New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-13
TORNADOES KILL A SCORE
Sweep Over Towns in Oklahoma,
Kansas and Missouri.
A HUNDRED PERSONS HURT
Eight Die in Big Heart, Okla
Twenty Students Injured
When School Blows Down.

Big Heart Okla, April l2.--Eight persons
were killed and ten Injured In a tornado
which practically destroyed Big Heart AZ
O'Clock this afternoon. leaving few houses
standing
The known dead arc John Kerns, FREQ
erick Hammond and William NARROW
The tornado was accompanied by driv-
ing rain and swept everything In Its pain
Houses were blown from their foundations
and the occupants were whirled through
the air The town was comoralzed ana
telegraph communication cut off As soon
as communication could be established
with nearby towns relief trains and auto
mobiles were started from Avant and
Pawhuska.
Big Heart has a population OF 400. 1t is
I'm the Usage Nation and on the Midland
Valley Railroad
one man and one child were killed by
the tornado two miles south OF Checotah
this evening
Four persons were killed at Meeker. a
score Of houses were wrecked. Many miles
of telephone and telegraph wires were torn
down.
Topeka, Kan. April PA tornado. trav-
elling In a southeasterly direction, de-
stroyed the town of Whiting. twenty-five
miles north Of Topeka, late this afternoon.
Sixty houses were blown down and thirty
persons injured.
Meagre reports received here by long
distance telephone tonight indicate that
the towns of Powhatan. Netawaka ana
Eskridge were struck by the same storm,
Wires are down and particulars are hard
TO get
Eskridge is twenty-five miles south OF
Topeka The storm struck there shortly
, before O'Clock The high school building
was blown down and twenty students were
injured.
A woman and child were killed at
Powhattan
Mrs. David Stone wife Of a farmer. liv-
ing near Whiting was swept from the
steps Of her home into a neighbor's yard,
half a mile away She was picked up dead.
An interrupted telephone message from
Netawaka says several persons were in
| jured there. Only one telephone wire is
, working between here and Kansas City.
George II. Scott, an engineer. who was
| in Eskridge during tine storm, said at
least fifteen houses were blown down
After he left Eskridge Scott said he could
see the tornado sweeping across the coun-
try for a distance or ten miles, overturn-
ing houses barns and sheds in its path. He
heard of no one being killed in Eskridge.
Benjamin Resch. a fireman in SCOTS en-
CINE. was blown out Of the cab window and
| hurled across the street The only injury
he sustained was a slight cut on his head.
of ~
was sitting in her house the storm swept
the greater part of the building from over
her head She was only slightly nurt
The ST. Joseph q Grand Island Railroad
station and box cars at Manville. Kan,
we're blown over. farmhouse was also
wrecked and one child killed. according to
information received by the Grand Island
officials
Two more deaths were reported from
near Hiawatha late tonight Geraldine
Meisenheimer, ten years old. and small
child of Otis Mellott are the victims.
The Meisenheimer child sought refuge
with three companions in a country school
house, and the building was wrecked soon
afterward. The dead girls companions
were injured.
Lawrence, Kan. April 1.-Two persons
were killed scores of houses destroyed and
the streets piled high with debris by a
tornado which struck Lawrence at o'clock
tonight.
Joplin, Mo, April l2.-Seven persons were
seriously injured and telegraph. telephone
and interurban railway service was de-
moralized for several hours by wind
storm that swept this district tonight.
T. ]. Welton was picked up by the wind
in the heart of the Joplin business section,
carried ten feet into the air and blown
along the entire length of a city block. be-
ing deposited In the hall Of a building. HIS
right leg was broken, and he is believed TO
have received internal injuries.
GETS VERDICT FOR FINGER