The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-06-01

astated Southern Illinois Killed rs
in the South-Property Loss Mil
lions.
CHICAGO, ILL. - A nation wide
appeal for funds with which to care
for the thousands made homeless by
three days of cyclones in the middle
of devastated towns, state executives
and officers of Red Cross organiza-
tions.
Partial restoration Of lines of COM
munication in the eight states struck
by the storms brought additional re-
ports of death and devastation The
latest reports indicate that the dead
total more than 300 and the injured
Jeween 1900 and 1,4O0 Property dam
age will exceed $5,000,000
Ask Illinois for 100000.
City officials of Nation, ILL.,, where
the heaviest loss of life occurred,
urged Governor Lowden to ask the
Illinois legislature to appropriate 3d.
100000 for relief work in Illinois.
Large appropriations will be asked in
some of the southern states hit by the
storm, but many storm swept districts
must depend upon voluntary contribu-
tions.
To obtain information on which the
legislature may act, Illinois authori-
ties have begun survey of the cy-
clonic stricken area. The legislature
probably will appropriate 100000 or
100000 at once as an emergency
fund for the immediate relief of the
sufferers. Newspapers throughout the
states suffering most in the storm are
appealing for help.
Revised Figures on Dead and Injured.
Revised figures on dead and injured
in the storms of the last three days
in Illinois, Indiana. Kansas, Ken
lucky, Missouri, Tennessee Alabama
and Arkansas show 278 dead and
1907 injured.
The figures by states are:
Illinois dead, 125; Indiana dead, Z;
Kansas dead, 26; Kentucky dead 54;
Missouri dead, 1; Tennessee dead, 81:
Alabama dead, A. Arkansas dead, %
Total dead, 800. Illinois injured, sos;
Indiana injured, 220; Kansas injured,
60; Kentucky injured, 60; Missouri in
jured, IL; Tennessee injured, So Ala
bama injured, 100; Arkansas injured,
SO. Total injured, 1907.
Thousands of houses were wrecked,
hI1ndrodc of hood IF livestock Iyi11oJ
and many thousands of acres of grow
ing crops devastated
Tornado Series Began Friday.
The destruction began last Frida.
Ill Andale, Kan, where twenty-six peo-
pie were killed and sixty injured.
Late Saturday a twister, probably
the most severe of the series, struck
the rich corn belt of central Illinois,
killing fifty-four persons. and injuring
perhaps 500 in Mattoon At Charles
ton, ten miles east of Mattoon, thirty
seven were killed and more than $50
injured. The property damage in the
two cities is estimated at $2,000,000.
Another storm plowed through the
Kankakee river district of Indiana
and Illinois, killing nearly a score of
persons. The latest series of lorna
does, started late Sunday, apparently
in the vicinity of Willisville in south
western Illinois, swept southwark
across the Ohio river into Kentucky.
down the Mississippi into Arkansas
and Tennessee and finally veering
eastward toward Alabama, where the
storm apparently spent itself. The
dead in the four southern states was
roughly estimated at 100, and the in
jured at several hundred.
Dead in South Will Reach rs.
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE = More
than seventy-five are known to be
dead and more than 800 injured in
western Tennessee, eastern Arkansa.
and southwestern Kentucky, as the re-
suit of Sunday afternoons tornado
which devastated towns and rura;.
communities and caused a propertr
and crop loss in this territory esti-
mated at more than $1,000,000.
OF the sections suffering the great
est dead, Hickman, KY, is reported
having more than twenty-five dead
and estimates on the number Of injul
ed is placed at twice the number kill
ed. Other estimates from central Ken
lucky cities, place the total dead at
forty-five in that state, and the injut
ed a $50.
In Arkansas, Mississippi county
suffered the greatest loss of lives, ten
being killed in territory south of
Blytheville. In the vicinity of Clear
Lake and Menile. the total dead is
E,sced at ten with more than thirty
injured.
Dyersburg, in West Tennessee, suf-
fered the greatest loss Of life. eigh,
in Dyersburg and adjacent territory
having met death in the tornado. In
Dyersburg hospitals, there are more
than forty injured persors -. ~e-c~t-
from towns in the immediate vicinity
of Dyersburg place the number Of ir-
iured at considerably more than this