The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
TORNADOES BRING
DEATH And ruin
Storms Sweep Over Kansas, Nebras-
ka, Texas and Indian
Territory.
Vast Expenses Laid Waste and All
Is Leveled in Their
Wake.
Lightning Adds to the Scenes Hor-
ror and Many Buildings
Are Burned.

salina, Kan, May 22.-The third tor
| nado in Saline county within the past
twenty four hours struck Assiria last
| night. Two persons were killed and a
dozen or more injured. The dead are
| William A. Olsen, IL years Of age, and
Peter Olson. OF the injured none is fatal
ly hurt.
The house In which the Olsons lived
was demolished completely and the body
Of the boy was found forty rods from
where the house had stood. The wind
| carried the farmhouse occupied by Nels
Olsonburg a distance Of Ave rods.
A terrific rainstorm followed the tor
nado. At Bridgeport, in this county, hail
fell continuously for twenty minutes, do
ing immense damage to wheat.
AT Wright tornado demolished num-
| Der of houses and unroofed others. So far
| as known nobody was fatally injured.
| Crops were damaged greatly and stock
| killed.
| Ashland and a large portion OF the
county about it were laid waste. The
damage will be immense. So far as is
known nobody was killed and no one In
jured severely.
The residence portion suffered most
The homes of J. P. Campbell, M. G..
Stevenson, N. G. Nunnemacher, J. A. Van
Orsdell, w. L. Ainsworth and F. R. Kerns
were completely wrecked. AS many as
|
Campbell, Stevenson and Ainsworth were
injured when their houses went down.
The fine fruit farm of F.. R. Kerns was
| swept clean of trees and buildings. a
| ranchhouse was destroyed and trees and
windmflls are down In all directions. A
| large number Of cattle were killed.
The tornado passed over Hodgmar
county fifteen miles northwest Of Kins-
ley, destroying Daniel Gleason's house and
| killing Mabel Tuttle. Later another tor
nado could be seen from Kinisley, cover
Ing about the same territory, but no re.
| ports OF damage have yet been received
! The Commercial hotel at Blaine was de.
molished and many houses damaged. No.
| body was injured. The storm was more
severe in the farming district than ir
! town.
The storm did considerable damage also
at York and Ord, Neb., where buildings
| were blown down, altho no one was in
tured seriously. The storm even extend
ed over parts of Texas and Indian terri
tory.
In Indiana Also!
Indianapolis, Ind, May ga heavy
storm swept over Indianapolis yesterday.
Wire service was almost paralyzed and
the damage done will reach many thou
sands. Buildings were struck by light
ming and burned and there were some
narrow escapes by fleeing occupants
| The principal damage was done by light
ming at Lebanon, Ind. Trees were blown
down, outbuildings destroyed and the wire
service paralyzed. The dome Of the Per
kins hotel, the largest in Lebanon, was
torn off, and there were several narrow
escapes from death. The Cove street cal
barns were blown down.
! At Ellwood, Ind, the storm did damage
to the extent of $4,000. Three barns were
struck with lightning and burned.
| hor 1,,i1& ~, ~
Union Traction company were destroyed
by fire, caused by lightning, and the barns
Of George Abbott were burned. Two miles
south of the city the barn Of Anthony
Chambess, with all it's valuable contents
was destroyed by fire after being struck
by lightning bolt Four men and boy
who were in the barn when it was struck
were stunned and carried out before the
barn roof fell in. The machinery and
grain stored In the barn were burned AT
Charlottesville there was high wind, but
no damage except to shade trees. No lives
| have been reported lost.