Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-13
CHA|RMEN TO meet DEATH IN TORNADO
First Stem Is Taken in Depart -Four States Suffer Loss of
mental Investigation. LIE ana PROPERLY
Tn MAP 0lJT PROGRAM MAY BE TWENTY-FIVE DEAD
Gather Speaker injured Will E4ceo dunoreo wne
Clark. Room Saturday Many Arr Homeless
NINE COMMITTEES ARE TO SIT LOSS ON CROPS Is HEAVY
In
Reforming Ex sas missouri ana Arkansas
Departments. covers "1oe ares"
MAY BE TWENTY-FIVE DEAD
Injured Will Exceed Hundred, While
Many More Are Homeless.
LOSS ON CROPS IS HEAVY
Stricken District in Oklahoma, Kan.
sas, Missouri and Arkansas
Covers Wide Area.

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| reports received today from the storm
stricken districts of Oklahoma, Kansas.
Missouri and Arkansas indicated that the
storm covered a wider area than earlier
information showed. The number Of IA
| talities was in doubt.
The wire service Is so demoralized that
definite news from many points was not
obtainable at II o'clock this morning.
When communication with Big Heart,
Okla, was established 1t was learned two
persons were killed and sixty injured.
! thirty-six seriously. Every business house
in the town was destroyed, including two
hotels. a schoolhouse and the railway sta
| tion The seriously injured were taken in
special train to Tulsa. Okla. where they
were placed in a hospital. 1t is believed
some Of them are fatally hurt.
The telephone wire over which this In
| formation was received was in working
order only a few minutes and the names
| of the dead and injured are not obtain
able
Whiting, Kan, at first reported to have
| been a severe sufferer, almost escaped
| injury. Communication with that town
was not re-esta blished until today. how
| ever, as the tornado did much damage In
the farming districts both north and
south of there. Rural telephones are all
| out of commission and the extent Of the
| damage in the country is not known.
Wind Strips Clothes From Woman.
One person was killed and three seri-
ously injured at Reserve, Kan, q VII
| lage in the northern part Of the state.
| Mrs. Fred Stone was killed when her
| house collapsed. Her two sons were seri-
ously injured. The wind was so severe
that 1t stripped the clothing from Mrs.
| Stone and her children. Mrs Roy v.
| Vernon was seriously hurt when her
house was wrecked. The tornado de-
stroyed five houses in Reserve.
A report received today over private
wire said three persons were injured and
several houses were blown down at Della
ware, Okla, but no names are obtain
able. The same message stated that sew
eral houses were destroyed in Ocheiata
Okla.
Thirty-two persons were hurt and thirty
houses we're demolished, causing prop
erty damage estimated at $4,000 at
Eskridge. Kan. A schoolhouse was de-
| stroyed. injurinS thirty school children,
some seriously.
At Hiawatha, Kan, one person was
killed, four seriously injured and a num-
Der slightly hurt.
Militia Company Narrowly Escapes.
AT Lawrence, Kan, the local company
of militia was drilling and did not know
there was a storm until the roof had been
taken of their building, and as the last
of them dashed out of the front door the
second floor fell In. A side of the county
jail was torn down and about thirty pris-
oners made a dash for liberty, but only
three succeeded in escaping.
At Joplin, Mo-, a man was picked up
by the wind and carried the length Of
a block and then dropped in the door
way Of a large Office building. He was
badly injured.
A fireman on a train at Eskridge
Kan. was picked up out of his cab,
carried across the street and there drop
ped.
In many places houses were picked
up and carried several hundred yards be-
fore falling. In Lawrence a small house
was carried about a block and then
dropped into. a tree, where it remains
firmly lodged.
AT Big Heart, Okla, two persons were
killed and sixty injured.
known are:
Robinson, Kan, one.
Hiawatha, Kan, two.
Germantown. Kan, one.
Manville, Kan, one
Checotah. Okla. two.
Meeker. Okla, four.
Powhattan, Kan, two.
Manville, Kan, one.
Twenty-Five Believed Dead.
| The tornadoes are known to have killed
| twenty-five persons. injured more than
| 100, rendered more than 500 homeless and
| have done thousands Of dollars worth
of property damage.
| The first tornado was reported at Esk-
ridge, Kan, twenty-five miles south of
! Topeka, at o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Here many houses were destroyed and
much damage done to crops.
The storm which swept Eskridge struck
Powhattan and Netawaka. Kan, nearby
towns, then swept off to the northwest.
Continuing to the northwest, Hiawatha
and Manville, Kan, were struck and
here three persons were killed and much
property damage done.
At o'clock last night a tornado
Struck Lawrence Kan killing two Der.