Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-03-24
Other Bodies Believed by the
Authorities to Be Buried
Under the Ruins.
TEN OF THOSE INJURED
ARE EXPECTED TO DIE
About Three Hundred Residences,
Factories and Other Buildings
Badly Damaged or Destroyed.

By the Associated Press.
| NEW ALBANY, Ind, March ga
! devastating storm swept over New AL
bany late yesterday. Revised official
| lists of the victims show the number
of dead to be thirty-one, and place the
injured at approximately 100.
OF the injured, ten or more are ex-
| pected to die, while it is thought that
number of bodies still lie buried un-
der the debris of wrecked buildings.
! The search of the ruined structures
| in the city is going forward under
military supervision. and all persons
| except those actually engaged in the
work of rescue are being kept out of
| the stricken districts.
Early this morning Gordon of state
troops was thrown about the storm
swept parts of the city and these sec
tions were cleared. Thereafter only
those persons bearing military passes
were admitted within the lines estab-
lished by the soldiers.
| Approximately three hundred resi-
dences. industrial plants and other
buildings were badly damaged or de-
stroyed In some instances houses had
been so torn to pieces and the wreck
age intermingled with that from other
structures that those who had lived
! in them were unable definitely to locate
the sites upon which they had stood.
| Houses had been picked up bodily, ap-
parently, and then thrownsto the earth
with terrific force. smashing them into
| kindling wood. Other houses appeared
to have been flattened out as If some
| tremendous weight had been laid upon
| them. Small outbuildings and sections
of roofs were carried for blocks. and
trees were torn bodily from the earth
| by the roots.
Official List of the Dead.
| The official list of dead as compiled
by the chamber of commerce includes:
Two children from residence of Mrs.
John Huff, Edward Johns. Mrs. Eliza
beth Lomax, Charles McCafferty. Allen
Mcbean,- George lurehmedide, Mrs.
Lulu Umbreit, Mrs. Ernest Canter,
Rose Huff. an infant daughter of John
Huff: child ten years old. believed to
| be daughter of Clarence Mathers: John
Davis, Glasgow, KY; two unidentified
women about fifty years old. Ruth
Parish four years old; Mrs. Ella En-
ringer, Martha Ehringer. infant: Mrs.
\ Mary Bott, Mrs. Elsie Lopp, Albert
Peyton. Mrs. Levi Bunch, Clarence
Moss, Mrs. Louis Didelot and three
children, Agnes Louis and Albert; uni
Identified man. unidentified boy, four
years old, and three negro children.
State Troops Guard the Ruins.
State troops from Indianapolis ar
| rived here at 2:30 o'clock to take
| charge of the situation.
| Darkness hampered the search dur
|
the devastated sections of the city be-
ing down and the work of rescue pro-
ceeded slowly. This morning the work
| of clearing away the wreckage of sew
eral buildings in which number of
persons are thought to have been
caught had not been completed. One
| of these was negro school. Several
children in the building when the
| storm struck are thought to have es-
| capped, the bodies of others have been
recovered. and possibly as many as
| twenty others are thought to be still
buried under the ruins.
| Every precaution was taken by the
city authorities to prevent looting, and
| Mayor Robert w Morris ordered that
vandals be shot on sight. Policemen
and firemen from Louisville, just across
| the river. and from Jeffersonville, only
! three miles away, together with Off
GERS from the Indiana state reformatory,
| assisted in maintaing order.
| The chaos which came in the wake
| Of the storm was quickly succeeded by
organized efforts to assist those in need
of help.
Large Relief Fund Raised.
| A large relief fund was raised at a
hurriedly gathered meeting of citizens
at the city hall and committees ap-
pointed to undertake the work of re-
| lieving those whose homes had been
destroyed. This fund was increased by
a contribution from the Board of Trade
of Louisville, and today further sub
scriptions were being added
| The injured soon overfiowed the one
| public hospital of the city and others
were taken to the. Young Mems Chris
tian Association and to private homes
| Every available physician in New AL
bany was called into service, together
| with others from Louisville and Jeffer-
sonville. Members of the staffs of
Louisville hospitals We're hurried to the
| scene and the facilities of the institu
| tions themselves were offered
Damage done by the wind extended
several miles into the country, partic-
ularly along the Corydon pike. Many
| houses and barns were unroofed or de-
| molished and several persons were in
| jured. Along the Charleston road the
damage was heavy also. An uniden-
| tilted young man and woman driving
| toward New Albany were hurled over
a fence into nearby field and killed
/ No accurate estimate of the property
damage in and about the immediate vi
cinity of New Albany has been possible
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