NINETEEN KILLED
TOLL OF TORNADO FIVE AMERICAN STATES VILLAGES DESTROYED TRAIL OF WRECKAGE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 31, 5.5 p.m.) KANSAS CITY, March 30 Nineteen persons were killed and 200 injured by a tornado which swept across five States in the south-west, destroying whole villages and piling up buildings and wreckage for miles. Several school houses collapsed, but in most instances the pupils miraculously escaped alive. The tornado lashed Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Central Illinois.
The storm was accompanied by rain and hail. Electric power was cut off and in many cases surgeons ab hospitals operated upon injured persons by the light of electric torches.
BLIZZARD IN ALBERTA SCHCIOLCHILDREN'S ORDEAL MAROONED 24 HOURS IN BUS (Received March 31, 5.5 p.m.) CALGARY, March 30 A blizzard in the drought area in A'herta resulted in traffic being snowbound., including trains. Fourteen children who were marooned in a school bus for 24 hours were rescued in an. exhausted state. Hundreds of cattle and sheep have perished. Mr. A. H. Goodall, a barrister, is missing, and it is believed he was frozen to death in his isnowbound motor-car.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23002, 1 April 1938, Page 9
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