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Show AWFUL S1KJN. RRIDOLE STATES I s I Indiana and Illinois Visited by I a Tcrnado in Which Many I Lives Are Lost. I Over a Score of People Known to I Have Met Death. While the Num- I ber of Injured Will Reach Forty I and Property Damage Is I Enormous. I Chicago. Twenty-nlno known dead I and forty persons Injured constitute I tho list of casualties resulting from I storms of tornado soverlty which I swept over southern Illinois and In- 1 dlana and central Kentucky Saturday. j These fatal visitations camo In the . 1 shape of cloudbursts, high winds and j electrical disturbances. Tho prop- 1 crty damage will reach many thou- I sands of dollars. Houses -woro swopt I away, bridges demolished and thou- I sands of acix;s ot growing crops de- 1 stroyed. 1 Tho town of Now Mlndon, 111.. I twenty-fivo miles southeast of St. I Louis, wns visited by a tornado which I killed four peoplo and Injured n. I score of others. j At Gradyvllle, Ky., a clpudburst Is- I said to have caused the loss of from. I ten to fifteen lives nnd washed away I eight residences. I At York, III., twcnty-flvo or thlxty houses- wero destroyed, nnd a number of people were killed. Tho storm Is said to hnvo been especially es-pecially severe In southern Indiana, and nt Farm'orsburg and Sullivan much damage was dono by wind and rain. Duquoln, HI., was also visited by tho samo storm that caused tho destruction de-struction of York. A number of houses woro blown down but no lives wcro lost. |