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Show MANY MEET DEATH IN MIDNIGHT TORNADO Twenty-six People Are Killed and Forty.four Injured by 8torm Which , Visits Kansas Town. MarqtiPtto, Kan. When darkness fell upon this stricken town Tuesday night It wns known that twenty-six lives had been lost In, tho tornado that wrecked part of Marquctto early In tho day and did much damage In this vicinity, and that forty-four persons per-sons had been Injured. Of tho In Jured, thirty-five were seriously hurt and some of thorn may die. Tho tornado formed thrco miles south of Marquctto and did not spend Its force until It had passcil many miles north of tho town. In Marquctto tho resldenco portion west of tho main streot suffered particular damage. Tho houses In tho cnursn of tho tornndo woro with two or thrco exceptions, completely wrecked. In this section thero wcro n number of modern residences resi-dences of which only ono was left standing Tho Swedish Lutheran nnd Methodist Metho-dist churches wcro among tho first buildings struck and they, together with tho parsonngo adjoining tho Methodist church, were completoly demolished. de-molished. Monday afternoon hnd been hot nnd opprcsslvo, tho ntmosphcro loaded load-ed with electricity. Into In tho evening even-ing n terrific rainstorm broko over tho town. Tho rnln continued to fall In torrents until ll:Gn nt night, when tho tornndo struck. Within loss than five minutes It hnd wrought Its tcrrlblo work and pnssed on. Tolegrnph and telephone wires wero carried down and it was several hours boforo the outsldo world could bo npprlsod of tho plight of tho city. It was not until un-til 8 o'clock tlint physlclnus nnd surgeons sur-geons began arriving from surround Ing towns. In tho mcantlmo dozons of willing hands set to work to clear nwny tho debris nnd oxtrlcato tho dead nnd injured. Tho Swedish Luthornn parsunngo and seornl private pri-vate residences wero turned Into temporary tem-porary hospitals, whllo tho dead wero taken to a store room and Inld out In rows, nwnltlng Identification When tho missing In Mnrquctto hnd boon pretty thoroughly accounted for. tho searchers directed tholr attention to tho surrounding country. Soon half a dozen wagouloads of dead nnd Injured In-jured hnd been brought to tho town from tho district adjoining It on tho south. Tho sufferers tell of many nnrrow escapes from death. Iono Sallcen, tho infnnt daughter of Chnrles Snlleon, was lifted In her bed nnd carried to tho mlddlo of tho streot. receiving only n fow scratches. Snlleon nnd his wlfo woro dangerously injured. Tho mnttreas upon which tho bnby daughter of tho Hov. Smith lay was doubled up In such n mannor ns to cover tho child nnd protect It from falling timbers. In splto of tho destruction de-struction of tho Smith liouso tho en-tiro en-tiro family escaped uninjured. Tho tornado cut n clean swath K'O yards In width through Its entire length. Coming nt midnight, tho people peo-ple woro caught without n moment's warning. Somo of tho lctlms woro killed ns they lay nsleep; others, maimed nnd bleeding, nwoko to find themselves hurled In tho wreckngo of their former homes. |
