Geneva, Nebraska
Tornado
June
5, 1908
Rescue Parties Forming.
Geneva, Neb., June 6. -- Rescue parties are today being formed to
investigate the condition in and around this place since the
visitation of the tornado which killed two and injured many persons
late yesterday. As yet details of the disaster are meager.
It is known, however, that a mile west of here the farm buildings of
John Shively were entirely destroyed. Shiveley's four-year-old
daughter and a female servant were killed. Shiveley was so
severely injured that his recovery is doubtful.
It is reported that the path of the storm is strewn with injured.
The damage is estimated at between $100,000 and $200,000.
The Marion
Daily Star, Marion, OH, 6 Jun 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
At Geneva the storm
wrought great destruction and in the adjacent
country claimed five victims, two of whom were
killed outright and three fatally injured.
The Daily
Review, Decatur, IL 7 Jun 1908
List of the Known Dead
The list of the known dead and injured is as
follows: Lulu
Smith, domestic at
Shively home, near
Geneva; Irene Shively,
aged four, near Geneva...
Fatally injured --
John Shively and
Ross Shively,
Geneva...
Seriously injured --
Mrs. John Shively
and Edward Russell,
farmhand, Geneva...
Mrs. Bennett, near Geneva...
The Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City, IA 8
Jun 1908
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