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Show SCORE MEET DEATH IN CYCLONE PATH TORNADO TAKES TERRIBLE TOLL OF HUMAN LIVES AND PROPERTY LOSS. Many Buried in Ruins of Buildings, Boats Are Sunk and Trains Blown From Track by Furious Windstorm. Cincinnati. Thirty-three persons are dead and fifteen or more missing and are believed to be buried in the ruins of buildings wrecked during a heavy rain and wind storm, which passed over Cincinnati and Its suburbs, sub-urbs, Wednesday night. Two Ohio river towboats were sunk, more than twenty-five houses were blown down and completely wrecked, and steeples of- churches were lifted from their fastenings by the high winds. Plate glass windows win-dows all over the city were broken. Telegraph and telephone communication communica-tion in and out of the city was completely com-pletely paralyzed for several hours after the storm. The property damage has not as yet been estimated, but it probably will exceed half a million dollars. St. Louis. A tornado and cloudburst, cloud-burst, which swept St. Louis and Charles county Wednesday afternoon, caused damage which may aggregate $500,000. isolated several small towns, blew half a passenger train clear off the right of way and deluged parts of this territory with four inches of rain in half an hour. Seven persons are known to have been killed during the sotrm. Lawrenceville, 111., fifty miles south of Terre Haute. Ind., was visited by a severe windstorm. Clara Riley, 17 years old, was killed and her father, William Riley, was injured fatally when their brick residence resi-dence collapsed after being struck by lightning. |