Tornadoes in Indiana Illinois and Kentucky leave 5 dead and 37 injured

A quick storm system generated multiple tornadoes Sunday in Illinois and Indiana , killing at least five people dead and about 40 wounded, destroying much of the city of Washington, in Illinois, as you go through the central region , officials said. 13 thousand people without power in Indiana tornadoes left The storm created tornadoes in Bone Gap and Miller City, Illinois, in Mount Carmel , Noblesville and Vincennes in Indiana, and Paducah , Kentucky , National Weather Service said . The storm also forced the football team Chicago Bears to stop their game against the Baltimore Ravens and made the fans at Soldier Field seek refuge . The two major Chicago airports air traffic paused . The metropolitan area was under a tornado warning . The city of Washington, Illinois, was hit hard by what the National Weather Service called a "huge and extremely dangerous " tornado . Thirty- one of the people who were injured by the storm that hit Washington were treated at St. Francis Medical Center , a major hospital in nearby Peoria , according to spokeswoman Amy Paul . Eight had traumatic injuries . Three people died in Washington County , Illinois , about 320 miles south of Peoria , said agency spokeswoman Patti Thompson Emergency Management . The agency estimated that at least 70 houses were destroyed across the state . Stephen Wilson , a spokesman for Proctor Hospital in Peoria , said six or seven patients were being treated for minor injuries . " Mainly cuts, bruises , broken bones ," he said . Photographs of Washington, Illinois, showed buildings reduced to rubble and halved houses in the city of 15 000 inhabitants , about 233 miles southwest of Chicago . " We have reports of homes that were destroyed , roofs were ripped off ," said Sara Sparkman , a spokeswoman for the health department Tazawell County , Illinois , where Washington, in a telephone interview . "We have entire neighborhoods demolished by the storm ," he added . Sparkman said the storm had also caused damage in Washington and Beijing ,

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