GREAT TORNADO.
FOURTEEN TOWNS WIPED OUT. TWENTY-FIVE FATALITIES. ESTIMATED DAMAGE. By Telegraph.— Press Association. -Copyright. NEW YORK, 13th April. Fourteen towns in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma have been wiped out by a tornado. Twenty-hve fatalities' are known to nave occurred, and over a hundred ! people have been seriously injured. j The damage is estimated at £500,000. It is the most disastrous tornado the district has ever experienced. The town of Bigheart, Oklanoma., wae destroyed, ten people being killed. A relief train has been despatched. All communication hae been cut off. The town of Whitings, in Kansas, is abso wiped iou£, sixty houses being wrecked. Many people 'have been killed. The ivife of a farmer was swept from the steps of her home and carried half a mile. She was killed. Eskridge School has been badly damaged, dozens oi pupila being injured, and one killed. At Hiawatha a school collapsed, the total death-Toll being over 20.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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