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Show TORNADO HEWS PATHJ DEATH TOLL OF NEARLY TWO HUNDR'D DEAD AND OVER THOUSAND INJURED BY WINDSTORMS. Millions of Dollars Damage" Done in Six States Visited by Storm, Besides Be-sides the Heavy Toll of Life in Devastated Section. St. Louis. More than l.'O persons were killed, n thousand or more Injured In-jured and millions of dollars' worth of property destroyed by tornadoes which swept through Kansas on Friday, Illinois Illi-nois and Indiana on Saturday and parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky Ken-tucky and southern Illinois Sunday. Reports indicate that a large amount of farm implements, needed to produce the bumper crop desired this year, was ruined, although the spasmodic wind struck only here and there in Its frightful play through the rural regions. re-gions. Crop damage is said to be not heavy in general. The heaviest toll of life was taken at Mattoon, III., a city of 10,000 population, popula-tion, in the broom corn country of central cen-tral Illinois, where fifty-four are known to be dead and 500 injured, with a property prop-erty loss of $2,000,000. Charleston, 111., ten miles east oil Mattoon, was also partly wrecked Saturday Sat-urday evening with a loss of thirty-eight thirty-eight lives and 150 injured. The property prop-erty loss there is $1,000,000. The next most serious loss was at Andale, Kan., where twenty-six were killed and a score injured on Friday. Dublin, Ky., suffered three dead and seventeen injured Saturday. South Dy-ersburg, Dy-ersburg, Tenn., was reported Sunday to have lost two killed and fifteen injured in-jured in a tornado that swept Dyer county Sunday. Near Blytheville, Ark., nine persons were reported killed and a dozen hurt. Reports from' Indiana show at least seven persons killed at Hebron, Kouts and other places, and the death list may reach twenty. More than 200 were injured in the Indiana territory swept by the storm. Smaller towns in Illinois lost a dozen dead on Saturday with two score injured, in-jured, while in the southern part of Illinois windstorms killed a half-dozen and Injured a score. Summary of tornado dead and injured in-jured : Dead Injured Mattoon, 111. . .'. 54 -500 s Charleston,' 111 38 loO Andale, Kan 26 t0 Other Illinois towns-.. 18 65 Arkansas 9 12 Indiana 9 200 Kentucky 1 25 07 Tennessee 6 53 Totals 185 1107 Property damage, ?5,000,000. |