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Seneca, a city consisting of a few shanties ..." [6] Seneca was a station on the Pony Express of the early 1860s. The station was located in the Smith Hotel, at the present-day location of Fourth and Main Streets. [7] Seneca was incorporated as a city in 1870. [8] Seneca was home to minor league baseball.
Reliable reports said that numerous bodies were carried hundreds of yards, and that multiple deaths occurred in 17 different families; seven deaths were in one family alone. In Seneca Kansas on May 17, an opera house was swept away along with some farms. Entire farms were reportedly swept clean of debris, leaving the areas "bare as the prairie.
The tornado was also one of the deadliest in Kansas history, along with being the deadliest in the history of Comanche and Kiowa Counties. The tornado is the one of the largest officially surveyed tornado in Kansas history, at 1.7 miles (2.7 km); the Trousdale tornado that touched down on the same day had a larger width, at 2.2 miles (3.5 km).
Media related to Newspapers of Kansas at Wikimedia Commons; Kansas Press Association - has a full list of daily and weekly newspapers that are KPA members. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Kansas", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
E of Newkirk to E of Maitland, KS: Kay, Cowley(KS) 1700 15 miles (24 km) An entire farm was swept away near the beginning of the path. [5] F2: N of Kildare: Kay: 1730 unknown A barn was destroyed. One of six small tornadoes reported in the area. [5] Kansas: F2: N of Hoyt: Jackson: 2230 6 miles (9.7 km) One person was injured as a house was ...
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In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1855, Nemaha County was established. The first railroad in Nemaha County was built in 1866. [4] On May 30, 1879, the "Irving, Kansas Tornado" passed through Nemaha county.
Some supported a central location for the three towns, while others favored building it in Seneca. In 1968, this disagreement eventually led to Corning transferring to the Centralia, Kansas school district. After Corning left the Nemaha Valley District, the high school bond issue specifying a new Nemaha Valley High School at Seneca passed.