The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-05-01

Relief work is proceeding rapidly
under the supervision of the Ameri-
can Red Cross assisted by numer-
Gus local, fraternal and civic organ
izations, municipal and county gov
ernments and individuals. Hundreds
of the more fortunate survivors of
the storm have thrown open their
homes to the sufferers while in vir-
tually every locality of the stricken
districts temporary kitchens have
been set up to dispense food to the
hungry.
DesOlatiOn Everywhere
A picture of desolation and wreck
age was swept in the wake of the
path of the storm which traversed
path roughly estimated at more than
1000 miles long. It's destructive
force, however, seemed partly to
have been spent as it swept through
Virginia last evening. No deaths
have occurred there so far as is
known and but slight property dam
age was caused compared with other
sections which it struck.
Dead and injured and many of
those unhurt were picked up by the
wind and hurled through the air hum
dreds of feet Miles Of telephone
and telegraph lines were torn down,
hundreds of dwellings and other
buildings were ripped from their
foundations, trees were uprooted and
| much livestock was killed, while
bridges and roads were washed away
in many sections by torrential ra:ns
which accompanied the storm.
Women and children made up
large part Of the known dead.
Communities Destroyed
Entire communities were destroy
ed in some sections and there was
not place in the storms path which
escaped wholly unscratched.
In South Carolina where the tor
nadoes were most disastrous, Hor-
rell Hill, IL miles from Columbia,
was wrecked, II being killed and
numerous others hurt. Among the
dead were four school boys, who
with IS other pupils were buried
beneath the wreckage of the school
house when it was demolished
Eight persons, five of them chill
dren, were killed and more than
score injured when they were trap
ped in their houses at Anderson.
Nearly so residences were raised in
the Riverside Hill village near here
while numbers of dwellings in the
city proper were demolished.
Property damage in the hill village
area alone is placed at Sl,5OO,00G.
Is In One Town Dead
At Florence, Is persons met death,
so were injured, and 30 houses were
destroyed. Undetermined number Of
negroes are reported missing.
The village of Ficklen, Georgia,
near Augusta, virtually was wiped
from the map when the storm struck
there, killing the postmaster, injur-
ing many and destroying nearly
every village,
At Khipley, near Columbus, nine
persons, two of them white women,
were killed, 80 injured and an UNI
| determined property damage caused.
! Near Mason, white woman, her In
| FAINT child and negro man were
! kllIeu WHcH TIE MUSE III WHICH tuey
. had taken refuge was demolished.
/ Many other parts in Georgia were
struck by the storm, including Law
renceville where several persons
were injured, but available rdNorts
| chronicled no further loss of life.
Freaks of the storm together with
many miraculous escapes from pos
| sible death were reported from every
part of the hurricane area. At Ope-
lika, Alabama, man was picked up
in the bed in which he lay, and hurl-
ed far into the road, where he was
found still between the covers, un-
| harmed.
LIST GROWS
Columbia, S. c., May 1.-The list
of dead and injured in the series Of
tornadoes that swept over South Carr
olina yesterday continued to grow as
additional deaths slowly trickled i'm
to Columbia from the stricken re-
gions today. Seventy known
dead have heen reported up to one
! o'clock.
During the year ended June 80,
1923, the rural mail system was en-
larged by the addition Of 304 new
routes. NJ