A Terrible Tornado.
MANY LIVES LOST,
New York, March 4
A tornado travelling at the rate of seventy-seven miles an hour struck the city of Meridian, Mississippi. It ploughed a path 600 feet wide and a mile long, unroofing commercial buildings, hotels and railway buildings.
. In the first two minutes, twentyone whites and over a hundred negroes were killed. The damage is estimated at a million and a halt dollars. Torrential rains fortunately accompanied the tornado and extinguished the fires which started amongst the debris.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3620, 6 March 1906, Page 3
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85A Terrible Tornado. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3620, 6 March 1906, Page 3
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