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Show TORNADOES IN TEXAS TOWNS CAUSE DEATH AND SUFFERING Several People Killed When Houses Were Torn From Their Foundations. Founda-tions. Train Blown From Track. ES Paso, Texas. A tornado Thursday Thurs-day night almost destroyed the little town of Hamlin, in central western Texas, on the line of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad, seventy-five seventy-five miles northeast of Big Springs. Three persons were seriously injured. In a tornado at Lenders. Texas. A. Golurp and three children were killed. Mrs. Golurp and A. Anderson were seriously hurt. Thirteen houses were wrecked and scores of cattle were killed. A heavy hail accompanied the wind. At Merkel. Texas, three jouses were wrecked and a score were blown from their foundations. Haskell, Has-kell, Texas, also was hit by the storm and serious damage done. During a terrific windstorm a passenger pas-senger train on the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad was blown from the bridge across the Brazos river between Knox City and Benjamin. Benja-min. Texas. J. E. Stafford of Crowell, Texas, a passenger, was killed. Seven persons were injured, none fatally. |