Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-03-30
Millions of Dollars Worth Of
Damage Done and Over One
Thousand Reported Injured
BY Sundays Tornadoes.
RELIEF WORK IS BEGUN
IN ALL STRICKEN AREAS
Red Cross Workers Meeting
With Much Difficu|ty-Cal
For Money Sent Out to Aid
Georgia Sufferers.

l Chicago, March 29-Chicago and
the middle west today commenced
the struggle of rehabilitation from
the tornado which killed 235 persons,
injured 1000 others and destroyed
millions of dollars worth of property
Sunday, Relief work was gotten
under way i'll all the devastated dis
tricts.
With the complete re-establish,
ment Of telegraph and telephone
service the lists of dead and i'll.
jured were swelled. Reports came
from cities as far west as Lincoln,
Neb, and as far south as Georgia,
and north as far as Michigan and
east to Ohio.
A final accounting OF accurate re.
ports places the total OF Cook coun-
ty dead at 81, with 1872 injured.
Columbus, O., suffered 81 deaths In
the state of Indiana ~ were killed
by the wind. Reports from Toledo,
O., list the dead at eight. In Dc
troit, Mich, nine persons are known
to have been killed. In Agricola,
Ala. five persons were crushed to
death.
81 Dead in Illinois. !
In Illinois 81 were reported killed.
Final figures give Chicago's death
toll as seven, Elgins as eight and in
Chicago suburbs as II.
Tonight relief stations had been
established by the American Red
Cross in every district that had suf-
fered from the storm. From all Of
the Red Cross headquarters came
pleas. pleas for money to aid the rehabili-
The city council passed resolutions
this afternoon asking the mayor TO
issue all appeal for funds and to ap-
point a committee to. supervise the
relief work and the gathering d.
money
From Washington came an an
nouncement by Z. c. Morse. di-
rector Of sales, that surplus building
equipment and supplies held by the.
War department would be sold at
devastated cities and towns at cost
prices.
Elgin commenced digging its way
out of the ruins in the business dis
trict at daylight today. A meeting
had been called in the afternoon bv
Mayor A. E Price, but by II O'Clock
the reconstruction work had gone
SO far that the mayor called off the
meeting.
No Outside Help Asked. q
Il am not going to appeal for any
outside help" Mayor Price said.
We are much better off than | ex-
pected. The patients i'll our three
hospitals are all improving, and |
feel that Elgin will be able to care
tor her own people"
Territorial headquarters, Of the
Salvation army reported that it had
established relief organizations in
tall of the tornado-swept districts
and had given blanket authority to
the officers i'll the field to spend all
the money necessary for clothing,
food, blankets and medical aid re-
quicu ny tlle refugees.
Military police still patrolled tn. .
devastated districts in Melrose Park.
haywood, Elgin and Chicago. They
were assigned by officers of the de-
partment of constabulary, police.
and members of the American
legion. No looting was reported.
The militia in Wiimette was with
drawn last night
Relief Money Needed.
Between $4,000 and 100000 will
be needed for the temporary. relief
of the tornado's victims, according
to statement made by the execu-
tive committee OF the Chicago Chap
ter of the American Red Cross, fol-
lowing conference between the
committee and the Association of
Commerce.
The committee appropriated sl0.-@
OOo for immediate relief and agreed
to administer any further funds That
may be raised for that purpose.
Squads of Red Cross workers can
vasslng tic devastated sections
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