The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-03-30
TOLL OF WIND
STILL AT 155;
so IN INDIANA
None of Injured at Creenville
Have Succumbed - List
There Stands at Eight
Victims Dig Out.
MANY ARE HOMELESS


Tuesday were sending aid to the
storm-devastated sections Of Darke
county Ohio, where eight persons
were killed and many injured. and
property damage thought to be a mil
lion dollars was done, Sunday evening
by a tornado. Three hundred home
less families are being cared for by
friends and Greenville inhabitants.
Darke county residents, undaunted
by the big blow, set themselves to
work to straighten up the wreckage,
rising at daylight Tuesday.
The death list Tuesday still stood
at eight, no one having succumbed to
injuries during the day. Those in
jured were resting comfortably in hos
pitals at Union City and elsewhere and
at homes of relatives and neighbors.
Winchester Practically Untouched
Reports from Winchester said that
the only damage there was the un-
roofing of several houses in the south
west part of town. At Eaton, an un-
usually heavy hail and rainstorm
drenched the town and the surround
ing country.
CHICAGO, March 30.-The death
toll of Sundays tornadoeS which
ripped paths of destruction through
sections of eight states, stood early
today at 158, with fears expressed
that reports from isolated regions and
deaths among the injured might in
crease the total.
Stricken communities were emarg-
ing today from the wreckage wrought
by the storm. and relief measures for
80 s,,,,
less were well under way.
Wire communication in the affected
areas was being restored and this was
expected to aid in clearing up the ex-
tent of the destruction and the total
number of those who lost their lives.
Indiana Loses 80.
Tabulated reports by states today
gave the number of deaths as follows:
Indiana, so; Adams county, two
Allen county, II; Jay county, II:
Steuben county. one; Montgomery
county, one; Union City, four.
Illinois. 80; Eigin, seven; Irving
Park. six; Melrose Park. 10; May
wood, 4. a-..
Ohio, 20: Greenville and Nashville,
8: Vanwert, three; Moulton, three;
Renolette and Brunersburg, six; Gen
GA. two; Raabs Corner. four
Michigan, 12: Fenton. four; Cold
Water, two; Hart, one; Maple Grove,
three; Kalamazoo, one; Yankee
HSprings. one.
Georgia, SO; LAGRANGE. SO; West
Point, TO-, Macon, one; Miner, one.
Alebama, II; Alexander, Il; Acri-
cola, five; Cedar Springs, one.
st. Louis. Missouri, one.
East Troy. Wis, one.
An unverified report that Is white
persons were killed at Stovall, Ga,
a village near LAGRANGE, was being in
vestigated. If true the death list
would be increased to 176
A number of persons were reported
missing in various localities hit by the
storm and it was feared some might
have been killed
$11,oco,ooo Tentative Estimate.
No accurate estimate of the total
property damage, which runs into the
millions, had been made today. IN
Illinois, 1t was estimated that the ma
terial loss was $4,000 600: in Western
Ohio, 100000; Michigan $4,000, 900;
and Georgia more than $1,OOO,0 900.
State troops patrolled the storm
swept areas Of Illinois today. and the
Red Cross and civilian committees or
less. Hundreds of carpenters who be-
gan reconstruction work yesterday in
Eigin, Mayhood, Melrose Park and
Irving Park, around Chicago. had
cleared away most of the wreckage
today. All of the refugees had been
placed in homes or tents.
But one death occurred Yesterday
among the injured in the Chicago dis
trict, and hospitals reported that most
Of the hundreds of patients would re-
cover.
INDIANAPOLIS. March 3O.-The
death toll in Indiana from Sundays
tornado, today. stood at 30, and prop
erty damage was expected to reach
several millions of dollars. Several
hundred persons were seriously injur-
ed and some may die.
According to latest reports, rural
sections of Jay, Allen Adams and
Randolph counties suffered greatest
loss both as to human life and prop
erty. Property damage was reported
from nearly a score of other counties
in the northern part Of the state.
Much suffering was evidenced in the
outlying places according to informa-
ton received here. Several of the
storm victims rushed to the hospitals
were said to have little chance to
recover.
Eight members Of the family of
Percy Fields. living near Geneva, are
in a FortWayne hospital. Two others
were killed outright. Collapsed houses
and barns are being cleared of debris
as fast as possible, as 1t is believed
many of the missing are pinned under
the wreckage and may yet be alive.
The property loss is greater than
was at first believed and will amount
to several millions of dollars.
Relief workers are providing for the
stricken families and tbs suffering
OF the homeless and injured is being
rapidly lightened.
Telegraph and telephone commu-
rication was assuming more of nor
NAL aspect today. and reconstruction
work in some of the storm-swept COM
munities was under way this morning.
Local organizations in towns or cities
nearest the suffering communities
were giving all the aid possible to the
homeless and injured. and in Allen
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