The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-28
.SWOOPED DOWN
ON NORTH PART
OF NATION
Cyclone Then Lifted It's Ten
tacles And Jumped to
Charleston
RED CROSS COMES
TO THE RESCUE
Sweeps Path Four Blocks
by Thirty-five-Patrio-
tic Freak
(By Assoc!ated Prose-

| MdLIOOIl, ILL.,, Way zo'-0WSSplils
through Modesto to the south where
much damage was done, the storm
rushed northeast dropping down on the
north part of Nation. Leaving un-
scathed the business parts of the city
and barely touching the industrial
plants the swirling whirlwind lifted itS
| tentacles until IL reached Charleston
There the tornado again grtpped the
earth and tore away substantial build
fngs. crushed out the lives of two
score or more human beings amidst the
falling Of houses. the hurting OF tim
bers and the swapping of trees.
The storm fitfully wore Itself out In
the northwestern corner OF Indiana
/ causing more havoc here and there as
it hoped along an erratic course to Its
disappearing point.
Fire broke out in Nation but was
extinguished without serious damage
In Nation the darkness of the cloudy
whirlwind was succeeded after a brief
intermission of bright sunshine by the
| blackness of night, because the light
ing system was damaged.
| For hours there was confusion IN
| the striker area. Efforts to send fol
| help were thwarted by the collapse Of
wires but finally a messenger was dis
patched to Champaign by automobile
so that relief train arrived before
| midnight. Word was later gotten to
Springfield and militiamen were sent
to aid in guarding property ana help-
ing the homeless.
Before the earliest dawn disclosed
the spectacle of devastation order had
been established. The wounded were
disentangled from the debris and hur-
ried to Memorial hospital and to a
temporary operating room in hotel.
Beds for the injured were also placed
in the public library, the Odd Fellows
home and in various churches and
school houses.
Red Cross on Job.
Business and professional men Of the
city arranged organizations for the
various duties imposed by the storm.
Every business house in the city was
thrown open to do what 1t could In
relieving suffering. BY daylight more
than 100 doctors and twice as many
nurses were busy aided by the RED
Cross facilities, under the direction OF
A, l.. Davidson of Chicago.
Hotels distributed barrels or conee
and restaurants served meals gratis to
the homeless
All available tents were hurried to
Peterson Park and erected for the oc-
cupancy of those whose homes had
been wrecked. Four companies Of mi
litia aided by citizens established a
sentry line about the devastated area.
A systematic search of the ruins was
then begun. The storm had swept
path four blocks wide and thirty 1--WE
blocks long in North Nation. hitting
the western end of this strip espe-
ciaIly hard The damage was estimat-
ed at $2,oo0,0O0.
Levelling substantially all the mod
est homes of those living in the wind
swept zone the tornado rushed through
Dodge Grove cemetery, turned over
hundreds of tombstones and demol-
ished the public stone mausoleum.
Vast damage also was done In an
area proximate to the swept zone anu
twice as large as the lao blocks laid
waste. In this area houses were mere
lv shipped of chimneys. denuded OF
porches or twisted awry on founda-
tions and few persons suffered death
A patriotic freak of the storm was
the carrying of flag pole four blocks
to a space swept clear where the stan
was planted in the soft earth with
the stars and stripes still noating.
The list of known dead in NATION
are: Mrs. Emma Hyde. Thomas
HYDE, Teddy Briggs, Mrs. Charles
Temple, Jack Pierce, /, G. Spitz, Ar
Ietta Tudor, Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Wag-
goner, Joseph Taylor. James Turner,
Mrs. Nancy Coons, Mrs. Lee Taylor,
Margaret Taylor (child); Lorraine
TAYLOR (child), John Williams, Edwin
Dougherty, Walter Melton, Mrs. De-
Hone. Mrs. Dora Hollowell, Mr. and
Mrs. Riley Redman, son and daugh-
ter. John Grubbs, Harry Beavers, Mrs.
Claude Anderson, Mrs. Joseph DAVID
son. Mrs. Bickers, Mrs. j. Grubbs, +.
A. Spaulding, Mrs. Eta Mullinix, MRS.
Albert Turner, Frest Davidson, Lizzie
Hickey, Miss LeweIlen, Miss Heritage.
Master Swanson, Earle White, William
Rurkes (colored), Eugene Burkes (col-
ored). William Brown (colored), T. Q.
Benson (colored), Harrison stokes
(colored), Ada Phelps, Lorraine Phelps,
Charles Harris, Ramona helms, Mrs.
6. jackson, Charles Fickes (child).