Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-25 | Page 1 | Freak Storms Take 13 Lives

FREAK STORMS TAKE 13 3 LIVES Blizzards Tornadoes Dust Gales Ravage Midwest st Injured IANS KANSAS S CITY Feb 25 ff A P A blizzard blizzard tim the latest ingredient in n a 1 strange weather veather conc concoction s served within three days moved days moved into the midwest Joday toda o lay leaving 13 dead an and id injured BUzzard Blizzard weather weather in the Gr Great a Lakes Lakes' d tri t.- t. trent ent temperatures tempera pe a turbo tures reeling from jori pr g re read d in ings Snow and ad sl sleet et w were falling Ten deat deaths s were attributed to fo the thel blizzard one to a t tornado rn o that hat ripped i through Oklahoma Mt and last ni night ht and one to a sandstorm sandstorm sand sand- storm in Colorado Trains buses and and mot motor cars were delayed and planes w re Storms Hit lilt Kansas Western Kansas was bu buffeted i t d by bf bya a hodgepodge of oC snow now Meet leet lee dust dust- storms s and rain I I Five persons Were ere killed Jelled in t traffic t. t r. r accidents in n Chicago lard laid to a blind blinding ing storm Two men on a snowplow were killed when struck b by a train in W Wes We-s Plaines Plainest near near Chicago I In Wisconsin a motorist I Ia t ct his life ite when hi his motor car skidded Into Into-a into tg a ditch t Deskin Weaver fell fen dead wJ while le shoveling snow n at Des MoThe The body pody of oC Fred Graves g gaa garage rag operator at t Foss Okla was found to behind a 3 windbreak near Clinton t Old Okla a. a Joday Joda Officers aid caid Ud the they believed be be- li ved he jie had thad been truck struck by a. a m blinded by a a sandstorm The mining t towns of f Comm Commerce and D Douthat in northe t. t Oklahoma hom bore the brunt of the freakish winter tornado Mrs s. Ellen Teague 69 of ot Douthat was killed and her husband Marion T Teague a lIe lIe- 71 was injured in in- lured when the storm c wrecked ked their hor home Girl Ill Driver Killed In Colorado girl motorist a was Killed when her hel car overturned In n a sr nd drift di The heaviest precipitation since last spring delayed trains hsin in CoIl Coli Cota- Cota r rado do A 1 forced r ed workers workers' at at Colo Cob to o flee nee for shelter Highways In n many section sections of the Rocki s were vere turned into Ice sh sheets Continued on Pate Pace Two FREAK STORMS TAKE 13 1 3 LIVES Continued from Pare Fare One Numerous Numerous' minor accidents accIdent were re re- re- re ported Snow blanketed much of ot western K Kansas last night This morning the snow had disappeared buried under undera a thick layer of at dust deposited by anI another an- an n I other lother Funnel shaped clouds which moved with express train speeds carrying away homes and buildings struck Wichita Independence and Baxter Springs In Kansas Joplin arid Webb City in Mi Missouri and Commerce North Century and Douthat in Okla Okia- homa Twenty one houses were wrecked at Independence and property damage dam age was estimated at At Joplin a tornado cut a swath about feet wide and md three blocks long through a residential district Nineteen persons injured in the Oklahoma communities were being treated at a Picher Okla Okia hospital Stockmen in m the plains states lea feared red for their sh sheep p and cattle as near zero temperatures toll followed owed the snow The northwest gale which reached an estimated 40 mil miles an hour velocity ve ye- and lashed southern California during the past 48 hours appeared to be abating The windstorm was accompanied by temperatures as low lowas as 30 degrees in the lowlands but wind prevented formation of frost in inthe inthe inthe the citrus belt