Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-04-13
Many Town and Cities Of the
South Almost Wiped
off the Map
Scores are Killed and Hun.
dredS Wounded in Terrible
Storms on "Wednesday
Wednesdays Storms we're
freaks and not Recognized
as TOrnadoS
(8y Associated Press,)

Kansas City, Mo-, April 13.-The
storms which swept Missouri, Kan.
sas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, yester-
day, were freaks of their kind and not
even recognized as a tornado by the
farmers of Kansas who have an &C.
quaintance of long standing with this
variety of atmospheric disturbances
In several places, farmers who from
long training seek their cyclone cell
lars at the approach of tornado, sat
in their homes and watched the ad-
vance of the heavy clouds which
dealt death and destruction.
At Lawrence, the local company OF
militia was drilling and did not know
there was a storm until the roof had
been taken off their building. AS the
last OF them dashed out the front
door, the second floor fell in. A side
of the county jail was torn down and
about thirty prisoners made a dash
for liberty, but only three succeeded
in escaping. At Joplin, Mo-, a man
was picked up by the wind and carried
the langth of a block and ropped in
the sheltering door of large office
building. He was badly injured. A
fireman on a train at Eskridge, Kas,
was picked off his cab, carried across
the street and then dropped. At Ger
mantown, Kas., merchant had full
crib of corn awaiting to be shelled.
He left his store shortly before the
storm. When he returned, his crib
had been torn down, but the corn had
ben pretty we'll shelled and the grain
was scattered over the ground. In
many places, houses were picked up
and carried several hundred yards be-
fore falling. In Lawrence a small
house was carried about a block and
then dropped into a tree where it re.
manned firmly lodged.
At Big Heart, Okla, ten persons
were killed and sixty injured. Every
business house in the town was de.
stroyed including two hotels a school
house and the railway station. The
seriously injured were taken in a spe-
cial train to Tulsa, Okla, where they
were placed in hospital. It is be.
lieved some of them are fatally hurt.
The telephone wires were in working
order only few minutes and the
names OF the dead and injured are
not yet obtainable. Whiting, Kas.,
which were reported to have been a Sc
we're sufferer almost escaped injury.
Communication with that town was
not re-established until today, how.
ever, as the tornado did much damage
In the farming districts both north
and south of there. Rural telephones
are all out of commission and the ex.
tent of the damage in the country is
not known. One person was killed
md three seriously injured at Reserve,
Kansas, small village in the northern
part Of the state. Mrs. Fred Stone
was killed and her house collapsed.
Her two sons were seriously injured.
The wind was 80 severe that it strip.
)ed the clothing from Mrs. Stone and
Ter children. Mrs. Roy v. Vernon was
seriously hurt when her house was
wrecked. The tornado con- otely de-
'troyed five houses in ReseN> A re.
)ort received this morning over pri.
'ate wire was to the effect that threee
persons were killed and several hous-
IS blown down at Delaware, Oklahoma
)ut no names were obtainable. The
same message stated that several
louses were destroyed in Ochelata,
Okla. Thirty-two persons were hurt,
Ind thirty houses demolished caus-
ng a property damage estimated at
100000 at Eskridge, Kas., A school
louse was destroyed injuring thirty
children, some seriously. At Hiawatha,
Kansas, Jane Pelton, aged seven years
vas killed and several others were
'adly hurt. Twelve buildings were
destroyed and the damage amounts to
thousands of dollars. The towns of
and Baker in Kansas,
we're damaged. At Germantown
nan was struck by lightning and badly
urt.