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Show TORM IN NEBRASKA WREAKS HAVOC 1 THREE KILLED, MANY HURT IN FIERCE BLAST i Thousands of Read of Livestock Live-stock Perish, Victims of Elements (LOSS IS MILLIONS Earn Crushes Farmer; Hail Responsible for One Death OMAHA, Neb., July 11. Three per-1 jsons killed, at bast two others so erlously injured that their recovery! is doubtfu . and property damage that , I may reach three million dollars was !the toll of storms and a tornado that 'swept parts of South Dakota and Ne-hraska Ne-hraska atfurdaj night, Sunday and I M onda- With the re-opninp: of communica-, lion llpee into the affected territory i . , , l a , details of the widespread dam-. dam-. a?e heepme known her. I Reports to the Associated Press ana local newspapers brought out the fol-. ' lowing dr-tulLSl I iMAGE MTIjMONS Thie million dollars damage done iby Saturday nights tornado and Icioudburst In Gregory and Charles. Mix county, South Dakota, and Knox .county. Nob., $1,000:000 damage in jGrpgorv county alone Thousands of head of lhestock kill- iCdThc town of St. Charles. South Da-jkota, Da-jkota, with a population of 200, vir-1 :tuallv blown off the map. Hundrei of buildings destroyed SECOND TORN M The known dead of the Saturdas tornado is one. Howard Hughes kill-1 led by a falling wall at St Charles. , ITwo more names were added, how-, ever, as a result of a second tornado j 1 which struck neai Sargent. Net. Monday Mon-day night. Tom Rose. 3F. a farmer, was killed when the barn on his farrn !was wrecked and Sam Wim man. 1-. I was drowned when thrown from a, Uvagon when the horses he was driving driv-ing bolted with fright at hail , 1 no, wagon going i er into a water-filled I ditch, pinning the Vo beneath. MAW POLES DOWJi Telephone compam men were unable un-able to estimate the number of poles i dow n in the storm but said it w ould I be large Damage to standing crops. Us reported as heavy. . Workmen, reports here said hae been sent to the devastated areas from ! Sioux City and Norfolk to clear awayi the wreckage , j At Crelghton. Neb., j persons were, ireported to have been injured. |