The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-04-20
TEN TOWNS SUFFER

lotaka Property Loss OF Halt
M!ien Dollars Added
to Life Toll.
Kansas City. Mo.-Death to 20.
.persd1xa injuries for ia people and
a hall million dollar damage to prop
erty. are the results Of tornado
which Mt fourteen towns In Kansas.
Missouri AID Oklahoma last-night.
The storm 6rst struck Netawka,
-Kas., 9aa passed thence into the
Usage indian reservation In northern
Oklahoma. There the town OF Big
heart was swept away. The storm
was hall. over when 1t hit Lawrence,
1las. II left. eight dead at Bigheart.
Other ,owls hit were Eskridge,
Kas.. where twenty were injured;
HiawaxAa,, Kas., where three are
dead; JsHain. Mo-, where n was
killed and four were injured; Law
renee, Kas., where three are dead
and ten. injured; Manville, Kas.,
where one was killed: Meeker. Kas.,
where four were killed; Netawka.
Kas., where four were injured: Pow
haitian, Kas., where one was killed
aud oae injured; Whiting, Kas.,
where ere was killed and thirty in
jured; and Webb City. Kas., where
four. we're Insured.
Fully l,Ses people are homeless in
and nea. Big Heart. Okla. Among
the iae1taed dead are Will Kerns,
Fred HaAmond, Mrs. Will Kerns. T.
S. Hammer and a child named
Drow4.
Fuzzy Injured Taken Away.
Musksgee, 0kla.-Forty people
seriously injured were brought from
Big Heart to Tulsa in stock cars
early this morning. Two Midland
Valley oa6cess here report four dead
and over leo hundred injured at Big
Heart. Many of the injured. 1t is
believed will die and many more are
hurt. .
The tornado struck Big Heart from
the southwest. Scores of persons.
surprised for the time being by be-
ing thrown in to semi-darkness,
rushed fFem their homes and busi-
ness places, only to be struck down
by flying Debris. At the edge Of the
village. 1eo Indians yer encamped.
Their teats were gathered up like
bits of paper and carried away. Sew
eral Indians we're hurt and many
ponies. hat were grazing in the vi
entity Ct the camp were killed.
Among the buildings that ere
wrecked was the Midland Valley
railroad. station. The agent and tele-
graph operator is reported to have
been killed. AS a result of this con-
dition. cenmunication with the out
side world was cut OF. The lorna
do had passed an hour before a mes
sage had been sent to Tulsa for as
sistance. when the escu arrived
from Avant and Tulsa, they found
fully zee people homeless. Several
bodies we're carried outside the vii
lage limits and were found in farm
er's fields.
LAvrence, Has, Struct.
Lawrence. Kas.-Two people were
killed, scores of houses destroyed.
and the street piled high with debris
by a tornado, which struck Lawrence
at eight o'clock last night
While the storm was at it height,
thirty prisoners in the county Jail
attempted to escape and after fore
ing their way to the corridor, were
forced To- return to their cells, at the
points of r%evolvers held by the dep
uty shertGs.
The Chicago fast mail train on the
Santa Fe missed the tornado by only
a few seconds. Before reaching Law
renee, the engineer saw the funnel
shaped cloud and started a race to
get out Of its track.
As the train pulled into the sta
ton here the storm passed a few
hundred yards to the rear Of the
coaches.
Hit Whiting in Afternoon.
Topeka, Kas.-A tornado trailing
in a southeasterly direction. destroy
ed the town Of Whiting, twenty-five
miles north of this city late yester-
day afteraoon. Sixty houses were
blown dowa aud thirty persons in
jured..
Meagre reports received here by
the long distance telephone indicate
that the tswn of Powhatten, Nata-
waka and nskridge were struck by
the same storm.
Eskridge is twenty-five miles
south Of this city. The storm struck
there shortly before 1 o'clock. The
high school building was blown down
and twenty students were injured.