Great Bend, Kansas Tornado
November 10, 1915
DEAD.
Charles H. Smith, Piano salesman
W. W.
Hale, Mill employee
MAY DIE.
Jacob. L. Imel, mill employe
Mrs.
J. G. Krebaum, wife of the foreman at Moses and
Clayton ranch
John
Miller, Pennsylvanian working on Moses and
Clayton sheep ranch
Carl
Johnson, 12-year-old son of
Marion Johnson
INJURED
C. H.
Hall, Chicago. Not dangerous
Mrs.
Louise Miller and three children. Not
dangerous
Mrs.
Floyd Brown and two children. Will recover
Mrs.
William Brown. Condition good
James
Dalley. Leg broken.
Claude Kehrer. Condition good.
Louis
Zutavern, not serious.
Miss
Joyce Clark, not seriously.
William Sellers,
colored, wife and daughter
Ruth
and two small children. Condition good.
Albert Joslyn, colored, hotel porter Will
recover
John
F. Brown, light plant superintendent. Not
serious.
Francis and Clarence Eldrich Condition good
Mr.
and Mrs. I. E. Davis, grandparents of Eldrich
children. Condition good.
R. S.
Clark, Neosho, Mo. Moses and Clayton ranch
worker. Not dangerous
Charles Gilman,
transfer wagon driver
C. B.
Worden, retired farmer, wife and grown daughter
Blanche.
Mrs.
Marion Johnson, wife of postoffice engineer.
Two people were killed outright and several
so seriously injured that it is not believed
they have any chance to recover as a result of
the terrific cyclone which visited Great Bend
last night at 7:05. It was the first
cyclone that ever struck this city and one of
the most destructive cyclones that ever visited
this part of the state. The storm left a
path of destruction two blocks to three blocks
wide and which extended from the laundry to the
Moses Brothers &
Clayton farm near the east
school building.
The scene of the desolation which met the
view of those this morning viewing the effects
of last night's storm is indescribable.
Hundreds of people from town and from all parts
of the county were here to look over the pathway
of the storm and to see the damage done.
It seemed impossible to everyone that so much
destruction of property could have occurred with
so little loss of life.
But the morning showed the stories of the
night before to be only a slight part of the
real thing. The ruined homes, the stripped
trees, the general air of desolation, the damage
to the mills, laundry, and other businesses, the
railroad yards full of broken overturned box
cars, everything pointed to the fury of the
storm and the fact that Great Bend had suffered.
Citizens were out with first aid for the
injured a few minutes after the storm had passed
over the city and scores of autos were pressed
into service to aid the ambulance.
The
cyclone struck the city about 7:05 and was
proceeded by a roaring noise similar to the
noise of a fast running train but several times
as large in volume. What added to the
horror of the catastrophe was the wrecking of
the light and water company plant and the
inability of the firemen to cope with several
fires which broke out after the cyclone had
wrecked the southeast portion of the city.
The streets were dark and it was almost
impossible for those seeking to give aid to find
their way about the wrecked portion of the town.
continued
Great Bend Tribune, Great Bend, KS, 11 Nov
1915
 Great Bend Tribune, Great Bend, KS
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