The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-04-24
TORNADO KILLS
= IN WILD SWEEP
About $50 are Injured BY
Winds Fury.
THOUSANDS DOLLARS DAMAGE
To Property and Many Houses
Demolished in The
Storms Path.
SERIES OF WILD roRNADoEs

Thirty-two persons are known to
be dead. half a score were so Sc
verely injured they may die. and
hundred and fifty others We're hurt
in two tornadoes. one of which
swept over Southern illinois and
the other across Northern Illinois
into Indiana, just before sunset
SUNDAY night.
Twelve were killed at Bush, H..
five at Winicsvile. names not OBJ
taipEblc; three at Roddick, H.,
three near Murphysboro, H., and
nine sd Morocco. Ind.
Twelve dead were found NJ Bush.
H.. and 1t is expected that more
will ho found when the debris is
cleared away.
Five PERSONS were killed At viii
lisvillc and sixteen houses were de-
molishcd.
4 special train arrived at Muir
physboro, ILL.,. Sunday night carrying
forty-one persons who were injured
at Bush, H.. by the tornado. They
were taken to Murphysboro hos
pital.
The st. Louis, Iron Mountain n
Southern railroad station at Bush
was destroyed. as were two rows
of houses extending across the
town.
Trail of Tornado.
Chicago, April 21.-A series of
| tornadoes swept across parts of Ill
inois Just before nightfuall.
The storm swept through the
northern part OF Murphysboro, ILL.,,
seriously njuring Mrs George
King and two daughters and Mr..
and Mrs. william Wilderback. No
deaths were reported there. Ten
houses were demolished at Muir
physboro and the Illinois Central
station at Finney was carried 500
feet
Two sections reported tornadoes
at the same time. Most damage.
apparently. was done by that which
appeared from Coal City. Ill.,, and
swept eastward. the other being ac-
tive in and near Murphysboro.
Wauponsee, village near Coal
City. was reported demolished, de-
stroying telephone communication.
| making It impossible to learn the
seriousness of damage done there.
Houses, sheds and farm build
lngs near Coal City were dcmolish-
ed windmills blown down and
many head of cattle were reported
killed. The tower above Mine No.
3 at Carbon Hin was toppled over.
At Allen. near Coal city, tclc-
phone and telegraph wires were
laid to the ground for n mile at
stretch in several places. Near
Dwight schoolhousc and many
farm buildings were destroyed.
The Chicago, Indiana e South
ern Hallway station at Reddick was
blown across the tracks. Every
farm building on the property of a
man named Patchett there was de-
stroycd and the family escaped in
jury by cinging to trees in the
dooryard.
Many other buildings were de-
stroyed at Reddick and near by and
several persons were injured, none
severely.
All of the south and east part of
Grant Park, Ill.,, near Kankakee,
was destroyed. Six persons were so
severely injured as to require med
lcal attention. A German church
was demolished and other build
ings were blown down in Grant
Park.
Nine Killed In Indiana.
Kentland, Ind, April 2l,-Nine
persons were killed. five others so
severely injured they are expected
to die, half hundred others were
bruised by flying debris and thous-
ands OF dollars worth of property
destroyed in and around Morocco
Newton county, when n tornado
swept out of the west this evening
Others were hurt less sevorelv
Twenty houses were blown down ir
and near Morocco and fully forty
habitations in Newton county were
destroyed.