The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-07-28
WIND STORM AT PlTTsBURG
Two Persons Seriously Injured When
Their House was Destroyed Heavy
Damage to Property.

A windstorm which at times devel-
oped cyclonic tendencies injured two
persons, one of them probably fatally,
and did extensive damage near and.
in Pittsburg at 6 o'clock the other
night The small settlement Of Kirk
wood, two miles south of Pittsburg,
bore the brunt OF the storm. There
a house in which there were six per
sons, was completely wrecked, being
turned over and thrown against an
other house. Mrs. Lulu Friend of
Pittsburg is believed to have suffered
broken back and other injuries from
which she will die. She is thirty years
old. Her small son, who was with her
in the house, was not injured. Or
vile Rodgers, 81, employee of a steam
shovel company, received a fractured
skull and other injuries, but it is be-
lieved he will recover. The house was
the home of Earl Trisler. Mrs. Iris
Ter, sister of Mrs. Friend, and her
two small children were in the house,
but were not injured.
Electric, telegraph and telephone
poles were blown down by the wind,
making communication impossible for
some time after the storm. Reports
to Pittsburg indicated that the storm
first dipped down to earth about seven
miles southwest of Pittsburg. At
Chicopee, a mile west of Kirkwod, two
or three buildings were wrecked. A
path about mile in width was made
as far as Pittsburg. Much minor dam
age was done in the city.
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Killed in RunaWay.-The S-year-
old son of Jesse Morgan. a farmer near
Augusta, was killed when a team ran
away with a wagon on which he was
riding, overturning it and crushing
| him.
Made an Artillery Major.-Maj.
Bruce Griffith of the Wichita National
| Guards has been made major of a
battery of field artillery over six hun
dred men. For eight years he has
| been chief in charge of ordnance in
Kansas and supervisor of small arms
practice.
oIathe Pioneer Dead.-Jonathan
Millikan, 90 years old, is dead at
1 OldlnC VI AOdAI IAO0OAC. A4S W S1o q
native of Monroe county, Indiana, and
came from Iowa to Olathe in 1857.
driving a team and wagon. He built
the first house on the Olathe town
site, a building that is still standing.
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| Free Delivery for Greensbure.-
Greenburgs postmaster has been eff
cially notified that Greensburg would
have free city mail delivery beginning
September 1.
Record in Wheat.-Two hundred
acres OF wheat on the Oren Smith
farm at Valley Center are averaging
fifty bushels Of high grade wheat to
the acre. Farmers say this is a Kan
sas record. Seven measured acres
yielded sixty-eight bushels to the acre.
New Head for saker.-Dr. Samuel
A. Tough of the University of Denver
was elected president of Baker Uni
versity at Baldwin, succeeding DR..
signed to accept place on the Kan
sas state board Of control.
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/ Open Market for WIchIta.-W1ch1ta
is to have an open city market one
day in the week hereafter. This an
nouncement was made recently by
Louis R. Ash, city manager, who said
that he had asked Cecil Cox to take
charge of the market
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Lightning Kills Kansas Farmer
Ralph Vansett, 80 years old. son OF
Mart vansett, a farmer living seven
miles south of Horton, was killed In
stantly by a bolt of lightning during q
thunderstorm. He and Jim Barnett
were putting hay in the barn.