TERRIFIC TORNADOS.
TOWNS WIPED OUT
MANY KILLED AND INJUERD. ; . NEW YORK, April 13. A tornado wiped out the. town of Bigheart, Oklahoma, >ten people, be--ing I'killed.1 'killed.- A relief train has beendespatched. All'- • communicatioi? -is .CUt" Off." ••'.:'• ' ■''"■'. The "town of Whitings in Kansas has also been wiped out.- Sixty'houses were wrecked.- "■"■.•' T There are many dead and injured. The. wife ol a farmer was swept" from the steps of her home and carried half a mile.; She was dead nvhen found ■ ■Eskridgre : school was badly damag--ed; and dozens of pupils •injured.. -.->. ■ One pupil was killed -,> at througrh the collapse of a.rschool. The total death roll exceeds a score.
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Grey River Argus, 18 April 1911, Page 1
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