Swift and Terrible Toll Is Taken in Rodessa Rodessa, La, Feb, 17, A tornado ripped through this booming all town to-day and left 35 dead and 100 injured in ils wake, OMietals wasted no time in tabulating the number of casualties as victims were rushed to hospitals for emergency treatment, The tornado cut a swathe half a mile wide and a mile long through the western end of the town and devastated an entire block outside the business district. The storm area ex-fended south through a district me chiding numerous oil "wells—with camps and field supply houses and the homes of hundreds of workers and their families, The population is estimated at 5,000 having swelled greatly since the dis covery of all felds.—United Press,
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