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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1909
Page
1
A powerful storm struck multiple locations last night causing extensive damage and fatalities. Authorities report casualties and widespread destruction across affected towns with emergency crews coordinating search, rescue, and relief efforts. Local officials urge residents to stay indoors and follow updates from emergency services.
Society notes tell of the senior prom at the University with Eva Detwilder and Clinton Kanaga leading the grand march, booklets in white and gold, and campus color displays. Nearby storms brutalized Kansas and Oklahoma towns, killing several and injuring many as wrecks and debris halted rail travel and damaged farms and homes.
Frank H. Horn, defendant in a federal case alleging mail fraud in promoting the Two Queens mines in Arizona, testified in his own defense. He traced his interest to a 1906 Los Angeles meeting with Arizona prospectors Gordon and Werner and said he paid 5,000 dollars for an option, receiving a million shares. The report moves through other brief items and local notices from Kansas City to Nashville and Peoria, with unrelated crowd-pleasing odds and local society items.
A new cabinet company, Lawrence Cabinet Co, opens in a Savage building near Bow Street at Kney and New Hampshire corner. Frank Anderson serves as president with Fred Bromelsiek treasurer and Thomas Robertson secretary. modern machinery and experienced workmen ready to handle office fixtures, cabinet woodwork, and other wood tasks, signaling rapid local growth and strong patronage ahead.
The annual senior play, a highlight of University and city life, will be staged at Bowersock Opera House Thursday and Friday next week. Amarette Weaver chairs the play committee and Eleanor Lincoln of Topeka directs with Thomas Veatch as manager. The production promises a strong pit with local hits and much laughter.
Rescue efforts continued today after Lorin Wilbur drowned yesterday morning in Butk Creek. As of noon, the body had not been recovered despite diligent search by crews. Nearby, floods from yesterday's rain left cellars underwater and prompted pumping. A separate note mentions the Pathfinder car leaving Denver en route to Kansas City, with arrival in town anticipated by Tuesday.
Between thirty and forty persons were injured when a Chicago and Alton passenger train No. 14 wrecked near Walnut Row school house two miles east of Odessa Missouri. The rear car overturned several times while the engine stayed on rails. rescue teams and physicians from Odessa, Kansas City, and nearby farmhouses fought to treat the injured as their conditions varied from cuts and bruises to serious and potentially fatal injuries.
May 15 New York readers learn of a Directoire revival that shapes a dress into trousers when the wearer moves. The fashion item, resembling a skirt at rest, reveals full trousers around thirty six inches at the bottom to the shoe soles. Other notes mention souvenir spoons from Gustafson and 25 cent writing papers at Bongkun's with graduation gift ideas from Ed Parsons.
Markets report grain prices for wheat corn oats and rye with cash and futures quotes from Kansas City and Chicago. Livestock section lists cattle receipts and prices for beef steers cows and heifers, stockers and feeders, calves, and hogs with top and representative bids.
A stream of visitors and departures marks the day with Carl Steeper and Herbert Jacobs among those in or out of the city. Various residents such as Mrs A M Spaulding and Miss Fay Stein travel to Chicago and Kansas City while local figures like Frank Drake and Grace Waugh engage in events and duties around Perry, Topeka, and nearby towns.
A May storm system swept across Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma with tornado like ferocity. Three people are reported dead and at least six missing with fifty five injured. Hulls Kansas and Mount Washington Missouri sustained heavy damage as homes were wrecked and crews battled floodwaters.
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