AMERICAN TORNADOES AND FLOODS.
_ -_;_£_ — , 630 Square Miles Inundated. Great Destruction of Property Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. Received June 3, 11.33 p.m. •>•' '■ . NEW YORK, Juno 3,V Half £} million dollars damage -eras, done at Gainsvillein two minutes. Tlie tornado • was preceded by a few minutes of inky blackness and hot stiflingair. - 1 Two upper stories of a mill, crowded with operatives, were' lifted and carried hundreds of feet. Tlie railway station, church, and a score of cottages were demolished. I The sun was shining again within five minutes. Six hundred square miles southward of Kcoko*were inundated. , The loss of property in Kansas City totals .twenty million f dollars." St. Louis is threatened 1 witfi disastrous floods.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10966, 4 June 1903, Page 5
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114AMERICAN TORNADOES AND FLOODS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10966, 4 June 1903, Page 5
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