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Show Eight Killed in Windstorm Mitchell, S. D., Eight persons are reported dead at Bijou Hills, Brule county, and two more are dead at White Lake, Aurora county, us a result re-sult of a windstorm which swept through at least nine counties last Saturday night. Four persons were injured at Mitchell, one perhaps fatally, fatal-ly, and property damage here will reach several hundred thousand dollars it is estimated. Scores of houses were unroofed, barns and farm buildings were demolished, livestock was lost and irrigation dams were swept away by streams swollen by a two-inch rainfall. The state highway supply depot here was damaged. Seventeen miles of telegraph wires ar down between Mitchell and Sioux City, Iowa. Light and power plants in practically every town in the affected region are out of commission. |