ILLINOIS TORNADO
EIGHTY PERSONS KILLED BY| COLLAPSING HOUSES. By Telegraph.— tress Association.— Copyright, (Received April 24, 11 a.m.) CHICAGO. 23rd' April. ' The- tornado at Illinois covered a larger; area, thmv was at firab believed. Eighty persons are known to be killed by collapsing houses and falling trees. A hundrod homes were levelled in olio district, and people were crushed to death in tho debris. NEW YORK, 23rd April. The tornado ewept a large area 06 Southern Georgia. Six persons are reported to have been killed, and heavy; damage wa» done to property, '
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 7
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92ILLINOIS TORNADO Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 97, 24 April 1912, Page 7
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