Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-05-29
CYCLONES TOLL
Estimated

CHICAGO. May 2s-The middle west
and south today took up the task Of
succoring the injured and homeless in
the districts Of eight states which were
swept BY tornadoes Friday, Saturday
andday-
The storms toll. according to lateSs
figures. was 24I known dead. 20 addi-
tiOnal estimated dead and l,445 esti-
mated injured
Many Of the injured probably will die
Details were still incomplete at a late
hour, owing TO prostraIion of wires.
State, county and municipal officials
and the Red Cross were cooperating In
relief work for the thousands homeless
and practically without food or cloth
ing.
Property loss Is enormous In ad-
dition TO the thousands OF residences.
stores. factorias--and- public buildings
destroyed. growing crops have been lew
eIed and hundreds OF heads of livestock
killed Conservative estimates have
placed the property damage in Illinois
alone at over $4,000 600.
Guardsmen have been rushd to all
the devastated points and are aiding I'm
rescue work and protecting of property
from possible loOters-
Msttoon and Charleston. Ill, the
worst stricken cities. have been sent
tents snd supplies by the governor at
Springfield
Heavy losses were suffered in JEFF
ferson and Blount counties. Alabama.
where 81 killed and more than 100 in
iured were reported. AT Sayre S were
killed and 40 injured. Village Springs
and Bradford. 20 miles north of Biz
minghsm. reported Il dead and 40 in
jured. while Sylacauga and. Bibbville
each reported one dead
In Tennessee the storms struck in
Upton. Dyer and Carroll county TAX
ing more than a score of lives. At
Dyersburg eight dead and 40 injured
were reported. at Gates Lake, six dead
and IS injured; Trezevant. four dead and
ten injured: Antioch. two dead and 20
injured and at Sharon two dead and 50
injured
TOrnadoes during the last three days
% seven states OF the middle west and
the south have killed nearly $50 peo-
pie injured more than 1900. wrecked
thousands Of houses. killed hundreds
~ head OF live stock. and devastate
many thousands of acres or growing
crops. according TO summaries early to-
day.
The latest I'm the series Of tornadoes.
started Sunday afternoon. apparently in
the vicinity OF Willisville. in south
western Illinois. swept southwark
sscrEs the Ohio river into Kentucky
Gown the Mississippi into Arkansas and
Tennessee and finally veering eastward
toward Alabama. where the storm ap-
rsrentIy spent itself The dead in the
four southern states was roughly ssti-
mated at more than 100 and the injured
At several hundred
Wire communication into the dis
tricts swept by the storm Sunday is
dsmoraliZed and only meageT reports Of
the loss OF life and the property dam
age have been received.
The destruction began last Friday
in AndsIe, 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, kill
ing ffty-four persons and injuring per-
Haps 500 IN Nation At Charleston,
ten miles east OF Mattoon. thirty-seven
we're killed and more than $50 injured.
E7aE property damage in the two cities
Is estimated at 100000.
Another destructive storm late sat
urdSy crossed a territory approximate
II 100 miles north of the center Of Illi-
rofs. reached into northern Indiana and
caused che loss Of a dozen lives, the
injury OF more than zoo and heavy
p-~voArty damage.