The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-13
FOUR STATES
STORM SWEPT
Tornadoes Leave Trail Of Death,
Injury and Destruction
Of Property.
TWENTY OR MORE KILLED
More Than One Hundred Injured
and Five Hundred or More
Rendered Homeless and
Destitute.
Associated Press Special.

Associated Press Special
Kansas City, Mo, April "a
Parts of four states were swept by
fierce tornadoes late yesterday af-
ternoon and last night three separ-
ate and distinct disturbances leav-
ing trail of death and disaster in
their wakes
The known dead in the several
places reporting early this morning
is twenty, with numerous points "a
the path of the several storms yet TO
be heard from. More than five hun
dred people have been rendered
homeless, and the number of injur-
ed will exceed one hundred.
/ Four states, Oklahoma, Arkansas,
Missouri and Kansas, We're in the
paths of the storms, and each state
is this morning sending its story of
ruin and death.
The first storm was at Eskr!dge,
Kansas, about A o'clock in the after
noon, whore practically all the houses
in the eastern portion of the town.
| twenty or more, were either entirely
| demolished or seriously damaged
The school house was unroofed and
otherwise injured and school chill
dren to the number of twenty are
said to have been hurt by the flyine
debris. No deaths are reported from
Eskridge. though some Of the In
jured are said to be in serious con
dition.
This storm swept on to Powhatai
and Netaw aka. In KANSAS, doint
/ In ueyn M nj
ing many people. then veered north
westward striking Whiting, Hia-
watba and Manvil1e. three other
| Kansas towns In addition to a
| frightful property loss three people
were killed at Manville and many
others are reported in the list of Sc
riously injured Al Whiting sixty
houses were entirely demolished,
others being more or less wrecked
and many people injured.
Al Hiawatha a little girl was Kill
ed at the school house which was
demolished. and her teacher had
both his legs broken. Six miles
northwest from Whiting Mrs. Fred
Stone was swept from the steps Of
her home by the storm into neigh
boris yard and was picked up with ii
fractured skull and other injuries
which it is feared will prove fatal
Lawrence. Kansas, was stricken
at O'Clock last night by yeritable
twister Two people are known TO be
dead and there are other reports or
dead that have not yet been verified
The number Of seriously injured,
while not definitely known, is large
Scores OF houses were destroyed by
the cyclonic wind and the property
loss throughout the town and ada
cent country viii be very heavy.
About O'Clock yesterday after
noon the Oklahoma storm began It's
terrible work of destruction, Big
Heart being the first point struck.
Here four people were killed and
probably sixty others were more or
, less seriously injured, while four
I hundred were rendered homeless
and destitute by the wind furies.
Only one house was left standing in
/ the place. and into this the killed
and injured were moved for stten-
/ ton Later details are expected TO
greatly increase the toll of death
and many additional wounded are
expected TO be reported.
Meeker, Cheeotah and Indian VIII
lage, all towns in Oklahoma. were
successfully visited by this fearful