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Show TKPMSOIE Twelve Injured in Storm Which Hits Two Towns and Wrecks Houses. j ESSEN, Mo., April 1. Three persons ! were killed and twelve injured tonight when a tornado, traveling in a northeast north-east direction, struck Hunterville, a small town three miles east of here. Gray ridge, two miles further east, was also struck by the storm, but no lives are reported lost there. The storm struck the two towns shortly short-ly after 6 o'clock, demolishing many houses and destroying all means of wire communication with other cities in Stoddard Stod-dard county. The dead in lluntervillo are Mrs. Edward Ed-ward Miles, an unidentified man and Charles Blevins, a 3-year-old boy. Tlie number of injured was placed at twelve, with indications that this figure would be added to as the wreckage is cleared away. Little is known of the result of tie storm in Gray ridge, except that practically practi-cally all houses in tho little town were swept away. ST. LOUIS, April 2. Three persons j were killed, several were injured and a j number of houses demolished by a tor- nado which struck New Florence, Mo., ! eighty-five miles west of here, tonight, j according to a telephone messace re- ' eeived here "at midnight. .New Florence j has a population of :"00. j Geori-e a nd Ida. Messenger were killed j when their home was demolished and 1 their s'.sTer, Susie, probably fatally in- ; jured. i At Mireola, near bv. one person is said to have been killed an I one severely injured. in-jured. Propert y da m.'ffe is iarue. I .'an- ' vilic, ff'urte-sn miles f: om "Miijeoia, is ie-P' ie-P' tried to i,hv s'.;f-"e r- d heavy property ioss, but no loss of life. |