Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-02
FOUR CYCLONES
Winds Do Damage in
Iowa.
Six Known to Have Been
Killed.
One Man WhirIed Around a Tree
Until Unconscious.
TWO DISAPPEARED ENTIRELY.

Des Moines, Iowa, May "A tornado
struck Bayard. fifty miles northwest of
here, at 7:45 o'clock last night, and de-
molished property to the value of $780,
900. ne storms path was hundred
yards in width and a dozen houses
were badly damaged, the smaller ones
being badly broken up and the larger
ones wrecked and twisted. The Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul depot
was almost totally destroyed and two
large elevators standing alongside the
Milwaukee tracks were unroofed.
Eye witnesses say the tornado did
not occupy more than a minute in
passing through the town. Wires of
all kinds are down in the neighborhood
of Bayard.
Another severe wind storm is report
ed from Rippey, near Bayard. The
school house was completely destroyed
and the barns of c. T. Fleetwood, John
Montgomery and ]. N. Morse were
carried mile and then ground into
kindling wood.
Four persons were seriously hurt
and several houses demolished at Van
Vert. Telegraph wires in the stricken
section are prostrated.
Additional particulars from the cy
clone that visited Decatur county last
night state it started six miles south
of VanWert and moved in a nOrthwes-
tern direction, passing a mile east of
town. A dozen farm houses in a path
100 yards wide were wrecked and three
members of one family residing east OF
Van Vert sustained broken limbs
Three sons of j. s. Williams, farmer,
residing northwest of Weldon, are re.
ported missing this morning. The
storm blew with terrific force. David
Harden, of Bayard. was whirled around
a tree until he was made unconscious
and is still in precarious condition.
Five people were hurt in houses
wrecked between Van Vert and Wei
don. Louise and Hazel Williams will
probably die. Two women and child
by the name of Opara were seriously
hurt. At Woodburn five houses were
blown down but no one was hurt.
Six were injured, one fatally. in a
cyclone which struck near LOhrville,
100 miles northwest of here last eve
ning-the third cyclone thus known to
have taken place within an hour in
many different sections of the state.
The residence of a farmer, j. w. Mum
irni in the path of the storm at Lohr-
vile, was destroyed and the father,
mother and four children sustained Sc
rious injuries. The mothers skull was
fractured and she will die. The house
and outbuildings were completely de-
molished. The school house was torn
to pieces and other buildings in the
neighborbood were wrecked. The cy-
clone was followed by terrific hail.
storm that broke windows in many
houses.
Another Story.
Coon Rapids. Iowa, May 2.-The tor
nado which struck Bayard last night
swept across the country and did a
great deal of damage to crops, farm
buildings and other agricultural inter
ests. Following the windstorm there
was a deluge of rain which in some
places reached nearly the proportions
of a water spout. The wind in this
place reached a velocity of seventy
miles an hour, and blew down signs
and a number of small buildings were
slightly damaged. All wires along the
st. Paul road are down and number
of poles broken OFF, No person was
seriously injured as far as learned.
A fourth cyclone is reported in Iowa
last night which occurred near Pite
man, wrecking several farm houses
and killing twenty cattle.