The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1908-06-12
STORMS SNITE MIDDLE WEST
Score Killed by Tornadoes in
Kansas and Nebraska.
Farmers Made Homeless-Butte Cut
OF For Week-Great Damage in
Oklahoma-Hayoc in Iowa.

Omaha. Neb.-A series OF lorna
does which passed ever Southern Ne
braska and part OF Northern Kansas
were the most destructive and COW
cred the most territory of all that
have visited that region in many
years. AT least twenty-three persons
were killed, FIVE were fatally injured
and a score Of others seriously hurt.
Ten persons were killed at Byron.
Neb., and others at Phillipsburg and
Courrfand, Kan, which towns have
been cut off from communication.
Other towns in the path of the tor
nadoes were Edgar. Fairfield, Lima
vale and Chester. all of which suf-
fered more or less. Twenty-three
buildings. including three churches.
were wholly or partially wrecked at
Fairfield. Some of the dead are:
At North Branch, Kan, two chill
dren of Mrs. Small; Geneva, Neb..
Lulu Smith, Irene Shively; Shickley.
Neb., Elijah Argenbrecht; Franklin,
Neb., Henry Madison: Jansen, Neb.,
Joseph Fleming; Carleton, unknown
man
Some of the seriously injured are:
AT Shickley, Neb., John Merriman,
Mrs. Elijah Albrecht, John Shively
and wife, Edward Russell, Ross
Shively.
Several Eastern people were in
lured, some seriously, when a COM
bination passenger and freight train
on the Denver and Rio Grande road
was wrecked about a mile and half
below here by the spreading of the
rails. Three freight cars and two
passenger cars rolled into the ditch.
The rain that followed has swollen
all the streams, and near Jansen a
little girl was drowned while her
father, Joseph Fleming, was trying
to save his family from a threatened
food.
At Fairfield more than forty build
ings were partly wrecked or demol-
ished. The loss there will exceed
500, 900.
Trains in all directions were aban-
doned because of washouts and de-
stroyed roadbed.
The storm has covered such a wide
area and been so destructive wherever
it touched the earth that it has al
most caused panic among the rural
Inhabitants. Hundreds of farmers
! drove into the towns seeking shelter
many of them being homeless.
Enid, Okla.-Following six hours
rainfall Doggy Creek, running
through the city, widened from TWEEN.
! ty to 1000 feet, flooding almost the
whole of Enid, carrying away fifty
I houses, flooding stores and endan
/ gering lives. The water is twelve fee
deep in Main street, covering two
+ blocks of the business centre.
Durant, OKLA tornado SVEN
over territory twelve miles west O
Durant, destroying a dozen farm.
4 houses, and, with heavy storm O
I hail. did damage of $4,000. 4
number of persons are reported in
lured, none fatally.
Charles Citv.-A tornado struci
Charles City, demolishing about 20t
buildings of various sizes. and kill
ing w. r. Beck and child.
The path of the storm was abou
ten rods wide and ten miles long
Telephone wires are down.
: Many had warning of the approach
ing tornado and sought safety in cy
clone cellars. None of these build
ings was destroyed.
Barns were carried several blocks
trees were torn up by the roots ant
in some instances forced through
buildings. Water was lifted from the
channel of the river which flow:
through the town.
Dallas. Texas.-In a storm. near
Bowie. Montague County, in North.
west Texas, loss of life and great
property damage are reported. The
storm occurred before noon.
Mauston, visa tornado struck
the farm OF John Dalton farmer,
destroying the house and barns and
killing Dalton and his twe!Yc-year-
old son, Philip.
Butte, Montana. = It is estimated
that the damage done in Montana in
the past week by rain and floods will
aggregate 100000. Thousands of
passengers have been held a week at
small stations and have subsisted on
limited rations. At Drummond, n
place Of 100 inhabitants, 500 persons
have been tied up, one of them Emma
Goldman. who is on ner way 10 Butte.
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