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Show TORNADO'S DEATH ROLL INCREASES KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 13. Although Al-though the weather Is fair tonight through, the tornado 6wept districts of Kansas, Oklahoma, western Missouri Mis-souri and northern Arkansas, tho major ma-jor portion of the telephone and telegraph tele-graph wires aro still down, and only meagre reports of the death and destruction des-truction wrought by the storm yesterday yester-day are obtainable. It will be several days before a complete list can be obtained It now appears that at least 10 persons per-sons were killed. Tho names of 12 of the dead are known Four dead, reported report-ed from Meoker, Oklahoma, and three from Plummenille, Arkansas, arc without names. The list of Injured will number moro than a hundred. Several who wore reported killed last night proved today to-day to bo among the Injured. Of the injured, few are thought to bo seriously serious-ly hurt. The monetary loss In Kansas alone Is estimated to be In excess of $C00,-000. $C00,-000. It 1b thought the damago In other sections will hrlng tho total to moro than $1,000,000. The Identified dead: FRANK HAMMOND. FRED KEEN, JENNIE BROWN, nil of Big Heart, Oklahoma. MRS. JOSEPH SULLIVAN. MRS ETHEL WHEELER, negrcss, Lawrence, Kas. MISS GERALDINE MEISENIIEI-MER. MEISENIIEI-MER. MISS ELLIOTT, Robinson, Kns. MRS. FRED STONE, Reserve. Kas. JANE PETTON, seven years old, Hl-awnltha, Hl-awnltha, Kas. J. E. ROSENBAUM, Germantown, Kas. MRS ALMEDA SHELLY, Joplln, Mo. MISS EVA STROUD, Mountalnburg, Ark. INFANT CHILD of E. J. HALTERS, Checotah, Okla. Of all the stricken cities, Big neart, Okla., suffered tho greatest damage. Threo peoplo wcro killed there and CO injured, thirty-eight fatally At llr6t It was roported eight people were killed. All the Injured from Big Heart were taken to Tulsa on a relief train, where they are now in hospitals. Little of the town was left standing. stand-ing. Lawrence, Kas., sustained the largest larg-est loss of any Kansas town, It being estimated at $200,000. Seventy-four residences wero wrecked and tho street cars and electric lights put out of business. The city la still In darkness. dark-ness. J. D. Bowers, a former congressman, con-gressman, was the heaviest Individual loser, his los9 being1 $30,000. In Brown county. Kans , tho tornado hugged the ground and residents are losers of moro than $300,000 worth of property The tornado swept a clean path of fifteen miles long and three-quarters three-quarters of a mile wide In that section. sec-tion. Eskrldgo's loss Is placed at $75,000. Miss Eva Stroud, who lost her life at Mountalnburg, Ark., was killed while she lay in bed. The house In which sho was asleep was destroyed. oo |