Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-03
PROPERTY LOSS FIFTY THOUSAND
Path of the Storm at Baysrd is Only One
Hundred Feet in Width.
OCCUPIES BUT A MOMENT IN PASSING
Besides the Fuu-FIedEed TornadOeH
Destructive winds of Less Mag
nitude strike in other
Places I'm state.


that struck the state of Iowa last night,
The storms we're $50 miles apart. one
striking at Bayard, a town OF 500 In Guthrie
county, and the other at the towns OF We'll
don and Van Vert. in Decatur county, q
wealthy farming neighborhood. The injured
are:
David Harden Of Bayard, face ana hands,
serious.
Hazel Williams of Weldon, internal in
juries. will die.
Louise Williams Of Weldon. internally.
will die.
Mrs. O'Hara or Weldon. rot serious.
Two o'Hara children. will recover.
The Bayard storm seems to have left
the ground after passing through the town
and travelled fifteen miles without doing
further damage. when it struck a farming
neighborhood north OF Rippey and there de-
molished school house and many barns.
Disaster at Bayard.
A tornado struck Bayard. fifty miles north
west of here, at 7:45 last night and demol-
shed property to the value Of $4,000. The
storm path was 100 yards in width and q
dozen houses were badly damaged. the
smaller ones being badly broken up and the
larger ones we're wrecked and twisted.
The Chicago Milwaukee G. st. Paul depot
was almost totally destroyed and two large
elevators standing alongside the Milwaukee
tracks were unroofed.
At Coon Rapids. ten miles west, there
was no wind. The storm seemed to swoop
down on Bayard. where 1t spent It's force.
| there being no reports Of damage east OF
that point.
David Hardin was caught in the path OF
| the storm and fifteen minutes after 1t had
passed was found hanging to tree. He
was unconscious all night and this morning
cannot recall what happened to him. 1t Ia
| thought that he was struck with flying
| debris. r
Eye witnesses say that the tornado did
not occupy more than one minute in pass
| Ing through the town. The direction was
| from west to east Wires OF all kinds &re
down in the neghborhood Of Bayard and
! communication with the town is almost
| impossible.
Another severe wind storm is reported
| to have taken place FIVE miles north OF Rip.
pey Green county, and fifteen miles from
Bayard. The school house was destroyed
| while the barns of c. T. Fleetwood, John
! Montgomery and J. n. Morse were carried
distance of a mile and then ground into
kindling wood.
Damage in Decatur County.
Additional particulars from the cyclone
that visited Decatur county last night state
that It started six miles south of Van Vert
and moved in a northeasterly direction,
passing one mile east OF the town. A dozen
farm houses in its path, 100 yards wide.
were wrecked and three members Of one
family residing east of Van Vert sustained
broken limbs. Three sons of ]. H. Will
liams, a farmer residing northwest Of We'll
don, are reported missing this morning.
The storm blew with terrific force and had
IL struck a more thickly settled neighbor-
hood would have wrought great havoc.
Five people were hurt in houses wrecked
by a tornado between Van Vert and We'll
don. fifty miles south OF here. at O'Clock
last evening. The storm struck q mile
east Of Van Vert and travelled in a north
easterly direction, just missing Welden.
The injured people were members of farm
ers' families. Two houses are reported
blown TO pieces. In one OF these Louise
and Hazel Williams we're pinioned In the
wrecked building and were hurt by flying
timbers. They will probably die.
Two women and child by the name Of
O'Hara were hurt in similar manner In
another house a short distance from the
Williams home. but the destruction OF the
building was not so complete and the occu-
pants escaped with less serious injuries.
From Weldon the storm continued In q
northessterly direction and struck Wood
burn. a small town on the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy railroad, where fve houses
were blown down or on their foundations
No lives were lost at this place and no one
was injured.
Third within an Hour.
Six were injured. one fatally. In q cyclone
that struck near Lohrville, 100 miles north
west of here. last evening-the third cy-
clone thus far known to have taken place
within an hour IN as many different sections
OF the state. The residence Of q farmer. J..
w. Munirini, was In the path OF the storm
at Lohrville, and the father. mother and
four children sustained serious injuries.
The mothers skull was fractured and she
will die.
The house and outbuildings were COM
pletely demolished. A school house was
torn to pieces and other buildings In the
neighborhood were wrecked. The cyclone
was followed by a terrific hailstorm that
broke windows in many houses.
The fourth cyclone reported in Iowa last
} night occurred near Hiteman, wrecking sew
eral farm houses and killing twenty cattle.
The course OF the funnel-shaped cloud and
! the ruin II caused we're witnessed by the
: entire population OF Hiteman.
From Adaza. Green county, comes the
report that Mrs Harvey Miner and two
children were seriously injured and will die
as a result Of the tornado in that village
last night. Farnhamville, in the same
county. is said to have suffered severely.
not a building in the place escaping injury.
II is almost impossible to get the facts a.
: the town is on from the railroad and the
telephone wires are down. At Hiteman,
; In Monroe county, two fsrmhouses we're de-
stroyed and several head Of cattle are re-
ported to have been killed By falling tim
: bers In barns.
CIOadbarst nj Jefferson.
JEFFERSON. Ia. May 2.--(special Tele-
gram.)-A severe storm struck this part Of
} Iowa last evening. shortly after o'clock.
coming from almost . westerly direction
At AdAza. In this county ths funnel