Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-05-31
TORNADO'S TOLL
IN KENTUCKY, 70
With Victims in Tennessee, Ar.
kansas and Alabama Death
List Will Reach 100.
ABOUT $50 INJURED.
Property Loss In Alabama Estimated
At .000,OO0-Many Isolated Points
Not Heard From.

Paducah. Ky, May 2S-The toll Of dead
and injured taken by the storm which late
sunday afternoon swept four counties Of
western Kentucky continued to mount
rapidly to-day as confused mass OF con.
flicting reports from many sources were
sifted. Tonight It appeared probable
that the number Of dead would approach
several hundred.
Investigation to-day at Hickman. In
Fulton county. and Clinton and Bardwell.
in Carlisle county. the sections worst at
fected. revealed conditions even worse
than had been indicated BY earlier re.
ports.
At Hickman q check Of reports from
various sources apparently established
that the number killed In Fulton county
would exceed 10. These reports told Of
q deaths in the country. Of which 20 were
at Bondourant. a small saw mill town.
The list of injured 10 estimated at nearly
200. Twenty-Five persons are in the hos
pitfalls at Hickman. Of whom II are ex-
pected to die.
Thirty bodies have been brought into
Hickman from outlying points to be pre-
pared for burial. The supply Of caskets
In the town was exhausted, and FIVE bod
les were being held until more cofins
could be secured.
At Clinton, Carlisle county. five per-
| sons we're killed and u others lost their
lives at Cypress, a nearby village. The
injured In the two towns was estimated
at 10. At Bardwell in Carlisle county
three persons were killed and Is injured.
At Dublin in Graves county, i've persons
were killed and q injured.
Many isolated points In the district have
not been heard from.
The course Of the storm was erratic and
| 1t was accompanied by many freaks Re-
ports Of its course and direction even
! were confusing.
The destruction Of buildings has been
the cause of keen suffering at many
points. At Cypress. in Fulton county
dead and injured were forced to lie out
Of doors all night. The injured. many OF
whom were seriously hurt, were without
medical attention until late to-day. when
a rescue party from Clinton forced it,
way Ave miles along blockaded roads into
the ruined buildings. Tonight many OF
those too seriously hurt to be moved are
without adequate shelter. every house in
the little hamlet being damaged.
At Bardwell. a telephone operator. Miss
Alice Howles, stuck to her switchboard
when the storm lifted the roof from hel
head and kept the few wires unscathed
rescuers came into the building
Memphis. Tenn. May 2-Revised re-
ports to-day from the sections OF Ken.
lucky, Tennessee. Arkansas and Alabams
swept by a series Of tornadoes Sunday
place the number known to have los,
their lives in the storm at 100 and the
injured at approximately $50.
Southwestern Kentucky. reports indi
cate. paid the heaviest toll in lives lost
In Fulton county. the southwestern til
Of that State. at least u persons wer.
killed and more than q hundred injured
In Alabama the mining camps at Sayre
Bradford and Carbon hill report Y
fatalities and in Tennessee. Upton, Dye
and Carroll counties reported "a dead.
The property damage in Alabama II
estimated at about 100000. No accurate
estimate of the monetary loss in the othe
States is available.
OF the known dead in Alabama, Brad
ford. one of the mining camps. reported
Is deaths.