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Show Eight Killed In Windstorm I Mitchell. S. I ., Ki L.-ht persons are reported dead at I'.i.iou Hills. P.rule county, and two more are dead at White I-ako. Aurora county, as a re-suit re-suit of a windtorm which swept ! through at least nine counties last j Saturday r.U'ht. Kour persons were j Injured at Mitchell, one perhaps total j ly. and property (I am aire hero will reach several hundred thousand dollars It is estimated. Scons of houses were unroofed, barns and farm buildings wer demollslid, livestock was lost nnd irrigation dams wrn swept nway by streams swollen by n two. Inch rainfall. The stale highway supply depot here was damaged. Seventeen miles of tdeirraph wires nr down between Mitchell and Sioux City, Iowa. Light nnd power plants In practically every town In the affected region are out of commission. |