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Show 'lied .-tl'm J HEAVY TOLL OF STORM. t think bVne KiMed by Tornado In Arkansas, joory others Meet Death in Blizzard. j mm Chicago. At least twenty-five lives -Arijujere reported lost in a storm that ws havljaged through the west Tuesday, '. jnging from a blizzard in the north- e tiling ' states to a tornado which struck '.wlior-'nsas during the afternoon. ' ''"fly ' '.'gh the western valley states ' rifi-? V -r temperatures prevailed and 'lroiferrain was heavy. Unusual cold was reported from the mountains west to the Pacific coast. ; Nine persons are known to have e' been killed and fourteen injured in a h tornado which swept a four-mile path n through south central Arkansas late Tuesday. Unconfirmed reports tell of jnmy more deaths. V The death list includes four white has--1 persons and five negroes. Three little mac girls were the victims of the storm at cost) -isrlisle. Near England a planter, Al- "-vrt L. Swartz, was killed, and his ,.v.fe and daughter were seriously in-f in-f Shred when their home was demol- isijed. Imports persist that a negro colony near Keo was wip-cd out and that sev-' sev-' cnteen were .killed. Another report ' , tells of the death of from fifteen to ' twenty convicts at the state farm at Tucker. |