TORNADO DESTROYS OILFIELDS
PROSPEROUS CITY DEMOLISHED United Press Association —B? Electric Telecrsph —Copvright (Received February 18, 9.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 18. It is feared that fifty are dead and 100 injured in Rosessa, in Louisiana, which was virtually demolished to-day by a tornado. Tire greater part of the oilfields, of which Rodessa recently became the prosperous centre, was also destroyed.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20966, 19 February 1938, Page 11
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