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Show FORTY KILLED IN TORNADOES ARKANSAS AND MISSOURI HARDEST HARD-EST HIT: WHOLE BLOCKS ARE DESTROYED Injured and Missing Will Reach Over 100; Oil Camp Struck Hard; Tornado Coven Over Four States Arkansas Nearly two score of pur-tons pur-tons were killed and upward of 109 Injured In tornatioeH which swept through a number of scattered locol-ttles locol-ttles In Arkansas and Missouri late TueHday. A hlh wind and rain storm also struck In ,oulHlana, Injuring twelve. The Missouri twisters, which swept as far north as Competition, seventy miles north of the Missouri-Arkansas border, were believed to be offshoots of disastrous winds which looks a heavy toll at lienor SprlriKS Ark. Twenty-nine persons wore known to be dead in Arkansas, with fifty or more Injured, while five were killed In Missouri and an undetermined number num-ber Injured. The heaviest loss of life was at Heher Springs, in Celburne county, where fifteen met death as fifteen blocks of buildings were mowed down. At Oppelo a family wus annihilated when a residence was blown away. KiKht were killed and thirty injured at Moscow and one death occurred at Sheridan. At Hrandsvllle, Mo., near the border, bor-der, throe were killed and more than twenty Injured. Nearly every business busi-ness building was destroyed. Sweeping Sweep-ing northward, the storm struck Competition, Com-petition, causing two deaths and In-Jury In-Jury to many. Telephone communication was down at many points in the storm's path. |