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Show CYCLONE DEALS OUT OEAIHipSAS TWELVE PERSONS KILLED AND MORE THAN A HUNDRED INJURED IN-JURED AT GREAT BEND. Path Three-quarters of a Mile Long and Several Blocks in Width Cut Through Residence District. Other Towns Suffer. Great Bend, Kans. Twelve persons were killed and more than 100 in jured, many of them seriously, in a cyclone which swept through the residence resi-dence section of Great Bend at 7:30 Wednesday night The property loss is estimated at $500,000. The city water plant, a laundry, three flour mills ,the Santa Fe depot and fifty residences were demolished. Santa Fe passenger No. 5 narrowly escaped the path of the twister, which swept through the southern part of the city. Great dama e was done in thi fnnn. I try southwest of here, from which direction di-rection the cyclone approached without with-out warning. Many of those injured were caught beneath their. homes, which were picked pick-ed up from their foundations and twisted and crushed into a mass of debris. de-bris. A path three-quarters of a mile long and several blocks in width was cut through the residence district. Here the heaviest toll of life was exacted. The people of the town immediately responded as voluntary rescuers and the work of searching the wreckage progressed in a steady downpour of rain that followed the cyclone. Other towns in which buildings were reported destroyed were Claflin, Hoisington and Larned, Kan., and Hartford, S. D. |