The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-29

destroyed Dy the storm ana the
timated at $25O,000.
Among the dead in the Fort Wayne
region are the following:
Mrs. Julia Merriman, Hoagland, AL
len county.
Three-year-old child of Harvey Gro
dian, near Monroeville, Allen county.
August Flutterrow, grocer, Townley,
Allen county.
Mrs. James Mccoy SO, Townley.
James Mccoy, 13, near Townley.
Mrs. Will Simons, near Monroeville.
Virginia Grant, age three, near Mon
roeville.
William Doubt, 60, Orland, Steuben
county.
David Kessler, West Liberty, Jay
county
Frank Smith, West Liberty.
Mrs Frank Smith, West Liberty.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Smith.
Katherine Fields, aged five, near Ge-
neva, Adams county.
Mabel Fields, II, near Geneva.
Mrs. Katherine Cross, 79, near Ge-
neya.
Keith Haggett aged six, West Lib
r,erty.
J Fort Wayne hospitals are reported
to be caring for 45 victims of the
wind storm. Several are expected to
die Six counties were struck by the
tornado.
Local organizations in the towns
nearest the storm centers are giving
every possible relief. Reports of COM
plete raZing of several villages are
being investigated All the injured
and homeless are being cared for, and
masons are rebuilding chimneys so
fires may be built. There is some
suffering from the cold.
1t will be impossible to estimate the
damage done in the outlying districts
for some time. as rescuing parties are
finding the roads in some places al
most impossible. Communities that
have been visited are reported to have
suffered severely.
l.. J. Vandeley, who runs a general
store at Tillmans, in this county
which, however. escaped the storm
tells the story of how the tornado ap
peared:
my wife and I were sitting in the
front of our home" he said. at be
gan to rain little and there was a
high wind. Both of us got up and
went out on the porch. 1t seemed that
only mile or so away we could Sc
trees flying through the air. parts OF
barns and houses being carried away
and all Of a sudden we saw something
that resembled great cloud OF
smoke. ! think. perhaps, 1t was eX
plosion of some kind.
my wife and l started for the eel
lar of our home when all at once
everything seemed to be calm. The
storm was over; it did not last more
than - minutes. After the calm We
started in the direction of Townley
where the storm seemed to be the
worst in that vicinity When I go
to Townley such a sight l never care
to see again. The residents were
homeless and they were doing all thai
they could to render assistance tc
those who were hurt and to care fol
the bodies of those who had beer
killed"
Live Stock Running Loose.
On the road betweenZulu and Mon
roeville and between Townley anC
Edgerton. several hundred head OF
horses, cattle and hogs were running
loose. When the storm destroyed the
barns and the pens in which the stock
was housed they made a wild STAN
pede for safety. Farmers were unable
10 control them, and they were max
ing a wide search today, to recover
their stoccck. Many head were ere
mated when barns were burned, be
ing set on fire by embers from home.
which took fire after being wrecked
An accurate estimate of the prop
erty damage is not possible at thi!
time. One man at Edgerton said hi
was positive that the loss in Edgertol
alone would reach a million dollars.
There were about rs houses in tn,
town. all except four being destroyed
in addition to the railroad station
the grain elevator and two stores.
Storm Struck at Arba.
The storm which killed seven nea,
Union City, struck first at Arba
Randolph county. All telephone ant
telegraph lines between that town ant
this point are down, but persons com
ing from there today said that almos
every house in the town was levelet
by the wind. It also was reportes