The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-28
LATEST IN THE
SERIES SWEPT
five STATES
Late Sunday and
Added 100 TO List of
Dead
STORM
WAS MOST SEVERE
Supplies are Being Rushed
to The Stricken
Towns
ASSOCIATED Press Tornado
Summary


days in several states of the
West and the South have
killed nearly $50 people, injured
more than 1,200, wrecked thou
sands of houses, killed hundreds
IF head of livestock and devastat-
I'd many thousands of acres Of
growing crops, according to sum.
naries today.
The latest in the series Of tor.
1adoes started late Sunday, near
Willisville,, in southwest Illinois,
swept southwark across the Ohio
liver into Kentucky, down the
Mississippi into Arkansas and
Tennessee and finally veered east
ward toward Alabama where the
storm apparently spent itself. The
lead in the four southern states
ire roughly estimated at 100 and
he injured at several hundrN
The destruction began last. Fri-
lay in Andale, Kan, where 26
,eople were killed and 60 injured.
Late Saturday a twister, prob
Lbly the most severe of the series,
struck the corn belt of central Illi4
1ois, killing 81 and injuring 500 in
Mattoon. At Charleston, ten miles
EAST of Mattoon, 81 were killed
and more than $50 were injured.
The property damage in the two.
titles is estimated at 100000.
Another destructive storm late
across territory 100
niles north of the center of Illi-
lois reached into northern India
Ia and caused the loss Of a dozen
ives, injury Of more than 200 and
leavy property damage.
Relieving Destitute.
Mattoon, ILL.,, May 2S.-American
manifested itself in a sub
ItantiaI fashion today for the plight
# Charleston and Mattoon, twin VIC
inns Of the tornado which swept CEN
raj Illinois last Saturday leaving be-
lind it death and ruin.
Scores OF communities in Illinois,
indiana and neighboring states re-
Iponded to the appeals Of the stricken
titles with cars of foodstuffs, blankets
md cots and assurances were received
more was available IL necessary. Or
,anized relief for the destitute, OF
whom there are 1900 in the two towns,
vas begun today under the supervision
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er of the American Red Cross.
So far as was known today the
torn cost 81 lives and resulted in in
uries to at least 100 in Coles county.
farmers reported heavy property loss
IS in the destruction of buildings, the
Ieath Of stock and damage to grow
ng crops. Available estimates placed
he damage in the county at $2.500,000
md $3,000,000.
OF the injured about score were
n a dangerous condition today. The
storm centered itself largely on the
ZONES of working men and among the
900 homeless were hundreds who lost
heir all and the imperative need, 1t Is
stated, is for money and clothing, par
iculariy for women and children.
Hopes of saving much of their
household property expressed by per-
ions whose homes have been ruined,
we're minimized today by driving rain
which fell throughout the night.
at daylight hundreds of
persons were picking their way over
he twisted, battered and soaking
in an effort to save at least
ome small trinket.
st. Louis, May pa tornado came
nto being near Willisville, Perry coun-
y, ILL.,, late yesterday afternoon, vir-
ually demolished that city without q
iingle casualty, then rose and whirled
apidly southwark dipping to the earth
It intervals to tear roofs from houses
'r wreck flimsy structures. The whirl-
Wind crossed the Ohio river somewhere
lear Cairo, ILL.,, then began to make al
most regular stops in Kentucky killing
white persons in Dublin and Bord-
veil, according to reliable reports and
,3 negroes In Clinton and Hickman,
according to reliable sources.
Estimates Of injured vary from 100
o 500.
Miss Sylvia Nelson OF Bardwell is
he only one killed there who has been
IDENTIFIED. In Bardwell the court house,
chool house and one general store arc
he only buildings standing. Wires are
own in the entire district and COM
nunication is impossible.
kentucky's List.
Hickman, KY, May 2s.- Early today
! appeared that the death list Of the
torn which late yesterday swept cen-
raj Kentucky villages would be be-
ween 20 and 30.
The property damage is large. The
Of nearly all means Of
through much Of the
erritory affected by the storm has led
o many conflicting reports.
Estimate Dead at 100.
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