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Show NEBRASKA CYCLONE KILLS SEVEN, Varloat ntrm Wipes Oat Oat rstnll Several Sev-eral lnJarJ, Two ralallj. A tornado which awepl down the Keya I'alia river and atruck Napier, Neb , rrlday night, leftalrall of death and destruction beven tieraona are dead, several Injured, two of them fatally The killed and wounded are membere of two families, (Irrenlug and Anderson All but two were children chil-dren jnder tvu ycara of age Two othera were fatally hurt, and several suffered alight Injuries There la but one member of the (Ireenlng family left The father of the Oreenlng family was found a quarter of a mile from tae house badly mangled Iloth arms and lege and back wero broken, and there la no chance for hla llfo Little Maggie and Jacob (Irtentng were found 600 yarda from where the house stood They were alrlpicd of all their clothing, but were notdla-figured notdla-figured HIv. hours before the atorm the aun wat shilling iThcstorrn cloud appeared about S o'clock and traveled down toe Keyn Paht river It seemed to rise up and skip tome house and then swoop down and demolish everything The tornado wit preceded by a heavy hailstorm hail-storm Slonea fell that ineasurtd ten Inches In circumference Mr- Anderson took refuge under a bank near her home with three children chil-dren Bho taldt "t taw the cloud coining and knew It waa bad, and I grabbed the youngest child and took two with mo When the atorm atruck the house, It took It right Into the air, and that was tho last of It "I hurried to my children, but the etortn took two of them away from me and killed them I lay down and held my baby Tho wind alto took It away from me. A timber atruck me and broke my ahouldcr. After the atorm all mr clothee and thoea and stockings wtre gone." |