FEARFUL TORNADO

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 173, 18 April 1921, Page 5

FEARFUL TORNADO

IMMENSE DAMAGE CAUSED IN THE UNITED STATES OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE REPORTED KILLED By Telegraph—Prew Association-Copyright. (Pec. April 17, 5.5 p.m.) New York, April 15. It is estimated that 75 persons were killed and millions of dollars’ worth of damage to property caused by the tornado which swept the Mississippi valley, Texas, Arkansas, lowa, and Colorado. Transportation and communication are paralysed, snow and rain hampering rescue work. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, April 16.

Later reports of the tornado show that twelve were killed in Texas, sixty in Kansas, and thirty-seven were killed and fifty injured in one county of Arkansas alone. Communication is still blocked, but news filtering through from the stricken regions shows that many hundreds were injured in other places by falling buildings. The wind reached a velocity of seventy miles an hour. Vegetation along wide strips across the country was completely destroyed. Southwestern Arkansas suffered the worst. The wind lifted laden railway cars bodily from the line at Nashville. Two cars crashed into and crushed a passenger train. The passengers miraculously es-caped.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.