The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-13
TORNADO LEAVES
DEATH IN TRAIL
Twenty-Five Dead, ia In
jured in Kansas, Missouri
and Oklahoma
DEATH LIST MAY
BE FURTHER INCREASED
Property Loss Exceeds Half
Million of Dollars-Four-
teen Towns Are
Damaged

KANSAS CITY, MO-, April IS.
Death to twenty-five, injuries 10
one hundred and fourteen other,
and property damage exceeding
half a million dollars to-day
marked the wake Of tornado
that swept through fourteen
towns In Kansas. Missouri and
neighborhoot Last night. The
wind first STRUCK the town OF
Aetwaka, Kansas, swung in
Usage secIion nj Northern Okla
ftonia, where, the town OF Big
Heart WAS virtually swept of tia.
map. Turning to the west and
north, the tornado re-enter.d
Kansas, unroOfing houses and
turning over barns, killing ana
Gripping people and live stock.
The force was ali but spent when
the wind reached Lawrence. kan.
The storm there was severe enough.
however. to destroy ten houses, Kill
ing two persons and injuring score
OF others.
Eight persons are known to be
dead at Big Heart, oklahoma Only
six dwellings remain standing there.
The country for miles around is
strewn with the wreckage Of 400
other structures. Ruinous hail and
rain accompanied the wind and as a
result devastated heap. debris COW
srede, stretches through the rich
country.
The death list may be Increased,
At Big Heart forty persons were in
jurs.d la addition TO the eight killed.
At Ghecotah. Oklahoma, two are
dead; E.skrfd&e- Kan, twenty inJur-
ed: LAWRENCE, Ham, three dead and
ten injured; ManviIlc. Kan. one
dead: Nceker,. Oklahoma four dead
Nctuaka. HAN. three injured; Pow
hatan. Kan, two dead and one In.
jured: Whiting, Kan. one dead. tiur-
ty injured. and Webb City, Mo-. four
injured
The village IL Whiting, in North.
eastern Kansas. was practically de-
stroyed, sixty dwellings and the few
store buildings 81 the place being
demolished only one person was
killed. but thirty were hurled To the
ground by the wind. or caught In NY
ing wreckage.
To-day's reports from the stricken
territory tell IF the freaks of the tor
nado.
Carries Woman Half Mile.
Mrs David Stone, wife OF a farmer
living near Whiting. WAS caught ur
and carried half mile into q neigh
bor's field. She was killed
Twenty school pupils We're hurt N
Eskridge when the school building
Was blown down. The storm struck
noon.
Telephone and telegraph wires
w~ ~ destroy AT and xrgsaresagl sstsssi
uIes were disregarded. as train crew
waited In dodge the course OF tbs
tornado. At Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe train waited near Eskridge
as Engineer George NJ. Scott and pas.
sengers watched the destruction ol
property several miles ahead OF them
Throughout the stricken regions
buildings were lifted from theft foun-
detiuas ard .shstseEesa, san the graAina
pAWHUSkt, OKLA. April Ia
Fourteen persons are known Ia hay,
been killed in the section OF the Kan
Sas tornado that swept southwark int
the Usage nation. Fully seventy-fs,
others are injured and the propcrt,
loss may reach n million dollars.
The town at Big Heart osag,
county. was almost completely raxe,
and almost one thousand persons il
that vicinity are homeless. These ar
being cared for III Tulsa. Sapulpa an,
here.
Big Heart il cut OF from communi
cation. all telegraph and tefephon
wires being down, but it is know
that the damage in the town tisel
will amount to 100000
Four deaths have occurred in til