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Show CYCLONE SW00PS. fr.. DdrNONlilllNESdUj MOOR HEAD, Minn.. May" H A great funnel shaped cloud, bringing with ,lt a ten-lfto wind, bore down wpon -Pelton. a small town twenty stales nerth of here, yeeteroey afternoon, tore down a dosen buildings, blew In nearly every window In the town and tore up many tree. Only one person was hurt, as far as could be learned. He Is a farmer living two and on -ha If miles went of Feltnn, who suf.u-.lned aerlous Initiiiee. He was .In his harn when It waa overturned. At lanto. N. I.. two dosen house and be nut were blown down and many of them carried far across country, nnn-dreais nnn-dreais of shattered wlndowa, a demoral tard telephone and electr-to light servloe and one prominent farmer seriously hurt la the total claimed by a heavy windstorm, wind-storm, approaching a tornado in magnl-: magnl-: tude. which atruck the city yesterday 1 afternoon. At Marlon, to the west of here, and the section- In that neighborhood, tenons hurried for their cellars to escape the debris and -tying timber. No reports of fatalities have been received from the west. ftrns. machine sheds and some small bouses were taken bodily from the ground and carried considerable distance. dis-tance. 8ALTNA. Kan.. May II. A windstorm prevailed throughout central and northwestern north-western Kansas yesterday and did much damage to fruit trees. Besides damaging damag-ing fruit trees much minor Injury waa done by the wind. , . |