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Show People of Kansas Are I Completely Taken I by Surprise I Kansas City, April 3. The storms H which swept Missouri, Kansas, Okla- homa and Arkansas yesterday wero W freaks of their kind and were not even m recognized as a tornado by tho farm- m ers of Kansas, who have an acquaint- m ance of long standing with this varic- U ty of atmospheric disturbances. In W sovernl places, farmers, who, from long training, seek their cyclono eel- W lars at tho approach of a tornado, sat H in their homes and watched the ad- m vance of the heavy clouds which dealt W death and destruction. M At Hiawatha, a farmer doing his wA evening work, paid no attention, to the ' H threatening clouds, but later said the VM wind suddenly "dipped down," and Ut when It had passed, his home was in Ut ruins, his leg broken and his wlfo H dangerously injured. i M Along the route of the Santa Fe, H engineers declared that the cloud was- a typical wlster. In another place, a Ut farmer whoso home Is on a hill, sat In his home and watched nearby H houses and villages destroyed. W At Lawrence, the local company of W militia was drilling and did not know U there was a storm until the roof had been taken off their building. As the last of them dashed out the front H door, the second floor fell In. vU A side of the county jail was torn D down and about thirty prisoners made a dash for liberty, but only three sue- ceeded in escaping. m At Joplin, Mo., a man was picked up fl by the wind and carried the length of M a block and then dropped In the ehel- mm terlng doorway of a lftrgo office build- M ing. He was badly injured j A fireman on a train at Eskridgc, vM Kas., was .picked out of his cab and VW carried across tho street and there H dropped. At GennanLorcn, Kas., a.mer- , H chant had a full crib of corn awaiting' W to bo shelled. Ho left his store short- W ly before the' storm. Wh,en he return- W ed, his crib had been torn down, but M the corn had been pretty- well shelled and the grain was scattered over the fl ground., H In many places, houses were picked ' Ut up and carried several hundred yards H beforo falling. In Lawrence, a small ID house was carried about a block and H then dropped into a tree where it re- H roained firmly lodged. " H Children Inurjed. H Eskridgc Kas., April 13. A tornado H tore through the eastern part of this H place at 4 o'clock last evening from H tho southwest, tearing buildings to H pieces and Injuring a number of chil- H dren who were leaving the school. H Daniel Cousins was seriously hurt, but W is improved this morning. Thirty H children were slightly injured. H Ben Resch. a Santa'Fe fireman, was H hit by a flying timber and seriously H hurt. Thirty houses were blown down H or damaged. H The houso of Robert Strathern, six H miles northeast of town, was destroy- H od and Mrs. Claire Rutledge. a mar- H rlcd daughter, hud an arm broken. The H barn of Arthur Clark, In tho same IH neighborhood, was destroyed. H The property loss here will bo up- IH ward of $50,000. LLX Houses Destroyed. , jf Whiting. Kas., April 13. Fivo ( LW houses were completely destroyed by H the tornado which swept through Re- serve, six miles south of this place, IH at 4 o'clock last evening. Not a stick H of timber was left of any of theso H dwellings, but so far as can be as- H certained thoro wero but four casual- H Mrs. Fred Stone, was seriously H injured but she is still alive. Mrs. H Roy V. Vernon was badly injured when her residence collapsed. She H was still alive Oils morning. The H storm was plainly seen from thin place but It did no'dnmage here. Tho H wind was so severe that it stripped (Continued on Pago Seven.) H STORM IS FREAKISH (Continued from Page One.) the clothing from tho bodies ot Mrs. Stone and her children. Many Are Killed. Kansas City, April 13 Meagre reports re-ports recoiled this morning from the storm-stricken districts of Oklahoma, Kansas. Missouri and Arkansas indi- I cated that the storm covered a wider area than earlier information showed. The number of fataltles is still In doubt. Whiting, Kas., at first reported to have been a severe sufferer, almost escaped Injury, Communication with that town was not re-establlahcd until un-til today, however, as the tornado did not 'damage both north and south Of there. Rural, telephoncH are all out of commission and the extent of the damago In the country Is not know, j One person ,was killed and three seriously Injured at Roverse, Kas., a small village In tlje northern part of the mate .Mrs. Fred Stone was killed when her houso collapsed. Her two sons wore seriously Injured. Tho wind was so sovere that It stripped the clothing from Mrs Stone and her children Mrs, Roy .V Vernon wns 1 seriously hurt when her house was wrecked. The tornado completely destroyed five houses in Roserve A roport received this morning over a private wire was to the effect that three persons wero killed and sovoral houses blown down at Deleware Okla., , but no names are obtainable. The samo message states that several houses wore destroyed In Ochelata, Oklahoma. "Thirty-two persons were hurt, thirty houses demolished, causing a property damago estimated at $50,000 at Esk-ridge, Esk-ridge, Kas. A school house was destroyed, des-troyed, Injuring thirty school children, some seriously Mrs. Claife Rutledge and Daniel Cousins were badly hurt by flying timbers. At Hiawatha, Kansas Kan-sas one person was killed, four s6ri- j ously Injured and a numbei' slightly hurC Jane Peltou, aged 7, was killed, and Laura Brown, a school teacher, Gladjs Mellott, W A. Roberts and a man named Zimmerman wero badly hurt- Twelve buildings were destroyed and the damage amounts to thousands thous-ands of dollars. The town of Germantown and Baker in Kansas were damaged At Germantown, Ger-mantown, a man named Rosenbaum was struck by lightning and badly hurt. oo |