FEARFUL TORNADO
SWEEPS UNITED STATES. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NEW YORK, April 16. It is estimated that 75 persons were killed and millions of dollars damage to property caused by a tornado which swept the Mississippi Valley, Texas, Arkansas, lowa, and Colorado. Transportation and communication are paralysed. Snow and rain are hampering the rescue work. Eater reports of the tornado show that twelve were killed in Texas; 60 in Kansas. There are 37 dead and 50 were injured in one county of Arkansas alone. Communications are 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 70 miles an hour. The vegetation along wide strips of country was completely destroyed. Sout'r-Western Arkansas suffered the worst. The wind there lifted railway cais bodily from the lines. At Nashville two cars crashed into a passenger train. The passengers miraculously escaped.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1921, Page 2
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157FEARFUL TORNADO Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1921, Page 2
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