Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-30
SCORES KILLED IN
INDIANA CYCLONE
CYCLONE SWEEPS INDIANA
HOUSES AND MANUFACTURE
ING PLANTS WRECKED.
LEAPS OVER BUSINESS CENTER
-'h h~ein a Mile Away
Hurricane Cuts Path Six Blocks
---...~-- oSSIIon In Louis
willie Is Also Stricken.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
New Albany, Ind.-In the midst of
mourning New Albany citizens set
themselves bravely to the task of
bringing order out of the chaos ard
havoc wrought by the tornado that
swept this city.
The revised death list shows SO men,
women and children persisted. In ad-
dltion to this number two negro chill
dren are missing, and their bodies, It
is believed, are buried in the ruins OF
Oldham Street school, which was de-
molished by the storm.
At least six other persons are dying
at st. Edwards hospital, so is appears
to be a certainty that the tornado's toll
will be about 40.
The revised list of the injured indi-
Gated that more than 100 persons vera
hurt, two score of these seriously.
The property damage, while difficult
to estimate at present, will reach ST.
500, 900, it is believed.
The work of organized relief is pro-
ceeding smoothly. Red Cross repre-
sentatives arrived on the scene early,
after the storm, and, following a pre-
liminary survey of the storm area, es-
timated that the sum of $3.50, 900 would
be needed at once to carry on relief
work in a comprehensive way. Dona-
lions Of large sums were received from
Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and
other large cities.
Without warning the storm, with
velocity of fifty-two miles an
hour. struck the city and swept path
of wreckage and destruction at some
places six blocks wide. Houses were
crushed level with the ground or borne
away bodily, and manufacturing plants
cruInbled. The principal damage was
wrought in residential and manufac-
turing sections in the northern out
skirts of the city. The main business
center of the city was not touched.
The gale struck the Corydon pike
about two miles below the city, and
after it had wrought considerable dam
age in the space of five or six minutes,
moved southwest and entered New AL
bany, at State street, near Ealy, this
being one of the thickly populated res
idence sections. With terrific speed
1t tore through the street for a dis
lance Of three blocks, laying every
thing low that stood in the way
Reaching the intersection of State and
Pearl streets, it rose and leaped over
the city, distance of one mile, to the
outskirts, where it came down again
and struck the earth at Vincennes
street and Charlestown road Here it
played frightful havoc with three
blocks of homes and shops along Vim
cennes street before it rose again and
passed away.
pike, below New Albany, was very
great, according to persons who were
caught by the gale at this point. A. NJ.
Floyd, manager of the Cumberland
Telephone Co., reported that hundreds
of trees were uprooted and carried
with great force through the air and
Uttered over the ground in the wake
of the storm as it moved in the direc-
ton of the city.
Many Small Homes Wrecked.
Many small homes along the pike
were wrecked and scores of persons
injured. George Strack, Councilman
from the Fourth Ward, his wife and
six children, who lived in a handsome
new $500 home, were in their house
when the cyclone approached. All took
refuge in the cellar. When the cy-
clone struck the house was carried
away bodily. Mr.. Strack suffered in
juries about his face and his ear was
torn off. His brother Henry, who was
with him, suffered broken shoulder.
Every available physician has been
pressed into service in attending the
injured, and every hospital has been
filled to its capacity. The injured
taken to st. Edwards Hospital had
filled all available rooms and wards
and overlooked into the halls. st. Ed
wards is the only public hospital in
the city and arrangements were being
made to transfer many of the injured
to Louisville institutions which had
offered their facilities.
Fairview Cemetery, in the east and
of New Albany, was swept and COM
pletely demolished by the cyclone
Trees throughout the. cemetery were
blown over as If they were so many
matches, tombstones were leveled and
the sections Office was swept away.
There was hardly trace of the struc-
ture after the storm passed. Fairview
Cemetery was known as the most
beautiful burying ground in Southern
Indiana