FIERCE TORNADO.
SEVERAL VILLAGES WRECKED TRAIN BLOWN OFF THE LINE. SEVENTY KILLED AND INJURED (Br Cable—Press Association—-Copyright.) (Received 11.10- a.m.). NEW YORK. April 28. A tornado wrecked several houses in fhe town of Calumet, in Michigan, three being killed. The neighbouring town of Lugort was completely blown away, and other villages were levelled. Half a dozen were killed altogether. A freight and passenger train, near Lugort. was blown off (he tracks and wrecked. It is reported that 20 persons were killed and 40 injured. Another tornado at Nhildress. Mexico, greatly damaged farm houses, and seven persons are known to have been killed. The tornado out a path half a mile wide and 20 miles long across country, destroying everything.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 102, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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119FIERCE TORNADO. Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 102, 29 April 1912, Page 5
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