| Show MANY MEET DEATH IN MIDNIGHT TORNADO twenty six people are killed and forty four injured by storm which vis ts kansas town marquette kan when darkness ell upon this stricken town tuesday night it was known that twenty sis lives had been lost in the that wrecked part of marquette early in the day and did much damage in this vicinity and that forty four per sons had been injured of the in aured thirty five were seriously hurt and some of them may die the tornado formed three mile south of marquette and did not spena ita force until it had passed many miles north of the town in marquette the residence portion west of the main street suffered particular damage the houses in the course of the tornado were with two or three exceptions completely wrecked in this section there were a number of modern rest dence p which tinly one was standing the swedish Ii theran and metho dist churches were amoia the first buildings struck and they together with the parsonage adjoining the methodist church were completely de monday afternoon had been hoi and oppressive the atmosphere load ed with electricity late in the even ing a rainstorm broke over the town the rain continued to tall in torrents until 11 at night when the tornado struck within less than five minutes it haff wrought its terrible work and passed on telegraph and telephone wires were carried down and it was seyer ajl hours before the outside world could be apprised ol 01 he plight of the city it was not un 11 8 tha physicians and sur geons began arriving from surround ing towns in the meantime dozens of willing hands set to work to clear away the debris and extricate the dead and injured the swedish lutheran parsonage and several an vate residences were turned into tern horary hospitals while the dead were taken to a store room and laid out in rows awaiting identification when the missing in marquette had been pretty thoroughly accounted for the searchers directed their attention to the surrounding country soon halt a dozen wagon loads of dead and in aured had been brought to the town from the district adjoining it on the south the sufferers tell of many narrow escapes from death lone infant daughter of charles calleen was lifted in her bed and carried to the middle of the street receiving only a few scratches calleen and his wife were dangerously injured the mattress upon which the baby daughter of the rev smith lay was doubled up in such a manner as to cover the child and protect it from falling timbers in spite of the destruction st of the smith house the en tire family escaped uninjured the tornado cut a clean swath yards in width through its entire length coming at midnight the peo pie were caught without a moments warning some of the victims were killed as they lay asleep other maimed and bleeding awoke to find themselves buried in the wreckage of their former homes |
