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partly blown down. The cyclone seemed to commence on the Marias de Cygnes, 

 west of Malvern, and went in an northeasterly direction, and extended from half 

 to a mile wide. On crossing the belts of timber it literally cleared it ofif. The 

 Presbyterian church here is a total ruin. Many barns blown down and stock 

 hurt, but none killed except a i&\^ hogs. Fences and crops are almost entirely 

 swept away in its track, and household goods and bedding strewn for miles. 

 Have not had any report east of here yet. 



A correspondent from Burlingame, Kas. , says : The cyclone in this county 

 was more serious than telegraphed from Topeka yesterday. I could not send 

 from here on account of the wires being in bad order. The cyclone first formed 

 between Arvonia and OHvet. It then passed northwest, going out of the county 

 in the direction of Pomona, Franklin county. In its course it killed five persons, 

 including John Rosencranz, John Harper, a man named Brown, two colored 

 children, and a person whose name has not been learned. 



The denizens of King City, Missouri, were on Sunday afternoon about 

 half past five o'clock, startled with the approach of the cyclone, making its ap- 

 pearance from the west and holding directly for this point, striking terror to the 

 hearts of all. A feeling of trembling and awe as of certain impending death gives 

 expression to the state of this community. The cyclone had its beginning about 

 two miles south of Rosendale, and twenty miles a little south of west of here. It 

 gathered force as it came on, its mad fury assuming serpentine shape, covering a 

 track varying from 200 feet to a fourth of a mile in width, and sweeping every- 

 thing clear in its path. It was seen fully an hour before it reached here, and 

 within a mile and a half of here it spread north a trifle, striking the northwest 

 boundary of the town and spending its fury three miles north of here. Houses, 

 stock, trees, shrubbery, and even grass bent and were demolished in its path. 

 The whole track was laid in a desert waste by its furious strides, and the whole 

 territory was strewn with fragments of timber, houses, and domestic articles. 

 While the cyclone lasted the air was filled with material objects, and men were 

 picked up bodily, thrown seventy-five feet in the air and landed a quarter of a 

 mile away. A farmer named Maynard living four miles due west of here, in at- 

 tempting to escape the cyclone took a wrong course, ran into it and was driven 

 against a fence post and pierced through and through by a four-inch piece of 

 timber. Death ensued shortly after. His grown daughter Grace was carried a 

 quarter of a mile from the house and found in a corn field devoid of clothing ex- 

 cept stockings. She, too, died. The rest of the family were saved by fleeing to the 

 cellar of a house that had been blown to fragments and scattered for miles about. 

 R. C. Nelson, a farmer living one mile north of here, while sitting on his back 

 porch reading, was killed. His two sons near by escaped severely injured. The 

 rest of the family were at church. Mrs. Roberts and two children, three miles 

 east of Rosendale, were killed, and house totally wrecked. Several fine country 

 residences were blown to fragments, and several hundred head of stock destroyed, 

 and crops and fine orchards damaged. At Flag Springs several houses were 



