Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-26
Fairfield is Reported to Be
Practically Wiped Out
By Storms Fury.
RELIEF TRAIN TO SCENE
Big Damage is Said to Have Re-
suited in Rural Districts.
NORTHWESTERN IOWA is FLOODED
Heavy Rains and High Winds Cause
Havoc in Iowa Towns-cyclone
Visits Gilmore, Killing One and
Destroying Hotel.

Hastings, Neb., May 25.--Nearly a
score of people killed, many injured,
two towns almost wiped out and
large amount of farm property de-
stroyed is the result of tornado
which visited the southwestern part
of Nebraska this morning
Damage in Rural Districts
In the country districts west of
Fairfield many farm houses are re-
ported to have been destroyed. Eight
persons, lost in the storm, are report
ed dead.
The telephone and telegraph wires
west and south of here, are all down.
Strikes Near Norman
Minden, Neb., May 25.-The torna-5
do struck Is miles south of Norman
early today, demolishing Is buildings
and killing three persons.
The dead are:
MRS EARL BACON.
MRS WEI.LIVER.
JOHN MCORD9.
( sweeps Past Pauline
From Norman the path of the storm
Jay east OF Pauline, a little station
on the Missouri Pacific railway from
whence it proceeded in a southeast
,erly direction, gradually losing its
| force when southwest Nof Fairfield.
Fairfield Wrecked
| The entire town of Fairfield, which
has about 35 houses. is reported to
ed and several injured. The Missouri
Pacific has sent relief train to the
scene of the disaster.
Damage in the Country
Advices from Fairfield state that
| many farm houses were wrecked in
Clay, Adams and Kearney counties.
Eight persons are reported killed in
that district and the wires are down
in many directions. Details Of the ca
tastrophe are meager.
Floods in Oklahoma
Enid, Okla, May 25.-Hundreds of
people were rendered homeless and
property damage estimated at $780,
i 600 was done in the Enid bottoms by
/ cloudburst that struck west of this
\ city Saturday night. A bank of wa
: ter three feet wide swept down the
!; valley, carrying houses and everything
before it. 1t came upon Enid with
out warning. Hundreds of houses
were totally or partially submerged.
Rescuers worked all night rescuing
the unfortunates. who had been caught
by the deluge.
Three Killed at Foss
! Guthrie, o. T., May 25.-A tornado
!, visited the town of Foss, in Washita
county, last night and wrecked 1S
!, houses, killing Mr. and Mrs F. M.
Slagel and their daughter, and injur-
ling a number of others. Foss is a
town. of 200 people On the Choctaw.
Oklahoma and Gulf railway.
Cyclone Visits Gilmore
Gilmore. May 25.-Fong Foo, a Chi
nese laundryman, killed, the fremont
: hotel and many buildings destroyed,
is the result of the cyclone that visit
ed this village late Sunday afternoon
The glass fronts in the business por
: ton of the city are all out and an
immense amount of damage has been
done.
Northwestern Iowa Flooded
Sioux City. May 25.-A cloudburst
above Merrill. added to the recent con-
/ tinued rains in this section of the
! state, has caused food in the Floyd
e river valley, completely inundating
e the lowlands. Great damage to farm
e property has resulted and much stock
: has been drowned.
Small Twister at poueherty
: Dougherty, May PA severe wind
: and rain storm visited this town early
, Sunday morning doing big damage to
4 many buildings and flooding the sur
! rounding country
: Methodist Church Injured
Dumont, May 25.-During the
storm Sunday morning the lightning
. struck the Methodist church Very
/ little damage was done as the galvan-
lied iron coping spread the electric
; fluid.
! his son by slaughtering him in church