Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-04-14
TWENTY-FIVE DEAD,
FOUR STATES SWEPT
BY TORNADO BLAST
Many Injured and 500 Home
less as Result of Storms in
Missouri, Kansas, Okla
homa and Arkansas
(sy Associated Press,

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 13.--Mea-
ger reports received this morning from
the storm-stricken districts of Oklaho-
ma. Kansas. Missouri and Arkansas in
dictate that yesterdays storm covered
a wider area than earlier indications
showed The number of fatalities was
in doubt.
The wire service is so nearly demon
allied that definite news from many
points was not obtainable. At Big
Heart, Okla, two persons were killed
and so injured. SO seriously. Every
business house in the town was de-
stroyed. including two hotels. school
house and railroad station. The serious
ly injured were taken in a special train
to Tulsa, Okla. where they were placed
in a hospital 1t is believed some of
them are fatally hurt
The telephone wire over which this.
information was received was in work
ing order only. a few minutes and the
names of the dead and injured are not
obtainable.
Whiting. Kan, at first reported to
have been a severe sufferer. almost es-
capped injury. but the tornado did much
damage in the farming districts both
north and south of there Rural tele-
phones are all out of commission and
the extent of the damage in the country
is not known.
HITS RESERVE, KAN.
At Reserve, Kan, Mrs. Fred Stone
was killed in the collapse of her house
and her two sons were seriously injured.
The wind was so severe that it stripped
the clothing from Mrs. Stone and her
children. Mrs. Roy V. Vernon was Sc
riously hurt when her house was wreck.
ed. The tornado destroyed five houses
in Reserve
A report received today over pri-
vate wire was to the effect that three
persons were killed and several houses
blown down at Delaware. Okla. but no
names are obtainable.
The same message stated that several
houses were destroyed in Ochleta, Okla
Thirty-two persons were hurt, 80
houses demolished, causing a property
damage estimated at $4,000 at Es.
kridge. Kan A school house was de-
stroyed, injuring 80 school children,
some seriously.
At Hiawatha, Kan, Jane Potion. aged
z years, was killed and Laura Brown.
school teacher; Gladys Mellot, Will
liam Hobarts and another man were
badly hurt
The dead: 2. -..t- 1880. - ~
wILLIAm MORROW AND WIFE
JOHN KERNS.
FRED HAMMOND.
T. S. HAM.
- BROWN and THREE UNIDEN-
TITLED PERSONS. at Big Heart, Okla.
MRS JOHN SULLIVAN AND MRS.
LAURA CHILDSs negBos Lawrence.
ON
GERALDINE MEIsINHEIMER. Rob-
inson. Kan.
MISS MALETTE, Hiawatha, Kan.
JAMES ROsENBAUM. Germantown,
Kan.
A BOY NAMED PELToN. Hiawatha,
Kan.
MRS ALMEDA SHELLEY. Joplin.
Mo.
At chehotah, Okla. man and child.
At Meeker. Okla. four persons killed.
At Powhattan. Kan, woman and child
killed.
At Manville. Kan, child.
According to dispatches received here
this morning it is believed there were
several storms. The first tornado was
reported atEskridge. Kan, 25 miles
south of Topeka, at 4 o'clock yesterday.
Here many houses were destroyed and
much damage done to crops.
> w Ell EOhAlDIE.
The storm which swept Eskridge
struck Powhattan and Netawaka, Kan,
nearby towns, then swept off to the
northwest, striking Whiting. Kan, north
OF Topeka, where so houses were de-
molished. Continuing to the northwest.
Hiawatha and Manville, Kan, were
struck and here three persons were kill
ed and much property damage done.
At s o'clock last night a tornado
struck Lawrence. Kan, killing two per-
sons. injuring ~ and doing damage es-
timated at $4,000. This storm swept
the town from the southwest to the
northeast and after passing over the
Kansas river continued towards Leaven-
worth.
An hour after the first tornado
struck Eslkridge. Kan, yesterday after
noon a tornado swept through Oklahoma
and parts of Arkansas. Big Heart.
okla. having a population of ABOUT
1000, was the first town struck. Here
the storm came suddenly rearIng down
houses above the heads Of the people.
MANY RUSHED TO STREETS.
Many rushed into the streets. only 10
be knocked down by flying debris and
others to their death. 1t was an hour
after the storm before the first word of
it reached Pawhuska. relief train
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