The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-04-02
SCORES DEAD IN
SUNDAYS TORNADO
Thousands Homeless Prop
erty Loss Goes Into
Millions.

at the Palm Sunday tornadoes that
swept sections of eight states tonight
stood at 100.
Telegraph and telephone service
Awith many isolated communities in
the Middle West had only been part
ly restored tonight and indications
were that the toll of death and de-
structlon would be augmented
The known dead in six Central
Western States numbered los, while
fifty-fve were killed in Georgia and
Alabama.
Property loss in the Chicago area
alone was estimated at $4,000, 900,
while in other States affected the
material loss was large.
Elgin, ILL.,, suffered the heaviest
property loss, the damage there be-
ing s4,0OO,000.
80 Dead In Illinois.
Illinois was the hardest hit CT the
Central States with thirty dead more
than 1000 injured and 1000 made
homeless.
Indiana reported thirty-six fatali-
ties and Ohio twenty-six. Eleven were
killed in Michigan and one each in
Wisconsin and Missouri.
The death list in Georgia was plac-
ed at thirty-eight and in Alabama at
seventeen.
Districts most severely affected in
the Chicago area was Irving Park,
within the city limits, with six dead;
Melrose Park, nine dead; Elgin, eight
dead; haywood, four dead and Plain
field, three dead.
Heavy property damage resulted |
these towns and also in Wilmette
and Evanston, North Shore suburbs.
No fatalities occurred in the latter
places.
At Joliet. ILL.,, three persons were |
probably fatally injured, fourteen |
we're seriously hurt and the property |
damage was estimated at 100000.
Troops patroled the streets of FL |
gin, Melrose Park and Wilmette to-
day.
Combination of Two Storms.
Henry j. Cox, weather forecaster
for Chicago, said the tornado was the |
result of combination of two storms.
One developed in Alaska, Travelled |
through British Columbia and joined
n storm from the Southwest, which |
developed in the arid plateaus OF
Southern Arizona and Nevada. This
combination, Professor Cox said, re-
suited in rotary motion which
formed eddies and caused tornado
Although the tornado travelled for
ward at rate of about fifty miles an
hour. the wind at the core OF the tor
nado was estimated to have had
velocity of from 200 to 500 miles an
hour.
80 Dead i'm Indiana.
indianapolis, March 29-Latest re-
morris from the storm-swept areas of
Northern Indiana place the number
of dead as a result of Sundays lorna
do al thirty-six Hundreds of per-
sons were injured in ten counties in
the State, and although property
damage cannot be estimated, 1t will
be in the hundreds of thousands OF
dollars. Many persons have not been
accounted for.
20 Killed In Ohio
Columbus, o., March 29.--Twenty
nersons are known to have been kill
ed. more than fifty injured, and prop
erty loss running close to the $2'-
OOO 600 mark caused in Western OHIO
during Sundays tornado.
Drake County, in which the towns
% creenville and Nashville are To-
Gated suffered the greatest loss.
Eight we're killed in the two towns
and more than score were injured.
Loss in the upper Miami Valley is es-
timated to be at least 100000
Three persons are known to have
haen killed in Vanwert and three
others at Moulton. John hacheiries'
q of Moulton, and his sister, Mary, 4,
were carried several hundred rods
roth were dead when found. joe
semi Lochner, IS, Of Moulton' was
crushed Under falling house. M M
Archer. SO, a farmer; George RAIDER
q. and Mrs. Lucy RAIDER, all OF van
vert, we're killed when their homes
collapsed.
The villages of Renoleete ana
nrunersburg, near Defiance, were
wrecked. Six are dead in the TWO
Ntswns.
Communication with the stricken J