The Springfield herald., 1912-04-26
CYCLONE KILLS
81 PEOPLE
TORNADO SWEEPS ACROSS IN.
DIANA AND ILLINOlS-PROP-
ERTY LOSS is HEAVY.
MANY ARE INJU RED
SMALL TOWNS ARE SWEPT AWAY
AND RAILROADS AND
MINES SUFFER.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Chicago.-As a result of series Of
tornadoes which swept across parts of
Illinois and Indiana thirty-two persons
are dead and $50 injured, some of
them mortally
A hundred persons were injured, at
least eight of tn m so severely they
may die, and many thousands of dol
lars damage was done to property.
The sections reported turnadoes at
the same time. Most damage appar-
emily was done by that which ap.
peared from Coal City, ILL.,. and swept
eastward. The other wrought its de
Nastation southeast of st. Louis in and
about Murphysboro, ILL.,, in jackson
county.
Wauponsee, a small village near
Coal City, ILL.,, was reported wiped out.
Bush, ILL.,, was partly demolished and
fifteen dead have been taken from the
ruins of the wrecked homes. Forty
five persons were injured.
Five persons were killed and sixteen
houses demolished at Willisyine, Ill.
Sweeping across the state and into
Indiana the tornado descended upon
Kentland, where nine persons were
killed, six others so severely injured
they are expected to die, half a hun
dred others bruised, and thousands Of
dollars worth of property destroyed
in and around Morocco, Newton coun-
ty, when a tornado swept out of the
West
Wauponsee, ILL.,, village near Coal
City, was reported demolished, de.
stroying telephone communication,
and making it impossible to learn the
seriousness of the damage done there.
Houses, sheds and farm buildings
near Coal City were demolished, wind
mills were blown down and many head
of cattle are reported killed. The tow
er above mine No. 3, at Carbonhill,
was toppled over.
Antoine Saloas saloon at Aileen,
near Coal City, was blown in. Tele-
phone and telegraph wires were laid to
the ground for mile at a stretch in
several places.
Twenty houses were blown down in
and near Morocco, Ind and fully for
ty houses in Newton county were
wiped out.
tornado started in Iroquois county. Hi
noIs, and swept eastward in gyrating
curves.
Near Dwight, H., a school house, the
Dooley school, was demolished.
By railroad telegraph it has been
learned that the Chicago, Indiana &
Southern railway station at Reddick
was blown across the tracks. Every
farm building on the property there OF
a man named Patchett, was destroyed
and the family escaped injury by
clinging to trees in the door yard.
Many other buildings were destroyed
at Redick and nearby, and several
persons were injured, none severely.
Telephone linemen sent to reptir
the damaged lines near Grant Park,
Ill, reported that in and around
Grant Park six persons had been
seriously injured and fifty others
slightly injured. Between fifty and
a hundred houses, said the lineman,
had been demolished. They We're I'LL
able to give names of the dead.
At s O'Clock Mount Vernon was rhe
only town of any size in the storm
swept district WnlCh was IN COmmOui-
cation with the outside world and op-
orators at that point reported their in
ability to get into communication
with points in the territory immedi-
ately surrounding.
Cairo, Murphysboro, Marion and Du
quoin were in the affected district, bit
at an early hour tonight had been un-
able to report their damage.
Murphysboro Ill.-A special train
arrived here on the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern railroad carry
ing forty-one persons who We're in
jured at Bush, ILL.,, by the tornado
which swept southern Illinois.
Twelve dead We're found at Bush
and it is expected that more will he
found when the debris is cleared
away.
Five persons We're killed at Willis
Vile and sixteen houses were demol-
ished.
The Iron Mountain station at Bush
waS DESTROYED as we're two rows of