Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-06-02 | Page 1 | Many More Lose Lives by Storm

MANY MORE LOSE Heavy Property Losses in Four States Caused by Yesterday's Yester-day's Tornadoes. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Juno 2. Twenty-three deaths, the probable Injury of more than two hundred persons and property damago estimated at more than a million dollars was dono in four states Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri by a series of tornadoes late yesterday and last night according to incompleto reports received re-ceived today. At Coalgate, Okla., 11 persons were killed. Coffeyville, Kan., suffered probably the heaviest financial Joss, estimated at more than $500,000, though no deaths were reported. At Drake, Okla., five persons, all members of one family, were killed. One person was killed at Montana, Kan., two at McCuno, Kan., threo at Morso, Kan., and one at Bartlesville, -Okla. - Later reports of losses from McCune and Montana, Kan., were denied. Southern Missouri points, mainly around Buffalo, in Dallas county, reported re-ported only minor wind damage. oc