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Show EIGHT DEAD! TEN INJURED. BIG HEART. Okla., April 12. Eight persons wore killed and ten injured iu a tornado which struck Big Heart at 4 o'clock this afternoon, leaving but four houses standing. The known dead: JOHN KERNS. FRED HAMMOND. WILLIAM MARLOW, The tornado iwas accompanied by a driving rain and swept everything In 1L3 path. Houses were blown from their foundations and the occupants whirled through the nlr This town was demoralized and telegraph tel-egraph communication cut off. As soon as communication could be established es-tablished with noarby towns relief trains wero started from Avant and Pawhuskn. fllg Heart has a population popula-tion of 400. MUSKOGEE, Okla., April 12. The town of Big Heart, Okla., has been blown away by a tornado, according to reports received here at the offices of the Missouri, Kansas Texas railway. rail-way. All wires are down and details thus far are unobtainable Big Hearc is In the Osage Nation and one the Midland Valley railway. Many aie reported killed In the tornado at Big Henri, Okla., and a special , relief train and automobiles are leaving for the stricken town from Pawhuska aud Avant, Okla. . SHAWNEE, Okla.. April 12. A high wind wrecked several barns, uproote'd orchards and seriously damaged tho corn crop, five miles north of hero to-nlghL to-nlghL Tho wind was accompanied by hall and rain. i |