The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-04-14
DEVASTATION
and DEATH
BEHIND
Late Reports Add to the
Story of Storms
RaVageS


Kansas city, Mo, April l4e Reports
Of the Wednesday afternoons storm
which swept portions Of Kar sas, Mis-
souri,. Oklahoma and Arkansas are stil
incomplete. wire service being serious
" crippled
II now appears thar at Ieiast nine
teen persons were killed Tte names
Of twelve OF the dead are known -Four
deaths reported from Meeker Okla.
and three from Plummer, Ark. are
without names.
The list of injured viii, number
more than a hundred
Several who were reported killed
last night proved today to be seriously
injured. OF the injured few are
thought 70 Be seriously hurt
The monetary loss in Kansas alone
IL estimated to be ii excess OF $780,
600. Il is thought me damage in 9th
en- sections visited BY the storm viii
bring the total 70 more than 100000
The identified dead
Frank Hammond. Fred Kern, Jen-
nie Brown. Big Heart, Okla
Mrs. Joseph Sullivan. Mas Ethel
Wheeler, negress. Lawrence, Kan.
Miss Geraldine Maisenheimer. Miss
Elliott, Robinson. Kansas.
Mrs. Fred Stone. Reserve. Kansas.
Jane Petton, Z years old. Hiawatha.
Kansas.
u Il. Rosenbaum, Germantown, KAN
sas
Mrs. Almeda Shelley. joplin, Mo.
Infant child of Ed Halters. Checo-
tab. Okla.
Miss Eva stroud. Mountalnburs,
Ark.
OF all the stricken cities Big Heart,
Okla, suffered the greatest damage.
Three people We're killed there sixty
injured, thirty-eight seriously. All
first il was reported that eight people
weer killed there. All ot tive injured
from Big Heart we're taken to Tulsa
% a relief train aud they are now In
hospitals there. Little og the town
was lett standing
Lawrence, Kansas, sustained the
largest property loss Of any Kansas
town, Il being estimated az 100000.
seventy-four residences we're wreck.
ed and the street cars and electric
light plants put out of commission.
The city is still dark J. D. Bower.
sock. former congressman, was THE
heaviest Individual loser. his loss Be-
INK $4,000
In Brown county Kansas. tho tor
nado hugged the ground and residents
are losers of more than 100000 worth
OF property The tornado swept a
clean path of fifteen miles long and
three.quarters Of a mile wide Ia that
section Eskridge's loss is placed at
$4,000
Miss Eya stroud who lost her life
at Mougainburg Ark, was killed
while ,he lay IN bed. The house in
which she slept was wrecked
IN past years this section Of the
country has had experience with many
freak storms. but that Of Wednesday
Is the sirangest OF all Reports show
that i travelled IN three sections. Zach
part Of the storm was accompanied by
hail rain and lightning.
Kansas received two different at.
taciis The first storm came up sud.
denly near Eskridga southwest Of
Topeka, and moved northeast, lifting
roofs from houses. uprooting orchards,
oyerturning barns and killing cattle.
The storm Resulted lrnE.. black fnr.
nel.shaped cloud and could be seen ap.
preaching for a distance OF several
miles.
A few miles from Eskridge the tor
nado jumped into the air again and
when II came down a second time it
was hit to LIT single barn from a
farm near topeka.
Again the twister rose and was lost
trace oiSuntl Whiting, Is miles to
the northeast was reached. There IT.
descended for 8 long race along the
ground. Tearing up through Brown
county it continued for a distance Of