TERRIBLE TORNADO.
FOURTEEN TOWNS WIPED OUT.
DAMAGE EXCEEDS HALF A
MILLION.
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New York, April 13. Fourteen towns in Kansas, Mis- , souri, and Oklohama were wiped ! out by a tornado. ; So far 25 deaths are known to ■ have occurred, .and over 100 were • seriously injured. ! The damage ds estimated at half ijs million. It was the most disastrous tornado ever experienced in -the district. The tornado -wiped out the town of Bigheart, Oklahoma, where ten were killed. A relief train has been despatched. All communication has been cut. The town of Whitings, Kansas, ' was also out. Sixty houses were wrecked, and many killed or injured. The wife »of a farmer was swept from the steps of her home and-car-ried half a anile before dbe was killed.
Eskridge school was badly -damaged. Doaeus of pupils were injured, and «ne killed. At Hiawatha the school collapsed. The total death roll exceeds a score. 1
ELEVATOE. BLOWN AWAY. MEN DSi: OF FRIGHT. <Reeervafi 15, 8 a.m.) ( Naw York, April 14. A grain elevator at Saint Louis, an Missouri, was -blown into the Mississippi during the tornauo. Two men died of Jricht.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 104, 15 April 1911, Page 1
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