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Show STORM SNUFFS OUT LIVES 0FC1DREN TWISTING WIND COMES OUT OF SULTRY SKY; ELEVEN WERE KILLED OUTRICHT. Pupils Busy at Books as Cyclone Striket SmaM Village In Maryland; Mary-land; Some Were Carried Several Hundred Feet. Washington A achoolhouse at La-Plata, La-Plata, Md., wan blown down during a violent windstorm wlil:li struck the vicinity (jf Washing Tuesday. Ke-ports Ke-ports of casual';-:; wore conflicting. A telephone operator Haiti she believed be-lieved there were no fatalities, but call from a hotel there said re-imrlH re-imrlH were c iirront that, a score of children had lost, their lives. A number of private dwellings also wire demolished and the death of one man In one of these was definitely established. Seventy-five school children chil-dren were 111 the Hchoolhouse when the storm descended upon the town. Lal'lata Is thirty miles from Washington. Wash-ington. Automobiles left here on receipt re-ceipt of news of the storm to carry relief and to determine whether there had been loss of lito. l'rovhlence hospital here was notified noti-fied that a number of the children were being transferred to that institution. insti-tution. Whether there were any deaths among these could not at once he determined, owing to the fact that the children were immediately loaded Into ambulances on being taken from the wreckage. |