The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-06-07
STORMS STRIKE
SOUTH AND WEST
ToRNADoEs OVER KANSAS AND
MISSOURI LAST NIGHT.
REPORTS ARE VERY MEAGRE
All Communication Lines are in Badly
Crippled Conditions. Twisters
are Worst in Kansas.
Many Lives Lost.

| Kansas City, Kans., June 6.-Torna-
dos over Kansas and part of Missouri
last night claim toll of at least nine
lives, according to meagre reports
coming in on badly crippled lines this
noning.
Near Richmond, Missouri, two wom-
On and baby are dead and three ne
grOes are expected to die from ipjur-
les.
Three more are reported dead at
Centralia, Missouri.
The twisters were at their woi It in
Kansas. They were not confined to
any certain zone. Three are reported
dead in Kansas.
At Elmont, only one house, shack
that might have cost $50 remains
standing. One man was killed at Ell
/ mont.
South and east of Oskaloosa,
along the Des Moines river valley,
the wind storm and the rainfall is
said to have been heavier than in
the Mahaska county neighborhood.
All rail traffic on the Rock Island to
Eldon was abandoned for the night
on account of track conditions and
wash-outs. The down train" from
Des Moines due in Oskaloosa about
$40 was over one hour late and the
train was annulled south of Oska-
-
and went back to Des Moines. All
Rock Island trains this morning
were delayed.
Skunk river at the water works
pumping station north of town is
coming up steadily. 1t has raised
between eight and ten inches since
five o'clock Tuesday evening and is
still coming up. The river is out of
bank and is backing out over the low
lands now quite rapidly but is not
yet over the grade north of the wat
er works. 1t lacks about eight or
ten inches of going over the grade
in the lowest places and it is doubt
full if the raise is sufficient to send
the water over the grade.
In Kansas the storms fury appar-
emily settled in Shawnee county,
where a strip one mile wide was de-
vastated from Eskridge to Bishop.
Two men are reported killed at the
latter point. A negro boy was killed
at Lawrence.
Olathe, Kansas, twenty miles from
this city, also was visited by a tor
nado and several houses demolished.
Two persons were injured seriously.
Larned, st. John and Trousdale,
nearby towns, reported damage. Two
men were killed near Elmont and
that town virtually RACED. Concor-
dia reported a terrific hail storm
which injured crops and at Great
Bend there was heavy damage by
high wind.
Considerable property is under
stoodt o have been wrought at Lex
ington Junction, Braymer and Cow
gill, Mo.
Floods on Burlington Tracks.
Lincoln, Nebr., June 6. - Several
, towns in eastern Nebraska in the
Platte river district are threatened
with floods. Several hundred feet
OF track on the main line of the Chi.
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
near Chalco, between Lincoln and
Omaha, has been washed out.
Easements Are Flooded.
Pana, ILL.,, June 6.-Basements of
stores and residences were flooded
| by rainstorm here last night, which
caused large damage. Water from
six inches to two feet deep was left
standing in yards throughout the
city. Residents in the Okaw river
bottoms were compelled to flee to
the hills. Reports from farming
districts indicated considerable loss.
Flood Near Havana, ~.
Havana, H., June 6.-Hundreds of
acres of land were inundated when
otter creek levee, west of here,
broke. All other levees still hold.
The house and farm buildings of
Frank Kiest, a farmer south of here
were destroyed by tornado. The
storm touched only a small area and
did no other damage.
Cyclone at centralia, Mo.
Decatur, ILL.,, June ga request for
aid was received by the Wabash rail
road division headquarters here al
1880 his morning from Centralia
Mo-, where a cyclone struck early
last evening Sayeral nercouS wars