33 FIREMEN HURT IN GAS EXPLOSION.  read more »

DEATH TOLL MOUNTS TO 35 AS TORNADO STRIKES KANSAS CITY.

GREATEST LOSS OF LIFE IS IN RUSKIN HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION.  read more »

Six years later, on Friday, August 12, 1927, Mother Nature, unleashed another deluge. Beginning at 9 p.m., the rain fell in torrents, registering 3.27 inches in little over an hour.  read more »

Tornado Hurtled Car, Occupants Over Trees

Kansas City (AP) - “Where are we? What happened? Where’s our car? There’s supposed to be another girl with us.”  read more »

Explosion In A Mine.

Six Men Believed to Have Been Killed Near Chicopee, Kan.-Rescue Party at Work.  read more »

The year 1942 marked the next major inundation in Barton County.  read more »

Find Body of Man Drowned in Flood Water

Winfield (AP)-A township road maintenance crew today found the body of a drowned man a short distance north of Winfield on U.S. 77.  read more »

TORNADO IN KANSAS.

HOUSES BLOWN DOWN -- THREE CHILDREN AND A WOMAN KILLED -- CROPS RUINED.  read more »