Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. SECOND TORNADO IN TEN DAYS Wind Visits lowa District Twice Jn Less than a Fortnight. Davenport, lowa, May 19.—Two persons were killed and two injured, one seriously, tonight in the second tornhdo within, ten days to strike the farming district five miles north of here. The tornado uprooted a large tree and hurled it across an automobile killing Bernard M. Hofer, manager of a biscuit company’s branch here, and his son Roy, and injury to Mrs. Hofer and her eight-year-old daughter Vivian. The mother was z hurt internally.