The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-05-31
TORNADO toll Will Be
OVER THE $50 MARK lk
REHABILITATION
WORK is RUSHED
OVER 400 FAMILIES HOMELESS
IN NATION HELP is ARRIv-
ING.

Nation, Ills, May 2s.-Rehabilita-
ton of Nation and Charleston, the
cities hit hardest by the tornado which
swept Central illinois on Saturday,
will be completed before the snow
flies, accoding to predictions of relief
workers tonight. The total death list
will be over $50.
Plans for permanent relief work or
a basis of rehabilitation rather than
compensation &C reimbursement re-
quire~ the expenditure of $250,000 in
Nation and from $150,000 to $780,
900 in Charleston according to esti-
mates contained in a statement issued
tonight by j. j. O'Connor. director of
the Red Cross.
Relief for the homeless thousands
are being pushed rapidly and efforts
made to meet the needs Of each fam
lily individually.
Families Homesless.
Four hundred and ninety-six home
less families in Nation and three
hundred and e%ighty-four in Charles
ton had been located tonight and eff
forts to put them on a self-support-
ing basis were under way. The clear
ing of the wreckage was begun and
arrangements m&de whereby scores Of
men and teams will eb at work with
in a few days.
No more food stuffs, clothing or
Furnishings are needed at either Mat
toon or Charleston, according to the
statement, but the money for per-
manent relief is vitality necessary. st.
Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleve-
land and Columbus have notified Off
Gals in the district of their wiling
ness to help.
In addition to succoring the suffer-
ers from Illinois storms, the Red
Cross from NATION today assumed
} the direction of relief workers at
places in northern Indiana and East
ern Kentucky, also wilma swept.
Death Toll Doubtful.
Red Cross officials said that accur-
ate figures on the death toll of the
storm may not lie known for several
} days because of the difficulties of COM
munication with some of the isolated
farms. Reports tonight placed the
t number Of dead in Nation at fifty
n four. Revised lists at Charleston in
Dictated thirty-four dead.
d The possibility of pestilence was
e ! diminished today, although a medical
{. census, taken in the two towns reveal
ed several cases of spreading diseases
however, were carefully isolated and
state board of health physicians Of
IS the medical relief work assured tina,
the sanitary situation was well unde,
% control.
T. Among the problems encountered
by the housewives in Charleston wa
that of cooking. The gas supply wa.
shut off and few of the undamaget
homes being equipped with cook stove.
70 -most of the food served in the tow
today was cold.
Is Kentucky Visited.
lel Paducah, KY, May 28.-The toll o,
" dead and injured taken by the storm
which late Sunday afternoon sweep
W continued to mount rapidly today a.
Ne a confused mass Of conflicting report.
from many sources We're sifted. To
t. night it appeared probable that tn,
n death list would approach seventy an
those injured would number severa
= hundred.
At Hickman a check of report.
" from various cources apparently es
tablished that the dead list in Fulton
ID county would exceed forty. It is es
timated that the injured will numbe,
nearly 200.
-, At Clinton, in Carlisle county. chec]
Y OF the death list report showed tina
~ five persons We're killed there and tina
twelve others lost their lives at Cyp
:, ress, a small nearby village. The lis
Of injured in the two towns was esti
- mated to be upward of 40. At bard
- we'll in Carlisle county, three person
q are known to have been killed, and p
others more n less seriously injured
. At Dublin-in Graves county, five wer,
killed and .nanv injured.
IS
" IT. A. Nicholcon o~dftH n ca-.-