Fairfield, Nebraska Tornado
June
5, 1908
DEATH RODE THE STORM
Tornado in Nebraska Worse than at First
Reported
Omaha. Neb., June 8 -- Reports from
the scenes of Friday night's storm in southern
Nebraska indicate that the conditions are even
worse than first reported. The death list
will doubtless reach twenty-five or twenty-six,
while the number of injured increase as reports
of havoc wrought by the storm become known.....
Eight Nebraska towns suffered from the
effects of the tornado,
Geneva, Fairfield and
Carleton being the
worst wrecked.
The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 8
Jun 1908
The scene at Fairfield is indescribable, more
than forty buildings were more or less wrecked
and some of them, were entirely demolished.
The loss there will exceed $100,000.
The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 7 Jun 1908
List of the Known Dead
The list of the known dead and injured is as
follows....
Baby Fleming,
drowned near Fairfield...
Fatally and Badly Hurt....
Seriously injured --
A. F. McReynolds,
Fairfield...
The Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City, IA 8
Jun 1908
THE DEAD
A revised list of the dead follows
Ray Flaming,
drowned near Fairfield...
The towns of
Carleton Fairfield
Deshler
Shickley
Geneva Franklin Ong and Riverton are among
those visited by the storm and in no one of them
did the elements spare life or property.
At Fairfield more than forty buildings were
more or less damaged and some of them, including
three churches, were entirely demolished.
The Daily Review, Decatur, IL 7 Jun
1908
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