The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-05-12
TWENTY-FIVE KILLED IN
CYCLONE IN KANSAS

Marquette, Kansas May 9.-Twenty-
five killed outright, S5 injured, of
whom 20 may be placed in the dan
gerous list, is the record of the cy-
clone that visited the little town of
Marquette, shortly after eleven o'clock
last night. The path of the storm
was 300 feet in width and the storm
spent its fury only after devastating
practically everything in its course
for a distance of nearly ten miles
Of the thousand people who make the
little village their home, but few were
to be seen in the streets tonight who
bear no mark of the most disastrous
storm in the history of Mcpherson
county y tt3'r1
A store room has been converted
into temporary morgue where the
bodies of most of the victims will re.
main until they. are conveyed to the
cemetery; the residences of most OF
the unfortunate being but a mass OF
ruins. The people of the stricken
city seem almost parylized by the
awfulness of the calamity that has
befallen them and business is entire
ly suspended
The tornado was first noticed three
miles south of the town and it moved
in the northwesterly direction, cutting
path 300 feet wide throughout the
entire length of the town. The bust
ness portion escaped with small dam
\ age. The residence district west Of
Main street suffered the greatest loss
The houses along the course of the
tornado are all, with few exceptions
completely wrecked. The Swedish
Lutheran and Methodist churches
were both destroyed. The unusually
large number of fatalities was due t.
the hour of the night that the storm
struck. Nearly every one had retired
for the night and was asleep.
Owing to the destruction of tn,
telegraph and telephone wires it wa
several hours before the outside worlC
knew of the storms damage. At
o'clock Tuesday physicians and sur
geons began arriving from neighbor
ing towns and by these additions t,
the efforts of the local doctors, tn,
medical attendance was made NOR
effective. There Is scarcely a hom
in the entire city that is not shelter
ing the homeless, all having beel
thrown open at the call for aid
When the missing ones in the cit
had been accounted for, the rescuer
I. directed their attention to the SUI
! rounding country. Several WACO
loads of dead and injured wer
!. brought to the city from the distric
4 adjoining on the south.
Z. The home of Olof Hansen was de
n molished Hansen and his wife wer
+ killed.
+ The farm house of Gottfried Nelson
two miles south, suffered the sam
fate. The occupants, dead, were tai
: en- from the debris. In many othe
cases entire families were killed bu
names are not yet obtainable. !
. watchman for the Missouri Pacifi
:. lost his three daughters. N. p. Ne
son, with his wife and three childre
were found dead. In fact there
scarcely q family in the entire con
munity which did not lose some dea
!, one or intimate friend
Almost every other person on
! meets on the streets is more or les
bruised, carrying arms in sling
,, walking with the help of crutches {
: bearing other unmistakeable evidenc
of the tornado's terrible effects.
At Larned the storm was very S
we're, being accompanied by heav
hail Almost every window in I'll
: Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe passe
3 ger train No was broken by ha
? between Hersington and Larne
= Three inches Of. water fell In this ,
cinity.