DISASTROUS TORNADO

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 91, 18 April 1921, Page 7

DISASTROUS TORNADO

ENORMOUS DAMAGE DONE IN

AMERICA

OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE

KILLED.

(BNITIB PRBSS ASSOCIATION.—COTTRIUHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 15th April. It is estimated that 75 persons were killed and millions of dollars' worth of damage to property caused by the tornado which swept the Mississippi valley, Texas, Arkansas, lowa, and Colorado. Transportation and communication are paralysed, snow and rain hampering rescue work. NEW YORK, 16th April. Later reports of the tornado show thai twelve were killed in Texas, sixty in Kansas, and thirty-seven were killed and fifty injured in one county of Arkansas alone. Communication is still blocked, but news filtering through from the stricken regions shows that many hundreds were injiirad "in other places by falling buildings?' The wind reached a velocity of seventy miles an hour. Vegetation along wide strips across the country was completely destroyed. SouthWestern Arkansas suffered the , worst. ■The wind lifted laden railway cars bodily from the line at Nashville. Two cars crashed into and crushed a passenger train.. The passengers miraculously escaped.