The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-27
DEATH FUNNEL
Tears Through Cloud and Clay
Counties, Kansas,
killing Nine People Outright,
Fatally WOunding Others.
The Tornado was of the Pecul-
lar Funnel Shape.
ITS PATH WAS SW EPI
Clean of Everything MOvable-
Many Lay All Night
I'm the Rain Before Rescuers
Found Them.
ITS PATH WAS SWEPT

Concoraia. kan. April ga tornado
which swept through this section IF
the state onsaturday evening was prob
ably one Of the most severe that Kan
sas has ever experienced.
It's path was about 400 feet wide and
extended fully twenty miles. Eleven
people were killed or fatally injured
1t formed about Z O'Clock Saturday
evening near the little town of St.
Joseph. III the eastern part Of Cloud
county. and passed in a northeasterly
direction through the northern part oI
CLAW and probably into the southern
edge of Washington counties Forum
ately III struck no towns. but its course
was through a thickly settled portion
of the Republican valley. The storm
cloud was funnel shaped and its power
seemed unlimited Houses and barns
were lifted into the air and dashed
back to the earth. Trees were uprooted
or broken off and everything in its
track was destroyed.
The first victims of the storm We're
Eli BaIthazor ana wife living about
o. mile east of St. Joseph The family
was just preparing to seek refuge in
the cellar when the storm struck The
six children We're all more or less ser
iously injured and it IS thought two of
them VIII die. About a mile further
east the home Of Julian Trembly was
DESTROYED and he was killed.
The greatest damage was done south
w rv7+e+o,, Two farmers r. P Peter
500, s,7 r G HAYNES were killed and
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and child We're kllleu anu az allo ~ll7i o.
5-year-old boy The body of the latter
has not yet been found
rrba storm struck Peter AndersOn's
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house was demolisheo IN an lHses ~
Every member of the Anderson family
was injured. When they had extri-
Gated themselves from the debris they
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child was found this morning In a ra-
vine half a mile away. 1T evidently
had been carried there by the wind.
Frank Wilkinson. a Young farmer. is
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reached the cellar When tine mousse was
blown away me residence OF w ale
ter Haynes was also blown to atoms,
but he had reached the cellar with his
family and escaped unhurt- The barn
of Lawrence Rains. a wealthy farmer.
was cor7rlafalz- DESTROYED and several
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DEAD
MRS. 81 PETERSON.
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The tornado was of the usual funnel
shape. and made a terrific roar lit was
ana many sousht refuge IN ousouls