The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-09-16
STRUCK BY A CYCLONE
House of o. A. HousOn Picked Up BY
Wind and Carried 100 Feet
Baby Escaped Uninjured

WlHu anu carried lOO rect
Baby Escaped Uninjured
N A miraculous escape from a horri
, BILE death was experienced Saturda,
| evening about $50 by Mr.. and Mrs
O. A. Houston and six children, re
! siding two and half miles northwest
of Carl Junction, when their house
was picked up by cyclone that visit
ed that section and carried for ovel
| 100 feet before the house struck the
ground and was totally demolished.
Mrs. Houston sustained badly in.
jured face, caused by large marble
clock being blown from the shelf
against her face. She sustained sew
eral other severe injuries and bruises
and for two hours was unconscious,
and Is at present in very serious con-
dition, but it is not thought her hurts
will prove fatal. Her husband re-
ceived two broken ribs, his shoulder
was severely bruised besides other
slight injuries. Five of the six chill
dren of Mr.. and Mrs. Houston were
all bruised and shaken up, but their
injuries were slight. The only one to
escape injury at all was the baby of
the family.
Not a splinter was left on the foun.
dation to show that a house had, ever
stood there, and rocks in the founda-
ton were torn out by the terrific
wind and scattered over the Houston
farm. The dwelling was six-room,
two-story house. After the storm the
floor of it was found 600 feet away
in pasture, the remainder of what
was once a. nice building, was moth
ing but wreck. =
At the same time a stock barn..
SOx60 feet, was picked up bodily by
the storm, and no trace of it has as
yet been found. Only few pieces of
the foundation show where the build
ing once stood.
Besides the loss of the above, al
hay barn 30X50 feet was carried away
and no trace of it is yet found, gran
aries were. destroyed and grain blown
away, a hen. house was demolished
and about $50 chickens killed, while
a large wind mill was twisted about
and blown down, just as if it had
been as light as small wires.
One of the freak things perform
ed by the storm was the tearing out
OF heavy set of wagon scales. This
also was total wreck. Every build
ing on the place was total wreck.
All farming machinery was destroyed
or blown away. One COW and three
yearlings We're killed, also a. horse
badly injured in the storm. The total
damage done was $4,000 covered by
s1,100 insurance.
The only two things that the storm
lid not demolish in its fearful rage
we're the kitchen stove and the fam
ly ice cream freezer.
The storm seemed to cover about
800 feet and everything in its path
vas swept before it. Other places
lear Carl Junction suffered, but the
iouston tragedy was by far the
worst. Corn was badly damaged and
rees two feet in diameter were blown I
lp by the roots. {
Mrs. Houston, who was so badly
Injured, is sister of s. ]. Chitwood
t South Clinton street of this city. 9
Near Joplin in this county and i
round Galena. Kansas, the wind did !
ig damage to mining plants. The q
lectric tower at Electric park at ,Jop- s
n was blown down. The total dam 4
&c in the territory mentioned is esti- c
lated at $4,000. +
Dodson an aged confederate vet
ran, was killed at Galena, Kan, Sat- a
rday night when the milling plant, p
here he was employed as night a
atchman, was wrecked by a severe g
indstorm. Dodson's skull was crush t.
and his body was found pinioned in tt
I'D under heavy timbers, about thir- m
yards from the site of the build
g where he sought refuge. In the Of
'struction of numerous small build ca
gs in the city, many persons expert 81
ICED narrow escapes from death. tn
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