The Prescott daily news., 1911-04-14
MISSOURI KANSAS, OKLAHOMA AND ARKANSAS IN PATH
 OF THE STORM.
HUNDREDS ARE HOMELESS
Wires Leveied and Details of Havoc Wrought by Cyclone Are Unob- ta!nable-Loss Win Reach
 Very Large Sum.

Kansas City, April 14.-Tornadoes in | Oklahoma and Kansas killed 25 or more persons and injured from 15O to 200, besides wiping out the town of Big Heart, Ok. The storm extended to southwestern Missouri, one person being killed and eight injured in Jop- lin. Telephone and telegraph wires were leveled, and it is difficult to get details from the scenes of ruin.
 A day of sultrness and wind that blew with great velocity preceded the tornado in eastern Kansas. The storm started near Eskridge, in Wahbaunsee county, about 25 miles southwest of To peka, and travelled in a northeasterly direction. It was the old-fashioned, funnel shaped cloud, and wherever it dipped houses, barns, livestock-every- thing in it's path-were caught and dashed 10 the earth again. Besides Eskridse, Netawaka and Whiting in jackson county; Pc "hatan, Hiawatha and Robinson in Brown county, and other towns were damaged Four per sons were killed and upwards of 90 in- jured in this stretch Of country.
 Lawrence, only 35 miles from Kan sas City, caught part of the storm. There two persons were killed and much damage was done. Telegraph poles and wires were blown down.
 The storm struck Eskridge at 4 o'clock The high school building, a two-story brick structure, was blown down and and 20 pupils injured.
 Eight houses were blown down and about 20 residences and other build ings damaged.
 Three miles west of Topeka the barn on farm owned by a man named Corbett was blown down and several horses killed.
 George NJ. Scott, an Atchison, To peka and Santa Fe engineer, who was in Eskridge at the time of the storm. says at least 15 houses were wrecked.
 Near Norton girl who had sought refuge in schoolhouse that was de- stroyed, was killed, another is reported dead and many persons were injured. The homes of many farmers are gone, live stock lies dead along the storms path and hundreds of barns gre de- stroyed.
 School had just been dismissed in the Diamond district, near the little town of Robinson, the first station east of Hiawatha, Cn the St. Joseph ana Grand Island railway, but, seeing the clouds, four girls remained in the schoolhouse. Then che storm struck the house, destroying it, killing Geral- daughter of George Meisenheimer, and injuring the other three children.
 The tornauo struck Lawrence, bring ing with it a severe electric storm, hard rain and hail. Two women are dead and another is believed to have been killed on farm west of there. Four persons in north Lawrence were injured severely.
 The storm, which was headed north east. seemed to strike the city first north of the University of Kansas. It swept along the river and blew down half dozen lodging houses for stu dents in that querter, and blew roofs from dozen or more houses in the northwest part of the city. Severe damage was done in the business dis. trict, in the block between the Eld- ridge hotel and the river. Several residences on the east side were blown down. Then the storm crossed the river north of Santa Fe street, struck North Lawrence. destroyed dazen houses, then swept off northeast.
 Six Killed; Scores Hurt in Kansas.
 Topeka, Kar, April 14.-A tornado that swept through northeastern Kan sas killed six persons, injured 30 to 50 others. and damaged and ruined build. ings worth $500,000.
 Torna5o Sweeps Lawrence.
 Lawrence. Kan, April 14.--A torna do struck Lawrence about s o'clock 4l... L. f,,