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Show TORNADO SWEEPS OKLAHOMA. Second Time Little Town Is Almost Destroyed. Denison, Texas. Nine persons were killed and thirty-eight injured and Kemp City, Okla., eight miles east of Denison, was wiped out by a tornado which Saturday night swept a path three-quarters of a mile wide and five miles long in the Kemp City station. Twelve business houses, a two-story hotel and sixty residences were demolished demol-ished in Kemp City. This was the second time' in recent years that the litttle town of 300 innabltants has been visited by a tornado. Eight of the dead were killed in the town, while the other victim, a child, was killed in the collapse of its father's fath-er's home just across the Red river in Texas. |