Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-06-19
FIFTEEN DEAD IN
MISSOURI CYCLONE
Many Homes Are Destroyed IN
Northern Part of State.
WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT
Usage Indian Reservation in Oklaho
ma Also Visited by TWister and
Town of NeIagony Is
Destroyed.


Missouri, where a tornado moved
down giant trees and destroyed all
homes in it's path of death.
The twister dipped to earth near
Lacygne, Kan. It's fury increased as
it sped northeast into Missouri, blot
ting out whole families, venting it's
rage mostly on women and babies,
ending five miles northeast of Drexel,
Mo.
Tears House to Pieces.
AS if to laugh at the diabolic havoc
wrought, the storm picked up the Gal
loway home, tore its walls asunder,
scattered the timbers to the four
winds, stripped the mother, father and
child of their clothing and left them
standing in the road, hundred yards
from where their residence had stood
minute before. The storms path
was fifty miles.
The dead:
Mrs. Frank Cory, fifty-flve, three
and one-half miles southeast of
Drexel.
Mrs. Albert Cory. thirty, daughter
1u-IdW, OIL hdnSdS CILy.
A Greek, killed in train wreck.
Mrs. George Reed, thirty-eight,
three miles southeast of Drexel.
Fred Groves, twenty-five, three
miles southwest of Drexel.
Glib Groves, forty.
Henry Cameron, forty
Mrs. Cameron, three children,
Maude, eleven; Roy. four, and baby,
one mile northwest Sf Merwin, Mo.
Alexander, Mrs. Alexander and two
children, three miles northeast of
Merwin
The storm had death wings. Few
were left uninjured. In the Cory
neighborhood were found many fea.
lures. The handle of pitchfork ives
found sticking in the top of an oak
tree. Near here were found scores OF
dead chickens, some of them without
a feather left to their &jdies. The end
gate of a wagon was found in the
Cory barnyard sticking in the hard
ground.
Train Blown From Track.
A Kansas City Southern train of
nine cars was blown off the track
near Drexel and the train turned in
the opposite direction. Some of the
cars standing, some on their sides and
backs, all off the track, including the
engine. 1t was work train filled with
Greeks. One was killed and II hurt
Two Other Counties Hit.
Warrensburg, Mo-, June ia tor
nado one-half mile wide swept north.
eastward eight miles through south
ern Johnson county and northern
Henry county. For five miles, from a
mile northeast of Shawnee Mound
Henry county, to mile south of Lee
ton, Johnson county, almost every
dwelling house was blown away.
The home of Don Carlos, one and a
half miles southeast of Lection, was
crushed and Carlos and his wife were
killed in their beds. The home of
the Misses Milmer was destroyed and
the two women were carried into a
plowed field, but were not hurt Near
Sutherland, the home of Guy Booth
was destroyed Booth was killed and
his wife and two daughters, Blanche
and Ethel, were fatally injured.
Forty Injured in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City, Okla, June 17-Be,
tween thirty and forty persons were
fatally injured in a cyclone which
swept over the Usage Indian nation,
according to advices received here
The cyclone was also attended with
great property loss. The town Of Mel
agony was completely swept away
every building, including both the
Katy and Midland Valley depots, 20
gether with all freight cars standing
on the siding, were blown away. Spe-
cial relief trains were rushed to Nela-