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Show TORNADO If ILLINOIS : TWO BOYS KILLED AND PROPERTY PROP-ERTY DAMAGE WILL REACH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. Twenty Spectators at Ball Cam Mora or Lets Seriously Injured When Grandstand Was Picked up Bodily by tha Wind. Peoria, HI. A tornado hi ruck P kin, 111 , ten miles south of here, hi 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, killing two persons and causing property damage that will Hinount lo thousands. The dead: Clyde Makers aged H. Frank Woodley, aged 15. The storm cunts from the southwest, demolishing the pumping station on fie opposite bank of the Illinois river. It then Jumped across the. Illinois nver and the plants of the Holey Jeo company were completely com-pletely destroyed, Tha residence portion por-tion of the city esi'Hped. Granite City. 111. Twenty spectators specta-tors at a ball game were, more or less serloiihly Injured Sunday evening when the grandstand collapsed under a heavy wind. Sidney Marauds, 21' years old, of Granite. City, was the most serioijuly Injured, receiving a broken leg and Internal Injuries. Twelve of the twenty pernon Injured were baseball players. Mont of the spectators fled at the approach of the storm. The grandstand grand-stand was picked up bodily by the storm and hurled upon a crowd of players who were huddled behind It e king shelter from hall. |