Evening star., 1930-05-02
21PERSONS KILLED
AS STORMS SWEEP
MIDWEST STATES
Property Damage Placed at
Several Hundred Thou
sand Dollars.
EIGHT WOMEN INCLUDED
IN TOLL OF WIND AND RAIN
Farms and Towns Hard Hit by
Sporadic Outbreaks Over
Wide Area.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May Angry weather
stormed through the Middle West late
yesterday, killing 20 persons, injuring
many and destroying property valued
at hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Eight Of the dead were women.
Tornadoes struck at Tekamak, Nebr.;
Norborne, Mo-, and Westby, Wis. In
North Dakota, Minnesota, Illionis and
Iowa the loss of life and property dam
age was due to electrical storms and
high winds.
The storms bounded up and down
erratically in territory including nine
States. Nebraska, Minnesota and Mis-
souri, were hardest hit, but the destruc-
tiveness of the wind and driving rains
was also felt in the Dakotas, Kansas,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Deaths in Eight States.
The deaths were distributed in seven
States.
Four persons were killed at Tekamah,
Nebr.
A farmer was struck dead by light
ming near Lawton, N. Oak.
Two women and child were drowned
near Lake City, Mimi, when cloud
burst sent wall of water down a ravine
upon their stalled automobile.
Two women died when their automo-
bile skidded in storm near Duluth.
A boy was killed at Westby, Wis.,,
when the Tornado overlook him as he
ran before it, seeking the shelter OF his
home. He was buried in the debris OF
O hyfi1dff10 the Cf0rTn levpllad
Mrs. Louis Bishop was killed and
eight persons, including a family of
seven, badly injured near Russell, Iowa.
A man in a parked autombile at
Rockford, Ill, was killed when the wind
blew down tree that crushed the ma
chine.
A man was killed near Antioch, Ill,
when his lake cottage was domlished.
crushing him.
A farmer was killed at Kickapoo,
Leavenworth County, Kans.
Four persons, including one woman
and 10-yar-old girl died In the tor,
noda at Norborne, Mo.
Light Plant Fails.
The failure of the electric light plant
at Tekamah added to the horror of the
tornado damage there. Throughout the
night doctors at the Tekamah Hospital
and the American Legion Hall, an i'm
provised hospital, worked by lamplight
and flashlight, treating scores of men,
women and children, many suffering
serious hurts.
choked with debris. The tornado whirled
toward the town as though to strike at
the business district. but 1t veered and
did its greatest damage In q residential
area
A report to American Red Cross head
quarters at st. Louis that the town of
Pender, Nebr., had been wiped out was
found to have been erroneous, but Jack
son and Homer, Nebr., were victims OF
the Tornado, though in no degree COM
parable with Tekamah
In Tekamah the baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hans G. Anderson was killed in
his mothers arms when the Anderson
home was destroyed. Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson were seriously injured.
An early estimate placed the Tekamah
property damage at $150,000, with an
other 100000 loss to property and
crops in other Nebraska territory.
Every Building Hit
At Westby, Wis, the tornado that
Killed Archer Funk, years old, did
another 100000 damage Nearly every
building on the main street of this
town Of loo persons was upset or de-
stroyed. A tobacco warehouse was lifted
from its foundation and slammed
against the walls of railroad station.
Mrs. w. w. Lawler, her daughter,
Betty Jane, and Mrs. Walter Dodge, all
OF Rochester, Mimi, were drowned when
a cloudburst swept down from the hills
onto the car in which they were riding
near Lake City, MINI. Two other women
1eaped from the car and ran to higher
ground, escaping the river OF water that
poured down and covered the stalled
machine.
A storm of tornado dimensions
struck Wabasha and Steele Counties in
Southern Minnesota, destroying small
farm buildings and doing other property
damage estimated at 100000.
HaiIstorm at Chicago.
Echoes Of the storm were felt in
Chicago early today with heavy rain
and hail storm.
In the Chicago area, the brunt Of the
storm was felt in suburban Beverly Hills
where property damage OF 100000 was
reported.
The first aftermath fatality resulted
early today. Michael Keaty, an cleo
trician, fell to his death while repairing
a power line in Cicero, a suburb.
Considerable live stock was lost in
the storm around Waukegan, Ill. Many
roofs were blown of buildings and
power wires and poles were down. The
fatality near Antioch, on Channel Lake
was Richard Shannon, 20. Taken from
beneath his wrecked cottage by firemen
he died in a Waukegan hospital early
today.
Charles w. Barnett, "a. a truck
driver from Des Moines, Iowa, was
electrocuted when he drove into high
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