Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24
KANSAS A STORM SUFFERER
Many Towns Uttered with wreokage and
Many People Hurt.
ToRNADOIs ALSO AssAIL OKLAHOMA

At One Point ethodta Church IL
Lifted and Deposited on Roof of
Parsonage BY Freakish Prank
of the wind.
TOPEKA, Kan, May 23.-Much suffering
has resulted in Kansas from last nights
storm. on account Of the bad condition
Of the wires complete reports are just be-
ginning TO come In.
Eldorado reports a windstorm throughout
Butler county. M. p. Pansicker was badly
hurt and six residences destroyed.
Newton suffered the loss of some build
ings.
Eureka wal struck by the tornado at
midnight. Here eight people were badly
hurt, but. Il Is thought none will die,
Chris Gullick, son and wife, we're awak.
ened by bricks falling on their bed. They
are the most seriously hurt. Frank Sample
and wife were carried half a block by the
wind, sustaining serious injuries. Others
injured are: Mrs. H. A. German. Elsie
German. Frank Masser and Anna Masser.
The damage to property here will amount
to $4,000. A meeting of citizens tonight
subscribed a large sum for the benent OF
the sufferers.
In Bennett county the German church
near Stuttgart was demolished n a mum,
Der OF farm houses between Logan ana
Speed were blown down. NJ. Edwards was
hurt.
over 900 cattle we're killed in Clay county
and a number of farms swept clean. No
body was seriously hurt.
All the streams in the eastern and cen.
trail portions of the state are very high a.
a result OF the heavy rains Of last night
and tonight. A report comes from En-
poria that the Cottonwood river is nearly
as high as during the great food there last
year.
The wind did much damage to property
in Lyon county and to Emporia, but no.
body was hurt,
MuIvane, in Summer county, which was
reported swept away by the tornado last
night, is safe. Some houses were de-
stroyed, but no person in town was in.
jured.
Town of Carmen Wrecked.
OKLAHOMA CITY, okI.. May PA
special to the OklAhoman from Aline says:
About 1880 o'clock last night a tornado
struck Carmen. five miles north, and de.
stroyed about one-third OF the town, In
GLIDING the principal business houses and
postofice.
p. +. Brown Of Wichita, representing 8
machinery company, was killed by flying
timber. his brains being found thirty feet
from the body. Mrs, Wismiller was IA
tally injured and died today. Twenty PEG
Pile were more or less injured.
Among the buildings destroyed we're the
Merrill furniture store. the Carmen druE
store, the Halstead meat market, the Head
light printing ONCE and Wismiller's hard
ware store.
The Methodist church was set on top Of
the parsonage, where II remains and car
be seen for miles. - ~
A rumor reaches here that a waterspout
accompanied by a terrible wind, struck tn,
town of Yukon. eighteen miles west OF
here, at Q o'clock tonight, INJECTING much
damage Telegraph and telephone wires
are all down and &c 10 impossible to Obtain
details. One Of the heaviest rains evei
known in the city fell here and the NortI
Canadian river threatens to overflow IT.
banks, ~inundating thousands of acres Of
growing crops. ,e
MARSHALL. Mich, May PA tornado
passed over this city this evening doing al
lIeast $4,000 damages. The Dilcine home
for aged women. valued at 5000. wal
unroofed and twenty other houses and
barns in the city and Marengo township
were unroofed. Joseph Higbee and Ernest
Burton, both of Albion, Alexander Skinner
OF THU city and James Hughes of MarengS
were injured by flying missiles.
Watonsa Is visited.
GUTHRIE, o. T., May IA tornado Il
reported today in the vicinity Of Watonga
Okl. The dwellings of ]. P. Atterbury ana
Robert Payne were demolished Mrs. At
terbury was carried fifty feet but not seri
ously injured, while her son and daughter
were dangerously hurt. Orchards and crops
were damaged severely.
The Arkansas river is on a rampage as Z
result OF the heavy rains. The town OF KaE
City is partially under water, many farmers
living In the bottoms near Ponca City and
Newkirk have been compelled to leave theii
homes, fields and crops are submerged
numerous bridges have been washed away
and traffic Is blocked. 50.
ESTHERVILLE, Ia, May IA sever
wind and rainstorm passed over this placl
last night, doing much damage TO buildings
barns, etc. Mrs. Hensinger, so far a
known, was the only person injured
LUVERNE, MINI. May IA heav!
wind and rainstorm visited this section las
night. Incomplete reports indicate a heav!
loss to farm buildings throughout tn
county. In this section the heaviest dam
age was to- shade trees. Telephone an
electric plants suffered seriously.
ST. CHARLES, Mimi, May 3.-At mid
night a tornado wrecked the racetrael
buildings and killed hve horses In training
there. Many windmills n barns wer
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