The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-05-31
Cyclone Notes.

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The property loss at Clinton is
estimated at 500, 900.
Chickens with the feathers all
off-fhough dead-were plentiful
Mrs. Rutter, mother of Chas. 4.
f,utter, of Hickman, was killed at
Bardwell.
We are indeed thankful that
many of us were worse brighten
ed than hurt
Judge w. b. and II. l.. Am
berg had five houses and barn
blown away.
| Besides himself and family be-
ing injured, Claude Hale lost six
tenant houses.
Sgd. Dodds, one of the heaviest
losers in the storm, headed the
relief fund with $500.
|. Eight dead white persons were
brought up from Miller and Bon
durant Monday afternoon.
| A horse at Bondurant was car
ried 400 yards from the barn lot
and dropped without injury.
i Ove- in Lake county, one may
see a large mule lodged In the
forks of a tree, fully 20 feet from
the ground.
The Boy Scouts did good work
in opening the streets of Hick-
man Monday, clearing away the
fallen trees.
West of Hickman a monster
tree was uprooted and three dead
mules deposited in the hole by
the tornado.
Four more nurses arrived YES
terday from Louisville, making q
total of ten in attendance upon
the injured.
Not a person was killed In the
city of Hickman and none IN
jured seriously enough TO go to
the hospital.
; The little town of Dublin, III
Graves county, was swept away
About ten were killed and prob
ably twenty five injured.
Hundreds of people from near
by towns flocked to Hickman
Monday to see the damage
wrought by the cyclone.
At Ledford, on the farm Cd
Mrs. j. A. Thompson, l3 NUDES
] escaped injury, although the barr
they were in was demolished.
r The Courier has given most o
a it's space this week to the new
4 of the tornado, and items of less
n er Importance have ben passed.
Ell One of the negroes at the lie
wee camp, four miles west o
v town, is said to have been blown
v into rhe river and the body no
found.
v There have been hundreds O
leans and thousands of sight
seers in Hickman this week t
see the damage wrought by tn
cyclone.
Milt Shaw saw q shoe that wa
thrown from the vortex of th
twister within 200 yards of hi
home. Too bad the other on
didn't drop out.
Remember, roses and flowe1
are plentiful and every patient
the hospital should have a Dol
quet. just give them to the a
PENDANTS at the door.
In response to a telegram fro
Mayor Gardner for soldiers, Go
Stanley sent a company Of so
diers to Bardwell to do guar
duty and protect property.
The dead at Clinton are: in
Wooten, Wheeler Brooks, wi
and daughter, Mrs. B. Boone al
daughter, Jim Anderson, Miss I
len Gore and six negroes
Telephone and telegraph oper
tors have been kept busy han
ling messages of inquiry fro
friends and relatives away fro
here as regarding storm victims
Mrs. Boone Alternately, thou,
not seriously injured, had h
shoes and stockings pulled off
the tornado. She was with h
family behind the government
wee at the time.
Another prxtical demonstl
ton of the cyclone 8 force m
be observed on s. L. Dodd
place. The handles of q pair
homemade pinchers or pliers .
driven four inches deep into
Il tree.
Eye witnesses say as the I
clone went up the river at Hi
man, it piled up wave or wall
- water appearing to be forty 4
high, and the river seemed
run up stream IN the wake Of
wind.
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