Omaha daily bee., 1915-06-13
TORNADO STRIKES
WYOMING; HEAVY
RAINS ALL OYER
Child Killed When Station is Wiped
Out in the Eastern Part of
the State.
RAILROADS SUFFER LOSSES
Heaviest Downpour in Years Ruins
Many Fields and Washes Out
Numerous Bridges.
STREAMS OUT OF THEIR BANKS

While the heaviest of the rain
Friday night missed Omaha and the
eastern portion OF the state. nearly
every other part of it, southern South
Dakota, eastern Wyoming and north
ern Kansas, according to morning
reports to the railroads. were visited
by a downpour that in many locali-
ties was almost a flood, causing
great damage to crops and causing
numerous washouts.
In portions of eastern Wyoming
tornado winds accompanied the rain,
but as wires are down the reports
are coming in in fragments and lack
detail. At Nodes ranch, the second
station over the Wyoming line on
the Northwestern Lander branch,
a tornado covering an area some two
( miles wide and, so far as can be
\ learned, twenty-five miles or so
southwest to northwest, passed
through the country.
Al Node's ranch, a station where there
are about a dozen houses, all of them
were destroyed or badly damaged by the
wind. and a child killed. In the path OF
the storm the report comes that several
ranch houses were destroyed, but it is
not believed that any of the occupants
were killed.
Appears Friday Night.
The storm appears to have struck
Nodes ranch about o'clock in the eve
ming. The telegraph line. a single wire.
was blown down, and since the first re-
port that came across country to Harri-
son. was received. nothing has been heard
from the stricken zone. Late at night
the wires went down between Chadron
and Hermosa, and consequently all north
western territory in the west part of
the state is cut off from communication.
Along the Northwestern the storm
struck the Bonesteel country and reports
of serious washouts between Bonesteei
and Winner are reported
The Burlington's telegraph service TO
the northwest Is completely ldemoralized
on account of the wind of Friday night,
and only fragments of reports have been
received. Cyclonio conditions are reported
TO have been general over a good deal OF
the country through eastern Wyoming,
but no report of serious damage has
come to headquarters.
A cloudburst at Marietta, the first sta
ton west of Edgemont on the Sheridan
line, washed out one bridge and carried
away a long stretch of grade. Another
bad washout is reported in the vicinity
OF Hot Springs and several between Sher-
idsn and New Castle, wyo.
Five Inches of Rain.
From Grand Island west on the Union
Pacific and up the Republican valley
from Red Cloud on the Burlington the
precipitation during the afternoon of Fri |
day and Friday night amounted to four
to five inches, throwing all streams out
of their banks and bringing about flood
conditions
In Kansas the rain, according to the |
railroad reports was heavier than in |
any part OF Nebraska. The railroads |
report that around Marysville, Hanover. |
Concordia, Blue Rapids and up and down
the river from Topeka there was five to |
eight inches of rain during the night and |
more falling. and without any indications !
of a cessation.
r Railroad reports indicate that through !!
northern and central Kansas the streams |
are all out of their banks. many of them |
the highest in years. The low lands are |
flooded and crops practically ruined |
where they have not been washed away.
Cut Alfalfa IL Lost
It is asserted that the first cutting of !
alfalfa on the bottom lands in the south |
ern part of Nebraska and all through |
Kansas will be a total loss. Where the |
fields are not covered with water the !
Iain has been so continuous that the for |
ege plant after having been cut has
rotted.
Southwestern Iowa was hit about the
same as the southern part OF Nebraska. |
Reports indicate that over four or five
counties the rain commenced to fall early
in the evening and continued all night. !
the precipitation being anywhere from
one to three and four inches, pushing
the streams out of their banks and flood
ing the bottom lands. doing great dam
age TO the growing crops.