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Show KANSAS TORNADO K!LLSTK!RIY Storm Broke With Great Suddenness, Sud-denness, Cutting Path Half a Mile Wide. WICHITA, Kan., May 25. Thirty persons are known to have been killed, kill-ed, more than fifty have received injuries in-juries from which it is said several will die, and property worth thousands of dollars upon which no valuation yet has been set, was destroyed late today to-day when a tornado swept up through Sedgwick and Harvey counties in the south central part of tho state. Andale, a village of less than 300 inhabitants, bore thd brunt of the twister's rage, eighteen lives being the toll bofore the storm, which, accompanied ac-companied by a blinding rain, bore on to tho northwesL The country southeast of Newton furnished the remaining fatalities, three lives being lost Ave miles from fh.it riitv- The country 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. Sedgwick, the largest town between Andale and Newton, barely escaped from the storm's fury; a few houses In one 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 wore broken before word could be sent ahead of the Impending danger. Tho identified dead: AGNES RAUSCH, 23. "GRANDPA" HEIGER. MRS. FRANK HEIGER, FRANCES HEIGER. MRS. ALEX SCHMIDT. IRENE SCHMIDT, aged A. JOE MERTES, aged 13. MRS. JOHN KLEIN and THREE CHILDREN. NICK CORELL, 80. HENRY" RAUSCH. MINNIE SOMERHAUSER, aged 16. HENRY BACH. Those whose condition appeared to be hopeless are: John Heiger and his aged mother; infant son of Alex Schmidt, Mary Heiger, Hei-ger, John Buscher, Mrs. J. A. Fischer. Bursts Out of Clear Sky. The storm burst suddenly on the town, which but a few minutes before had been enjoying the sunshine, with a terrific torrent of rain. Coming from the southwest, it dropped to the ground two miles before reaching Andale, An-dale, leveling houses, trees and fields In its path. A warning cry from a man who had heard tho ominous roar prompted tho occupants of the little country general gen-eral store to rush into the basement Just as the cyclone struck the building, build-ing, cutting it in half and settling the roof upon the floor. A dozen lives were saved in the store by the prompt dive into tho collar. Henry Rausch and his daughter were believed to have beon the first victims, their little house being blown asunder as If by an explosion and the two occupants were beaten to death by the flying timbers. Mrs Schmidt and her small daughter were struck down and killed as the mother ran to a place of safetjThp child was found 1 dead clutched in her arras. Tho Kleins, the family which suffered most from tho tornado, was buried in the wreck-ago wreck-ago of their cottage, and never had a chance to escape. Mr. Klein was away at the time. Depot Demolished. The Missouri Pacific depot was demolished, de-molished, but the agent escaped after setting his block signals H J. Smitz, a young farmer living southeast of Andale, saw the storm demolish houses in its approach to the town and rodo to Colwich, six miles away from where he notified the railroad authorities here. A special train immediately was made up and a complement of doctors and nurses collected. They arrived at Andale about an hour after the tornado tor-nado and were able to give much needed need-ed temporary relief. Twelve bodies were brought here. Tho Injured were immediately rushed to hospitals. Hail accompanied the wind and rain and Hastily gathered reports from the dovastatnd section oxtending to Sedgwick Sedg-wick told of complete destruction iii"j,iiii.iwnu..'.i,."Hiri r'tim 1'jt... - .. .... U -J-. I.LJJJJJ-.L.UJ'.' WJ .'LM 'I1 '-LIL'JllLI.JUJiUaTJ I'Ai |