Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-06-01 | Page 1 | 78 Met Death in Wednesday's Storm

78 MET DEATH II WEDWS STORM Belated Reports Come In From Points in Path of Tornado. ST. LOUIS, May 31. Seventy-eight persons were killed in the tornado that swept through several counties in southeast south-east Missouri and southern Illinois Wednesday, according to dispatches tonight. to-night. Hundreds were injured and the property loss was enormous. Wires are down in the storm-swept districts. The greatest loss of life was at Zalma, a village in Bollinger county. Mo., where it was reported that twenty-five lives were lost and 200 persons were injured. Fourteen persons were reported killed i near Chaonia, In Wayne county, three others at Ardeola, two at Fredericktown, six at Success, three at Licking, three at Aquilla, two at Salem, one at Lenox, four at Dongola, one at Advance, one at Bismarck and several of those hurt at Mineral Point died, the total dead there now being placed at nine. Four negroes were killed in southern Illinois. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., May 31. Several persons were killed yesterday afternoon in a tornado which swept over the Piney river section of Texas county, fifteen miles north of Houston, according to reports re-ports brought here tonight by automobile. automo-bile. Considerable property damage was reported to , have been caused by the storm. The dead: MARION JACKSON, a former, his housekeeper and her two children. MRS. L. H. FLETCHER and two children.