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Show TOLL OF KENTUCKY DEAD CONTINUES TO MOUNT HIGHER PADITAH, Ky., May 2. The toll of de;ol and- injured tnken by the storm which la te Sundny afk-rnnnn swept four counties of western Kentucky continued to mount I'm p Idly todny. It a p pen red prob;ihl thiil the death lint would approach ap-proach twenty and that the lint uf those in lured would number several hundred. At Hicknifin a chfck of report indicated indi-cated forty-two deaths in Fulton county, of which twenty-two were nt Rondourant, a small snwiiiill town. Twenty-two per-popm per-popm are in a hospital at Hickman, of whom seventeen m-e expected to die. In Carlisle county five persona were billed at Clinton and twelve others lost their lives ;it Cypress, a vllkice near by. At Pardwe, in Carlisle county, three pr:.ons are known to luivo been killed. At Imblin. in (Ir.ives county, five por-sons por-sons were killed and ninny injured. Myny points in the stricken district are yet un-heitrd un-heitrd from because of the destruction of virt unlly all lines of com m u nicn t Ion. The property dam;iKO in tho piorm-swfcpl piorm-swfcpl diolrlet was large. The losa about I j Hickman and other parts of Fulton coun-! coun-! tv is expected to reach beyond $r.0ii,oon. t Bard well everv business building in : the town was deroyed mid here the loss : will also HifffrcgHle possibly J.'nn oo. In and about fliiuon the damage will probablv prob-ablv reach $4m,iMiO. In Fulton county much of the cotton crop is said to have been literally stripped from the Ground. The loss in cattle will, it f expected, amount to many thousands of dollars. The destruction of Tulldincs has been the cause of keen suffering at many points. At 'ypress, in Fulton county, dead and injured were forced to lie out of doors all night. The injured were without with-out medical attention until late tod.ty, when a rescue party from Clinton forced its wav five miles aloti blockaded roads into the ruined buildinps. Toiusht many of those too seriously hurt to be moved are without adequate shelter, every house in the little hamlet beintx badly damaeed. At Rardwell a telephone operator, Miss Howies, ?t"c't to her 5 witch board when the storm lifted the roof from her head, and kept in operation the few wires b ft working. She was found still at her post when rescuers arrived. |