TERRIFIC TORNADO.
VILLAGE COMPLETELY : DESTROYED | SEVERAL PERSONS ELECTROCUTED PARTY OF FIVE CEUSHED TO DEATH , By Telegraph.— Presi Association.— Copyright, * [ (Received April 23, 10.30 a.m.) CHICAGO, 22nd April. Thirty-five persons were killed, by a tornado an Illinois. A North-western Indiana village named Bush, was completely destroyed. Miles of telephone wires were blown •down, and a farmhouse lifted bodily. Tram trolley lines fell in many cities, and several persons were electrocuted. One party took refuge in a deserted house, but trees fell, crushing the structure, and all the party, numbering five, , were killed.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 7
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91TERRIFIC TORNADO. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 7
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