Found this in Cutler's History of Crawford Co.Ks Thought it was interesting. Carol TORNADO. Quite a number of tornadoes have occurred in Crawford County since its settlement, but the most terrific one was that of May 22, 1873. It came from the southwest, across the southeast corner of Neosho County, and crossed Crawford County in a northeasterly direction. The following named persons were killed: Mrs. Hezekiah Smith, Uriah Spurgeon, a baby of Ellen Hammond. Thirty-four were more or less severely wounded, some of them fatally, and a great deal of property destroyed, the loss being $4,457. A recital of some of the freaks of the storm will convey some idea of the forces of the wind. A boy, son of Mr. Black, was carried over a peach orchard and reached the ground uninjured. John Spurgeon, a lad about eight years old, was carried about 100 yards and had a thigh broken in two places. A baby was carried 300 yards and afterward found in a cornfield. Two horses were in a log stable hitched to one of the logs; the stable was blown down, and the horses, with the log to which they were tied, were blown through the air one-fourth of a mile without injury, and when found were still hitched to the log. Fifteen houses were entirely demolished. So great was the devastation worked that the County Commissioners gave assistance to the following parties in the following sums: Mrs. Hooper, $625; William Blaylock, $100; John Frogge, $200; B. R. Addis, $100; Theodore Metcalf, $50; W. T. Gunn, $50, and F. H. Dumbald, $100