TOWNS WIPED OUT.
DISASTROUS TORNADO. TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST. By TelecraDh-Prcss Association-Copyriirht (Ree. April 11, 5.5 p.m.) ■ NSW VorU, April 13. Fourteen towns in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma have been wiped out by a tornado. TwMity-h'vp fatalities arc known to have occurred, and ovor a hundred people have been seriously injured. The damagft is estimated at £500,000. It is (he most disastrous tornado tho district has ever experienced. SCHOOLS DAMAGED. OVER TWENtFFuPILS KILLED. (liec. April 15, 0.30 a.m.) New York, April 13. The tornado wiped out the town of Bigheart, Oklahoma, ten people being killed. A relief train has been dispatched. All communication has been cut off. The town of Whitings, in Kansas, is also wiped out, sixty houses being wrecked. Many people have been killed. Tho wife of a farmer was swept from the steps of her homo and carried half a mile. She was killed. Eskridge School has been badly damaged, dozens of pupils being injured, and one killed. At Hiawatha n school collapsed, the total death-roll being over 20.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1102, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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171TOWNS WIPED OUT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1102, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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