TORNADOES IN AMERICA.
:— 4 TWENTT-EIGHT PERSONS KILLED. By Telesrapli—Press Association—Copyrijht. St. Louis, June 17. Twenty-eight people were killed and many injured through the effects of tornadoes in Central Missouri and Ohio.
Hundreds of dwellings were unroofed, and the Catholic Church steeple collapsed in the town of Zanesvillc, a place of about 21,000 inhabitants, and fell through the roof, killing the Rev. Father Roach, who was engaged in administering the Last ■Sacrament to a man who had been previously stricken by a portion of a falling wall.
Oklahoma suffered severely, there being many deaths.
A freight train was blown off the tracks, and the wind tarried a baby half a mile in--mid-air, the child lauding almost uu-
ENTIRE VILLAGE LEVELLED. (Bee. June 19, 0.20 a.m.) New York, June 18. A galo has levelled the entire village of Kayloe, Oklahoma. Three hundred
of the inhabitants escaped, though many were buried in the debris. Great damage was done in the surrounding country.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1470, 19 June 1912, Page 5
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