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Show TORNADO IN. KANSAS. : '.:".- .Several People .Injured and Much . Property Destroyed. , Word has been received of a tor nada at St. Paul, Neosho county, Kans. Saturday, - which destroyed a great amount of property "arid injured five people four of whom cannot recover. Mrs. David Chamberlain and three members of a German family named Longhani will die, it is thought. David Chamberlain has bruises, of a severe character, while sqveral other persons per-sons sustained minor injuries. The three-story brick school building was entirely destroyed and the homes of Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Longham and Mrs. Melluse blown away. Many houses were, also unroofed. The depot platform was carried from the town-site. town-site. The tornado jumped a building occasionally, taking a house here and a barn there. The storm lasted about five minutes. Near Cherryvale all the buildings on the farm of Stanley Foster Fos-ter were badly injured and their two-year-old child was fatally hurt, suffering suf-fering a fractured skull. |