Show IGHT PERSONS RIED MANI IW HOMIS HOMES cornado ado strikes an illinois town passing through the main rest dence portion causing fearful loss st loula louig A tornado struck the tillage of 0 sorento ills thirty two miles northeast of st louis tuesday eight bight killing eight persons injuring thirty five others ot of whom three probably will die and doing a great amount of damage to property forty houses were blown to atoma or car ried far from their foundations everything in the track of the tornado toreado was as swept away the dead are mrs thomas pile file ig 18 yare L old mrs william stewart to BO shw old william mann CO 60 years old did BOB mull maon IS I 1 years old tour unidentified the four women woal n killed were in their homes in different parts of sorento all were badly crushed the storm approached from the sout southwest hest and swept through the main residence portion of the town the work of the wind was quickly done and then tol fol lowed a heavy downpour of rain those who escaped injury were for the time panic stricken but finally rallied and set to work to rescue the injured the people by lantern light in the pouring rain searched through debris and dragged out the injured some borne residences were swept away completely those left standing were converted into temporary hospitals the property loss loa Is estimated at |