The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-07
Minimum Estimate Today Is
One Million Dollars.
One Hundred Families Home
less in Devastated District.
LOCAL RED CROSS TO AID
Needs of Sufferers Are To Be
Amply Provided For.
Many Model Homes Wrecked by
the Furious Wind.

Following are deaths and injur-
les in addition to the list printed
wednesday in the State Journal:
THE DEAD.
Mrs. John Bachelor. Clinton, sis
ter-in-Iaw of Charles Bachelor,
member of the Topeka police force.
THE INJURED.
w. j. Cummings, ST., Douglas
county. father of w. j. Cummings,
representative to the state lcgisla-
ture from Douglas county.
\. b. Peoples, Eskridge, collar
bone broken.
Mrs. ii. II. Chapman, Eslridgc.
Emmett SimOnS. EskridSe.
BROUGHT TO TOPEKA FROM
ELMONT.
Mrs. Frank Ficderiing, neck SER
iousIy injured.
Mrs. Emily Newell, internal injur-
les.
George Tincher, internal injuries.
Details, gathered today, of the ter
rifle ruin wrought Tuesday night by
the tornadoes in the vicinity of To-
1 -ba placed the total damage at ST.
900. 900, minimum. Nearly a hundred
families are homeless in the territory
between Eskridge and Elmont and at
Clinton. AT least $50 persons suffered
partial or total destruction of their
homes.
Unlike most similar disasters. the
damage and destruction of the Esk-
ridge Elmont tornado seems to be
growing larger. Every hour fresh evil
dence of the storms fury hidden at
first by lack of communication and
impossible roads. is brought to light
The path oe the twister lies thru one
of the most prosperous farming and
rural town districts in Kansas. Farm
homes destroyed. included some of the
| finest and most pretentious rural
mansions in the middle west.
Big Orchard Damage
The damage to fine orchards alone
totals more than 100000. The north
Kaw valley, the Menoken section es-
pecially, has long been notable as a
truck garden and orchard area. The
beauty of the highways. for a long
time popular with Topeka motorists
has been ruined by destruction of the
giant trees that lined their sides. In
many parts of the Kaw valley ira
versed the gardens and growing crops
were whipped from the grounds.
More than half the farm houses de-
| stroyed were model ones. Fine barns.
modern houses, silos, modern farm
equipment, churches, schoolhouses
and country merchandise stores were
not respected. Livestock damage
runs into the thousands of dollars
/
since the storm, quieted down today
/ long enough for relief work to be
planned and talked of.
Red Cross to Aid
John F. Dillon, president of the To-
peka Red Cross, declared that his or
ganization is taking steps to look out
for need which may arise. Groceries,
/ 1t was declared, will be needed shortly
| by the homeless families at EImont
as the two mercantile stores there
were totally demolished and the goods
on the shelves strewn over a large ter
ritory.
Miss Kate and Kilmaurs King.
welfare workers. have made a survey
to ascertain the needs of the people.
The death list is also growing.
Word received from Clinton today told
| of the death of Mrs. John Bachelor.
wife of John Bachelor, who was in
stantly killed by the storm Tuesday
night Mrs Bachelor was injured in
the tornado but fought death until
Wednesday afternoon.
Body Horribly MutiIated.
Bachelor is a brother Of Charles
Bachelor, member of the Topeka
police force. When found after tina
storm the body of the Clinton man was
disfigured beyond recognition.
w. ]. Cummings, ST., father of w.
j. Cummings, jr., state representative
from Douglas county, was badly in
jured. Mrs. Green Monroe, a negro
woman, and her 10-year-old son. Tom
Elic, were also killed at Clinton.
The death of Mrs. Bachelor brings
tbs total death list to nine. Word OF
additional persons being injured is
being received every hour. Estimated
the total persons injured is more than
fifty.
Members of Battery A, detailed 81
the scene of the storm by General
Martin Wednesday, are still guarding
the ruins at Menoken and ElmOnt.
/ The Santa Fe reported today that
the Delaware river a. Valley Falls
has been out of it's banks since the
storm. 1t is reported receding today
Wedne sday the water was a foot deer
on the Santa Fe tracks.
Injuries at Eskridgc.
Three injuries developed today al
and near Eskridge. None, according
to advices, will prove fatal. Property
damage by hail which fell during the
storm was heavy. Several head of cat
, tie were killed and number of homes