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Tornadoes hit Forney

Submitted by Abby Balderama

TORNADOES DEAL DEATH
Los Angeles Times
Thursday Morning, March 5, 1935, page 1

Two Children Killed and
$100,000 Damage Left
by Twister in Texas

  FORNEY (Tex.)  March 4.  (AP)--
Two Negro children were killed and property damage in excess of $100,000 was caused by a tornado which swirled through Forney early today.
  Practically every building in town was damaged.  Some were demolished, including two huge cotton warehouses.  The Texas and Pacific Railroad station was unroofed.
  Flimsy houses in the Negro section were blown away.  It was there the two children lost their lives in the ruins of their home.  A white woman, Mrs. B. G. Edwards, was slightly injured.
  The twister tore into Forney, a Kaufman county farming town of about 1000 population, from the south and raced on northward, inflicting some damage at Rockwall, thirty miles away.




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