AN AMERICAN TORNADO
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. United Press Association—By Electric . Tele_r»ph—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 4. A tornado, travelling at the rate of 77 miles an hour, struck the city of Meridian, Mississippi, and ploughed a path six hundred feet wide and a mile long, unroofing . commercial buildings, hotels, and railway*' buildings. . In the first two minutes twenty-one white* and over a hundred negroes were killed. Tbe damago is estimated at a million and a half dollars. Torrential rains fortunately extinguished tho fires caused by tlie destruction of the buildings.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12444, 6 March 1906, Page 7
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