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Cyclone Overview
The cyclone struck Coffeyville, Kansas, on June 1, 1917, causing significant destruction in just three minutes. ​
Numerous homes and businesses were completely wrecked, with many families affected.
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Clearing trees on Resco home place, five miles north of Agenda, Kansas. Shown: John Resco, John Ellsworth, Reba, Mae and Erma Resco.

Union Pacific train plowing through snow on tracks near Sylvan Grove, KS

School, rectangle with two side entrances, one story, four front and five side bays, wood frame and weatherboard construction, rubble stone foundation, gable roof with corrugated metal roofing. Two curved wooden shed stoops on ornamental brackets,…

Church, rectangle with square corner entrance tower NE, one-and-a-half story, three front and side bays, wood frame and weatherboard, stone foundation (parged), gable roof. Square entrance tower with flat roof and parapet, recessed entrance with…

Pictured left to right in the top row are Mildred Zickefoose, Helen McPherson, Tabby Watkins, Ruth Marney, Loma Landis, Ethel Ropp, Ethel Craig, Alma Short, and Miss Emma Robinson, teacher. In the second row are Neva Brady, Leslie Griswold, Jimmie…

Clarence Wehner at the Rossville Implement Company in Rossville, Kansas.

Republic County, Kansas, citizens were asked to tell stories of their lives as they lived and remembered them.

Clara Nell German and Villa Dunn are checking a book out to a patron