The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-03-30
Revised Figures Show 179
Killed by Sundays Storms.
Property Damage Now Esti-
mated at Over $11 100000.
EXACT REPORTS IMPOSSIBLE
Workers Already Started Bring
ing Order Out Of Chaos.
Guards Are Keeping LOOters OF
the job Now.

Atlanta. Ca. March 30-The death
list from Sundays tornado in Georgia
was raised today TO forty eight.
Reports from Stovau stated fifteen
white persons were killed there. The
village had a population of only fifty.
StoV all was completely cut off from
wire communication and no word that
the tornado had hit the place reached
the outside world until today
Chicago. March 3O.-The death toll
OF sundays tornadoes which ripped
paths Of destruction thru sections Of
eight states stood early today at ia
with fears expressed that reports from
isolated regions and deaths among the
injured would increase the total.
stricken communities were emerg-
ing today from the wreckaSc wrought
10y the storm and relief measures for
the thousands of injured and homeless
were well under way.
Wire communications in the affect
81 areas was being restored and this
was expected to aid in clearing up the
eXtcnt of the destruction and the total
number Of those who lost their lives.
Deaths May Total 1SC.
Tabulatcd reports by staucs today
gave the number of dead as follows:
Indiana. SO: Adams county >, AL
len county H. Jay county ] /. Steuben'
county !. Montgomery county I, Union
CITY lp.
Illinois. -. EIgin :, Irving Park 6:
M-lrosc Park 10. Haywood T.
ohio. 80: Greeuvile and Nashville
S. NaHweFt .. Muunt0u 6, Itenolette
aud Brunersburg 6. Genoa >. Raaos
Aichigau. T.. Feuton :. Maple
';r"ve 9. Coldwater %. Hart /, kalama-
zUu Q. Yankee Springs I.
Georgia. IS; La Grange %. West
Point 10. Macon ]. Miner :.
Alabama. l.: Alexander ] l, AsH-
Gotta 5. Cedar Springs j.
-. Louis. Mo. ].
Last Troy. Wis. !.
I'm unverified report that fifteen
white persons were killed at Stovall,
60. "a village near la Grange. was
being Investigated. and should this
prove true tile death list would be in
creased to 1I6-
- number of persons were reported
a- missing IN various localities hit by
She storm and it was feared that some
~ these might be found to have been
ldilod.
Property Damage Runs High.
So accurate estimate of the total
properly DANA &c. which runs into the
millions. could he made today In
Illinois il was estimated that the ma
r-rial loss was 100000: in western
ohio $4,000. 900: Michigan 100000,
md Georgia more than S1.O00.0O0.
State troops patrolled the storm
-v cpt areas OF Illinois today and the
ICED cross and civilian committees or
-auizcd aid for the injured and home
less Hundreds of carpenters who be-
San reconstruction work yesterday in
El-iu. haywood. Melrose Park, Irving
Park around Chicago. had cleared
sv-ay most OF the wreclIage today. All
- the refugees had been placed in
homes or tents today.
Ilgin Hit Hardest.
carpenters and other laborers were
being rushed into the storm devas-
iated sections today TO provide for the
hundreds Of homeless. Relief appeals
have been issued by local authorities
thruout the section
Populations of many stricken CEN
tiers turned out en- masse today 10 aid
in reconstruction. At Elgin. where
seven were killed and 100000 worth
al property destroyed. reconstruction
has progressed so rapidly Mayor Price
has cancelled a call for meeting to-
day to discuss means Of restoration.
"F.lG.iu will be able to care for her
SELF 10 declared.
IT, 81 omeless last night were carec
for i'm hospitals. police stations anc
under roofs untouched by the tornado
Red cross officials announced today
that they would lie able to handle Tho
situation. Many sections are in neeC
of relief officials said.
National Guards. home guards and
former service men continue 10 pro