DESTRUCTIVE STORM.
GREAT DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE. United Press Association. (Received 10.30 a.m.) New York, November 11. A great wind passed over Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado. Tn South Dakota the storm tore a path sixteen miles wide, wrecked the electric plant, waterworks, telegraph and telephone wire and did damage to the extent of half a million sterling. The railroad depot was demolished and half the houses in the city wrecked. Wrecking trains, carrying doctors and nurses were sent from Hutchinson in response to a plea for aid. The exact number of dead is unknown owing to lack of communication. A fire broke ont in several buildings, and owing to lack of water they were burned to the ground.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 62, 12 November 1915, Page 3
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120DESTRUCTIVE STORM. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 62, 12 November 1915, Page 3
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