Show TORNADO IN IOWA Twenty Dwellings Dwellings- Wr Wrecked and Many lIany Persons Injured A terrible tornado trado swept over the mining town of Hitman Himan Iowa Ioa on the blowing on down own and residences S Several p er- er sons were Injured one ne mah man ma probably fatally The tornado trado struck Hitman lIman without t warning The rhe first building to lo suffer was the Welsh Union chuich The i store of the Hitman Iman Supply cau caught ht it it next net and and was ruined The Wapello Coal company's big hay barns were vere the be next to suffer and In a few feW moments Were here e a mass of rn ruins ns the tho flying timbers tim tim- tm- tm bers endangering lives and ad seriously injuring many At least twenty dw dwelling h houses uses were wrecked and as many were unroofed A tegu regu- lar panic plc occurred among the people and as they ran t to cellars and ca caves es for protection many were struck with flying timbers an and earned carried from their feet Only one was wa seriously ten seri injured Injure He lie Is I a a miner mer whose name could not be learned leared o Three Hundred Men Iren Out Oat The of the tho St. St Louis Lus Smelting and Refining company whose Pant plant llant is I located 10 at nt Cheltenham a suburb of or St Louis struck on the They number 3 Sib The cause of the tle strike is a peculiar one omie aie Hitherto the company compa y has taken care cane of employee made ill m illby illby by noxious gases etc etc resulting from the work carried on but recently a notice w was as posted requiring the men mon mono o pay a s certain sum eum um weekly which was wa to insure them in certain ocr ocr- tam tain of each mins min's yearly wages against accident or disablement the f fund final nd to to toe o e controlled led by the com corn pan pany After considerable consultation a astrike astrike I strike was decided upon upon The plant Is noc now no c closely ose guarded by police olce j |