The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-03-27
OVER 60 AXE
DEAD I'm STORM
MOST OF THE LOSS OF LIFE YIS-
TERDAY FOLLOWS rORNA-
DOES THROUGH THE
SOUTHERN STATES.

Chicago. il.-lt is estimated the
damage done by the storm to the
wires will aggregate S2.O0o.00o the
heaviest loss which the telegraph and
telephone companies have suffered
from amy storm in the last five Years.
EIllcaSO.-S so we're was the effect
of the sleet torn yesterday ON the
telegraph and telephone lines that il;
will be several weeks before the
damage is repaired completely. There
Is some Improvement today but al
best the telegraph service is feeble
and liable to interruptions. Seine
curious routmgs are made necessary
by the wire p~r0stgations. 1t is only
eighty miles TO Milwaukee from Chi
cago, VT pres kilograms there are
sent from here TO Pittsburg. then to
Columbus. Cincinnati, Omaha. Kan
sas City and Minneapolis and then TIC
Milwaukee.
Chicago. MI More than Go per
sons are reported killed and humid
reds We're injured. some mortally, by
Il storm OF tornado intensity which
ragged over central. western and
southern part of the eastern states
yesterday. Property damage will run
we'll into the millions.
Definite information has been re-
ceiyed accounting for more than 40
persons dead With reports from points
temporarily cut off from wire com
munication by the storm adding hour
ly TO the list.
Reports from Alabama show loss
of life was heaviest in that state, the
number of dead there being already
definitely placed at rs with addition
al fatalities reported but o con
firmed. Lower Peach Tree was
practically wiped out. Two are dead
in Indiana, two in Tennessee, three
in Ohio, Two in New York, II in
Michigan and VIC III Louisville.
Over Hundred Injured.
Accompanying the death list are
Estimates OF injured totaling moro
than a hundred with additions com
ing in at brief intervals. 'i
Coming up quo OF the s%outhwes
early Friday morning, just as sprins
startling suddeness diagonalIy acros.
the country from northern Texas Il
western Pennsylvania and New Yorl
~bisecting the Mississippi valley an,
moving northeastward across th'
Ohio into the ureat Lake region.
storm Very Destructive.
Shifting winds OF great violenc
accompanied in various sections b.
snow, slect anG hail characterized III
storm easily The most destructive o
the year and rarely equalled in tn
extent OF its scope and damage.
Buildings toppled before the bloI
in nearly a dozen states deaf
lay III It's wake. The property los
was great AN along the storm TRACK
Besides demolislins or %unroofin
buildings and uprootins trees. til
high wind, rain and sleet did SCI
ious damage to crops according 10 l(
ports. Estimate of damage to prol
erty in Indiana and Michigan alon
aggregate two millions about event
divided. Early reports of loss rams
ing from $3.50 0o to S500,00o Q
! more from sections of the storm rs
gion indicated that the total woul
reach large figures.
Wires fell in all directions. Nc
in many years has there beer such
rrostlatiGn of telegraph and tel
phone service. Chicago was cut Oft fC
hours from communication wit
points east. BY devious routes con
nectiom finally was established.
= will be several days before norm,
service Will be restored. Railroa
. traffic was seriously delayed in mar
districts where Wire communicate
was crippled and washouts occurred.
The wind which wiped out so muc
+ property and cost SC many lives g
I tanned d record velocity at son
a points. AT Detroit it reached IS mil
AN hour, a new high record in tn
r city, S4 at Toledo, SIS miles at Buifa
GA at Memphis, and in Louisville D
4 Cold weather is trailing the de
: tructive blow. The storm seems
have spent its force and to be takiI
the accustomed route for such di
turbances, out Of the ST. Lawren
valley.