Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-05-31
NATION|S ASKED
F0o.. STORM AID
Appeal Ia Made for Funds for
Thousands of Victims.
FATALITIES KEEP MOUNTING

Dead Number over 900 by Latest Re-
! port-Sunday's Cyclone, Which Dew
! astated Southern Illinois Killed rs
in the South-Property Loss Mil
lions.
Chicago, May ga nation wide
appeal for funds with which to care
for the thousands made homeless by
three days Of cyclones in the middle.
west and south was issued by MAYORS
Of devastated towns, state executives
and officers Of Red Cross organiza-
tons
Partial restoration of lines of com
mUnicatiOn in the eight states struck
by the storms brought additional re-
ports Of death and devastation The
latest reports indicate that the dead
total more than 300 and the injured
beWeen !. 200 and ], 400. Property dam
age viii exceed $5,O00,00O
Ask Illinois for 100000.
City officials of Nation, H.. where
the heaviest loss Of life occurred,
urged Governor Lowden to ask the
Illinois legislature to appropriate S.
100000 for relief work in Illinois.
Large appropriations will be asked in
some Of the southern states hit by the
storm, but many storm swept districts
must depend upon voluntary c0ntribu-
tons.
To obtain information on which the
legislature may act, Illinois authori-
clOnic stricken area. The legislature
probably viii appropriate 100000 or
$200,000 at once as an emergency
fund for the immediate relief of the
sufferers. Newspapers throughout the
states suffering most in the storm are
appealing for help.
Revised Figures on Dead and Injured
Revised figures on dead and injured
in the storms of the last three days
in Illinois. Indiana, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Missouri Tennessee Alabama
and Arkansas show 278 dead and
1907 injured
The figures by states are:
Illinois dead, 1926; Indiana dead, 7;
Kansas dead, rs; Kentucky dead "a;
Missouri dead, I; Tennessee dead "a;
Alabama dead, II; Arkansas dead. %.
Total dead 300. Illinois injured, sos;
Indiana injured, 900; Kansas injured
60; Kentucky injured, so: Missouri in
jured, 12; Tennessee injured, SO: Ala
bama injured 100; Arkansas injured
g. Total injured 1907.
Thousands Of houses were wrecked,
hundreds Of head Of livestock killed
and many thousands Of acres Of grow
ing crops devastated
Tornado Series Began Friday.
The destruction began last Friday
Iii Andale. Kan, where twenty-six peo-
pie were killed and sixty injured.
Late Saturday tWister, probably
the most severe Of the series, struck
the rich corn belt of central Illinois,
killing fifty-fOur persons and injuring
perhaps 500 in Nation. At Charles
ton, ten miles east Of MattOon, thirty
seven were killed and more than $50
injured. The property damage in the
two cities is estimated at $2,00O,000.
Another storm plowed through the
Kankakee river district of Indiana
and Illinois, killing nearly a score of
persons. The latest series of lorna
does, started late Sunday, apparently
in the vicinity of Willisville in south
western Illinois, swept southwark
across the Ohio river into Kentucky
down the Mississippi into Arkansas
and Tennessee and finally veering
eastward toward Alabama, where the
storm apparently spent itself The
dead in the four southern states was
roughly estimated at 100, and the in
jured at several hundred.
Dead in South Will Reach rs.
Memphis, Tenn, May 29.-More
than seventy-fve are known to be
dead and more than 300 injured in
western Tennessee, eastern Arkansas
and southwestern Kentucky, as the re-
suit Of Sunday afternoons tornado
which devastated towns and rural
communities and caused a property
and crop loss in this territory esti-
mated at more than $1,000,000.
Of the sections suffering the great
est dead, Hickman, KY, is reported
having more than twenty-five dead
and estimates on the number Of iniur
ed is placed at twice the number kill
ed. Other estimates from central Ken
lucky cities, place the total dead at
forty-five in that state, and the in1ur
ed a $50.
In Arkansas, Mississippi county
suffered the greatest loss Of lives, ten
being killed in territory south of
Blytheville. In the vicinity of Clear
Lake and Menile, the total dead is
placed at ten with more than thirty
injured
Dyersburg, in West Tennessee. suf-
fered the greatest loss of life. eight
in Dyersburg and adjacent territory
having met death in the tornado. Tn
Dyersburg hospitals, there are more
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