Show 77 TORNADO IN ILLINOIS CHILD KILLED AND MANY PER SONS SUSTAIN SERIOUS INJURIES A number of people escaped death by rushing into cellars much damage to farm property and residences one death a fatal injury and a score or more of injuries resulted from a tornado that swept logan dewett and platt counties Il lionis sunday after oon toon the fatality occurred in the settlement a farming community three miles from atwood platt county the home of clifford was demolished and after the storm s infant son was found dead feet from where the house stood his wife was hurled across the street and fatally injured mrs J B martin s home was destroyed and several guests were pain fully injured deer creek in logan county where the storm first struck was swept dry of water reports from this district state that three houses were destroyed and a number of people more or less injured supervisor auers s handsome residence was destroyed the family of several children and a number ot of visitors fifteen in all sought safety in the cellar and the house was torn from over them the homes of samuel V baldwin and G gus us knecht were destroyed mrs baldwin and two farm hands took refuge in a smoke house in which they were hurled several hundred feet and pain fully injured it Is reported that the town of waynesville Waynes ville and the blua blue grass districts east of atlanta were struck and much damage resulted but communication with these points Is cut off thi ee farm residences were destroyed several persons were in aured and grain and machinery were blown away in the strom that swept over the country tour four miles west of lincoln the families escaped death by rushing to the cellars the wind Is reported to have damaged the town of waynesville Waynes ville |