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Show FIFTY KILLED IN ARKANSAS STORM SERIES OF TORNADOES SWEEP OVER STATE, DEALING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. One-thlrd of Little Town Blown Away, Twenty-flve Bodies Being Taken From Ruins, Eighteen Dead Being Found In Another Town. Littlo Rock, Ark. Fltty-nino persons per-sons nro reported killed and moro than 100 Injured In a series of tornadoes torna-does which Bwept Arkansas Monday nftornoon. All means of communication communica-tion nro crippled nnd it is feared tho list of dead and Injured will bo greatly great-ly Increased by later reports. Tho dead thus far reported aro as follows : Judsonla, Whlto county, twenty-flvo known dead and fifty injured. Hober Springs, eighteen dead. Do Lark, Dnllas county, four dead. Cabot, Whlto county, flvo dead. Hot Springs, four dead. Morrlllton, ono dead. Greonland, Washington county, two dead. North Arkansas appears to havo sufforcd most severely, although tho storm was general throughout tho state. At Judsonla one-third of tho town was said to havo boon swept away. Twenty-flvo .bodies and fifty Injured already havo been taken from tho ruins. Wiro servico Is almost paralyzed throughout tho stato and many hours probably will olapso beforo tho full extent of tho storm is known. Near Morrlllton a negro was killed and a negress was blown away In tho storm. Sho has not beou found. A whlto woman nnd several children also woro hurt. A scoro or moro of persons wero Injured In-jured on tho outskirts of Littlo Rock and towns closo to tho city. Reports indlcato that hundreds or buildings havo been blown down throughout tho state. |