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Show 1TH SWEPT STORMj DEATH COMES TO MANY Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Loultl-ana Loultl-ana and Texas Visited by De- ctructlve Tornado. r ) , LorlBvlllo, Ky. Death for nearly' a scoro of pcoplo, losses of hundreds or -thousands of dollars In property and; the crippling of many telegraph wires-resulted wires-resulted between noon and. dusk on Friday, February 5r from a serlen ot Binall tornadoes that swept; tho south. , Tennessee lino to tho Texas panhandle- , Brlnkley, Ark. Two persona wero- killed and a third fatally injured in a tornado which struck Stuttgart early Friday Tho dead: Mrs. Garflold and. a child of William Story. Fatally Injured: In-jured: Mrs. Story. Tho tornado destroyed de-stroyed ono residence and, fivo barns,, besides doing considerable damago to rroperty In tho surrounding country-Tho country-Tho residence destroyed was that or William Story. His wUo and child woro crushed by tho falling timbers. Tho Btorm did cxtcnslvo damago to tho rlco Acids. Fort Worth, Tex. A heavy wind ot lornado proportions, which swept over northern Texas and southern Oklahoma early Friday resulted In considerable damago In Bovoral localities. locali-ties. At Ennls, Tex., a dozen house wero blown down. Wnxahachlo wni also damaged. No loss of llfo Is reported. re-ported. At Sulphur Springs tho storm, wrecked eight dwellings, nnd Mrs. James Ardts was seriously injured by Hying glass. Tho total damngo rrom, tho Btorm In northern Texas will ba about 1100,000. Birmingham, Ala. Mayor George- H. Brier, of Cullman, Ala., wires that seven persons aro known to havo been klHcd In that county Friday afternoon af-ternoon by a tornado. At Kayosa, a mining camp west of Birmingham on the Southern railway, flvo house wore blown down, but only ono man. wub Injured, a Mr. Loga. Tho property prop-erty loss In tho territory north ol Birmingham Is heavy. JackBon, .Miss. A long dlstnnco telophono message received hore-i hore-i tates that a tornado struck tho town of Boiling Fork, Sharkey county, ,and that four persons wore killed. Tho- I. roperty loss was heavy. |