TORNADO’S FURY
105 DEATHS REPORTED AMERICAN STATES SUFFER AIR LINERS CRASH’ (United Press Assn.—Uy Telegraph-- Copyright.) (Rec. 7 p.m.) New York, March 21 A message from Birmingham. (Alabama! states that 105 persons are known to have been killed und an undetermined number injured fatally, while several hundred are homeless as the result of a tornado which struck Western Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Kentucky late to-day. A message from Vancouver states that heavy weather resulted in serious aeroplane accidents. Charred wreckage in an orchard was all that remained of an American Airways plane which was lost in a fog in the Northern Californian mountains. Seven were killed. The liner struck high tension wires, then plunged to the ground. Wreckage was scattered over five acres. A transcontinental mail liner crashed in a river in Ohio. The pilot and the woman passenger were killed.
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Southland Times, Issue 21660, 23 March 1932, Page 7
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141TORNADO’S FURY Southland Times, Issue 21660, 23 March 1932, Page 7
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