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Extra iWarpbtUe Bail? Jforutn Extra VOL 25 Member NELA Service, and B. MARYVILLE, MISSO UBI, WEDNESDAY MOHNING, (KT. 24, 1934 Founded as The Nodaway Democrat, In IMW. NO. 120 TORNADO HITS CITY AND CCC CAMP Damage to High School Is Heavy, Roof Is Torn Off Lots to Washington Building Will Run Into Several Thousands.

Will Not Hold School Feet of the North of Building Is Completely Torn Away. Washington high school was in the of the tornado which struck the east section of Maryville last evening at 5 30 Because of darkness It was impossible to determine the extent of damage to the building The building was practically vacated and nobody was injured. Tile Forum was advised that Bill Smith, coach, and manual training instructor was in tile building at the time the tornado struck but was uninjured The uplier six feel of the north wing of the building was torn completely away from the structure and strewn over the grounds. Large finished stones were driven into the ground two and three feet It was impossible to determine how much of the roof remained but be cause of a number of holes which wert apparent even In the darkness It wa; thought that the entire roof was demolished. Every window was apparently broken and the window oases on the southwest corner were slashed from the building and barely hanging in place.

Superintendent Lawing and O. Miller, president of the school board. were in Kansas City yesterday with the high school band attending the American Royal, and could not be reached at a late hour. H. 8.

Thomas, principal of the sc hoots, stat'd that he had viewed the wreckage and advised a representative of The Forum that it would be Impossible to have school today. Mr, Thomas stated that he did not know as to the extent of tornado Insurance carried by the sc boo1 board, but he did know that Insurance of that type was canted on the building. He said that arrangements would undoubtedly be made In a day or sc and school would be urn sd us soon as temjxvrary quarters could be provided Uel VV president of the Northwest Missouri State Teacher; College, advised the local school authorities that the college stood ready to help in any way that it could, in order to resume school as soon as possible Spoofhound Grid Squad Into Buildings While a tornado swept a section of Maryville, the Spoofhound football squad of Maryville high achoo! huddled In a corner in the dressing room until the storm had A portion of the roof on the high school annex housing the gymnasium and home department was destroyed Albert Myers a member of football squad, tells this story; fellows had Just come in from the field from practice and were dressing Robert Sawyers and myself wire the first to leave the gym We had Just stepped out of the door and saw limbs and parts of roofs from houses City Is Struck by a Bad Storm on Sept. 18,1905 Ringling Brothers Circus Was Showing Here at the Time. Hit the Fair Grounds Charles Robinson.

Assistant Editor of Republican, Died of Injuries Suffered. On September 18, 1905, as the Ringling Circus was showing at the fair- TWO MEN HIE NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE: Building Is Damaged; Storm Courses Over to CCC Camp. MEN CRUSHED IN BARRACKS AS STORM HITS CAMP Storm Sidelight, The Dead Ouy K. Allen. Shelbina, member of emu p.

Ralph K. Hare, St. Louis, member of PCV camp. The Injured (J. Runyan, HOI ust I'mn th street, ann ami Tornado Strikes Path Northeast Across City, First Dipping Down in Southwest Section possibly fractured! 'skull.

Moving Across Mam Street Where Ice Plant Is Wrecked; Washington School Mrs. Virgil (Imin, colored, broken leg. Mrs. Vernon colored, internal injuries, Joe Met member of CVC camp. Crowley, member CVC flying In the air.

We rushed back Into east of Maryville a tornado enillp. the dressing room and told the fellows what was of running out of the building, the fellows followed the command of Coach Croy and packed Into one corner without any confusion whatever. When the storm had passed, the couch told the fellows to go horn immediately." As the storm was the heaviest In the vicinity of the high school, the response which the football fellows made to the command of their coach struck here. Charles Robinson, assistant editor of the Republican and Edward Booth who lived on North Mulberry street died of injuries Robinson had left the circus tent but returned to look for his sister and her little daughter and to aid others in escaping from the falling tent when he was hit with a weight and never regained consciousness Booth had his back broken when a wagon under probably saved some of the high which he sought refuge turned The peacefulness of Maryville was suddenly disrupted at Tuesday afternoon by a quickly forming tornado 'that dipped down iii the residential section of the city, swept Harlan strong, who heard the storm through to the northeast ami demolished the Veterans (XX' strike, rushed east on East Third street and over toward the CCC camp i- i Wright, member CTV As be was nearing the camp he heard to live. I pwards of twenty were injured as the bar- ccc men call and ask for help a racks the south of newly' constructed camp were half block south from the camp, an old demolished like they were more paper.

Whippet was turned over and an cid- stillness of the evening as preparations made ii ii I WHS H' for the evening meal, the copper colored clouds struck with a notion, member ned underneath the car and his head a-. i was badly cut and an arm probably viciousness that left only debris and writhing forms. broken. He was rushed to the hospital. after the car was lilted from Oloilds SCCID students from injury.

Between twenty- five and thirty plovers were in dressing room at the time. on him Other women members of the Booth family were injured but recover- I CH III JI. Dobbins, Kansas mein tier (TX? camp. B. camp.

Clarence Robison, member (TX1 camp. Edward CCI camp. Sherman Bond, member CCC camp. F. member CCC Myers Describes Storm as It Hit Camp High Line Hit and Flames Shoot Upward With Debris.

Morrow camp. John Stack, member camp. Mrs. Hiram Edwards Last Fourth street. member a Lloyd A Myers, an employe of the Forsyth Packing which Is located Just west of the Veterans CCC Camp, tells of the sight which prevailed at the Instant the storm struck the camp.

E. Forsyth. Fred (Hauser and myself were at traced from the plant by a terrific roar of wind. We could see the sky was loaded with bits of sticks We knew the storm was going to be a serious one and we callid boys in the plant to come out tornado struck the ramp with force First, the high line was hit and flames shot and then lumber from the buildings was twisted into ade bad been held pieces and lifted away The whole ii a ranee was as lf an explosion had occurred We saw several CCC men get out of the ditch along the road on the ed soon after receiving treatment at the St. Francis hospital.

Among ti Injured were; Mrs. Thomas Clark, two ribs fractured Scott McKee, cut on head and spine hurt. Mrs. Scott McKee, face bruised. The Scott children were also slightly cut and bruised.

Mrs John Kane, right elbow dlslo cat ed. Miss Dorothy Terhune, granddaughter of H. E. Robinson, ankle sprained Miss Georgia Gravity, Iowa, was bruised about the head and was unconscious for a time. None of the circus employees were more than slightly injured due to their better knowledge of the surroundings Tile performance had almost ended when the storm struck.

One aerialist burned her hands when, upon looking through an aperture near the top of the tent where sh. was swinging. saw the storm's approach and slid was completely demolished, reports an oilier rapidly down the rope. The elephants injury. Doris Gage, whose father his body.

Mr. Strong then rushed over to the camp where the buildings were found to be strewn over the ground and cars and trucks turned over. When Strong first got to the camp the CCC guards who were patrolling the streets said no one was to be I HD mitted. An ambulance was trying to get through on Laura street to the An undetermined number of per- grounds and Mr. Strong was called sons, who received treatment for min- to help push the ambulance to the or injuries and were sent on to their camp.

Fortunately the hospital was not struck and Mr. Strong helped carnie identity of those so treat- I ry u.n to inJuwl to the Forum building saw the clouds form was tint homes. rt and sprit home wa not determined th at th- hmpiui at outodj u-tmtnt. The fence around the south side of the camp was pushed over by the camp guards so that ambulances could be driven near the debris. It was a frightful scene, Mr.

Strong said As Mr Strong got to the camp he found the CCC men returning to the wreckage. When the storm struck hundreds fled, some even stopping to pick up their pet coons or dogs. Bob McClaren's house on East Third where they were -ed. Daughter of CCC Worker Hurt at Stafford Home Mrs. Harold C.

Stafford, whose two- story home at 1002 East Fourth street had been remov.il to the depot as the Frank Gage Is with the Veterans CCC street was moved twelv to fifteen reel management had announced there camp. has an apartment at the Stat- of! of its foundation. This Is a one- would be no evening performance due ford residence. Seeing the storm ap- story house with about five rooms. to the threatening weather.

Tile par- preach. Mrs. Stafford called to her, but At the home of Mrs. Edith Lacy. 810 under umbrellas, before Miss Gage had reached safety The tent lifted clear of the poles and the bad hit and Miss Oage then fell and then the tent poles be- cut by Hying glass.

The Stafford home was lifted from its foundation and piled out on the street directly north. gait dropping in ail directions. Many light cages overturned in the Many observer, of the damagfd they had jump bu.Ming late hut night wore ut the 1 btto it tor safety. opinion that the entire north section north ride of the camp after the storm menagerie tent and a number of animals were Injured although none escaped. Mr.

Myers added that they were The rain continued to fall during this standing two hundred feet from a via- storm and everyone was covered with J. W. Shannon, Carrier Boy For Forum, Injured of tile structure was twisted on its duct planned U) run and jump mijd blood. Many families base, but contractors present stated that it would be impossible to tell to it in the event the storm swept to- were separated and In their haste to East Third street, tile tornado pushed the house off the foundation. Across from the McClaren house the garage of was turned over.

Their Buick car was Inside the garage and it went over with the building. ON WAY TO CAMP. til this morning as to the damage. the on the premlse.s were not Uouchfd by the tornado Truman Declares New Deal Is Only Campaign Issue ward the plant. The packing house and find loved ones pocketbooks and other valuables were scattered.

Many people slipped through the spaces In the seats and crawled out on their hands and knees. Many narrow escapes were reported. There were quite a few persons on the street at the time the winds came. Three wooden were said to have lost their hats on West First street. They were Mrs.

D. Reeves, wife of Circuit J. W. Shannon, a carrier for The Daily Forum, was cut about the head from flying glass as he stood on a Judge Reeves, Miss Eva Farrar and porch seeking shelter from the gale, Miss Mildred Clardy. None of the hats Shannon was out on his paper route, were found.

He rushed onto the front porch of th: ---------W. J. Montgomery residence at the cor- It is thought the first building to be Carrier Boy With Forums Sees Storm one girl had her ankle caught between I "er Edwards and Buchanan streets.struck by the cyclone was the garage Coming and Seeks Shelter. two cables and as they swung she was The blew out some window lights at the home of V. E.

Bird. 722 South On Tuesday the CCC camp subscribed repeatedly Jerked from the ground. I aild Portions of glass cut him in sev- Buchanan street. to copies of The Forum, and last eve- Attorney Bhinabarger, wife and era' places about the face ning first delivery of the papers were daughter left the tent as the to be made. Oale Donahue is The rain started and ran to the Burling- The wind in its wake a consid- The storm followed a heavy shower, which with the heavy rain of last night, made a lob-lolly of mud on the camp site and made rescue difficult.

Hasty calls were put in for ambulances and physicians. The ambulances rushed the injured to the St. F-'-cta hospital. At find the iden- ti rf the men could not be learned. Six or seven of the buildings were demolished.

One of the CCC boys who was standing in the door of one of the demolished buildings said it felt like the structure was blown out from un- Rov Schrader, barber in The Dally him. The men who were killed were crushed in the buildings as they were caved in. Only of short duration, the tornado struck with such suddenness that it Persona living to Form at Munn and Cooper Sts. One Cloud Comet From the Southwest and Other From Northwest. ing and heard the roar.

He says one cloud came from the southwest and the other from the northwest. They appeared to meet about over Munn and Cooper streets. Tile clouds were sickly yellow in color and the noise sounded like a i' -ar caused by boards slapping together. Mr. Schrader decided that the safe place for him was at home and had progressed about three blocks northwest when he saw the clouds dip in what he believes was the one tliat unroffed the high school gymnasium.

Holt Supply Co. warehouse, a large galvanized building, had the east end lorn from it and the base of a metal silo which had been west of the building was lying in the street in front of the high school. There had been a short shower which left the people duad. on South Main street' and in tile east part of the city were terror stricken as there was a roar of wind that caved in the windows. Huge limbs of trees struck the roofs of houses, causing more commotion in the houses that suddenly became darkened as the electric light wires were shorted.

The storm coursed to the north in a width estimated at little more than a block wide. The storm first hit in the southwest part of the town, struck off across Main street, took in the ice plant and high school, demolished buildings to the northeast and then wreaked its havoc at the rfaeked off, then the clouds rushed camP- irom the southwest to tile northwest. Damage will nm over several hun- then followed a period of warm air in which breathing was labored. A number of people are suffering from heart trouble caused by the shock. Miss Mildred Clardy.

sister of Miss dreds of thousand dollars, it was estimated. Buildings, the number unknown, were moved off their foundations, garages and small demolished, Leota Clardy, society editor of The window lights blown in at innumer- Forum, had been at the high school, able places, wires, both telephone and and had called Miss Leota to bring her electric, were tora from poles and rain coat. They were only about two houses. Electric power was shut off blocks from home when Miss MJI- in many the homes and the houses dred collapsed and was carried into a thrown in darkness Just as dusk was house and rested about one-half hour. falling.

They then proceeded on their way and The heaviest damage In the down Miss Mildred again collapsed. A doc- town district done at the McFar- tor was summoned as soon as she could 1 land ice id fuel plant. The bulld- be carried home and seems to be im- ing was unroofed and the heavy con- proving, crete blocks were piled to the inside of the building. The roof was carried The plate glass window in the Glov- I west across the street on top of Ute fc Co hnlf a block Martin building. Declaring that the only issue before porum carrier on that route, and the ton depot before the wind hit.

Returning to town an hour later he found that he was reported to have been the voters in the present campaign Is ccc camp ls the last stop on hls route the New Deal, Judge Harry rruman, Becaufie Df the hard driving rain Gale Democratic nominee for the United to st0p several blocks from tntured States Senate, said last night in a the camp and walt for the rain to sub- necesary to hitch eight horses T'STS'S PU" making agriculture profitable and old age He said that President Roosevelt, in a recent had asked each voter to determine whether or not he better off today than the beginning of the present National Democratic regime. A pertinent question, suggested by the query, Truman said, was for each voter to ask himself if he were better off at the end of the Hoover administration than he was at the time Hoover took office. votes of Senator Roscoe C. Patterson, my opponent, against feeding the starving millions after President Roosevelt set in motion measures to soften the blows of the ruin brought tc them by Republican misgovernment stands out against any claim of Republican leadership in Missouri that had any thought of the working classes. vote to deny millions work, so that the heads of 13 million American families might be held erect, was another sad blow to the pretenses of the Republican leaders.

His votes against farm relief in both the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations show he is (See No. I on Page Five) Booth when it was discovered he was under it. Mrs. B. F.

Anderson, North Market stret recognized Mr. Robinson by his clothing without seeing his face. She had a physician summoned. The scenery of "The Field of the Cloth of Gold" was entirely destroyed. i I I Much criticism was directed to the Otate I aUTOUnCll' Circus for having removed a number i of poles before the performance ed.

The large tent leaked in nearly Wellsville, Chief eyery lnch the wind struck. There was no accompanying roar as May Face Charge of Killing Two RAVENWOOD ESCAPES. streets and in the low No damage was done in the were blown out. porch furniture wood, Orrsbuig. Parnell and Sheridan strewn over the yards.

Numerous Hues vicinities from the storm, according to are said to have been blown down. The a report from tile telephone operators flue on the property of Mrs. M. E. Far- of these towns.

A report was circulated that considerable damage had been done in the northeast part of the county. The tornado which struck in Maryville started lifting rapidly after passing over here. rar at 107 North Buchanan street, was blown down. Chief J. H.

Fultz of Wellsville said early this SSI I aPPcared wlth the storm Richettl, henchman of Charles Pret-! ty Floyd, to Kansas City authorities to faoe charges of having participated In the union station massacre there. In a long statement issued to reporters, Fultz said he preferred to give up custody of the prisoner to the state police of Missouri at Macon to face a charge of killing two patrolmen. East Liverpool, Ohio. Melbourne, (PP) ex Arthur Boy" Floyd, the terror hausted Englishmen landed their mon- of the Oklahoma badlands, lay on an Qplane here this afternoon to end one Get Any Sleep 71 Hours of Air Journey slab here today in expiation of his ten years of crime. His black, patent-leather hair sllck- of the most astounding flights in history The fliers had a close shave over the ed down meticulously even in Timor sea when an engine gave out Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Johnston of to accentuate the paUor of his face, th a and oniy determined work enabled Hopkins were in Maryville today tran- braggart sought for the infamous Kan- them to keep going to a safe landing, sacting business. t8ee No. 4 on Page Three) (See No. 3 on Page Two) Carried Acron Street William Masters, pressman for The Forum, was walking to his home at 114 South Dewey street.

The tornado hit and he decided the best thing to do would be lie down In the vacant lot directly across south from the high school building across the street. He did that and the first thing he knew he was being thrown through the air, and across the street into the bushes by the side of the school building. He was hit by flying missies and lacerated and injured about the head, and several ribs cracked. Mr. Masters said that he could not describe the sensation of being lifted and thrown through the air.

A window in the home of Dr. H. S. Rowlett was blown out. The property of Charles R.

Oaugh, 317 8outh Main street, was moved off of the foundation. jqtu.i. was shat- I tered by the force of the wind. S. J.

(Steve) Donahue and family Hve at 811 East Second street. The gale removed part of the roof on their house, tore off all porches, and uprooted all trees in his yard. AU outbuUd- ings were carried a half block away. Prop up Poles. Wires and poles are down all along the streets which were struck severely by the winds from the storm.

Several of the poles that are across the streets The front porch on the house of C. C. Corwin, 504 South Main street, was torn completely away. The roof of the porch was carried a full block to the north. The back yard was full of debris and the inside of the house was damaged considerably.

The large barn (rf W. A. Tindall at 822 East Third street was carried a hundred feet northeast and smashed. A gigantic oak tree six feet from the southeast corner of his house was uplifted, roots and all and laid over on the house. The plate glass window of the Electric Light and Power company was blown In and glass was strewn over Main street.

Traffic on Main street was held up or some length of time by the large trees which were Mown Into the street. The city got out Its trucks and men to clear the federal highway as automobiles and trucks, impatient to get through, focused their lights on the limbs and trees to enable the workers to chop their way through. The large porch on the south and east of the property of Mrs. Mary Phares, across the street north from the Corwin property, was torn down. The windows were blown in.

Mrs. Phares, who has been Ul, suffered a shock and had to be carried from her home. It Is reported that many window panes were blown from the home of W. J. Montgomery on West Edwards street, west of the Corwin home.

Claude Wilson, commander of the local legion post stated last night that the organisation Mood ready to help feed and house any person who has been made destitute by the tornado. Members at the poet worked Into into the night caring for G. C. G. boys who were injured, and helping to do whatever possible in the way of restoring the camp.

The disaster relief set-up of tim Nodaway County Chapter has been on con-) stunt duty since the storm struck. John Mutz, chairman, with Mrs. Fern Crull, executive secretary. The Red Grow is giving transportation, seeing that people were entered in the hospital and helped provide lights for the hospital. Child DI Whk I Diphtheria Taken Away to Safety A child In bed with diphtheria was picked up by the mother and rushed out of tim bouw es tho tornado whipped the roof off the bouw and the I windows veers lnvriMh out.

I The child was Hein Ruth. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bwaney at I JKF East Fourth street Bwaney said that when Mw saw the tornado approach hor lint thought I was to get the sick child from Hie house, with her other daughter. San- I trios trailing behind.

The roof on the John Cumutt house, in the 300 block on South Main I They were also making a survey to wen propped so as to 'street, was lifted off and landed in see who needs shelter for the night make it safe for people to traverse the streets. the back yard of Chester needs may be telephone to the home, at 300 South Main street. Red Gross. Tulsa. long snpectsd break In the prim af amdt al dime today as the Allas UM Onmpihf at Shreveport, an affiliate of tim Spartan Refining Company, aul BMA Tmoas petroleum from $1 flat to IO carts..