Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-04-13

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thousand dollars are the known re-
suits tonight of a tornado which
swept across the Eastern part Of Kan
sas this afternoon.
The dead:
Mrs. Joe Sullivan, Lawrence. killed
by falling house; George T. Rose
bond, Germantown, struck by light
ming; ten-year-old daughter Of
George Meisenheimer, killed in col
lapse of school house near Horton;
Blanck Pelton, eight-year-o boy
Hawatha, killed by falling school
house; Mrs Laura Childs, colored,
caught under debris of house
The injured;
Mrs Fred Stone, near Whiting,
skull fractured, perhaps fatal
Several Killed; Many Injured
Topeka, Kan. April ia tor
nado travelling in - southwesterly
direction destroyed the town Of Whit
ing, 20 miles north of Topeka late
this afternoon. Sixty houses were
blown down and thirty persons in
Jured.
Meager reports received here to-
night indicate that the towns Of
Powhattan, Netawaka and Eskridge
were struck by the same storm. Wires
are down and particulars are hard to
get.
Eskrldge Is 25 miles south Of Tope-
ka. The storm struck there at 4
! o'clock. The high school building
vas blown down and twenty students
injured.
A woman and child were killed
a. Powhatan. Mrs. David Stone,
wife of farmer living near Whiting,
was blown from the steps of her
home into a neighbor's yard half a
mile away, She was picked up dead.
A telephone message from Meta
waka says several persons were in
jured there. Only one wire is work
ing between here and Kansas City.
Whiting, Kan, was practically wiped
off the map, sixty buildings were
llown down. thirty persons hurt and
Mrs. David Stone killed. At Powha-
tan, Kan, woman and child were
killed. a high school building was
wrecked at Eskridge, Kan, u number
cf houses damaged and from five to
twenty persons injured AT Hiawatha,
Kan, school house was blown down
and an S-year-old boy nawed Pelton
was killed uud several building struck
Ivy lightning Several persons are
known to have been hurt at Hetawa-
La, Kan. a boy was killed at Man
lille, Kan.
The Kansas end Of the tornado
started near Whiting and swept In q
southeaster.y direction for distance
OF more than fifty miles. II Is thought
many more persons were killed oE In
iured than have been reported at this
time. Telegraph and telephone line
gangs are working. now that the
storm has 1bated. to get the wires In
shape 1t is big task as only one
wire vas left intact between Kansas
city and Topeka and telegraph com
munications between Kansas City and
oklahoma points We're cut Off II
Kansas City the storm did little dam.
age. A few horses were killed by
ightning AMI some buildings struck
The rain In Kansas City lasted about
hour and heavy rain accompanied
Il.
Depot Blown Over.
st. Joseph, Mo-. April 12.-The st
Joseph g. Grand Island depot and boz
cars at Manvile, Kansas were blown
over by n tornado this afternoon. A
farm house was also wrecked and one
child killed According to informa'
ton received by the Grand Island Of
fices here, telegraph and telephone
wires are down.
Heavy Loss at Lawrence.
Lawrence, Kan, April IL. Tive
neople wero killed, scores of houses
| destroyed and the streets piled higf
with debris by cyclone which strucl
}. awrence at o'clock tonight Qnl!
\ rough estimate OF the damage cai
be made tonight, but the loss Is placed
I II approximately 100000. Fou
: inore deaths have been reorted but thu
3 rumors cannot be confirmed tonight
Y 4 dozen more were moro or less Sc
4 iiously injured