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Show TWO DEAD IN LAWRENCE J 5 Does $175,000. PamaajasmeKjisMi Town Where It Cut a Clean Path. LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 12. A I torando which struck Lawrence ahort-1 ly after 8 o'clock tonight, killed two persons, Injured, twelve and did damage dam-age estimated at about $175,000. The storm cut a clean path through the town from the southwest to tho northwest On tho surrounding farms many persons per-sons were hurt and it was on a farm that one of the two persons killed lived. This was a negress The other victim was Mrs. Joseph Sullivan of Lawrence. Of the twelve persons injured, in-jured, it is said at least four will die. In the path of the cyclone practically evory building was damaged. A mall train on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa San-ta Fe railroad, missed the tornado by only a few seconds, after a race of several miles to get out of Its track. None of the buildings of the University Uni-versity of Kansas or any of the houses in tho student quarter "were damaged, being out of tho path of tho storm. |