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Show of life. Eighteen of those killed were in this section, approximately 70 miles long. Scores were homeless. home-less. Nashville Is Hit Seven were killed in Pruden, Tenn., a mountain town 12 miles west of Cumberland Gap. At Harrogate, Har-rogate, Tenn., three rniles east of the Gap, two were killed. The tornado tor-nado then apparently lifted above the earth's surface, and. did not descend again until It hit Kings-port, Kings-port, approximately 55 miles east of Harrogate,- where eight were killed. ' Before reaching Pruden, the storm wrecked a section of Nashville, Nash-ville, approximately 150 miles southwest of Cumberland Gap, killing seven and injuring more than 300. One was killed in Oswego, Os-wego, Tenn., a hamlet 15 miles west of Pruden. One hundred National Guardsmen Guards-men wore mobilized in Nashville and placed on guard duty in the devastated section of the city. SOUTHERN TORNADO KILLS 30 Terrific Storm Hits Three States; 500 Are Injured NASHVILLE, Tenn., Mar. 15 (U.P.) A tornado cut a narrow nar-row path across three states last night, leaving 30 known .dead, at least 500 injured-and injured-and property damage estimated esti-mated in the tens of thousands thou-sands of dollars. The dead by communities: Nashville, Nash-ville, 9; Pruden, 8; Kingsport, 5; Harrogate, 2; Bellwood, 2; Mill Point, 1 Oswego, 1. Relief work was concentrated to- j day in the remote Cumberland mountain region along the eastern Kentucky-Tennessee border, where the tornado reached its greatest fury and caused the heaviest loss |