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Show KANSAS AND NEBRASKA SWEPT 8! FIERCE STORM a Twenty-one Lives Lost, Houses an6 Barns Leveled and Enormous Damage Done to Crops, Omaha. The tornndo which passed over southern Nebraska und portions til northern Kansas Friday evening wns the most destructive and covered tho most territory of any slmllnr storm which has visited thu state in, many yours. At least twenty-one persons per-sons nro known to lie dead, flvo fatally fatal-ly Injured nnd n score of others more or loss seriously hurt, some of them dangerously. In addition roports state thnt several persons wero killed nt tho towns of Hymn. Neb., and Conrtlnnd, Knn., which towns have been cut off from communication with tho outside vorld. Following tho tornado n hard rain which lasted well Into the night soaked soak-ed the storm-stricken sufferers, making mak-ing their lot doubly hard. Many ot them wero ubHoIutely without shelter nnd the storm occurring so Into In tho evening mnde It Impossible for them to seek sheltor or relief during tho night. The storm Hint struck Phllllpsburg, Kansas, destroyed tho greater portion uf the town, several peoplo being killed. The town ot Conrtlnnd, Ktuu., wns also a sufferer. |