The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-12
DEATH LIST IS 10
TContinued from Page One.)

lOOalAnuc0 rum axe OuCsy
H. Hall. F. F. Miller and Carl john
son, were added to the list of dead
last night Great Bend went rapidly
about the task of Strengthening up to-
day. Most of the streets were opened
through the stricken district and much
of the debris left by the storm was
cleared away.
Water is expected through the
mains sometime today. Both the
Santa Fe pumping station and cream
cry pumps have been connected with
the water plant and disable quantities
of water are expected Electric light
was furnished for the hospital in
which the most seriously injured are
being treated, by attaching hay press
to a dynamo. Enough power was gen.
Grated to supply the one building. Sew
eral injured are yet in danger, it was
said today.
Many Towns Suffered.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 12.1The
death toll of the storm which swept
over Kansas Wednesday night, today
stands at IS. The increase over yes
terday's list was caused by the death
of four persons in Great Bend, of in
juries received in the storm.
Communication to all but few out
lying sections of the stricken district
was established late Thursday. AL
though the damage was greater in
Great Bend. where a path three blocks
wide through the industrial and resi-
Dental sections of the city was cut by
a tornado, reports show that Zyba,
Kan, a town of 200 population, was
the most thoroughly wrecked of the
towns and villages in the storm. Every
building in Zyba is said to have suf-
fered heavy damage and many OF
them were demolished. Three per-
sons were killed there and many in
jured. IN a blow lasting only few
minutes, the entire town was thrown
into mass of struggling humanity,
wrecked homes, trees, telegraph and
telephone wires.
Find More Wreckage.
Reports of damage to buildings,
death to live stock and injury to the
inhabitants on isolated farms came in
rapidly late Thursday night Near
Pratt, Kan, a farmer who had been
away from home for the night, re-
turned today and found every building
wrecked and his family scattered to
the homes of neighbors. The family
had been in the home when the storm
struck and no member escaped in
jury
Hundreds of trees one of the most
valued things about a prairie home,
were blown down. In many cases,
great cottonwoods which were planted
when the country was first settled and
had been treasured for years, were
snapped off or split.
Great Bend late today began to re-
cover and set about cleaning up the
damage. A company of the Kansas
national guard assisted in an ex-
and in pulling down dangerous ruins.
Debris Piled i'm Streets.
Great Bend, Kan, Nov. 12-With
the coming of daylight today the
stricken section of Great Bend, ac-
cording to an eye witness, resembled
a huge municipal dump, piled high
with debris. All the timber in the
storms path was ripped and torn into
stavewood and mixed into an amazing
tumble of clothing, household goods,
buggies, motor cars and dead live
stock and chickens.
Without Light or Water
A serious phase of the situation is
the absence of city water and electric
light and power. Hoisington, ten
miles north of Great Bend is also in
darkness, the result OF the collapse
of the Great Bend electric light
plant, which furnished them with cleo
tricity.
Although many families of the city
are hard hit by the destruction of
their homes, there was no indication
of any real suffering and the situa-
ton, city officials assert, will be