The Mena weekly star., 1908-10-22
STORM KILLS MANY
FOUR KILLED AND MANY INJURED BY WIND AND RAIN IN
 NEW MEXICO.
TORNADOEs AND WIND STORMS DAMAGE
Two Killed and 2s Injured When Ca boose Is Blown From Traek-Dam- age at Lincoln, Neb.-CoIorado, Wyoming and Kansas Also Suffer- Four Inches of Rain Drench Tourists


 Clayton, N M., Oct. 21.-Four per sons were killed near Clayton Sun day night as the result of tornado and cloudburst Twenty other persons were more or less injured, three Of whom 1t is believed will die.
 The new Union county court house, which cost s40,000, was wrecked ana a score of houses wrecked or torn from their foundations. Telephone and telegraph wires were blown away and miles of poles leveled. Telegraph communication with Denver was not re-established until late Monday morn ing. The damage in the business sec tion of the town was not heavy.
 The Colorado & Southern railroad sustained a heavy loss. Clayton was in utter darkness after the tornado until daylight, and there were no lights Monday night. The water sys- tenn was also put out of commission by the storm and the town is without water.
 The storm was severe in other sec tions. At Folsom, where 19 persons were drowned last August, the Cimar- ron river rose to within foot of high water mark. causing a panic among the people who fled in terror to the hills. The only damage done there was to the Colorado & Southern railroad tracks. It Is reported that many houses and much damage was done to outlying places inhabited by homesteaders. Few details are yet obtainable.
 Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 21.-Two per sons were killed and 2S others more or ] less seriously injured as the result of a small tornado blowing the caboose of a Union Pacific work train down a 1 30-foot embankment near Sherman. 30 miles west of here. Monday eve ming.
 The two men killed were laborers and their names could not be ascer- tained. Among those in the caboose was Travelling Auditor Sumption of the Union Pacific railroad. who es- l GdDtu Witiout oCiiOho AtJut1s
 A relief train with physicians was started from here as soon as notice 1 of the wreck was received and all possible assistance was rendered to the injured.
 Lincoln, Neb., Oct 21.-Lincoln for scarcely three minutes early Monday evening experienced the novelty of an i October tornado which did consider able damage in an area of less than a ! dozen square blocks The heaviest loss was sustained by the Lincoln Electric Light company, when 15 of ] the largest poles, carrying the heavy feed wires were snapped off at the ground stringing the wires along the right-of-way of the Burlington rail road, blocking traffic in the yards for an hour. The city was dark Monday night so far as lights from that source was concerned freight car on a bridge was picked up by the twisting wind and blown into Salt creek. 9th CT damage was done in the Burlington yards. There were no casualties.
 Lamar, Col, Oct. 21.--With 500 fret ting tourists shiyering in driving rain on the streets, Lamar looks like an ocean, after cloudburst which struck this city, registering fall oi nearly four inches of rain. The Ar kansas river already torrent, is rais ing rapidly, and the large bridge over Sis stream is momentarily fin danger of being swept away The approaches are already washed out and the water is surging half mile out of It's banks on either side of the river.
 Topeka, Kan, Oct. 21.-A specia to the Capital from sharon Springs says Two separate tornadoes struck sharon Springs at 3:30 Monday morn ing and completely demolished thres residences and injured dozen peo pie. It Is thought that one will die The cyclones were about 200 feet wide and travelled north.
 Mrs. Cleveland Before Grand Jury.
 New York, Oct. 21.-Mrs. Grover Cleveland appeared before the grand