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Tornadoes whirled through the deep South last week. Half a dozen separate twisters struck Vicksburg, Rolling Fork, Tulles. Dry Prong, Paradis. Ouachita City and dozens of hamlets and rural areas in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Georgia, leaving an estimated 41 dead, 263 injured...
Hardest hit was proud Vicksburg, on the bluffs overhanging the Mississippi. The tornado struck the city (pop. 27,948) with a noise like a fast-moving freight, toppled markers along the Confederate trenches used during the Civil War siege of Vicksburg, flattened the flimsy shanties of the Negro section, roared through the heart of the business district, demolishing or damaging nearly every store in a twelve-block area, then capriciously hopped several blocks to a northern part of the city before spending itself...
Dinkas & Bongos. That was at Juba, 750 miles south of Khartoum (pop. 82,700). The pattern was the same last week all over the 1,000,000 sq. mi. of desert, swamp and irrigated cotton land of the Sudan. In an area larger than the U.S. east of the Mississippi, 1,250,000 tribesmen, nine out of ten of them illiterate, were riding on bullocks or camels, trekking across dunes and marshes, to 2,000 polling booths, where the magic papers lay. Six of Sudan's eight millions are Northerners, who worship Allah but still practice female circumcision...
...Crawford Mims 5' 10" 210 Mississippi...
...short time after the tornado hit Louisiana, a storm struck the area around Fitler, Miss., in the Mississippi River delta north of Vicksburg. Fourteen persons were reported injured, at least one seriously...