Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1920 — WINDSTORM HITS NEVADA, MO. [ARTICLE]

WINDSTORM HITS NEVADA, MO.

Tornado Kills Three Persons and Destroys Building. Joplin, Mo., March 12.—Three men were killed in a tornado that struck Nevada, Mo„ GO miles northwest of here, destroying part of a three-story building occupied by the Bank of Nevada and out windows in the courthouse. Black pearls were first made fashionable by the Empress Eugenia, who in the days of her glory possessed a faimlous necklace of them, which brought many thousands of dollars when sold at auction after the overthrow of the imperial dynasty.