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Show Florida Storm Adds, To Death Toll j Florida Florida's .latest storm dis- aster is the fourth important visitation visita-tion to strike the region in less than one year. The others were: . April 5, 1925 Five killed, homes and business houses at Miami wrecked and the new Hialeah racing club's $1,500,000 plant heavily hit by the hurricane. December 1, 1925 Miami, Tampa, j Lakeland, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, i Bradentown, Sebring, Avon Park, Sar- j astoa, Fort Myers and other points ! swept by hurricane. Tampa hardest j hit, with five deaths. July 29, 1926 Seventy killed. 13,- 000,000 property damage and many j ships sunk by hurricane that swept i the Bahamas and the south Florida j region. Bimini was the center of the disturbance. Other famous cyclonic and and hurricane disturbances in i recent years have been. j February 18, 1S34 Southern states j swept by tornado that killed 000. j April, 1S92 Tornado swept Kansas killing 40. June 14, 1892 Five counties in Min- nesota swept, fifty killed. I June 20, 1S93 Sixteen, killed in Kansas Kan-sas river valley. September 20, 1894 Iowa and Min- j nesota visited by tornado that killed I seventy-five. May 27, 1S35 St. Lou's and East j St. Louis, 500 killed, thousands hurt, ; millions of damage. - j March 30, 1897 Three-fourths of Chandler, Okla.. destroyed. May IS, 1 ED8 Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin swept by storm that killed .orty and did $1,000,000 damage. April 27, 1899 One hundred killed I at Kirksville and Newton, Mo. j lune 13, 1899 Town ot Herman, Ne ., destroyed and 100 killed in Nebraska Neb-raska and Wisconsin. M.iy 9, 1905 Thirty killed at Marquette, Mar-quette, Kan. May 11, 1905 Snyder, Okla.,. de-stroyi de-stroyi d. 130 killed. Math 2, 1906 Thirty-five killed at Merid n. Miss. Ap-.l 24, 1903 Five hundred killed in Mississippi. Louisiana and Alabama. June 5, 190S Twenty-seven killed in northern Kansas and southern Nebraska. Ne-braska. , March 13, 1913 Peoria, III.: Vin- ' cennes. I:;.i.. and Tennessee and Louisiana towns swept, with much damage and loss of life. May 31, 1917 Southeast Missouri and southwestern Illinois visited bv storm that killed sixty-seven and in-jnred in-jnred 2.i-). June 23, 1919 Sixty tilled. 400 buildings destroyed at Fergus Falis, Minn. April 25, 1923 Oklahoma towns and villages swept and 100 killed. |