The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-04-18
II ARE KILLED
IN INDIANA BY
SEVERE STORM
State Recovering From Ef-
fects Of Tornado Today
Damage Estimated to Ex-
ceed ST. 100000.
800 PERSONS INJURED
eBy Associated Press,

tBy Associated Press,
INDIANAPOLIS, April 1S.-Seven-
teen persons are dead, more than 300
injured and property loss estimated
at more than a million dollars was
the toll of yesterdays tornadoes which
swept western and central Indiana &C
cording to figures revised here this
afternoon.
1t may be several days, however,
before the correct figures will be
known. owing to the confusion in the
stricken areas.
II was definitely established this af-
ternoon that 10 persons had been kill
ed at Sloan In Warren county. two
persons were reported missing at Or.
estes where three persons are already
known to have died in the tornado
which struck there late yesterday
afternoon.
Seven were known 10 have been
killed at Hedrick, and reports received
today said several had been injured
seriously. The injured had been taken
to hospital at Danville, I'll.
At Williamsport three were known
to have been killed, while Brooks. a
small town in Newton county. report
ed that two had been killed and sew
eral injured.
The national guard company which
is assisting in the work at Hedrick. vaS
not ordered to the scene by state Oft
cials, but proceeded to the stricken
area of their own initiative
Town Destroyed
Hedrick was virtually destroyed by
the high wind Railroad service to the
town had not been resumed this after
noon.
Railroad traffic in Indiana was de-
iayed today because of the washouts
which yesterday compelled the line to
abandon service on several divisions.
Officials in the stricken areas de-
cllned to estimate the amount of dam
age, but it was believed it would run
beyond million dollars.
White river was reported to be re-
ceding by weather bureau officials TO-
day. Many rivers and streams in In
diana yesterday had reached the flood
stage today were reported to have
left their banks and spread over the
surrounding country, but it is believed
/ that they will begin to recede within
"a hours should clear weather pre-
vail
Fair weather with probable frost to-
night was forecast by weather Off
cials.
DANVILLE, ILL.,, April 1S.-The fol
| lowing list of dead was compiled here:
Mrs Albert G. Anderson, Ogden, H.;
Grover Johnson, Hedrick. Ind; Viii
| liam Grady, Hedrick, Ind; Grace
Grady, Hedrick, Ind; Mrs. Philip
High, east of Hedrick; Mrs. John Mar
| sic, on the Hunter farm Florence
! Kuntz, IA, on the Hunter farm; Paul
Gritton, six, east of Hedrick; Ruth
! Gritton, aged three months, east of
Hedrick; Goldie Smith. II, Hedrick
! Many of the seriously injured and
others not so badly hurt were brought
to Danville hospitals for treatment
| Danville doctors We're called to the
storm center zone after it was re
ported, and worked throughout the
night.
! Mrs. Eta Hurley, who, with her 13-
year-old daughter, was alone in her
home at Hedrick, was stripped of her
dress, but only slightly hurt.
The 16-month-old child Of james
Downey was blown from the house
into a garden and deposited in the
soft mud, unhurt. A garage was de-
molished by the storm at Fithian. III,
and an automobile carried nearly n
quarter of a mile and dropped in a
pasture.
A barn on the Scott Page farm was
lifted and carried away, but the horses
were left standing uninjured.
The barn at the home of Thornton
Hagler, near Bismarck, H., was turned
around on its foundations, but re-
mained standing and is little damaged.
CHICAGO, April Is. - Sweeping
northward through the middle western
states, a storm which had it's origin
in the Rocky mountain region SundGy,
had passed over Ohio today, leaving
in it's wake death and much destuc-
ton A loss of nearly fifty lives was
attributed to the storm which devel-
oped considerable energy as it pre-
gressed over Illinois and Indiana. t:k
ing in many places the form of tor.
nadoes Damage to property Will
mount into millions of dollars 1t IS
, believed
J Revised figures on the casualties
and damage caused by the storm
which swept over the central states
. Yesterday and last night indicated at
nUOH ludl tut lOSo VI illO WOuiu
, not be as great as had been expected.
+ The latest figures show 80 known
f dead, Is in Illinois, II in Indiana and
j two in Missouri; 800 to 400 injured
, and property damage running into mil
lions of dollars. Previous reports
: which placed the dead at close to so
were found to be caused by the Grip
Piled communication facilities, which
: brought duplicate reports from various
: sections. which it was impossible to
: reach directly.
: Red Cross headquarters today sent
a quantities of blankets, cots, tents and
. tent stoves into the area north OF
> Cairo, H.. for the relief of flood suf-
i ferers. The tents and stoves were
/ sent from Springfield. ILL.,, and the
other supplies from here.
Il Relief Work
II A worker went to Centralia, Ill, to
!. see what was needed there as re-
. suit of the tornado, and arrangements
: are being made with the Danville, Ill,
: Red Cross chapter to assist with relief
;, work at Hedrick, Ind.
. :. Accompanied by rains which sers
s streams then swollen, coursing far be