The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-05-31
TORNADOESSWEEP
SEVEN STATES
Seventy Persons Dead in Mat
tOOn, Where the Storm Did
Great Damage,
PATH CUT THROUGH TOWN
Cyclones DeVastate Towns in Illinois,
Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Kansas, Arkansas and
Alabama.

Chicago-With the list of dead now
positively known to be more than one
hundred and sixty persons, the injured
more than one thousand, the property
damage passing $5,000.00O the full
story of the outbreak of tornadoes in
seven States. beginning near Wichita,
Kan, has just been told. Wrecked
TELEGRAPH and telephone wires at first
made reports from small towns and
villages meagre and vague
Summary OF tornado dead and IN
jured: Nation, Illinois, "a dead; 500
injured; Charleston, Illinois, 80 dead,
$50 injured; Andale Kansas, &c deadS
60 injured; other Illinois towns, Is
dead; 65 injured; Arkansas, 8 dead;
- injured; Indiana, Z dead, 200 in.
jured; Kentucky dead, II injured;
Tennessee, 2 dead, Is injured; total,
157 dead. 1919 injured
The latest tornado victims are South
Dyersburg Tenn, about fifty miles
northeast Of Memphis: Dublin, Graves
County, KY; Blytheville, Ark, and
Sayre, Ala. The first has fifteen dead
and more than score injured; the
second three dead and seventeen bad
ly hurt the third nine killed and
many injured, and in Sayre several
are known to have been killed and
many injured
But the greatest tragedy in the
sweep Of the destructive wind storms
is revealed in the full reports avail.
able Of the effects of a tornados
visitation on NATION, Ill Fifty-four
persons were killed, more than FIVE
hundred were injured, 1876 houses were
demolished.
At Charleston ten miles away, the
same storm killed thirty-eight, one
hundred and fifty were injured and
twenty-five persons are missing the
majority of whom it is feared eventu-
ally will be listed with the dead. OF
population Of 5000, the homeless in
Charleston number $500.
Valparaiso, Ind, reports the tornado
as the worst that ever has visited that
section of the State in Point of des.
truct.on, and tells Of devastation to
farm and ranch property in several
other towns that the terrific storm at.
tacked-Hebron, Kouts, Lowell Crown
Point, Shelby, Cedar Lake and adjoin.
ing territory along the Kankakee
River. From these places the injured
number more than forty, though no
deaths have been recorded
The tornado that rushed through
Nation leyelled an area of modest
homes Of workingmen clerks and
small tradesmen. 1t smashed nearly
800 such homes, tearing up a section
four blocks wide and thirty-fve blocks
long, and then sped through Dodge
Grove Cemetery. 1t ripped up and
turned over COMMISSIONERS like bits Of
paste5oard and demolished the public
mausOleum, heavy stone structure.
Then it swept over an ;rea twice as
large as that first attacked, but with
weakened force, for instead Of smash.
ing the houses and all they contained,
it only snapped off chimneys, whisked
away porches or pushed the houses
Try on their foundations.
Some small factories were destroyed,
but the tornado spared the greater
part of the business section and the
residential section Of the wealthy and
well to do.
The Stars and Stripes and the pole
they flew on in front of the home OF
G. NJ Metcalfe, Nation, were carried
four blocks in the wind, and the staff
planted firmly in the lawn fronting the
home of Raymond Coon. The flag still
is flying.