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664<br />

IN THE WARE OF THE<br />

UTTER DESOLATION<br />

Almost without warning, a tornado struck Mattoon, Illinois, on the afternoon of May twenty-sixth. The<br />

wind cut a swath a mile wide half across the State, killing over two hundred people, injuring approximately<br />

a thousand, and destroying property aggregating nearly $10,000,000. These photographs were<br />

snapped in Mattoon immediately following the disaster. The upper picture at the left shows what re-

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