Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1920 — TORNADO FLATTENED COUNTRY OVER SIX MILE STRETCH [ARTICLE]

TORNADO FLATTENED COUNTRY OVER SIX MILE STRETCH

» A tornado struck just one and one-half miles north of Fowler Thursday evening and for a stretch of six miles, east and west, leveled practically everything in its path. The toll lines* out of Fowler were put out of commission by the falling poles, several fine barns were blown down and many trees uprooted. Scores of heads of live stock were reported to have been either killed or injured. Fortunately the storm did not reach Fowler and nothing in the town was injured.