The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-13
TORNADO LEAVES DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION IN ITS WAKE
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The dead
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The dead:
Mrs Joe Sullivan. Lawrence. killed
By falling house: George z. Rosebond,
Germantown. struck by lightning; ten
year-oid daughter Of George Nielsen
heimer. killed in collapse Of school
house near Horton. Blanch Pelton,
eight-year-oId boy. Hiawatha. killed BY
falling school house; Mrs. Laura
Childs. colored, caught under debris
Of house.
The injured:
Mrs. Fred Stone. near Whiting, skull
factured. perhaps fatal.
A tornado travelling in southwest
erly direction destroyed the town Of
Whiting. 25 miles north Of Topeka late
Wednesday afternoon. Sixty houses
we're blown down and thirty persons
injured.
Meager reports received here last
night indicate that the towns of Pow
haitian, Netawaka and Eskridge were
struck by the same storm. Wires are
down and particulars are hard TO get.
Eskridge is 25 miles south Of To-
peka. The storm struck there at 4
O'Clock. The high school building was
blown down and twenty students in
jured.
A woman and child we're killed at
Powhattan. Mrs David Stone. wife
Of farmer living near Whiting. was
blown from the steps of her home into
a neighbor's yard half a mile away
She was picked up dead.
A telephone message from Netawaka
says several persons we're injured
there Only one wire is working be
tween here and Kansas City.
Whiting, Kans. was practically wip-
ed of the map, sixty buildings were
blown down, thirty persons hurt and
Mrs. David Stone killed. At Powhat-
ton, Kans.. woman and child we're
killed. A high school building was
wrecked at Eskridge, Kans., num-
Der of houses damaged and from five
to twenty persons injured At Hla.
watha, Kans., a school house was
blown down and an S-year-old boy
named Pelton was killed and several
buildings struck by lightning. Sev-
eral persons are known to have been
hurt at Hetawaka, Kans, A boy was
killed at Manville, Kans.
The Kansas end OF the tornado
started near Whiting and swept in
southeasterly direction for distance
of more than fifty miles It is thought
many more persons were killed or in
jured than have been reported at this
time Telegraph and telephone line
gangs are working, now that the storm
has abated, to get the wires in shape.
It is big task, as only one wire was
left intact between Kansas City and
Topeka and telegraph communica-
tions between Kansas City and Okla
homa points were cut off. In Kansas
City the storm did little damage. A
few horses were killed by lightning
and some buildings struck. The rain
in Kansas City lasted about an hour.
st. Joseph, Mo-, April 13.-The st.
Joseph & Grand Island depot and box
cars at Manville. Kans,. were blown
over by tornado Wednesday after.
noon. A farm house was also wreck
ed and one child killed. According te
information received by the Grand Is
land offices here, telegraph and tele-
phone wires are down.
Lawrence. Kans.. April 13.-Two
people were killed scores Of houses
destroyed and the streets piled high
with debris by cyclone which struck
Lawrence at o'clock last night. only
rough estimate Of the damage can
be made, but the loss is placed at ap-
proximately s150.00O Four more
deaths have been reported, but the
rumors cannot be confirmed. A dozen
more were more or less seriously in