Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-25
AT TERRE HAUTE.


Terre Ifaute, Ind. March 24.-Eight-
cen persons known to have been killed.
/ 80 more er less seriously injured, 20
/ femes destroyed and other property
damaged, estimated at nearly a mil
lion dollars. was the toll of the tornado
! that devastated Telre Haute and vicin
ity last night Tonight, the officials
- charge Of the rescue work, say the
list Of dead will be increased as the
| searchers clear away the debris of
wrecked buildings.
Hundreds of homeless, tonight, are
being cared tor BY charitable institu-
tons and citizens while the wrecked
district i being patrolled by Co. B, LIST
Regiment, Indiana National Guard,
and the local police fierce. The militia
Vas ordered out, early today, by Gov,
Ralston, who directed the relief meas
urcs from indianapolis. The dead:
John T. Meyers. Jr.. Is years old.
Albert Watts 10 years old, 0blong,
Ills.
Relief work, today, showed that hun
dreGs lost everything they owned ann
heir suffering was made more acute
bv The rain. The downpour while add
ing TO their discomfort. was probably
the greatest boon the stricken district
could have asked for it eXtingulshed
innumerab bic fires which broke out I'M
mediately after the tornado had pass
ed.
rho rescue work was carried on fast
and tonight. it appears that all the
homeless are being cared for by char
itahle institutions and citizens while
IN inra1 have TRCg1N-
ed medical attention. In many cases
rri,,ata homes were turned into tenn
porary hospitals.
narrowing stories of their eNpe-
riences are told by the Survivors OF
the storm. The scenes in the wrecked
sections in Terre Haute brought tears
to the eyes of the rescuers whose az
tention often was called to the dElhb'
framed in the debris of their homes.
by agonizng screams for aid. some
died before they could be freed from
Wreckage and others who were re-
moved will die.
Throughout the district of wrecked
homes. to-day, survivors searched for
loved ones, but in the majority of cases
they were disappointed.
I'm looking for mama" an S-year-
old boy, told members of the relief
committee when they urged him to seek
shelter He had searched the ruins OF
his home and was standing where the
front gate had been.
CAN / have now is this old coat a
man who was looking at the ruins of his
home said when asked if he wished ala
| from the committee. yesterday he
continued, Il owned my little home-had
plenty of fire insurance, but no tornado
| insurance. I'll have to begin anew
| MANY freaks Were played by the wind
| DIR. Mahlen Moore was asleep in his Of
| flee when the storm struck. The build
ing was demolished, but the doctor, ly-
ing on the mattress Of his bed, was car
ried across the street and dropped safely
on the sidewalk.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Runyon, wine
were tossed across several lots, returned
to their ruined bungalow to find then
six-months-o baby asleep in its CRIB
The child did not awaken until after j
had been carried across town in an au
tomoble.
| The storm seemed to be worse at Gard
en- Town. a small colony five miles soutl
of Terre Haute, There it demolished
everything in its path, killed two person
and left a path mile wide through tn
| village. There as in Terre Haute tn
majority of the victims were working
people of small means and they haV
nothing left but the lots upon whicI
their homes stood.
Perth small town with a total o
400 inhabitants was practically wiped OF
the map. Every house IN the village va
either destroyed or badly wrecked. bu
only one person was injured.