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Show Search for Storm Victims. Y1CKSBUHG. Miss., March 17. Searcher Search-er 3 today continued examination of wreckage in the path of the tornado which yesterday swept eight miles, from a point near Grace, fifty-five miles north of Yicksburg, northeast to Pantherburn. The. bodies of one white man and eight negroes already have been found. The greater part of the property loss, estimated at more than $1,000,000, -was to cypress and gum timber. Fifteen persons were killed and many more injured in the tornado which swept portions of Mississippi and Louisiana Sunday, according to reports received here tonight. The property damage is estimated at half a million dollars. Near Delhi a boy was reported carried many feet In the air by the wind and dropped unhurt in a bayou. |