4 o'clock. It was formed near Olivet, in the southern part of the 

 county. The shape and outlines of the cloud were well defined; it was very 

 dark, and apparently hollow. The following is from the account of the Free Press 

 extra, issued to-day : Just before it reached the house of a farmer named Powelh 

 ten miles northeast of Olivet, he called to the family to go into the cellar, but they 

 expected it to pass by. Yet, just as it was about to pass, it turned like a mad 

 man, caught the house up whirled it around in the air, and threw it back upon its 

 foundation with great violence, leaving it a pile of ruins. The cellar was filled 

 with the debris, and the family of five people crawled and crouched in a corner, 

 and escaped with a few immaterial bruises and scratches. 



A horse was lifted out of the stable and carried over a high hill and dashed 

 upon the ground in a corn field, a mile away. Cattle were lifted from the ground, 

 carried into the air and dashed to pieces. Mr. Powell's fine orchard was totally 

 destroyed, the trees being literally torn out of the ground or twisted into a thous- 

 and fragments. Miss Tweed, at Powell's, found the works of her gold watch a 

 quarter of a mile from the house. Their furniture was all destroyed ; their bed- 

 clothes and wearing apparel have entirely disappeared, nothing but a few sheets 

 being left. Miss Tweed's clothing was torn off, her trunk was lifted out of the 

 house and was carried off, and has not yet been found. From this point the 

 storm moved a little northeasterly, going about one mile north for every three 

 miles east. Mrs. Freeman, a widow lady living near Olivet, lost her house and 

 everything in it. Plaunty's farm house and buildings were left in ruins. Three 

 negro children left at home near Olivet were badly injured, one having since died, 

 and it is thought the other cannot live. 



A severe cyclone passed over Quenemo, Kas., Sunday about 5 o'clock p. m. 

 At Malvern, eight miles northwest of here, one man was killed and one severely 

 hurt. Some six or eight houses were completely demolished and many persons 

 more or less injured. Five miles southwest of this place two children were killed 

 and one man probably fatally injured and many others hurt. In this village and 

 within five miles there are some twelve houses completely ruined and many more 



