TORNADO.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1921, Page 5

TORNADO.

MANY PERSONS KILLED. HUNDREDS INJURED. GREAT DAMAGE DONE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 17, 5.5 p.m. New York, April 16. It is estimated that seventy-five persons were killed and millions- of dollars worth of damage to property was caused by a tornado which swept the Mississippi valley, Texas, Arkansas, lowa, and Colorado. Transportation and communication were paralyzed. Snow and rain are hampering rescue work. Later reports of the tornado show that twelve persons were killed in Texas and sixty in Kansas, while thirty-seven are dead and fifty injured in one county of Arkansas alone. Communication is 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 seventy miles an hour. The vegetation along wide strips across country was completely destroyed, south-western Arkansas suffering the worst. The wind lifted laden railway cars bodily from the line at Mashville. Two cars crashed into and crushed a passenger train, the passengers miraculously es-caping.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.