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Show II DEAD SCORES HUHT INJORNADQ KANSAS TOWN BEARS BRUNT OF STORM; SIOUX CITY GETS WIND AND RAIN Wyoming In Blizzard's Grip; Plane and Train Service Is Crippled Hutchinson, Kan. Eleven are known to be dead and probably a hundred hun-dred or more are injured as a result of the tornadoes which swept northeastward north-eastward through Barber, Kingman, Reno and McPherson counties late Saturday night. Probably S00 residences along the path of the twisters were damaged Many of them were completely demolished, demol-ished, while an enormous amount of damage was done otherwise. There were at least two twisters, the first about 7:30 p. m., originating in Barber county and sweeping northeast north-east into Kingman county. The other, at 11 p. m., originated south of Hutchinson Hutch-inson and swept northward through East Hutchinson, leaving a trail of devastation four blocks wide from one end of the city to the other, through the east industrial district, then smashing smash-ing its way northward through the sandhills and tearing a swath of destruction de-struction in the county west of Medora and inman. The main residence section of Hutchinson was spared, the path of the twister being two and a half miles east of the main business district. Three dead in Barber county, two more in Kingman county, one in Hutchinson and four in the Medora and Inman communities north of Hutchinson made up the toll of dead. |