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Show I Deadly Tornado L ' Takes Big Toll 9 Scarcely a County In Arkansas Escaped, Es-caped, -the Path of the Disastrous Storm Kansas .'City, Mo., Juno 6. Death lists In the" storm swept sections of Arkansas 'Missouri, Mississippi and Illinois grow hourly tonight ns belated be-lated reports were received froncom-munttlcs froncom-munttlcs which suffered In a aeries of tornadoes last ntgVnd early today. to-day. Tonight tho deaths of 107 persons had been reported, a number of other oth-er persons 'were unaccounted for and believed dead and several hundred Injured of whom some will dlo. Accurhto estimates of property dam-ago dam-ago were not avallablo, but all figures ventured by property owners In tho stricken communities ran Into the hundreds of thousands. Complete tables showed the following follow-ing deaths: Arkansas Fifteen . Missouri Thirty, possibly more. Mississippi Fifteen. Illinois One. Tennssseo Four with a score missing miss-ing In tho overturning of tho Mississippi Missis-sippi river packet Eleonoro. The' casualties in Arkansas wore from every section. Scarcely a county coun-ty escaped the path of the storm that traversed tho entire stato. Jackson 1 nnd Vlcgsbury suffered rrom tlw storm in Mississippi. Many or the casualties In Arkansas nnd Mlslsslp-pi Mlslsslp-pi wero negrocB. In Missouri tho Poplar niuff section was well nigh do vas'tatcd. McCluro 'reported the slnglo death In Illinois. The storm first pnssed through Ox-Icy, Ox-Icy, where several barns and light buildings wero ,torn from their 'foundations. 'foun-dations. At Stoddard, however, tho storm had gained In Intensity and In addition to Uioeo billed, throo persons were Injured so seriously thfiy nro oxpected to dlo. William Simpson nnd wifo at Poplar Bluff, who woie-klllcd woie-klllcd wero passing tho rdght at Stoddard Stod-dard after attending tho funeral of Mr. Simpson's mother thero Monday. A daughter of Mrs. Edward Fields was hurled 200 "feet, but was uninjured. unin-jured. Two men Injured at Sykeston probably prob-ably will dlo. They wero struck by flying timbers. Owing to crippled wire servlco the names of many reported dead in tho rural districts cannot bo obtained. Th'o storm was general and It lf feared hero that later reports will show still heavier lofs of life. m |