Show II 9 States Stales Count r. J 52 Dead in Friday Storms Sl CHICAGO March 20 uP Th death toll mounted to more th 52 Saturday in the serIes seri Of ot to tor and destructive gales which whipped across wide se sections of or state nine-state area Friday l The wave of death and de tion from Texas to New York left teft more than injured Hundred were homeless Pr Property dim was in the millions j n The storms striking storms striking on the last J day of oC winter winter hit hit hardest hardt J in southwestern Illinois n near r SL St Louis where 41 H v were reported killed The storm cre crest t formed In Texas Thursday night and n northeastward Small tornado struck sections of ot Oklahoma an am an Kansas Kanas Thursday night but the thi twister swept with force Friday in southern county HI Dt Strike in Canada f J The tornadoes or Winds fanned acro across sections o c of Indiana Kentucky Ohio Michigan Kansas Pennsylvania and N N. N i w York Saturday the intense ato storm 1 center had moved north northeastward into Canada t |