The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-10-02
TOWN A TOTAL WRECK;
MAY NOT Be REBUILT
State Constabulary Picket the Strick-
en- District and Sight ers are Barr
cd.--Suryivors Are Housed and Am
pie Food and Medicine Aid Have
Arrived.

= austin, Pa, October Essimatss
OF the loss OF life in the food that
overwhelmed the town of Austin
). sterday diminished today when an
army OF volunteers worked its way
into the masses Of wreckage. In the
opinion Of may ON the ground the
number of dead will not reach $50,
while the less hopeful place the list
Of fatalities at 800.
The property loss will exceed $6..
0o0,0C0, while it is the general opin-
ion that the town will never tc re-
built.
Two at least of the large plants
viii net be reconstructed and ma
joritg Of the business men Of the
place have been ruined financially.
state officials in charge Of the sit
naticn after hasty canvass Of the
popnlaticn today expressed tho be-
Inf that more than 150 are. dead.
Only sixteen additional bodies have
been recovered at late hour to-
night
Chief Of Police r. f.. Baker, how
ever, believes that fully a0a are dead
or missing.
Ssarehers Work in Rain.
The 500 men who had toiled all
day in a heavy rain storm abandoned
their tasks with the coming Of dark
ness. Although they had moved
mighty heaps of debris, fought fire
and worked without food seeking to
remove bodies Of the dead, less than
a score have been found.
A battle line Of state police sur
rounds the town and no persou
without a task to perform was per-
mitted to enter
Reports from Costello and points
farther down grew more encouraging
as the day advanced. AT Costello.
while there was a heavy financial
loss, IL was said that no more than
three persons were dead.
Beyond that point no fatalities
have been reported.
The survivors will not suffer from
hunger or lack of medical aid as the
supplies and medical attendants
rushed to the scene seemed ample
'->' Red Cross Gives Aid.
E.F, Bicknell, national director or
the National Red Cross Society, ar
rived today bringing with him SI5,-
900 cash for immediate aid to the
victims. OF the eight injured in the
hospitals none Is hurt fatally.
The homeless have been provided
for with shelter On the outskirts
OF Austin are number of houses
which We're vacated by workers In
the Goodyear mill. when that place
was dismantled. These houses have
been filled with homeless people.
The residents OF Heating Summit
have taken In the others, several
hundred in number.
Many evidences of the tremendous
power of the food were seen today by
the workers in the town.
Engines weighing twenty-five tons
had been rolled along the ground
and immense steel copper was car
ried a half mile and thrown through
the side of house and steel freight
ears were bent double
Lumber Piles Kill Many.
The greatest damage was done by
the piles of cut lumber swept before
the food. This acted as great bat
tering ram which swept buildings
from their foundations and caused
the deaths of scores who otherwise
might have escaped after surviving
the first rush of the water
h Investigation into the cause Of the
breaking Of tho dam will be started
at once. according to officials I'm
charge Of the rescue work. That
there has been constant danger OF
the catastrophe Of yesterday, due to
the instability Of the structure. was
Concluded on page six.