BIG TORNADOES.
TOWN BLOWN AWAY. .VILLAGES LEVELLED AND TRAIN WRECKED. By Telegraph-Press Association— Copyright. New York, April 28. The tornado wrecked several houses in the town of Calumet. Three people were killed. The town of Lugort was completely blown away, and other villages levelled, and half a dozen people wore Wiled altogether. A freight passenger train, near Lugort, was blown off the tracks and wrecked. It is reported that twenty persons were kill,ed and forty injured. Another tornado at Nhildress, Mexico, greatly damaged a number of farmhouses. Seven persons are known to have been killed.
The' tornado cut a path half a milo wide and twenty miles long across the jountry, destroying everything.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1427, 30 April 1912, Page 5
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113BIG TORNADOES. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1427, 30 April 1912, Page 5
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