The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-07

LIVES LOST
IN TORNADO
Five Fatally Injured and Many
More or Less Seriously
Hurt.
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA
SWEPT BY FIERCE STORM
HOUSES AND BARNS LEVELED
AND ENORMOUS DAMAGE
DONE TO CROPS.

Omaha, June 6.-The tornado which
passed over southern Nebraska and por-
tiOns of northern Kansas Friday evening
was the most destructive and covered the
most territory of any similar storm which
has visited the state in many years. At
least twenty-one persons are known to
be dead. five fatally injured and a score
of others more or less seriously hurt,
some of them dangerously. In addition
reports received tonight state that sew
eraI persons were killed at the towns of
Byron, Neb., and CORTLAND, Kan, which
towns have been cut off from cOmmuni-
cation with the outside world.
The Dead.
A revised list of the casualties is as
Lulu Smith. domestic at shively home,
near Geneva.
Irene shively. aged 4, near Geneva.
Mrs. Maud Carter, d Carleton,
Baby Carter at Carleton.
Two children of Mr.. Small, near Guide
Rock.
Henry Madison. near Franklin.
Mrs. August Fenten and i-year-old
son. near Hickey.
Elijah Argenbright, near Hickey.
Baby Flaming, drowned near Fairfield
Two daughters of Mrs. Cliff Simpel,
near Byron.
names unknown. all near Byron.
Fatally Injured.
John Shively, Geneva
Ross ShiVely. Geneva.
John Merriam. Hickey.
Press Bailey, Carleton.
August Fentell. Hickey.
Mrs. Cliff Simpel, Hickley.
Seriously Injured.
T,1,r Sbfx-oIEr Caf1ava
Edward Russell. farm hand Geneva
4 F. McReynOlds Fairfield.
Mrs. Young, near Guide Rock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grey, near RiVertOn.
Mrs. Bennett. near Geneva.
Lester Carter and second child, Garlic
ton.
Mrs. Austin and one child.
Left Without Shelter.
Following the tornado a hard rain which
lasted we'll into the night soaked the
storm-stricken sufferers. making their
lot doubly hard Many of them were alb
solutely without shelter and the storm
occurring so late in the evening made It
impossible for them to seek either shelter
or relief during the night WIRE com
munication being entirely cut OH with the
stricken district, full details are hard TO
obtain but indications are that the list
of casualties will run still higher.
The home of Lester Carter was demol-
ished ana his wife and baby killed, While
Carter himself and another child received
possibly fatal injuries.
At Geneva the storm wrought great de-
structiOn.
At Fairfield more than forty buildings
were more or less wrecked. and some of
them. including three churches. were de-
molshed. The loss there will exceed
Sl00. 900.
In the vicinity of Hickey. farm houses
received the brunt of the storm, and one
or more fatalities are reported with
number receiving injuries, some Of which
viii prove fatal.
Damage at Byron.
Serious damage is reported from Byron
ten miles west of Chester. attended by
considerable fatality, but no details could
be learned. All the bridges were out and
communication by telegraph and teie-
phone is entirely cut off.
A telephone message from Hardy, Neb..
SAYS the town of CORTLAND, Kan, just
across the Nebraska line was struck by
the storm and that several casualties Oc-
Cured but lack of communication makes
confirmation impossible tonight. Trains
in all directions are abandoned because
of washOuts and destroyed rOadbeds
The storm has covered such a wide area
and been so destructive wherever il
touched the earth that it has almost
caused a panic among the rural inhabi-
tants. Hundreds of farmers drove into
the towns last night and today seeking
shelter, many of them being homeless.