The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-04-13
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IN KANSAS
IS HEAVY
Dreaded Funnel Shaped Cloud
ExaCtS a Terrible Toll
in Kansas

The Dead.
Mrs hoe SULLIVAN, Lawrence,
killed bY falling house
! GEORGE f. R~tSEEON, GcrIah.
town. struck by lightning,
/ TEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER or
GEORGE Mla Sl1,NIiElMllR Killed
in collapse OF Diamond school h0ns
near Horton
PELTON, s years old, boy
iMawatha, Killed VI failing seLol'
uoUse
LAURA OHlfDS. ncgrcss, L9wi-
ence, caught under debris pl aouse.
The Injured.
AIrs Fred stone six milcs north.
west OF Whiting, skull feacturea,
perhaps fatal
Teacher at Hlawatha school, b0th
legs broken
Mrs. Roy varnum north of Meta.
waka, seriously injured.
Ben Reisch, foreman on Santa Fe
train injured al EasSridea by being
hit with flying scan ling
Three little girls at the Diamond
school near Horton
Father-inlaw Of John Meredith,
Hiavatha
Three scholars in Hiawatha saa0ol
more or lass seriously injarcd
Thiry-iive children and a number
of adults in EslSridgc
Several near Whiting and Nc,awa-
ka
Two at Wilsey.
Jacob Pike. Lawrence, iniurcj hi,
ternaly hy falling house
Meet Death in School House,
Two more deaths were reported
from near lliawatha last night Tws
small children Of Otis EIilou are the
victims The children sought gefuge
with three companions a e)1nuy
school house and the building was
wrecked soon afterNard The dead
girls companions were injured
l'hc tornado levied it's atatesi
toIl Of dead At BIG llreat Okla
whore G ghi persons we're killed teu
illjured and almost every building
il the town wrecked Whiting Kan
was practically wiped off the map
Sixty buildings were blown down, Sd
persons hurt and Mrs. David stone
Killed.
AT Powhaltan, KAN 4 woman and
ch Id were killed A high school
building was wrecked at Es6eidge,
KAN a number OF houses dana }ed
and from fifteen TO twenty persons
injured
Schoo House Struck.
AT tIaWatha, KAN scho0lhOuse
was blown down an eight-year old
boy named, pelton was killed and
several buildings were struck ~ the
lightning Several persons are
known to have been hurt
Tie ST. Joseph and Grand Rap d
depot and box cars at Manvlle. Kan
were blown over A farm house
was also wrecked ana one child kin
cd, according 20 information receiy.
ed by the Grand Island Office here,
The Kansas end OF the tornado
started near Whiting and swept In a
southoateruly direction for S.
tauce of more than (ifty miles
Farmers Wife Fatally Hurt
Six miles northwest OF Whiting
Kan thirty miles northwest OF To.
peka. Mrs Fred Stone wife Of a
armer was swept from the steps al
her hume by the storm into a ne gh
bors yard and picked up with frac
tured skull Il il feared her injuries
wtl prove fatal AZ germantown,
near Horton a man named J u.
Rosenbolm was STRUCK by lightning
and was killed,
The storm apparently started ii
oklahoma and took northeasterny
course across Kansas, dipping tre
quently George w Scott, Santa
Ne eng ueer running between Alma
and Usage City, KAN was at Esk.
ridge when The storm struck, lie
reported AZ Usage CITY that lac could
count ten yr fifteen houses complete
N demolished as his train left tue
own he did not wait TO learn the
particulars, bat says tac damaga was
heavy He said that for eight Or
ten miles out of Eskr dgc he could
see thc tornados tunnelshaped
cloud as Ii passed over the country