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Show n DEAD SCORES HURT IHJORNftDO KANSAS TOWN BEARS BRUNT OP STORM; SIOUX CITY GETS WIND AND RAIN Wyomlnfl In Blizzard'. Grip; Plane and Train Service Is Crippled Hutchinson, Kan. Eleven are known to be dead and probably a hundred hun-dred or more are Injured as a result of the tornadoes which swept northeastward north-eastward through Barber, Kingman, Reno and McPherson counties late Saturday night. ' ,uQ Probably 800 residences along the path of the twisters were damaged Many of them were completely demolished, demol-ished, while an enormous amount of damage was done otherwise. There were at least two twisters, the first about 7:30 p. m., originating in Barber county and sweeping northeast north-east into Kingman county. The other, at U p. m., originated south of Hutchinson Hutch-inson and swept northward through East Hutchinson, leaving a trail of devastation four blocks wide from one end of the city to the other, through the east industrial district, then smashing smash-ing its way northward through the sandhills and tearing a swath of destruction de-struction In the county west of Medora and inman. The main residence section of Hutchinson was spared, the path of the twister being two and a half miles east of the main business district. Three dead in Barber county, two more In Kingman county, one in Hutchinson and four in the Mc-dora and Ininan communities north of Hutchinson made up the toll of dead. |