The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1920-03-16
STORM DOES GREAT INJURY
NEAR DRY RIDGE.

DRY RIDGE, KY, March ia
tornado, about 100 yards wide, blew
down school house, injuring thirty
pupils; general store, three stock
barns and damaged other buildings
at Sherman, KY, three miles from
Dry Ridge Friday.
Damage was estimated at $4,000.
No one was killed but ten persons
besides the school children were in
jured, including Mr.. and Mrs. C. A.
Atkins, whose general store building
of two stories was blown down. Their
son, Robert, II, was blown out of a
second story window but was un-
hurt.
The one-story office building of
DR.. j: L. Price, was blown away. The
school house was a one-story frame
structure. It was wrecked.
The stock barns of C. M. Morris
were blown down and eighteen
horses were injured. Roofs were
blown off of several houses and all
telephone and telegraph wires were
blown down. The storm came from
the west.
STORM NEAR SPRINGFIELD, MO.
SPRINGFIELD, MO-, March IS
Ten persons are known to be dead
and eight injured as the result of a
tornado, which swept through the
valley of Turkey Greek near Bran
son and Hollister, in fancy County,
Thursday.
| Nine towns in various parts of the
southwest section of the State were
hit.
Seven of the dead are minor chill
dren OF Ran and William Box, broth
ers, living at Melva, a small town
five miles south of Branson.
| Four of William Box's children
were killed and his brother lost
three children. The wives of both
men received injuries from which it
is believed they can not recover.
Mrs. Alva Howard and child, liv-
ing at Melva, were killed instantly.
William Jackson, living five miles
southeast of Branson, is dead and
his sister seriously injured.
John Gross and his wife, living
on a farm near Oasis, north of Bran
son, were blown away with their
home and no trace has been found
Of either the home or it's occupants
| Ridgeway Manky was carried l.
600 feet from his home at Melva,
and when he regained consciousness
on the opposite bank of Turkey
Greek he saw his young brother,
William, struggling in the water.
He was too weak to give aid. Later
the body of the brother was recOv-
cred downstream.
l Tho hOdioc Of tho Row child ron
according to reports received here,
were taken from Turkey Creek
which had been swollen to large
proportions by incessant rains We'd
nesday night and early Thursday.
The storm was not confined to
Melva. Reports of homes carried
away, buildings destroyed and chill
dren injured continued to pour into
the center of the stricken area
Thursday night. The storm dis
trict included Kirbyville, fancy
vile, Mildred, Oasis, Forsyth and
lBranson.
The storm-swept country is
known to thousands of tourists who
annually visit the Ozark region for
hunting and fishing.
Reports of unusual effects of the
storm were numerous. Thursday
night, a work train of eight cars
south of Branson, and on which the
wives of six wOrkmen lived was
moved 200 feet down the track and
the cars uncoupled, but not one of
the occupants hurt.
, The hotel at Melva was practi-
cally demolished, while six women
were seated near the fireplace.
Bricks, plaster and splinters fell
about the women. One was injured
slightly.