The Marshall republican. [volume] (Marshall, Saline County, Mo.) 1899-1914, 1912-06-21
SATURDAYS STORM
KILLED MANY
Many Towns Report Serious
Damage BY Wind.

quiet Saturday afternoon ana nignt
and fortunately escaped the fate
Of johnson county and other points
visited by cyclones and terrific
winds. Many OF our people listen
ed to the thunder and watched the
constant vivid flashes Of lightning
to the south Saturday night and
Il did not require long stretch
of the Imagination to guests that
something unusual was going on
there.
The cyclonic storm which struck
the eastern edge OF Missouri was
more fatal than early reports could
say, wrecked wires holding back
all detail.
Reports wired into st. Louis late
Sunday show that perhaps the In
,ured running up to 100.
In various reports the deaths
are given a. sixteen near Butler,
Mo-. and twenty near Harrisonville,
Mo. In the Shawnee district three
are reported dead.
The twister dipped to earth near
Lacygne, Kan. It's fury increased
as Il sped northeast into Missouri,
blotting out whole families, vent
ing its rage mostly on women and
babies, ending five miles northeast
Of Drexel, Mo.
As II to laugh at the diabolic
havoc wrought, the storm picked
up the Galloway home, tore It's
walls asunder, scattered the timb-
ers to the four winds, stripped the
mother, father and child OF their
clothing, and left them standing In
the road, a hundred yards from
where their residence had stood a
minute before.
Missouri IL not alone In its storm
havoc, however, as Ohio, Indiana
and Oklahoma keep II company In
death and destruction.
Kansas City got hard knock
from the blow, the western me-
tropolis OF the state reporting the
death OF little girl.
Az Is usual ever since the cyclone
OF 1896, and whenever any good
strong wind enters the Missouri
lines, papics followed. Freakish
sport by the wind was another feat
ure OF Saturdays wind.
At one place baby was picked
up bodily and carried along on
the breast OF the blow, It's body
being found three miles from its
home, where members Of its FAM
lily were killed outright.
wARRENSBURG, MO-, June i6.-
A cyclone one-half mile wide and
eight miles long swept Southern
johnson County and Northern
Henry County last night, scatter
ing death and devastation in It's
track. The storm came from the
suothwest, and was accompanied
by terrific lightning and thunder
and roar Of the winds could be
heard for several minutes before
the breaking OF the storm.
The cyclone first struck the
ground about a mile northeast OF
the village of Shawnee Mound, In
Henry county, and for five miles
along its track to mile south oi
the town OF Lection, In Johnson
county, almost every house and
barn was swept away.
The first fatalities were at the
home OF Don Carlos, one and hall
miles southeast OF Lection. Dor
Carlos and his aged wife lived a
lone, their home, two-story farm
house, was crushed by the storm
and Don Carlos and his wife were
killed In their beds.
4 A short distance east OF the Car
los home was the home OF Misses
Milmer. Their home was blowr
to pieces and the two women were
carried by the storm more than
100 yards into plowed field
where they were deposited, unhurt
The home OF Ben McCord and e. e
PentecoBt, one mile south OF Lee
ton, were also blown to pieces
but the families escaped unhurt.
4 II was three miles from this point
near Sutherland, that the storm
again scattered death In its wake
Il n =
The homo OF Guy Booth was ne
stroyed and his family was caugh
beneath the derbis. Booth wa
| Hound dead BY his neighbors afte
I the storm had passed, and bis wifi
ana two daughters, Blance AMI
Ethel, were injured % seriousl'
they may die, ~ young son, VIII
was also caught beneath the fall
! ing house, WAS alnmpst unhurt.
II X WI n ----------.----- - ~ 4. - -.