Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-15

PRE- EDED BY A HEAVY RAIN.
Wind Came Up suddenly--Fr Frame
Houses Crushed, Sides Seemingly
Being Blown In.

Kansas City, Mo. May 15.---A recapit-
ulation Of last nights storm. general
over northwestern Missouri and eastern.
and central Kansas and extending into
Oklahoma and which IN places reached
the proportion of a tornado, shows
three known dead, six others missing
and IS injured, ut least half dozen,
OF the latter seriously hurt q
h The principal damage was done at
Hollis, a town of $50 inhabitants near
Concordia, Kan, and at Mount Wash
ington, Mo, a suburb eight miles east
Of; Kansas City. In both Of these
places practically every house was
either damaged or demolished and doz-
ems Of persons injured.
THE DEAD.
Frederick Jeardoe, a hoy, at Hollis.
William Elliott, a carpenter. blown
from a derrick at Chilwood, near J OPP
lin, Mo-.
William aAclsley, engineer of Santa Fe
railway bridge gang, working rear
Great Bend. Kan. 33Ass
TILE MISSING.
Gharlese Quance. a ranchlnan, near
Harmed, Kansas. i
Five members. OF the family OF a
farmer named Tckstroni, whose house
near Hollis, Kan, was DESTROYED l' s,
THE INJURED.
Mount Washington. Mo-. %, three per-
haps fatally.
IA Near Great Bend, 20, mostly members
of the crew on a Santa Fe work train,
which was blown from the track four
seriously.
Hollis, Kan, three,
Rose dale, Kan, a suburb of Kansas
City, two.
Vicinity Of Hoeseington, Kan, four.
pond Greek, okla, four.
The most serious damage was that
| which laid waste a district hundred
Yards wide and Il (. mile in length
through the heart Of Mount Washing
| ton, q sparsely settled suburb TO the
east of Kansas City. There 80 frame
buildings, mostly cottages, and the
| Christian church, a wooden structure,
were demolished, huge trees were UP
rooted and telegraph and telephone
IpoIes blown down. The storm follo1yed q
8, terrific .downporir OF rain. The wind
came ,lp suddenly, sWooped down Wit
but little warming and striking the snlel
1 territory described, wiped 1t out most
completely. Frame houses We're s.si g
| crushed. the sides apparently being
i lDICCu,
| pied over and carried from their foun-
dations IN some cases sides Of build :
| ings were carried away, leaving the
| roof and g. few small articles to mark
the site. There We're many miracu-
8lous escapes from death. The three
months-old baby of Mrs. r. S. Robins
son was blown out of the woman
arms as she was hurrying tn cover.
carried across the railroad tracks and
/ deposited on vacant lot with no
/ other injuries than a few slight cuts.
The mother was thrown down and bad
\ " cut by flying missiles. .l d
Charles Greer, 10 years old, was
pinned beneath the tlmbers of the
wrecked Greer home. 1t required a
motor car, Jack and q number of men
to release the boy, he was taken to
Independence, nearby, suffering inter-
! 7lalfinjuries. He cannot live.
Mrs. Josie De Bernardo, aged 81. sus-
tanned q broken arm. while fleeing to
! a. place of safety.
Mr. and Mrs. James o Cam, an aged
| couple, We're caught in the wreckage
of their home and injured, the woman
fatally.
IS cLoUDBURsT.
Boone. Iowa, May ia cloudburst-
occurred last evening at Huxley, Iowa
Great l,aistones covered the ground
six inches and In some places the
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