The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-15
The UNLUCKY 10.
Saturday a Day Of Whirling
Winds Over Kansas.
Jefferson, Mcpherson and Atchi-
son Counties Suffer.
LOSS OF LIFE SMALL.
Large Acreage of Wheat De-
strOyed by Hail in PaWnee.
Cyclone Cellars We're Used
Around Council Grove.

barns, but so far as can be learned no
lives were lost. The storm, which ap-
peared to be about eighty rods in
width, struck the earth near North
Cedar on the extreme edge Of the
county about five miles west of valley
Falls.
The storm then lifted and next ap-I
peared about four miles southeast of
Valley Falls. Here it was about one
quarter mile wide. For four miles
crops and trees were torn I'D. The
German Evangelical church north of
Valley Falls was totally wrecked and
the farm house of a man named
Price was badly damaged. The Prices
escaped without injury so far as can
be learned Four barns We're destroy
ed in this neighborhoOd.
At Volland the storm destroyed
property belonging to Fred Zerby,
Charles Heidman, Joseph Weber and
Joseph Simon. The story appeared to
follow the Valley Mill creek. It rose
and disappeared south of Alma. The
tender of a switch engine which was
standing on a side track near Alta
Vista was blown from the track al
though the engine itself was not dis
AT ALTA VISTA.
A tornado Saturday afternoon IN
rooted several houses and did much
other damage. The storm crossed the
CHICAGO, ROCK lSldLQ q racine track
only a few hundred feet ahead of the
Golden State limited, which was going
at full speed. Many telegraph poles
were blown down.
AT MAYETTA
A school house was demolished and
ten farm houses more or less dam
aged by a tornado that visited this
place Saturday afternoon The teIe-
phone lines were broken by the wind
and no particulars can be obtained of
Il. Of fraT-r 4 n
lifted a mile north of this city and
went north east, tearing off the tops of
trees.
AT LINDSBORG.
A tornado passed over the western
portion of this city at o'clock 1t
tore down many barns and rooted up
trees. A new barn of z. Nelson, living
one mile west of town. was torn to
pieces The storm passed in a north
easterly direction and damaged several
houses in Bridgeport, six miles dis
tant. No one was injured
AT HIAWATHA.
Within the space of an hour two
and one-quarter inches! Of rain fell
here There was a violent thunder
storm. but no damage done other than
washing oot corn at several points IN
the county The continual rains of
this week have put everything here in
such shape that more rain viii do con-
siderable damage to the farmers.
AT COUNCIL GROVE
A tornado struck the northern part
of Morris county at O'CLOCK IN the
afternoon The greatest damage oc-
Cured at the home of A. D. Mcguire,
two miles north of Dwight The
house, barn and granaries were entire
w DESTROYED on the Mcclure farm A
bow who was in the barn was unln-
jured, although the barn was carried
100 feet. The remainder OF the NC
CURE family escaped in their cyclone
cellar. The tornado was about lOU
feet wide It lifted after travelling on
the ground four miles. Several farm
ers saw the tornado from distance.
Furious rain and wind prevailed mere
AT JUNCTION CITY.
In two storms here more than an men
of rain fell In the southeastern part
of the county a terrific Windstorm that
resanobled a tornado did much damage
| bv wrecking small buildings and break-
ing down fruit trees.
AT EMPORIA.
In an electrical storm Peter Shsher,
in the county, narrowly escaped DEAN
| from LIGHTNING He was riding horse
/ hack near his farm three miles north
OF town when the horse was struck. ana ana
I killed Mr.. Slisher was knocked OH the
| horse but was not injured
AT LARNED
Another disastrous hail storm visited
| the southern part Of PaWnee county
Saturday night. It destroyed thousands
/ of acres of wheat. Among the heaYlesr
| losers are J. B. Gilison. S. S. Michael,
P D McIntire, Daniel Zook, Aaron
/ Zoox and many others whose names
| have not been learned. The storm was
in the form of a cloud burst Fourteen
inches of water fell in one place by
actual measurement
AT MCPHERSON.
A strong wind from the south and
west was blowing Saturday, but be-
| same Gained in the afternoon and
| about o'clock angry clouds gathered
| and a. small tornado started southwest
of here It first tore down few small
! buildings, crossed the stock yards and
| then jumped over the business part OF
/ the city reaching the ground again in
/ the northeast part of town, where some
| damage was done to the residences.
| About the same time second tornado
was seen northwest of the city The
| cloud seemed to be about the size of a
! stove pine The telephones from the
/ country announced that 1t was going
northeast and was doing some damage
to the farm residences that were in its
path.
Two tornadoes in one week is an ex-
perience not many people pass through
/ but it is experience of the daughters of
J. o. Orndoff of Lindsborg. Monday
night the girls were at marquette VS.
! ting when the tornado which wrecked
/ that town occurred Saturday afternoon
a. small tornado struck at Lindsborg. It
wrecked the house of William Frazer,
and tore down barns and outbuildings-
/ At the Orndoff home, the barn and out
! BUILDINGS we're blown down and the
house badly damaged. The two girls
We're at home and have not yet recover
ed from their injuries in the Marquette
storm. From Lindsborg the tornado
| rursfad q northWesterly course as far
as Bridgeport in. this county. Here it
wrecked a large barn on the farm of T.
| I. Fagerberg. and another barn on the
farm Of a. Adams Here it was Of suf-
| fciept force to blow down large trees
and twisted orchards out Of the ground.
/ No lives were lost
AT ATCHISON
| Al tornado passed three miles south
] west OF Atchison between and 9