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After the Abilene store, a second variety store was opened nearby Salina in 1906, and managed by Wilbur. Other Duckwall's stores were opened in Central Kansas, in the cities of Manhattan, Clay Center (1910), Concordia (1911), Junction City, and Great Bend (1914). By 1915, a corporation was formed by the name of "The A.L. Duckwall Stores Company ...
The most prolific day was May 24 when 44 tornadoes touched down with at least 12 of them spawned by an intense, long-tracked supercell near Dodge City, Kansas. The strongest tornado from this outbreak was a violent EF4 tornado on May 25 that caused severe damage near Solomon, Abilene, and Chapman, Kansas, injuring eight. Overall, 98 tornadoes ...
Another Abilene accident resulted in tragedy this past weekend. An Abilene woman died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash just after midnight Saturday, according to a recent police press ...
At least nine others were injured, and seven homes 450 feet from the rupture were destroyed. This accident, and others of the era, led then-President Lyndon B. Johnson to call for the formation of a national pipeline safety agency in 1967. The same pipeline had also had an explosion on May 9, 1955, just 930 feet (280 m) from the 1965 failure.
In the second police shooting this year, Abilene officers killed John Kenney Dutton, 70, of Abilene on May 6 at a local United Supermarket after he allegedly drew a knife, according to police.
Abilene (pronounced / ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n /) [6] is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 6,460. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is home of The Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum and the Greyhound Hall of Fame.
The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. on northbound I-35 near 175th Street and involved a semi truck and an SUV. Four people taken to hospital after semi-truck and SUV crash on I-35 in Johnson ...
Killed in a helicopter crash shortly after takeoff in Maranacook Lake near Readfield. While he survived the initial crash, he drowned while waiting for rescue. [225] Game Warden R. Lyle Frost, Jr. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife - Warden Service: July 1, 1968: Killed in an explosion while clearing beaver dams in Franklin. [226]