The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1896-05-02
WAS A TRAIL OF DEATH
TERRIBLE CYCLONE PASSES o'h Ell
CLAY COUNTY, MO.
Five Persons Killed, Seventeen ih-
jured. Houses wrecked All"
Crops Ruined.

Kansas City, April GA speclal " ~
Times from Topeka, Kan. says:
frIve persons. at least. We're killed on
| right: three ralaIIy. ana IL more " ios
seriously injured and great destructlo
OF property was wrought by cycioi'
which passed over Clay county last nlgh
! The dead are:
Frank Peterson, wife and chila.
Mrs. Ole Halverson.
A grandchild of Peterson.
The injured belong to the families OF =
Morris, F. Welkju, Peter Anderson an
! Fl. Gardner.
Passengers on the RooH Island tran
! from the northwest this afternoo
| brought partial details of the cyclone. !
started about six miles south OF CHftol
and went in a northeasterly direction 10
l. or Is miles. then lost its force b.
spreading 1t passed about half way be
tween Clifton and Morganville. Its tracl
varied from $50 yards to quarter OF
nile in width. 1t tore through farming
community, and left nothing at all stanG
Ing.
Houses and barns were wrecked, trees
torn up or broken, fences leveled and hay
stacks blown in every direction. The cy
clone was followed by terrific rar
storm, which lasted several hours, flood
ing the devastated district.
The storm struck Peter .Anderson's
house at $50 o'clock. This was about a
nile from the starting point. The house
was demolished in an instant. every
member of the Anderson family being
injured. When they had eXtricated them
selves from the debris they discovered
that Anderson's grandchild was missing
The dead body of the child was found
this morning in a ravine half a mile
away. 1t evidently had been carried there
by the wind
Anderson alarmed the neighbors who
lived out OF the track of the storm and
search was made for the victims, but,
little Roadway was made in the rain.
Courers were sent to Clifton and Nor
ganville for doctors, but it was daylight
before they arrived and the extent of the
injury and damage was known
At noon today it was thought that all
the victims had been found. A large
number of cattle and horses were killed
and the fruit in the storms track was
ruined.
1t is impossible at this time to esti-
property.
Heartrendng tales of suffering are told
by persons who visited the scene of the
storm
The wife and daughter of joan Morris
were reading when the shock came. The
house was divided. The women MANAGED
to get out, when the wilma picked them
Up, carrying them 200 yards, and let them
down safely on pile of straw lust awav
from he storms track
The people for miles around TODAY gath.
cred at different points where damage
had been done and rendered assistance in
every possible way
The conductor of the Rock Island train
said that the track of the storm looked
ike piece of ground which had hean
eveled with a roller.
Kansas City, April ga special to the
Journal from Clay City, Kan. places tho
number of killed in last nights cyclone at
eight. There are rumors of other deaths
south and west of Clifton and it is feared
that when communication with -be
stricken towns is re-established the loss
If life will be shown to have been ,,,..,,,t
The journal correspondent gives tba
following list of killed:
T.. Peterson, wife and one daupbter
Ed Ralthaser and wife.
Jess Ham.
Mrs. Halberson.
Inc injured: The daughter of Frank
peterson, can not live; Frank Wilkinson
can not live; entire family of John Nor
is, badly mangled; six children of Ed
Raithaser, more or less injured