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The Mound City Semi-Weekly Progress (Mound City, KS)
The Mound City Semi-Weekly Progress (Mound City, KS) published Apr. 23, 1887, page 1:
person mentioned: Seth Rowley (1804 - 1885)
event type: tornado
event date: Apr. 21, 1887
Cyclone
Linn county Visited by a Destructive Cyclone. Stanton, Blue Mound, Sheridan and Mound City tps. Each Visited and death and Destruction the Result.
...For the first time in the history of cyclones the local papers of Linn county are called upon to record the details of a most disastrous storm of this character within her borders incurring loss of human life and incalculable damage in property.
Thursday, between the hours of 6 and 7 o’clock the storm that had been watched with a feeling of dread and fear by thousands of people, broke with terrible force, and as near as a corps of correspondents, sent out yesterday by the Progress could gather the particulars, as in damages and deaths, we give below:
Details... Charley Rowley’s house, this township was blown away, the inhabitants there-of escaped by hiding in a deep ravine near by.
... Seth Rowley’s residence in Stanton, was blown away. Five persons who were in the house got out in time to save their lives. Having presence of mind enough they clung to a post near by and were saved.
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