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Show TERRIFIC TORNADO VISITS WORLD'S FAIR CITY, Ona Person Killed and Fifty Injured, While Property Damage la Immense. A tornado of extreme fury swept down upon the residence portion of North 8t. Louis Into Friday, resulting In the death of one person, Injury to probably fifty and dnmugo to prop, arty estimated at $100,000. The path of tho tornado wna about block and a half wide, along which houses were unroofed, window pane broken, aeveral manufactories partial, ly demolished and tbo streets littered With debris. A Broadway trolley car containing eleven passengers was struck by falling fall-ing telegraph poles and wrecked. Tha passengers had a remarkable escape from- Injury and only the motornian received alight bruises. Tha casualties occurred at Venice, ' ' " i Just across the river, where ono por-son por-son waa killed and ten Injured. Mrs. Hesl, who was killed, met her death by tho fulling dobrla of her home which wna blowu to pieces, Mrs. Wheolloss, who was probably fatally Injured, wa tbe occupant of a houseboat house-boat moored along the river which was crushed by a falling tree. Five members of the Bennett fnmlljr had hurried Into a small woodshed that was dcmolltdied and every muru-bor muru-bor of tbo group received Injuries. |
