Tornado Demolishes Oil Town in Louisiana
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE FEARED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright Received Friday, 9 p.m. NEW YORK, Feb. 18. It 4s feared that 50 axe dead and 100 injured in Rod ess a, Louisiana, which was virtually demolished by a tornado. The greater part of the oilfields of which Rodessa had recently become the prosperous centre was alßo destroyed.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 42, 19 February 1938, Page 7
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