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Show TORNADO In1luM CHILD KILLED AND MANV PER.' SONS SUSTAIN SERIOUS INJURIES. A Numbsr of People Escaped Death By Rushing Into Cellars Much Damage to Farm Property and Residences. Ono death, a fatal Injury nnd a scoro or moro or Injuries resulted from a tornado thnt swept Logan, Dowctt and Piatt counties, Illlonls, Sunday afternoon. after-noon. Tho fatality occurred In tho Halsadarsor settlement, a farming community three milos from Atwood. Piatt county, Tho homo of Clifford Halsadarsor was demolished and after tho storm Halsadarsor'a infant son was found dond 300 feot from whoro tho house stood. His wlfo was hurled across tho street and fatally Injured. Mm. J. B. Martin's homo wns destroyed de-stroyed and several guests wcro painfully pain-fully Injured. Door Creek, in Logan county, whoro tho storm first struck, was swept dry of water. Reports from this district stato that thrco houses woro destroyed and a number of pcoplo moro or Ies3 injurod. Supervisor Schannuer'a h.tndsomo residonco was destroyed. Tho family of sovcral chlldron nnd a numbor of visitors, fifteen in all, sought safety In tho collar and tho houso wns torn from ovor thorn. The homos cf Samuel V. Baldwin and Ous Knecht woro destroyed. Mrs. Baldwin nnd two farm hands took rofugo in a smoko houso, in which they woro hurled sovornl hundred foot nnd painfully pain-fully injured. It is roportcd that tho town of Wnynosvlllo and tho Bluo Crass districts east of Atlanta woro struck and much dnmngo resulted, but communication with theso points Is cut off. Throo farm residences wcro destroyed, several persons wero injured in-jured nnd grain and. machinery woro blown awny In tho strom that Bwopt ovor tho country four miles wost of Lincoln. The families escaped death by rushing to tho collars. Tho wind is reported to havo damaged tho town of Wayncsvlllo. |