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Show i FLOODS FOLLOW FEARFUL TORNADO Two Oklahoma Towns Devastated by High Winds and Rainstorm Which Swept Over Wide Area. At Least Fifteen People Met Death. While Many Were Injured, It Being Be-ing Estimated Two Hundred Are Left Homeless. Oklahoma City, Okla. At least fif-een fif-een people were killed Saturday night in a tornado that devastated the Oklahoma towns of Key West and De-pew. De-pew. Forty or more were injured. At least ten were killed in Key West. That figure is confirmed by a number of people who fled before the storm. Five are dead at Depew. Toe tornado swept over a wide stretch ol farming country. Following the wind came a deluge of rain. Floods then added to the ter rible situation. The wreckage of Key West soon was overwhelmed by the rising waters. Practically nothing was left of the town of 200 inhabitants. The residence of J. I. Hart was demolished de-molished after being rolled over a hall dozen times with the occupants in side. Every member of the f&aally was injured. Mrs. Hart's back was broken, a little girl's leg was wrenched from her thigh and Hart and two children were seriously injured. Depew was destroyed by a double twister that formed from that striking Key West and from another coming from the east. The tornado wiped out Depew and then pushed on northeast presumably spending its force a few miles fuither on. At an early hour Saturday afternoon after-noon was witnessed most unusual phenomena. Small tornadoes rapidly followed one another. They rose high into the air, circled about and dipped. As many as five were ob served during the display. The little tornadoes had spent their force when the big one came along at 5 o'clock |