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Show lElBLE TORNADO SWEEPSARKANSAS Half a Dozen Towns Almost Com-pletely Com-pletely Destroyed and Score of Lives Wiped Out. Path of Storm 8ald to Have Been Two Miles Wfde and Seventy Miles Long Heavy Property Loss, as Well as Long Death List. Llttlo llock, Ark. Moro than a score of lives were lost and many othor persons were Injured In a tornado tor-nado which swept tho northwestern section or this state late Monday, demolishing de-molishing soveral towns and razing vast tracti of timber. Tho tornado, approaching from tho southwest, crossed tho Arkansas river soveral mites south of .tho settlement of Plnoy nnd preceded In a northeasterly northeast-erly direction. It swopt through tho towns of London, Wellervllloi Jcshro, Louisville, Patterson and Ilcrryvlllc and outlying portions of Mulberry, either completely wrecking or laying waste the larger part of theso places and destroying timber and crops throughout the Intermediate country. At Plnoy It Is said that twelve persons per-sons wore killed and a number Injured, In-jured, Practically tho entire settlement settle-ment was demolished. At London threo lost their lives. Wellcrvlllo and Jcshro were practically prac-tically destroyed, several fatalities occurring oc-curring In each placo. In tho vicinity of Mulberry tho death list Is placed at seven. At Uerryvlllo, ono woman, Mrs. J. O. Hosklns, was sortou3ly Injured nnd soveral other persons sustained lesser Injuries. A path 100 yards wldo was cut through tho town, six buildings being completely wrecked-and a number num-ber of others damaged, either 'being torn from their foundations or unroofed. un-roofed. Hero tho property loss Is estimated es-timated at about $25,000. From tho outlying districts considerable consid-erable damago to property U also reported, re-ported, but no loss of life. At Lodt thrco buildings wero destroyed de-stroyed nnd ono woman was seriously serious-ly hurt. Advices -from Lowlsvlllo, from tho western part ot Lafayctto county, report re-port tho destruction of several buildings build-ings at that place, and at Palmes conBldorablo damago to property, as well aa Injury to a numbor ot persons. Is reported, Tho tornado swept through a section sec-tion of country two miles wide and seventy miles long. Tho forco of tho storm was. greatest In tho vicinity of Ozark, Ark., tho small town ot Crav-enB, Crav-enB, tour miles west, being completely complete-ly wiped out. Four persons were killed and threo fatally Injured. Mr. and Mrs. II III, nn aged couple, who were caught In the collapso of their houso and crushed, A grocery store In which soveral pcoplo had takon rcfugo waa blown to pieces nnd all tho occupants were moro or Iobs injured. Dr. Crokor, of Lenall, Ark., was slightly hurt |