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Show TIT! MEET DEATH IN KANSASGYCLONE VILLAGE LAID WASTE BY TERRIFIC TER-RIFIC STORM WHICH CAME WITHOUT WARNING. Two Counties Pierced by Path from Quarter to Half a Mile Wide Where the Twister Ground Everything to Death or Destruction. Wichita, Kan. Thirty persons are known, to have been killed, more than fifty have "received injuries from which it is said several will die, and property worth thousands of dollars, was destroyed on May 25, when a tornado swept up through Sedgwick and Harvey counties in the south-central part of the state. Andale, a village of less than 300 inhabitants, in-habitants, bore the brunt of the twister's twist-er's rage, eighteen lives being the toll before the storm which was accompanied accom-panied by a blinding rain, bore on to the northwest. The country southeast of Newton furnished the remaining fatalities, three lives being lost five miles from that city. The county between Andale and Newton was pierced by a path from a quarter to a half mile wide where the twister ground everything in its path either to death or to inanimate destruction. destruc-tion. Sedgwick, the largest town between be-tween Andale and Newton, barely escaped es-caped from he storm's fury, a few houses inone corner of the city limits being the only loss. So suddenly did the tornado arise and so well did it do its work that telephone and telegraph lines were broken before word could be sent ahead of the impending danger. Nine persons were killed near Sedgwick, Sedg-wick, including Elmer Corkle and 9-year-old daughter. A warning cry of a man who had heard the ominous roar prompted the occupants of the little country general store to rush into the basement just as the wind struck the building, cutting cut-ting it in half and settling the roof upon the floor. Henry Rausch and his daughter were believed to have been the first victims, their little house being blown asunder as if by an explosion, and the two occupants oc-cupants being beaten to death by the flying timbers. Mrs. Schmidt and her small daughters were struck down and killed as the mother ran to a place of safety. The child was found dead clutched in the mother's arms. The Klein family was buried iu the wreckage wreck-age of their cottage and never had a chance to escape. |