Fillmore Progress | 1924-06-20 | Page 4 | Eight Killed in Windstorm

eight killed in windstorm mitchell SIl S D eight persons are reported dead at bijou mils frills brute brula county and two more are dead at white lake aurora county us is a result of a windstorm which swept through at least nine counties last saturday night four persons were injured at mitchell SIl one perhaps fatally and property damage here will reach several hundred thousand dollars it Is estimated scores of 0 houses were unroofed barns and farm buildings were demolished livestock was lost and irrigation dams were swept away by streams swollen by n u two Inch rainfall the state slate highway supply depot here was damaged seventeen miles of telegraph wires or ar down between mitchell and sioux city iowa light and power plants in practically every town in the affected region are out ot of commission