STORM IN UNITED STATES
TOWNS DESTROYED BY TORNADO SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) Vancouver, June 17. Advices from Altus, Oklahoma, state that at least, seven people were killed, and the towns of Blair and Headrick were demolished by' a tornado on Saturday. One hundred residents of. Blair were injured. Farm lands over an area of three miles in width by a depth of thirty miles were laid waste. FATAL FLOODS IN THE SOUTH-WEST Kansas City, June 17. The south-western part of the United States is threatened by steadily increasing floods, following heavy rains and tornadoes. Four are now known to be dead, and scores of people are The towns of Blair and Headrick in Oklahoma are virtually destroy ed, and homes have been 'demolished, but. most of the residents fled to the cellars, and were saved. Crops and live stock were wiped out.
Relief workers are rushing to the devastated areas to aid the homeless and to attempt to check the rising rivers.' x .
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 221, 19 June 1928, Page 9
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