I goofed and didn't send site that this was found.Under Crawford Co. http://history.cc.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/ steve brooks wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LOW RATE, NO WAIT! > Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! Get rates > as low as 2.9% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR and no hidden fees. > Learn more at: > http://click.egroups.com/1/937/1/_/449870/_/954867277/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Candyman. Hope you enjoyed the list. > Comments/Questions to: [email protected] > To modify subscription status, send a BLANK EMAIL TO: > To Subscribe: [email protected] > To Unsubscribe: [email protected] > To go to NO MAIL Status: [email protected] > To switch to Digest: [email protected] > To return to Normal Status: [email protected]