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Show FIFTY KILLED IN. ARKANSAS STORM SERIES OF TORNADOES SWEEP OVER STATE, DEALING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. One-third of Little Town Blown Away, Twenty-five Bodies Being Taken From Ruins, Eighteen Dead Being Found in Another Town. Little Rock, Ark. Fifty-nine persons per-sons are reported killed and more than 100 injured in a series of tornadoes torna-does which swept Arkansas Monday afternoon. All means of communication communica-tion are crippled and it is feared the list of dead and injured will be greatly great-ly increased by later reports. The dead thus far reported are as follows: Judsonia, White county, twenty-five known dead and fifty injured. Heber Springs, eighteen dead. De Lark, Dallas county, four dead. Cabot, White county, five dead. Hot Springs, four dead. Morrillton, one dead. Greenland, Washington county, two dead. North Arkansas appears to have suffered most severely, although the storm was general throughout the state. At Judsonia one-third of the town was said to have been swept away. Twenty-five bodies and fifty injured already have been taken from the ruins. Wire service is almost paralyzed throughout the state and many hours probably will elapse 'before the full extent of the storm is known. Near Morrillton a negro was killed and a negress was .blown away in the storm. Sh-e has not been found. A white woman and several children also were hurt. A score or more of persons were injured in-jured on the outskirts of Little Rock and towns close to the city. Reports indicate that hundreds of buildings have been blown down throughout the state. |