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Show TEXAS TOWN DESTROYED. Thirty-two Killed and Many Others Injured as Result of Tornado. Brown-wood, Texas. A tornado ol great fury struck the little village of Zephyr, in the eastern portion of Brown county, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, and left a path of death and destruction seldom .paralleled. The death list has reached a total of thirty-two, and the number of seriously serious-ly and fatally injured will reach fifty. The storm formed half a mile southwest south-west of Zephyr and swept down upon the village, cutting a wide swath directly di-rectly through the residence and business busi-ness districts. Nearly fifty houses were entirely demolished. Lightning started a conflagration con-flagration which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was made to fight the fire as the care of the dead and wounded victims demand ed the attention of every one. |