Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-14


Ivan and Mrs. Ethel Wheeler, nesress.
we're killed outright. James Pike, aged TO-
and Dave Wheeler, husband OF Mrs Ethel
Wheeler were badly hurt.
CasunItIes AZ Bis Heart.
The casualties at Big Heart, okl. fol-
low:
Dead e,
FRANK KERN.
r. s. HAM.
Known seriously injured:
Walter Kern conclusion Of brain, prob
Mrs August Brown. spiinters in body.
James Downing. leg broken.
Carl Young. badly bruised.
Frank Davenport Internal injuries
j. e. Powell, internal injuries.
Miss Powell, daughter OF j. e. Powell
Nj L. Morgan. leg broken
Mrs. John Marlow splinter pierced lung
Henry LeEsing. skull fractured.
Mrs Robert Huston, badly cut
Mrs. Charles Glenn and two children one
OF J6 sss f FaIsy Internal isTTst'p INJURIES
- Taylor child leg mansled' other
WIIIsm swift, splinters pierced lung.
william Jackson, one eye out nose
The property damage at Big Heart and
vicinity is estimated at 100000
Injured Brought 20 Tulsa.
MusKoaEE. OIL. April l2-Forty peo,
ME seriously injured. were brought from
p,r Heart TO Tulsa in stock cars tonight.
The Midland Valley officials here report
four dead and over hundred injured at
Big Heart Many Of the injured, it is be-
lleved. Will die ane many more are dan
gerously hurt.
The tornado struck zig Heart from the
southwest Scores Of persons, surprised at
the town being suddenly thrown into a
state Of semi-darkness. rushed from their
homes and business places only TO be struck
down by flying debris.
At the edge OF the village hundred
Indians we're encamped. Their tents@Nere
gathered up like bits Of paper and carried
away. Several Indians were hurt and
many ponies that we're grazing in the
vicinity OF the tents were killed,
Among the buildings that were wrecked
was the Midland valley railroad station.
The agent and telegraph operator is re-
ported to have been killed AS a result OF
this condition. communication with the
outside world was cut off, The tornado
had passed an hour before a message was
sent to Tulsa for assistance.
When the rescuers arrived from Avant
and Tulsa they found 400 people homeless.
Aided by the use OF lanterns which were
frequently blown out in the drizzling rain
and swift wind, the ssarchers experienced
much difficulty In locating the dead and
injured. Several bodies were carried out
side the village limits and were found in
farmers fields.
I've KuIeA at Lawrence. ~
- LAWRENCE. Kan. April 1.-TWO people
@wero killed. scores OF houses destroyed and
the streets piled high with debris by q
tornado, which struck Lawrence at s
o'clock tonight Only a rough estimate OF
the damage can be made tonight. but the
loss Is estimated at SlbO.O0e The known
dead are Mrs. Joe sullivan. s. years old
and a colored woman employed on the farm
Of Claude Doubleday, two miles west OF
this place -Four more deaths have been re-
firmed. A dosen persons we're more or less
seriously injured.
While the storm was at Its height thirty
prisoners In the county Jail attempted 10
escape and. after forcing their way to the
corridor. were forced 10 return TO their
cells at the points OF the revolvers held BY
deputy sheriffs
The Chicago fast mall train on the Atchl-
son. Topeka 8 Santa Fe railroad missed
the tornado by only a few seconds. Before
reaching Lawrence the engineer saw the
fuInel-shaped cloud and started a race e
get out OF It's track. At the train pulled
into tho depot here the storm passed q
few hundred yards TO the rear OF the
train
None OF the buildings OF the University
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