The Oskaloosa herald., 1912-04-25
TORNADO KILLS So.
OVER 100 INJURED
Property Loss in Illinois and In.
diana ST, 900, 900.
WIND WRECKS MANY HOMES
List Of Dead Probably viii Be swelled
When Rescuers Reach Isolated
: Sections and Wire Conn
munication.

Chicago, April 23.-Fifty-eight per
sons are known to have been killed
and over 100 injured with property
damage estimated at s1,000,0Oo in
Sundays tornado which swept through
Illinois and Indiana.
Reports from districts where res
cuers have not yet penetrated anc
from scattered farmhouses are ex
pected TO increase the list Of fatal
ties.
Fifty-Eight Dead Reported.
So far as known the fatalities are
as follows:
Bush. H., 81; Morocco. Ind, IL;
Reddick, ILL.,, 3; Mt. Prairie, ILL.,, 3;
Murphysboro, ILL.,, 5; Willisville, Ill.
s; Freeman, H., 2; Kankakee, ILL.,. 1;
Sheldon, H., 2; Grant Park, ILL.,, /;
Brookside, Ala, 4.
From a point several miles north OF
Grant Park, H., to the southern ex
tremity at Cairo a whirling, death
dealing storm swept the state Of Iii
nois, killing some, manning others ano
leveling houses as if they were made
OF cardboard.
Relief expeditions have worked
feverishly taking care of the injured
and searching debris for others killed
and hurt.
Tents Shipped by Governor.
Appeals for aid to Governor Deneen
met with prompt response and hun
dreds of tents were shipped to the
stricken districts, while physicians
surgeons and nurses were recruited tc
save the lives of those whs escaped
death only to lie bruised and bleeding
amid the debris of their former homes
There was no intimation Of the ter
rife blast. but, as usual with storms
and fury that tore down houses, up
rooted trees, hurled men and animals
many feet through the air and wrought
death and devastation.
Bush, Kankakee, West Frankfort
Campus, Grant Park, Willisyille, Muir
physboro, Freeman. Limestone ant
Lowell, ILL.,, and various towns in In
diana. we're nearly swept from the
map.
Farming regions lying between
those towns all felt the full force Of
the storm. Telegraph and telephone
wires were torn down and lay In tan
gled masses across roads and fields
SO that communication was cut Oh
from a number Of points.
Nine Dead at Morocco. Ind.
DR.. H. F. Leedom of Morocco, Ind.
who came to Chicago, told of the
deaths Of nine persons at and neal
Morocco. Together with DR.. c. E
Triplett he drove for miles through
the devastated country in an automo.
bile, ministering to the sufferers.
At Campus, ILL.,, Nelson Husle. his
wife and their oldest daughter were
all killed when their house crashed
down upon them, and two other chill
dren were badly injured.
Mrs. David Jay Of Kankakee, her
mother, Mrs. Robert Hawkins, and q
party of friends. had been making a
call with friends in the country some
distance from Ksnkakee.
Stone House Proves Death Trap.
They were returning in a large car.
rage when rain and hail began to fall
and all took refuge in deserted
stone house. They were scarcely in
doors when the cyclone struck the
building, lifted the roof and hurled 1t
down on them. and blew in part OF the
walls.
Mrs. Jay was almost instantly killed
and her mother. Mrs. Hawkins, was
80 badly injured that she is expected
TO die.
Every other member of the party
was more or less injured.
Eighteen Killed Outright at Bush.
The village of Bush, in Williamson
county, was almost entirely razed.
Eighteen were killed outright and sew
eral others died after being removed
to hospitals In st. Louis.
Seventy-ive houses. the hotel, post
office, mining compsny's Office and the
railroad roundhouse were all torn
from their foundations and hurled to
the ground.
Five persons were killed in one
house, the house of Section Foreman
Campbell Of the Iron Mountain rail.
way.
At Willisville the coal company's
buildings and two rows OF Is houses
were swept fiat to the ground, several
miners being killed.
Only two houses remained intact In
Coal City, where the population is
about 5000. Though no details were
reported there, virtually every family
in the town has an injured member.
Adds to Flood Misery In South.
Farther south only meager reports
were obtainable from certain districts
where the residents have been for
weeks fighting against food and we're
doubly stricken by the fury Of the
wind.
The storm extended apparently
nearly from the great lakes to the
Gulf of Mexico. Four lives are report.
ed lost as FAR south as Birmingham.
Ala. which city reported the destruc-
ton OF Brookside, 80 miles away. Dis
patches from Kansas City announce
a disastrous cyclone throughout cen
traI and southern Kansas. while Nash
VILE. Tenn, reported furious storms
along the line OF the food belt.