CYCLONE (TORNADO) 1916
CODELL, KANSAS
Codell
Notes
Our weather nowadays consists mostly of rain, then
hail, then sunshine, then wind. Last
Sunday about eleven o’clock a little cloud passed over and gave us quite a
shower and considerable hail. Monday
afternoon another shower and hail.
After the cyclone swept Werner
Overholzers barn away the boys killed 281 rats.
John Hoskins had a blacksmith shop
blown away in the cyclone and some of the tools have not been found yet. 1 vice bolted to a 2 x 12 plank blew away
and up to Monday was not found.
We forgot to mention last week the
damage done by the cyclone at Art Besseys.
It tore around pretty lively among his machinery, windmill, etc, also damaged
his house pretty badly.
Wilber Overholser was up from Codell vicinity
Tuesday attending Decoration Day exercises.
He reports his damage from the cyclone not over $50.
Frank Jones was up from Corning
Township Wednesday. He says he does not
believe anything could have stood in the direct path of the twister which was a
rod or two wide. At his place he thinks
the main force passed between the barn and the pond. At John Hoskins it seemed to divide one part going each side of
the house.
The big tree has been cleared from
the road past the Hoskins place but the auto is still sticking to the side of
tree.
Mr. Jones finds his fields for
several hundred yards wide all covered with debris and it is quite a problem
how to get rid of it. He now thinks of
using a harrow and dragging it into piles.
He found the radiator cap of Mr. Hoskins car out in the middle of his
field. Boards with nails in are
scattered all over the fields making it dangerous for horses. Many things were driven into the ground so
deep it is impossible to pull them out.
He will have quite a time clearing it and was in town looking for a man
to help him.
Jean Lesher calls us down for
calling the storm near Codell a “cyclone”, and makes a good case against us by
quoting Webster’s dictionary. We will
compromise if when Jean gets his cyclone cave dug he will call it a twister
cellar.
Bids for repainting school house 43 x 48 feet, 25
feet high, paint furnished by board, will be received up until noon Saturday,
June 10, 1916. Board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids. For further
particulars write. R. W. Gilpin,
director, Codell, Kansas.