Show tom TENS THEN TOWN two hundred buildings destroyed but fortunately loss of life is remarkably small path of the tornado was about ten rods W de bu jd being tipped over and B g trees torn from the r roots charles city iowa at 5 0 clock sunday afternoon a tornado struck khas city demolishing about resi real dences and barns one man W R beck beek Is known to have been killed and four children are reported miss ing the path of the tornado was about ten rods wide it started about three miles southwest of the city tear ing down farm houses house barns and killing many head of stock it struck the city in the southwest era ern part plowing a path ten rods wida wide to a po nt a q quarter arter of a mile east ol 01 anthe the bridge on the main street and lifted the water almost clean from the river bed it passed in a northeast eria eri direction j missing the charles city college buildings and spent itself a few miles northeast of the city several barns were tipped over while stock was inside and in s me cases the animals were killed lind others were not injured big hiees were torn from their roots and jin n some cass heaved through build inge |