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Show KANSAS TOWN DESTROYED BY DEADLY TORNADO l Twister Also Visits Missouri and Oklahoma. Ten Being Killed and Scores Injured in Three States-Kansas States-Kansas City. A series of tornadoes in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma late Friday killed ten or more persons, per-sons, injured fifty-five, laid waste one town, wrecked a train and did great damage to property. Twenty-five were injured by a storm that swept over Mount Washington Wash-ington and Fairmount Park, suburbs of Kansas City. At least two of these are thought to be fatally injured. The town of Hollis, Kan., near Concordia, Con-cordia, was swept away. Here three were killed and ten injured. The Eckstrom family, consisting of five persons, is missing. Their house is in ruins and it is thought they are dead. Near Great Rend a tornado killed two and injured twenty. William Ackerly, a Santa Fe engineer, engi-neer, and Frank Nicholson, a conductor, con-ductor, were killed while with a bridge gang between Great Bend and Kinsley. The tornado wrecked the worktrain of which Ackerly was engineer and blew it into a ditch. Several members mem-bers of the crew were blown one hundred hun-dred feet. The pile-driver toppled over, crushing Ackerly to death in his cab, where he remained with his hand upon the throttle. At Hoisington, Kan., a tornado injured in-jured a number and greatly damaged farm property. It was not so severt-. however, as that passing over the oiher portions of the state. At Pond Creek, Okla.. a severe windstorm slightly injured four persons per-sons and unroofed several houses. |