By: Ardis E. Parshall - May 12, 2014 The dispatches from Halstead, Kansas, on May 1, 1895, were somber. As published as far away as the Sacramento [California] Daily Union of the next day: At 4:30 o’clock this afternoon a fearful cyclone devastated a strip of country several hundred yards wide and at least sixteen miles in length, killing six persons outright and seriously injuring several others, while many have received slight injuri...
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