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Show fto persons; mum: I SEVEN SEVERELY HURT , aesssssBssssi ST., LOUIS. May 5. A severe thun-i der and -windstorm that swept over St. Louis Vast night resulted in the death of two persona and the Injury of eight others with heavy damage to property. XJEORGE BENTON, aged 7. drowned. CHARLES KROEGER, armer,. Ed-wardsville, Ed-wardsville, struck by .ihjl-t . . Injured. ' James . Roberts, attorney, leg broken bro-ken and injured internally. J. H. Grimro, leg broken.' Raymond Dudllch. leg broken. " Mrs. Elmer Smith, ankle fractured, i George " Luehnnan, rendered unconscious uncon-scious by lightning. William Nichol. Belleville, engineer, stunned by lightning. Mrs. Mary O'Connell and daughter, stunned by lightning. . . Attorney Roberta was one of the prln?.al witnesses in the forgery case of the late James Ii Blair. Along the East St. Louis levee a mile of telegraph poles were blown down-Along down-Along the r'ver Xes Peres houses were flooded to the second story and the occupants were taken out in boats. |