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Show wu IM IT VAC Ten Persons Killed Scores Injured Build-- ings Wrecked Snn Antonio, Tex., May 2. Ten persons are known to have been killed kill-ed ,a scoio Injured an.l farm buildings over a wide area destroyed by a cyclone cy-clone and a cloudburst which swept over the Rio Grando country near North Laredo at S 30 o'clock last night. Telegraph and telephone wires Were leveled between Laredo and Green and news of the disaster v-.as late in getting Into LareJo and thirdly. thir-dly. Among Jie known killed is Grover Nye. a wealthy planter of North Laredo. La-redo. Three women and children wore killed In the house adjoining. The extensive ranch property of J. H. Davis, the millionaire onion king of Texas, was completely swept awn The Davis family was not at home and how many of the employes were killed or injured could not be learned up to midnight The cyclone appeared appear-ed from south of Laredo, on the Mexican Mex-ican side, swept over Laredo and Btruck North Laredo, The wind was accompanied by a downpour which amounted to a cloudburst in intensity and power Between North Laredo and Sanchez a large section of the International In-ternational railway was washed out. Relief trains with doctors and nurses and wrecking crens were hurried hur-ried from Laredo and Green. Texas, and couriers returning at midnight from these trains report the destruction destruc-tion of evory plantation building between be-tween North Laredo anj Sanchez. At Minerva, a small mining village, houaes were blown down and many Injured. The town was without light laat night and only one person, a cattle cat-tle horder, has come In from there since tho storm passed. He reports tho entire section devastated by wind and flood. |