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Show MORETORNADOES I CAUSINGJEATHS I Missouri and Southern Illinois M Telephone and Telegraph jfl Services Demoralized. M RELIEF SENT SPEEDILY H Much Property Damage Done H Every House Flattened H in One Village. H ST. LOUIS, May 31. Eighteen dead H and sixty injured is tho death roll of H the tornado that swept southeastern H Missouri and southern Illinois, accord- ing to reports received up to noon to- day. Several deaths are reported in Bollinger county. H ST. LOUIS, May 31. Twelve per- H sons were killed and about forty in- jured in the tornadoes that swept IH southeastern Missouri and southern 11- H linois yesterday afternoon. H The town of Mirieral Point, Mo., IH where four persons lost their lives, JM was wiped out. Losses of life also IH were reported at Diehlstadt, Mo., and IH Palmer, Mo., and three negroes per- M ished at Hodges Park, Alexander coun- M ty, Illinois. More than twenty per- M sons were injured at Mounds, 111. H ST. LOUIS, May 31. Tornadoes in IH Missouri and southern Illinois caused H the death of at least ten persons and H injury to forty or more yesterday aft- ernoon and early last night. Reports M from Cairo, 111., that two persons were killed 'at Diehlstadt, Mo., could not H be verified because of the demoraliza- tion of the telephone and telegraph M service. H Three other Missouri towns, Gran- H itoville, Bonneterrc and Bismarck, H wereTeported struct by the htorni, but H deflnito information could not be ob- H tained. Bonneterre was isolated en- M tirely except by automobiles and M trains. M Relief was sent speedily to all the H afflicted districts. Little suffering H among those made homeless was ex- l pected. H A tornado took a toll of four lives IH at 'Mineral Point, .Mo., 75 miles south- IH west of SL Louis, and flattened even M struction in the village with the ex- ception of the school house. At Eye, l houses were unroofed and one man M killed. At Palmer, farther south, M three persons were known to be dead, one of whom had been identified. |