Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-16
WRECKS REVEAL
PATH OF STORM
TORNADOES lNIURE SCORES IN
THREE STATES
TRAIN BLOWN FROM TRACK AND
TWENTY PERSONS HURT
Dozens Of Homes and Buildings De-
stroyed, and Refugees Left In Ter
rifle Rain, Many In Dying
Condition

KANSAS CITY, May IA recapitu-
lation of last nights storm, general
over northwestern Missouri and eastern
and central Kansas and extending INTO
Oklahoma and which in places reached
the proportions of a tornado, SHOWS
three known dead six others missing,
and ffty-five injured, at least haf
dozen of the latter seriously hurt.
The principal damage was done at
Hollis a town of $50 inhabitants, near
C.oncordia, and at Mount Washington,
Mo. a suburb eight miles east of Kan
sas City. In both of these places prac-
tically every house was either DAM
aged or demolished, and dozens OF per-
sons injured.
WILLIAM JEARDOE, a boy. at Hol-
lis, Kas.
WILLIAM ELLIOTT, a carpenter,
blown from derrick at Chilwood, near
WILLIAM ACKLEY, engineer of
Santa Fe railway bridge gang, work
ing near Great Bend, Kas.
Five members of the Eckstrom
family, supposed to have been killed IN
their home near Hollis, hisy IN IdsI
nights tornado, and Charles Quance' d
ranchman, who was believed to have
succumbed near Larned, kas, escaped
unhurt to tornado cellars.
THE fact became known late today
when wire communication, demoralzed
by the storm, was resumed with these
points. - +,
This mart of the southwest is three ana
the injured ffty-one. None of the in
jured died today.
The injured:
Mount Washington. Mo-, twenty-five
three perhaps fatally.
Near Great Bend, Kas., twenty
mostly members of a crew on santa
Fe work train, which was blown from
The track. Four of these are in
serious condition.
Hollis. Kas., three.
Rosedaleview, Kas., suburb of Kan
sas City. two.
In vicinity of Hoisington, has., -FOUR.
Pond Creek, Okla, four.
The most serious damage was that
which laid waste a district hundred
yards wide and a mile in length
through the heart of Mount WASH
tngton. a sparsely settled suburb to the
east of Kansas City.
Many Buildings Destroyed
There thirty frame buildings, mostly
cottages. and the Christian church,
wooden structure. were demolished,
huge trees were uprooted and telegraph
and telephone poles blown down,
The storm followed a terrific down
pour of rain The wind came up sud
denly. swooped down with but little
warning and, striking the small terri
tory described, wiped it out almost
completely.
Frame houses were crushed, the sides
apparently being forced inward, While
others we're toppled over and carried
from their foundations.
In some cases sides Of buildings were
carried away, leaving the roof and
few small articles to mark the site
There were many miraculous escapes
from death
The three-months-old baby Of Mrs.
r. S. Robinson was blown out Of the
woman's arms as she was hurrying to
cover, carried across the railroad tracks
and deposited in a vacant lot with no
other injuries than a few slight cuts.
The mother was thrown down and
badly cut by flying missiles
Charles Greer, 10 years old, was pin
Toned beneath the timbers of the
Greer home. 1t required motor car,
Jack and a number of men to release
the boy, who was taken to Indepen-
dence, nearby, suffering internal in
1uries He cannot live.
Mrs. Josie De Bernardo, aged 81, sus-
tanned a broken arm while fleeing to a
place of safety
Mr.. and Mrs. James O'Gann, an aged
couple, were caught in the wreckage
of their home and injured, the woman
fatally
The report last night that Frank
Nicholson, conductor Of the work train
blown from the tracks near Heller,
Kas., was killed proves incorrect. He
was seriously injured, but probably will
recover.