CHILDREN KILLED.
TORNADO WRECKS SCHOOL. MANY OTHERS INJURED. (t'STTID PKESS ASSOCIATION'— BY ZLECTEIC TELEGBAPH— COPTBIGHT.) NEW YORK, May <_>. Clinchport (Virginia) messages state that tmenty children are known to have been killed and an undetermined number injured in a tornado whiefc demolished tho two-storev wooden high school at Rye Cove village, ten miles from Clinchport. —Australian Press Association, United Service. FRANTIC RESCUE WORK.
VARYING REPORTS. (Received May 3rd, 7.15 p.m.) NEW YORK, May '_>. Varying reports to-night from Gate City, Virginia, state that between fifty and eighty bodies of children have been removed from the wreckage of Rye Cove High School, which was demolished by a tornado. The rescuers aro working frantically to extricate some 250 children and teachers from the ruins, which are piled above them. Later reports now indicate that 12 children are known to be dead, and IK) injured.—Australian Press Association.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19610, 4 May 1929, Page 15
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