The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-22
Southwest Section Damaged
and Kansas Feels Some Effect.
Thousands of Dollars Damage
Is Done by Rain and Hail.
RAILS AND LINES ARE DOWN
CIOudburst at Vinita Fatal to
Parsons Men-Other Storms.
Engineer and Fireman Killed
as Engine Swept OF Track.

wichita. Kan. May 22.-Rainfau
and storms were general over south
ern Kansas and northern Oklahoma
Sunday and Sunday night, according
to meager reports reaching here to-
day over crippled wires.
Coffeyville. Kan, May ga veri-
table cloudburst visited Coffeyville
last night when almost five inches of
water fell in space of thirty min
utes. Easements were flooded. and
considerable damage was DONE There
was three feet of water in the COT
feyville Jail, which is located in the
basement of the city hall building. The
three prisoners in the Jail were guard
ed on the steps leading into the prison
while the city fire engine pumped the
water out of the jail.
reports to the division officers Of
the Missouri Pacific railway in this
for hundred miles west of here
Much damage is reported from
swollen streams in the Flint Hill
country west of Coffeyville.
total rainfall up to 7 o'clock This
morning was .S6 of inch.
Winfield, Kan. May 22.-Damage
caused by a windstorm which struck
mere late yesterday is practically
limited to trees and wires. The roof
and one end of the Santa Fe round
house was wrecked, and a few other
roofs were smashed by falling trees.
Many streets are blockaded as a re-
suit. About two inches of rain fell.
Watonga, okla, May 22.-A torna-
do swept this city and vicinity late
Sunday resulting in property damage
estimated at $4,000.
Buildings were blown down, un-
q nd Nfh hovx Il
were blown over and fruit and crops
damaged. The storm was accom-
panied by heavy beating rain.
Muskogee. May 22.-The engineer
and fireman of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas passenger train No. 3. south
bound, due to arrive in Muskogee at
IL o'clock last night were killed when
cloudburst swept the engine from
the track four miles south of Vinita,
about 1890 o'clock
The dead are:
William Harshfield. engineer. and
Gilbert Daugherty' fireman, both of
Parsons, Kansas.
According to the statement this
morning of railroad officials in Mus
kogee, members of the train crew
were the only persons killed. The
engine turned completely over and
rolled into the ditch.
Seven passenger coaches were de-
rallied but none of the passengers were
injured, II was reported.
Harshfield and Daugherty vvera
buried beneath the engine as il left
the rails and turned over in ditch
the engineer was the father of nine
children. The fireman leaves two
children. The rainfall at Vinita from,
O'Clock last night until rnidnIght
was 4.22 inches. Water was standing
over the rails when the wreck oc-
CURED.
oklahoma City, May 22.-Heavy
property damage and three deaths
reported are the result of last nights
heavy wind and hail storm thruout
the state.
Mrs. Marvin Kilnan was killed at
Shawnee and two unidentified women
are reported dead at Okeene. Hail az
large as waInuts fell for a few min
utes in Oklahoma City.
Dallas. Tex. May 22.-Danage esti-
mated at approximately $17O, ,O06 was
caused by fire during a severe electri-
cal and rain storm here last night and
early this morning. Que person. a
negro, is missing.
Hail Wrecks Five Greenhouses.
Joplin, Mo. May 22.-Damage es-
timated at $4,000 was caused by hail
at five greenhouses in Joplin and vi
cry pane of glass in one greenhouse
was broken. Fruit and berry crops
also were damaged
Enid. Okla, May 22.-More than .
score of farm homes were swept away
and fifty or sixty more partly demoI-
ished and wrecked, by tornadoes
which struck the north and east part
of Garfield county shortly before
OF clock Sunday afternoon.
So far as can be learned here. none
was killed
Wellington, May 22.-More than
four inches of water fell here in two
hours late Sunday afternoon. The
rain was accompanied by high wind
which uprooted some trees and ripped
off many large limbs. The streets
today are strewn with debris.
Streams in this vicinity are the
highest of the season. Some FAM
lilies have moved out of the lowlsnda
The wheat was fIsttened some but not
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