DISASTER AND DEATH
TORNADO SPREADS RUIN IN AMERICA
SCHOOL-HOUSE COLLAPSES (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United ServiceJ Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Friday. Forty-four persons perished in the storms of Thursday and Wednesday evening in "the Southern States and the Mid-West. Twenty-three are dead in Virginia, including a teacher and 13 children, who were killed in the collapse of Rye Cove School. Varying reports received this evening from Gate City, in the extreme west of Virginia, stated that the bodies of 12 children had been removed from the wreckage of the High School at Rye Cove, Virginia, when the twostoreyed wooden building was demolished by a tornado. It was known that 90 others were injured. Earlier reports said the number of those injured was above 100, but the exact number of casualties was not definitely known. Rescuers were working frantically to extricate some of the 250 teachers and children from the ruins that were piled above them. A message from Columbus, Ohio, says two prisoners were killed and six others injured, three of them seriously, when a tornado struck the city prison to-day. The prisoners were trapped in their bunks when the tornado crushed the wall about them.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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198DISASTER AND DEATH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 9
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