The Iola register., 1902-05-02
A TEXAS TORNADO
Glen Rose waS AL most Totally Des-
trOyed

IUytu
BY scripps-McRae Press Assn.
Ft. Worth, Texas, April 29.-Re-
ports today show that the tornado
which PASSED over portions of Som
erville county last night killed twenty
five people and destroyed property
worth hundred thousand dollars.
Two hundred families are homeless.
Relief trains will be sent to Glen Rose
from Ft. Worth today. All Of the
details are not yet in. At Crowley
there was much damage but no fatali-
ties. Thousands of dollars worth of
growing of crops are ruined bridges
are washed away and the roads are
impossible.
Fort Worth Texas, April 2S.-Glen
Rose, the county seat of Somerville
county, was almost totally wrecked by
a tornado which struck the little town
between and O'Clock this evening.
The path of the storm was from south
west to northeast and was over five
miles wide. At least twelve people
were killed and forty or fifty were
injured.
Telegraph and telephone wires are
down and only the most meager news
from the wrecked town could be had
tonight What was sent came by the
way OF Morgan, twenty miles distant,
and was put on the wires by an OPP
orator who escaped and went out four
miles where he tapped telegraph
wire.
A later telephone message states that
a fire broke out and three or four bus
mess houses were burned.
The Fort Worth q Rio Grande
railroad will run a special train
carrying supplies to the sufferers in
the morning. General Manager L. B.
Conner tonight donated $50 check to
those made homeless.
Glen Rose is located on the Paluxy
river in valley. The tornado came
down the river bottoms and swept
everything before it. Reports reach
Morgan that many people were killed
down the river below Glen Rose.
There is no corroboration of this,
however. The country is not densely
populated in either direction along
the path of the storm.
The population of Glen Rose is
about 500.
TORNADO IN KANSAS
Parker, Kas., April 2S-A torn ado
accompanied by heavy rain and hail,
passed three miles south this after
noon at $50 o'clock, destroying
all houses and barns in its path and
tearing down the telegraph line of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad.
Large trees were broken as if they
were but toothpicks, while fences and
loose lumber may be found scattered
everywhere. The fury of the storm
seemed to increase as it Travelled, and
its destructive power grew worse. The
clouds that formed into the tornado
seemed to gather about mile south
of this place, and thence to travel in
in a southeasternly direction. Up to
the present time only meager reports
of the storm have been received, and
the full damage of the storm has not
yet yet been learned
Half a mile east of Goodrich the
barn of John Wooten was completely
demolished. and the house was slight
ly damaged, the storm thence striking
the house of Charles Howery. carrying
it some distance and destroying both
it and the barn.
The storm next reached Oscar Hoyt''
dwelling, and his sister and son were
badly injured, having limbs broken
Next in the path of the twister was thu
home of Mrs. Kerrs, Robe Ward
William Howery, Tom Burnett, al
losing their house and barns, and Mr.
Burnett lost fine team. The las
place heard from was the home o
Howe Grove which was completed
demolished, and after it was blow
to the ground fire finished it. Tn
storm has been a most severe one
and the fact that no loss of life ha
vet been heard of is to be marveled a
Only the damage from close at hand
TO be learned tonight.