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Submitted: 3/24/23 • Approved: 3/25/23 • Last Updated: 3/28/23 • R1478657-G0-S3
1877 - January 11, 1898
Fort Smith, Ark., Jan. 12. -- At least forty persons were killed and property worth over a million dollars was destroyed by a tornado which burst upon this city a few minutes after 11 o'clock last night. Men, women, and children, asleep in their homes, were without a moment's warning awakened to meet death under falling walls or in the flames which soon engulfed many of the wrecked buildings.
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