Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-03
AT LEAST "a LIVES LOST
!. IN WESTERN TORNADOEs
Scores OF Others Injured, and Prop
e erty Damage Estimated at More
- Than 100000.
STORM AT HEIGHT AT COLGATE
.Whirls Through Oklahoma, Kansas
4 and Missouri. and Carries Ravages
= to Outskirts of Kansas City.
r. Crops Badly Damaged by Wind.
tBy Associated Pre.s.l

I, ST. LOUIS. June 2.-Tornadoes that
pswhirlcd through Oklahoma. Kansas
land Missouri yesterday resulted in
! the death Of at least twenty-four per-
r sons. the injury OF several score
! others. and caused property damage
estimated at more than 100000, ac-
cording to revised reports received at
!, 3noon to-day.
~ The wind carried its ravages to tho
r outskirts of Kansas City. and spent
= Itself az 1t passed on into Southern
. Missouri.
az Eighteen stood as the death list in
Oklahoma, while the loss OF life in
" Kansas was placed at six.
Colgate and Drake. both in Okla
homa. apparently suffered the greatest
!. death loss. with eight known killed.
asat Colgate and Ave at Drake.
80. The dead in Kansas were at Coffey-
!. Vile and Morse, twenty-five miles
southwest OF this city. Earlier re-
ports OF losses from McCune and Mon
tana, Kans., were denied. but an
Y eleven-year-old girl was injured at
Montana. Southern Missouri points.
mainly around Buffalo, in Dallas
. County. reported only minor wind
damage.
The storm seemingly reached Its
height at Colgate. tearing swath from
one to two blocks wide through the
z. town, demolishing more than 400
Z homes, and continuing for three miles
I'm the country. Forty persons were
=
age was estimated at from 100000
Ito s7s0.ooo.
w.. Three persons were killed near
? Marietta, Okla. earlier in the day. A
!, child struck by lightning died in
= Bryan County, and one death was re-
ported from Bartlesville. Nine, per-
sons were reported injured in Sem
rrinole County, Okla. Crops were dam
:, aged by windstorms in Bryan, Love.
I. Marshall and Carter Counties.
COLGATE SUFFERS
HEAVIEST LOSSES
KANSAS CITY. MO, June Col
= gate. Okla, county seat of Coal
County, and mining center. suffered
1.-THE heaviest loss Of life. Eight per-
o.sons were killed there, when a tor
nado, described as q perpendicular
pillar OF clouds three miles high and
audible six TO eight miles away,
%swirled and twisted through the west
ern end OF tho town. More than $50
houses were destroyed. and number
Dof persons injured, some OF them, 1t
Twas stated. could not recover. Special
Z trains with nurses and doctors were
.ssent to Colgate from other cities.
~, Coffeyville. Kans suffered probably
the heaviest financial loss. Late esti-
placed the property damage
there at $500, 900. More than thirty
persons were injured. some seriously.
The tornado took course through the
residence district and cut q path,
roughly. 100 yards wide
M At Drake. Okla. five persons. all
members OF one family, were killed.
Two residences and the schoolhouse
were destroyed there.
One person was killed at Montana.
.Kans.; two mt McCunc. Kans., and one
rTat Rartlcsvillc. Okla.
-"e At Morse. Kans.. three persons were
KILLED, several others injured and ex-
wtcnsive property damage done. From
1.-The standardization of Missouri and
from the Inid.continent Oil field OF
Oklahoma reports of heavy damage
were expected to come to-day.
~. In the great oil fields many oil der
"ricks wer, blown away, and, while no
loss of life was reported. it was re-
garded as improbable that all the host
Of workers could have escaped.
The usual number Of freaks OF the
Storm began to he reported. At Drake.
where five members OF the family OF
w. a. Williams, including himself
wife, two daughters and a son, were
killed, another son blind, who could
make no effort TO escape when the
tw!ster approached, was spared.
y The same tornado that played havoc
with Colgate rose, passed on few
miles. then dipped again and caused
heavy property loss and injured sew
eral persons at Lehigh. The roar OF
the tornado could be heard several
miles away, witnesses declared. and
many thus were warned.
. The abnormal conditions which pro
.ydLced the tornadoes. brought snow in
Western Kansas counties last night
One report declared the fall amounted
10 four inches at the Colorado line
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