TERRIBLE TORNADO.
AWFUL RESULTS IN TWO MINUTES’ WORK. 121 LIVES LOST-GREAT DAMAGE DONE. By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright New York, March 4. A tornado, travelling at the rate of seventy-seven miles an hour; struck [ the city of Meridian, Mississippi, and ploughed a path six hundred feet wide, a mile long, unroofing commereial buildings, hotels, railway buildings, and many dwellings. It lasted but two minutes. Twenty-one whites and over one hundred negroes were killed. Damage to the extent of a million and a half dollars was done. Torrential rains, which followed, fortunately extinguished the fires that occurred amongst the wreckage.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1690, 6 March 1906, Page 2
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99TERRIBLE TORNADO. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1690, 6 March 1906, Page 2
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