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Show TORNADO IN ILLINOIS. Kourteeii I'unple lujurcd and iUucli Property Prop-erty Dost rnyod. The town of Collinsville, 111., twelve miles from St. Louis, on tlte Vandalia-railroad, Vandalia-railroad, narrowly escaped destruction by a tornado February 9. Fourteen persons were injured in the immediate vicinity of the village, some of them fatally, and there was much damage to property. The miners who live on the outskirts of the town lost the most by the wind. A group of the residences resi-dences standing on a hill were reduced to splinters. |