Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-12-04
Hundreds of Citizens are Won.
dering How They Escaped
Death i'm Storm.
SIxTY-TWO HOMES DESTROYED
Occupants of Many Wrecked Dwell
ings CrawIed From Beneath the
Ruins Without Serious Injury.

the extent of more than 500; many
homes damaged in less than that
amount; twenty-five commercial and
industrial buildings, one schoolhouse
and twenty freight cars destroyed or
badly damaged.
That is what the Great Bend lorna
do cost in property loss and human
discomfort inside the city. OF the
sixty-two homes probably all of them
are frame. Many of them are gone
save for the foundation.
Out of every one of these heaps of
kindling wood from two to twelve hui
following the storm. Eight persons
are dead and not half dozen criti-
cally injured. Scores of these escaped
with scratches and bruises,
The case of E. B. Hutchinson, black
smith, and his family, is typical.
Hutchinson's house must be pointed
out before it is recognized for what
it was. 1t was picked up by the storm
and battered to pieces against row
of large trees in front. From under
the wreckage Mrs. Hutchinson and
two young children were taken. Their
injuries were trivial. Mr.. Hutchinson
and another young child were blown
across the street and dropped in gut
ter with wreckage over them and I'M
der them. Each has bruises and
scratches made by timbers and that il
all
There were twelve persons in the
frame cottage of Ira Stortz, a retired
farmer, when the storm struck. The
house was torn to pieces, board by
board. None of the twelve has other
than trivial injuries.
Mrs. James Pritchard's home was
directly in the path of the storm. She
was surrounded by the laundry, light
plant, water works and home of Isaac
Pritchard, all of which were destroyed.
In her front yard old cottonwood trees
were torn out by the roots. Her home
escaped with a few broken panes and
a blown down chimney.
Rock Roads for Pittsburq-Unable
to decide between two proposed routes
for rock road from Pittsburg to Opo-
lis, the good roads enthusiasts there
have chosen both routes and will pro-
mote the building of two roads instead
of one. The Crawford County Good
Roads Association has provided funds
to pay half the cost of a road. The
routes to Opolis are about ten miles
from the center of this city and unite
three miles from Opolis.
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A New Town Booms.-Congressm
Jouett Shouse dedicated the new city
Of Trousdale on the north end of the
Anthony & Northern railroad recent
ly. The city has sprung from a wheat
field and in thirty days time has three
lumber yards, two elevators, two
stores and twenty residences in con-
struction. The shops are now under
construction and the terminal facili-
ties will be completed soon. Presi-
dent Byers and his staff were on the
grounds. The new road is now under
construction north to Larned and west
to Kinsley.
Died From Injuries-A young
Scotch farm hand, working on the
Burger farm south of Pawnee Rock.
whose legs were broken in the recent
storm, is dead from his injuries.
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Offer Skin to Save Life.-Twenty-
five young men of the Dynamo Bible
class of Holton have offered to sacri-
flee skin from their bodies in an ef-
fort to save the life of Mrs. Gilbert
Duffy, a farmers wife, living near
that place, who was badly burned a
couple of months ago.
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Corn Went 80 Bushels.-Frank Van
worst, a banker at Gypsum, who
farmed this year two and a quarter
sections of land, mostly in corn, is
gathering the crop, which so far has
averaged 80 bushels to the acre. The
fields that have been gathered are in
the Gypsum creek valley.
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White Slave Case Dropped.-The
white slavery case against S. T.
Brown. wealthy Brown county farm
er, was thrown out of court by Judge
William 1. Stuart, who ruled that
Brown is not liable to punishment I'M
der the Kansas laws.
Farmer Died From Storm.-Del
Bently. living two miles north and
four east of Udall. received fatal in
juries as a result of his house being
wrecked by tornado.
Dawson's Fee Tied Up-If John
Dawson, former attorney general col
lects S625 in fees from Cherokee
county he must get the supreme court
to uphold his claim. The suit for the
claim was lost in the district court
when Judge James NJ Dunbar sus-