A TORNADO
CABLE NEWS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
THIRTEEN TOWNS WIPED OUT. TWENTY-i-iVE KNOWN FATALITIES. ! (Received Last Night, 0.5 o'clock.) ! NEW YORK, April 13. A destructive tornado has wiped out thirteen or fourteen towns in the States of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahama. Twenty-five .fatalities are known to have occurred, while a hundred persons have been seriously injured. The damage is estimated at £500,000. It was the most disastrous tornado ever experienced in the district. FURTHER DETAILS. DESOLATION AND RUIN. MANY LIVES LOST. Received This Morning, 12.30 o'clock NEW YORK, April 14. The tornado wiped out the town of Bigheart, in Oklahama. Ten persons were killed. A relief train has been despatched to the scene. All communication has been cut off. The town of Whetings, in Kansas, was also wiped out. Sixty houses were wrecked, and many people killed and injured. The wife of a farmer wa's swept from the steps of her home and carried half a mile, where she was found dead. At Eskridge the school was badly damaged, and dozens of pupils were injured. A pupil was killed at Hiawatha through the collapse of a school. The total death-roll exceeds twenty.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10213, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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194A TORNADO Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10213, 15 April 1911, Page 5
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