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Show SPRING TORNADO KILLSJHIRTY Tears Jagged Path Through Two Counties of South Central Kansas. OVER FIFTY INJURED Funnel-shaped Mass of Whirling Whirl-ing Debris Slashes Through Business Buildings. WICHITA, Kan., May 26. South Central Kansas today is recovering from the ravages of a spring tornado which late yesterday toie a jagged path through two counties and killed thirty people. Andale, a village of less than 300 inhabitants, was the chief sufferer with sixteen identified dead. The country coun-try district to the northeast near Sedgwick, reported nine fatalities, while two dead were identified near Newton, still to tho northeast. More than a half hundred persons have been injured. The twister arose in the -southwest and swooped down upon Andale with a suddenness that prevented any organized or-ganized escape. With the small" end of tho funnel-shaped mass of whirling debris slashing a path from a quarter to a half mile in width, residences and business buildings of the town were reduced to splinters. Then the tornado swept through what is known as one of the richest farming districts of the state, leveling standing grain and farm houses standing in its path. oo |