The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-03-24
RESCUE WORK IS
INF PEDED by THE
C|TYS DARKNESS
MOST OF THE,KILLED
AND INJURED WHITE
NEARBY Cities Soon Respond
| With Aid Governor to
Send TIoops.

NEW ALBANY. md, March 20
Between twenty-five:and fifty persons
we're killed and probably lG or more
we're injured by skorm which late
today swept over Now Albany, uemol-
Ishing scores of residences and sew
eral industrial plantes
Twenty-Five bodiea are known 70
have been recovered and 1t is expect
cd this number viii. be materially IN
wrecked buildings has been cleared
away. =:
The lighting system for the resi-
dence section Of the city was put out
of commission by thG storm a-.u ene
work of rescue is proceeding slowly
and with difficulty. 6
In addition to the bodies taken ~
undertaking establishments u-i
we're reports OF others that we're L
ken to private homes.
Most Victims White.
Circuit Judge john c. Paris said
twenty-five persons we're known TO oe
dead and that tbis.; number would
probably be largely 4acreased,. More
than hundred perspnr=' said. were
injured some OF thsE .erlously. The
ma jority of those k,Xed and injured,
Judge Paris said, wtra white persons.
Requests for aid have been made
on the authorities If Louisville, the
Indiana state reforn4atory and Jener-
sonville The governor OF Indiana
has been requested to send state
troops. =,
Every available physician has been
pressed into seryice:tn attending the
injured and every kospltal has been
filled 10 its capac1tye;
School Building Demolished.
West Union, a subdivision In the
northeastern section Of the city. bore
the brunt Of The storm. Here the
wind swept a path .tTo blocks wide
and more than mise' long, demoilsh:
ing residences, seveIal factories ano
destroying a negro school building.
Twenty-Five children Tere in the build
ling. Some OF them nre thought 10
have escaped, but tho total number
of victims here will D>H. be ascertalned
until the wreckage kNs been cleared
away.
The injured takenIto st. Edward
hospital filled all available rooms and
wards and overfloweI into the halls.
ST. Edwards is the Nnly public hos
pital in the city, and arrangements
were being made TO transfer many OF
l1c ~ I4OulSEtllC luoliSNtlOAS
which had offered thetr facilities.
Only One Identified.
AT one Undertaking establishment
there were five bodies. only one OF
which, that of Edward Jones, Jr., An
employe Of the Ohio Falls Iron com.
pany, had been idcnt;i:cd. The other
bodies were those of q woman about
seventy years old. two men and
baby.
At another undertaking establish
ment were the bodies; ;cf a boy named
Zurschnice and of woman believed
TO be Mrs Hough. In addition, Mrs.
John Didelot and three children, a
daughter. Cecilia, aGe!l Il years;
boy of six years and Z baby Of two
years, are known to u dead.
Through Thres, Blocks.
The storm struck tAs Corydon pike
about two miles FROM New Albany.
and moved southwest. Entering the
city at State street, near Haly. 1t
swept through three blocks. At the
intersection of State and Pearl streets
it left the ground and then struck
again at Vincennes street and the
Charleston road. nearly mile away.
AT that point dwelling tn three blocks
were demolished.
In its progress along the Corydon
pike the storm uproGted hundreds OF
trees and destroyed many small
houses. many Of whese occupants
reaching New Albany.
Sixteen Bsdles.
Officers of the JeffersonviIle reform
atory, which is three: miles from New
Albany, who responded to call, re-
ported sixteen bodies, had been found
in one block.
Two companies ofithe Indiana Ma
tional Guard and hospital corps unit
have been ordered 10 New Albany by
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