Show BY WIN STORM SWEEPS OVER KANSAS OKLAHOMA AND MISSOURI CAUSING FEARFUL LOSS i I J Twenty three Persons Dead and Moro More Than One Hundred Injured TWO Towns Being Totally Destroyed by Deadly Tornado Tornado- j Kansas City Twenty Twenty persons persona ar are arc 1 reported dead at least a hundred Injured injured In- In j a two two towns towns practically swept away scores of buildings demolished of dollars dollars' and thousands o worth Of or dama damaged ed as tao lao result property of ot a a. tornado that raged in Kansas and Oklahoma on The tornado tornado tornado tor tor- nado was accompanied by ram rain I hailand hail hailand and lightning Many buildings We were struck by lightning and burned Western West Western ern Missouri was was' visited by a rata raU I and hailstorm but this section was waa 1 not In the main path of at the tornado The tornado levi levied d its greatest toil of dead at Big Dig Heart Oklahoma where four PIso persons s were ld killed tea tel I I i I I I I I I injured and almost every building Inthe in inthe inthe the town wrecked Whiting Kans Kansas was practically w wiped pe 1 ot off nit the n ma 1 j f sixty buildings being blown do down dowa wa thirty people hurt and Mrs David i iI Stone killed At Powhattan Kansas a woman an an 1 1 a child were killed A high school building was wre k at Eskridge Kansas a number ot of houses damaged and from fifteen to 1 twenty persons injured At Hiawatha i Kansas a schoolhouse was blown 1 lawn lown an year old boy named Pelton and several buildings struck lightning Geraldine Meisenheimer 10 years old ld and a small child chUd of Mellott Mellott were alto abo killed also killed it has been learned Several persons are known to have been hurt at Netawaka Kan sas as A child was VIas killed at I Kansas ansas The Kansas end of the ornado I started nar near V and swept s in a 3 southeasterly direction for a distance of more than Utan fifty miles In Kansas Kansas City the storm did little lIlUe damage A few hor horses cs were killed by lightning and some buildings s struck ruck I i fh The rain lasted about an hour and an and was wasI I heavy Hail Hall accompanied the storm |