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Show FIFTY KILLED WHEN 1IDJITS TOWN TORNADO SWEEPS OVER INDIANA TOWN, DEMOLISHING RESI-DENCES RESI-DENCES AND FACTORIES. Children Caught in Wreckage of School Building and Babe Found Floating Float-ing In a Stream, Clinging to, a Dog. New Albany, Ind. Fifty persons were killed and probably 100 or more were injured by a storm which late Friday swept over New Albany, demolishing demol-ishing scores of residences and several sev-eral industrial plants. Twenty-five bodies were recovered and it is expected this number will be doubled when all the debris of wrecked wreck-ed Imildlngs has ben cleared away. West Union, a subdivision In the northeastern section of the city, bore the 'brunt of the storm. Here the wind swept a path two blocks wide and more than a mile long, demolishing residences and several factories, and destroying a negro school building. Twenty-five children were in the building, build-ing, some of whom were' caught in the wreckage of the structure. The streets in the path of the storm are a mass of wreckage. An appeal to the city authorities of Louisville brought a large number of policemen to aid in maintaining order and all available officers from the Indiana state reformatory at Jeffersonville and from the Jeffersonville police force were hurried here. A call was made on the governor for state troops. The Deering baby, about six months old, was found floating in a small stream into which it had been borne by the wind. The child was alive and clinging to a dog, which apparently had been killed by the storm. The baby died in the arms of its rescuer. Later an aunt identified the baby and then reported that both the father and mother had been killed. |