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Show LIVES AND HOMES LOST IN TORNADO STORM LEAVES TWO DEAD IN WAKE AND DOE8 DAMAGE TO AMOUNT OF $200,000, Twister Swept a Path Eighty Rods Wide and Thlrty-flve Miles Long Through Minnesota, Taking Terrible Toll. Worthlngton, Minn. Damage caused by tho tornado which Saturday night fwept a path eighty rods wide nnd; thlrty-flvo miles , long through Nobles county wnsestlmatetf nt nearly $200, H)0. Tho number of Head totaled two, Mrs. Lou Dnhlberg, whose homo ln the outskirts of ltuslimoro wus destroyed, dying Sunday. Tho other death was nt Reading, where Mrs. Abt Anderson was killed. Apparently tho storm entered tho county six miles southwest of Rush-more, Rush-more, ana, demolishing the Dnhlberg residence nnd slightly damaging tho high school, rvhlrled .out nt tho northeast north-east corner. Tho Dnhlbcrg'liomu wns tho only house In. tho town of 3000 Inhabitants In-habitants to suffer seriously, although minor dnmago resulted to other residences. resi-dences. , Mrs. Dnhlberg was nt homo with her two children when tho tornado struck. Tho children may dlo of their injuries, it was1 snld. Several other persons woro hurt. At tfio homo of Henry' Rider, near Rushmoro.'RIdcr and his wlfo wcrb Injured, In-jured, Mrs. Rider suffering sevoro burns from hijt water which' was on a stove. Rider, who wns In a, barn, which was demolished, wns carried several hundred feet by the w(nd nnd sustntned a broken arm nnd brulsca Iowa Also Visited. v ' . Tho tornado that swep't tho south' enst section of Fonda, Iown, Saturday ' night Injured fourteen persons' and causedproperty damage of $100,000. Tlio storm swept a path about 000 feet wldo and passed through tho town in nbout a minute. Electric light wires were blown down nnd tho town wns ln darkness. A train of box cars was blown twon- ty feet off n railroad siding. Riilldlugs on tho fair grounds were ifeniollshed, Other dnmnco was larsely to barns. " |