Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-21 | Page 2 | Twister Tear Midwest Area

T Tear ier dw Area A. A By Associated Press Tornadoes four states across the nations nation's midsection Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day night Five persons were killed Nearly a score were injured Property damage was Hardest hit was Oklahoma with 17 tornadoes But twisters flicked out at scattered communities in Colorado Kansas and far across the Mississippi valley caught two 1 I small eastern Tennessee ties The Kansas City weather bureau blamed the mad May disturbances it was Oklahoma's fourth straight night of twisters twisters twisters-on on a adeep adeep adeep deep low pressure trough running running run run- ning fling up through northwestern Oklahoma to Nebraska a. a In addition to the tornadoes that struck perhaps a dozen others were seen whirling just above the land in the settled plains country Most of the communities hit were small In Oklahoma there w was damage reported at Balko Beaver Catesby Cherokee Gage Jet Nash Shattuck Waynoka Woodward and Yewed Blows in Kansas were reported at Chase Gorham Rozel Wilmore Vilmore and in the countryside near Garden Cit City Scott City and Salina Two persons were Injured at Rozel and one at Chase In Rozel a community of population 10 or 12 houses were blown down and nearly all other houses damaged Three of 15 business buildings were destroyed and the others damaged Sheriff Frank Fraser said it was impossible to make an accurate accurate accurate ate estimate te of the Rozel damage Some unofficial estimates ranged as high as The tornado whirled up Black Wolf Vol canyon near Wray Inthe in inthe inthe the northeastern corner of the state and vanished Into Nebraska Far away in Tennessee an isolated isolated isolated iso iso- storm injured three persons in the small communities of Goin Coin and Barn Creek The small number of c casualties apparently was explained by the fact that folks in the western Oklahoma and Kansas regions hit hardest are tornado Most of them sheltered safely in storm cellars Charles Sykes 55 was caught on the highway high near Yewed Okla OkIa however and took shelter in an old wheat elevator The storm toppled it on him crushing Sykes to death Helen Wilson Vilson 12 daughter of Mr and Mrs C. C L. L Wilson Vilson Geary Okla OkIa killed when the family farm farm home was overturned and ripped apart by a tornado Mrs Kathryn Haight about 43 was killed jn in the destruction of a farm home near Catesby Okla Her husband Ed was injured seri seri- Harold King ing about 17 of Solomon Solomon Solomon Solo Solo- mon Kan Ran was killed and his brother William Villiam about 16 was injured seriously when their automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile was demolished In a tornado tornado tor tor- nado near Kipp four miles east of Salina SaUna Three other youths were I. I injured when their car turned over I near New Cambria M. M W. W Hanna was killed by I touching a high power line blown down in an electrical and v wind windstorm windstorm nd storm near Petrolia Kan Heavy rains that h have ve accompanied accompanied accompanied ac ac- ac- ac companied the stormy days in Oklahoma cause caused l widespread floods and added two other deaths Guy Franklin Hixson 20 Twin Lakes Okla drowned Friday as ashe ashe ashe he attempted to swim to h his home hom across swollen Mingo creek near Tulsa Miss Chapman 26 drowned Tuesday in flood Waters waters wa wa- near Seminole Okla Okia