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Show Deadly cyclone. 1 DEALS DEATH AND DESOLATION i IN MISSOURI AND IOWA. j ; m Klrkivllle, Mo., Fitly People Were Killed and Nearly R Thousand Injured Three Killed at Una waco, Iowa. Kirksville. Mo., April 29. A destructive destruc-tive cyclone struck this town at 6:20 'o'clock Thursday night. A path of ' quarter a mile wide and as clean as the ! prairie was swept through the eastern portion of the city, and 400 buildings, homes and mercantile houses were leveled to the ground in scattered ruins. In the heavy rain that followed, the people who had escaped turned out to rescue the injured. For two hours not much was accomplished, as all was confusion, but by eight o'clock forty-nine forty-nine dead bodies had been taken from the ruins. It is confidently expected that the list of dead will reach between fifty and sixty, if not to exceed that. Almost Al-most a thousand people were more or less injured. Intense darkness prevailed after the cyclone, and the rescuers were at a disadvantage dis-advantage for a short time until fire broke out in a dozen places in the ruins and shed light over the scene. No attempts at-tempts were made to extinguish the fires, partly because the rescuers had no time, and partly because of the need of light. On both sides of the storm's path the debris was piled high and burned fiercely. In all probability a number of bodies have been incinerated. inciner-ated. Tornado at Newton. Chillicothe, Mo., April 29. A tornado, torna-do, probably the same one that swept over Kirksville, struck Newton, a 6mall town in Sullivan county, and caused terrible destruction. It is reported re-ported that fifteen people were killed in the city, and that many others were killed in the country near there. A great number of buildings were blown down. A heavy rain followed the tornado, adding greatly to the damage. The Storm In Iowa. -Onawaco, la., April 29. A tornado swept the farming country twenty miles east of here Thursday night. Three persons are reported killed. Great damage was done to farm property. prop-erty. Everything in the path of the storm was carried off the face of the earth, trees being torn up by the roots and buildings scattered to the four winds of heaven. |