BETWEEN 500 AND 1000 HOUSES DESTROYED
Keeeived Tuesday, 1.20 p.m. KEW YORK, June 2. Searchers reeovered 37 bodies from the wreckage in the path of the tornado which smashed th rough four villages south of Pinebluff (-Arkansas) late yesfer-da-y. At- least 15 pcrsons are known to be missing and 7.1 severely injured while several Imndred snffered minor injuries. Initial estimates place the number of hoines destroyed at between 500 and 1000. The tornado which cut a swafhe 20' miles long and 1.0 miles wide played the usual fi'eakish tricks and left some places in its path untoucbed.
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 June 1947, Page 5
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