Tornadoes kill 2 in Ill., Oklahoma...06/02/99

           FARMERSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - Tornadoes struck central and southern Illinois and eastern            Oklahoma, killing two people and injuring at least 10, as violent thunderstorms swept across the            Plains and Midwest. A line of severe thunderstorms spawned more than a dozen twisters late            Tuesday and early Wednesday in Illinois, where a truck driver was crushed to death while he slept            inside his rig at a truck stop about 60 miles north of St. Louis, authorities said. Four others also            were injured at the popular Farmersville truck stop when the storm hit at 7:15 p.m., officials said.            Severe thunderstorms also struck Arkansas with hail and wind gusting to nearly 90 mph, and            several passengers were killed when an American Airlines plane slid off a wet runway at Little            Rock and burst into flames.

 

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