Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1903-06-03
STORM KILLS SCORE.
TORNADO SWEEPS NEBRASKA
WRECklNG MANY TOWNS.
Death and Destruction in Wake of the
wind-Norman, Fairfield and Other
Places Visited - Oklahoma Cloud
burst Makes Hundreds Homeless.

Tornadoes, Thich for several days
wrought destruction in the West, desc
lated several Nebraska prairie towns
Monday, killed at least twenty-one per-
sons, injured scores of others, destroyed
farm houses aud village buildings and did
immense damage TO growing cereals and
fruits.
OF the dead the names of three resi-
dents of the village Of Norman, Neb.,
are known, They are: Mrs. Earl Racon.
Mrs. Weliver, John McCurdy \ partial
list of the dead al Pauline follows: James
Z. Mumaw, wife and daughter Frank
Quigg, Lizzie Palmer, Jeanette Palmer.
At Fairfield. Neb., three persons were
killed in the wreckage of their homes,
and many were hurt so seriously that the
fatality list viii doubtless be larger than
at first reported.
A tornado visited the town of Rolfe,
seventy miles west of Des Moines, Iowa,
and killed Fong Foo. Chinese laundry
man, and fatally injured child. The
tornado which devastated the country
near Norman, Neb.. Travelled rapidly east
TO Fairfield. The extent of the damage
left in the trail in the farming region
between the two towns is not yet known.
A tornado struck fifteen miles south of
Norman, demolishing fifteen buildings.
killing three persons and injurinq a dog
en- others From Norman, a town of
about 100 inhabitants situated on what
is called the high line" of the Burling-
ton Railway, the path of the storm lay
east TO Pauline. a little station on the
Prosser branch of the Missouri Pacific.
From Pauline it proceeded southeast,
st- Of f~ffa al
The entire town Of Fairfield, which
had about thrty-iye houses, is reported
wrecked, and it Is said that three per-
sons we're killed and others injured.
| Fairfield reports many farm houses
wrecked in Clay, Adams and Kearney
counties, and eight persons are reported
killed in the district near Fairfield.
A tornado stru * Elmo. Mo. unroofng
stores and litterns the town with the
debris of barns and hces. Ne lives were
lost. Elmo is In the northwestern cor
ner Of Missouri near the Nebraska line,
and the storm probably was a continue
tion of that which struck near Norman,
Neb.
IA tornado struck the town of Rolfe,
Iowa. killing Fong Foo, laundryman,
fatally injuring child and wreck
ing the State Bank building, Cray
on's general store, the Hotel de Main
and one other building. Several resi-
dences were damaged.
At Rochester, MINI, the worst storm
In twenty years ragged Sunday night
/ from II to o'clock. Several streets in
the city were flooded. The Zumbro river
rose five feet in two hours Monday morn
Ing and many houses and yards are I'M
der water The storm was general in
| 0lmsted County. A cloudburst is re-
ported at Roekdel and some stock was
drowned. The Chicago and Northwest
ern track near Dover was washed out
| for 200 yards. The water came down
! In torrents for several hours without
ceasing, causing great damage to crops.
C1oudburst in Oklahoma.
A disastrous cloudburst swept through
! the country west of Enid. o. r., at mid
night Sunday. sending a food of water
| 200 feet wide and three feet high through
| the bottoms. carrying houses and every
/ thing movable with it. Hundreds of fam
/ lies were rendered homeless and the
/ damage in Enid alone is estimated at
/ fully 100000. This amount will be
| largely increased when reports are receiv-
ed from the neighboring country.
The storm came upon Enid without
warning while most Of its citizens were
asleep. Within a few minutes a hun
dred houses were partly or completely
submerged. Rescuers went 10 work inn
mediately and all night labored industri-
ously saving persons from perlous posi-
tons and aiding those driven from their
homes.
Thousands of dollars worth of proper
~ through central Illinois was destroyed
by a cyclone Sunday morning. The storm
left : trail Of damaged buildings in its
path. unrooted thousands Of trees and
greatly smaped the tslpphonp sysfprus