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Show HUNDREDS PERISH II WAKEOF STORM SERIES OF TORNADOES SWEEP OVER FIVE STATES, DEALING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. One-third of Little Town Blown Away, Twenty-five Bodies Being Taken From Ruins, Eighteen Dead Being Found in Another Town. Little Rock, Ark. Seventy-six persons per-sons were killed in Monday's storms, when a series of tornadoes swept across t,he state from end to end. As wire communication was established late Tuesday night with sections which had been isolated for the previous pre-vious twenty-four hours, it was revealed re-vealed that fifty-seven white persons and nineteen negroes had been killed, while four other persons are missing and believed dead. North Arkansas appears to have suffered most severely, although the storm was general throughout the state. At Judsonla one-third of the town was said to have been swept away. Twenty-five bodies and fifty injured already have been taken from the ruins. Near Morrillton a negro was killed and a negress was blown away in the storm. She has not been found. A wbjite woman and several children also were hurt. A score or more of persons were injured in-jured on the outskirts of Little Rock and towns close to the city. Reports indicate that hundreds of buildings have been blown down throughout the state. Death lists in the stormswept sections sec-tions of Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Mississip-pi, Illinois and Tennessee are growing. Incomplete tabulations showed the following deaths: Arkansas, 76; Missouri, Mis-souri, 30, possibly more; Mississippi, 15; Illinois, one; Tennessee, 4, with a score missing in the overturning of the Mississippi river packet Eleonore. Scarcely a county in Arkansas escaped es-caped the path of the storm which traversed the entire state. Jackson and Vicksburg suffered from the storm in Mississippi. Many of the dead in Arkansas and Mississippi were negroes, ne-groes, in Missouri the Poplar Bluff section was well nigh devastated. |