TORNADO IN ALABAMA
MANY PEOPLE KILLED. NEW YORK, May 5. A message from Birmingham (Alabama) states that nineteen were killed and more than two hundred injured when a tornado swept three West and Central Alabama communities early on Friday. TOLL OF TORNADOES Received May 7, 6.5 p.m. BIRMINGHAM (Alabama), May 6. Spring storms reaping destruction from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic seaboard had left a toll of 40 known dead in their wake to-day, raising to nearly 200 the total lives taken by southern tornadoes since March.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7
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