Show Record Storm Slashes U. U S. S S CHICAGO March 27 7 UP UP- UP High winds raised dust storms in Kansas for the second consecutive day Monday and hit widely separated separated separated sepa sepa- rated sections of the midwest and south leaving 15 persons dead in their wal wake e. e Dust clouds darkened the skies over Kansas where at least eight weather stations re reported reported reported re- re ported blowing dust Central Kansas Kansas Kansas Kan Kan- sas authorities said the storms which began Sunday were reminiscent reminiscent remi reminiscent remi- remi of the dusters of the in that area Winds estimated at per mile hour velocity struck Lecompte in central Louisiana winds struck a section of Ferriday Ferriday Ferriday Ferri- Ferri day La An year old mother Mrs Murphy Breaux was killed at New Iberia La when the wind blew a power line across an iron I fence I A mother and child were injured by a falling tree limb in New Orleans when winds of 14 44 miles an hour or more brushed across the city A foot oil barge was ripped from a tug in Louisiana shore areas and shipping was See Page 7 Column C 5 I Record Spring Storms Slash at Central U U. U J S S. S W Cont Continued from Pa Page e One alerted to watch for it Several towns in Mississippi were damaged by tornado like tornado winds The pressure low-pressure area which churned up one of the biggest st spring storms on record was heading heading heading head head- ing eastward across the upper midwestern states slates Monday I Irhe The rhe week end dead in hl high h winds and weather in the central western and Mississippi valley states Included four persons in Kansas all in traffic accidents caused by the Sunday dust storm three in Texas two children in I Missouri two motorists in Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Ne Ne- braska two airmen killed near Roswell N. N M 1 Saturday night nl ht in ina ina ina a crash blamed on violent winds and on flying dust which dimmed visibility and one each in Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- COlO 1 rado and Louisiana Tree free Falls on Boys Two small boys Phillip Bell 9 9 and his bi brother other Kenneth I 7 7 were found vuu crushed u. u IH d to death beneath a vuu u. u tree felled by winds of up to 60 I miles an hour which swept across 1 the Kansas I City Mo area Sunday Sheriff Fred G. G Bell ot of Saline Salme I count county Kan said the dust storm was or worse e than any of the black days of the though it didn't last as 5 long as those those earl early days The vast cyclonic storm circled like a giant whirlpool from the swept snow to stormy I Lake Lale Ontario and from deep in Texas to the Canadian border The barometer fell to record lows in the midwest and weather forecasters said the pressure low area W was S the biggest they had ever mapped its Sucking Sucking- like gale winds from fringes fring-es into its vortex the storm I rolled almost due n nor northward o r t h w a r d toward Canada I Blizzards swept the Dakotas and northern Minnesota piling snow snow snowdrifts snowdrifts drifts 4 feet deep hallin halting bus busand busand busand and air travel in some sections and slowing trains The Webster and Liton N. N D. D hi high h school basketball basl teams en route home from the state tournament tournament tournament ment at i Fargo argo were stranded at Jamestown where they were lodged in a hotel Despite winds up to 61 miles mites per hour clocked at Rapid City S. S D. D communications in the Dakotas Dakotas Dal Da Da- Da- Da l kotas otas were reported not seriously damaged But Northwestern Bell Telephone Co said it anticipated trouble from wires icing west of Bismarck N. N D D. D Hinders Fire Fir Fighting A 6 mile hour blizzard hind hindered hin hin- hin- hin d dered red firemen fighting fighting- a stubborn blaze which threatened to destroy the entire town of International Falls Minn it was wac brought under control early Monday The blaze loft left 30 persons pcr ons homeless and andI I cau caused cd damage |