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Tornadoes and floods sweep Texas and midwest
Twisters wreck homes and farms across Texas with at least three deaths and eight injuries as a child is found dead near Yancey. A second twister impacts Calvert while floods push the Mississippi River and Cairo, Illinois, over banks.
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United Press International
Texas
Harold Fraser
Yancey
Tex
Fraser
Yancy
Ernest Wiemers
Blanche Weimers
Calvert
Southern Pacific
Mississippi River
Cairo
Ill
National Weather Service
Gulf of Mexico