The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-03-27

boro and vicinity, where 469 were
killed. Eight thousand homeless in
Murphysboro alone.
Appeals for medical assistance and
supplies and relief workers sent out
from all districts when first relief
parties visualized the magnitude Of
the task.
Property loss high in the millions,
property damage at Murphysboro
alone 100000, with so blocks en-
tirely swept away. ~ 81
Chicago. the light of a full
day had cast its searching rays into
the debris left by the tornado and
relief work had been organized to
gather the, dead, heal the hurt and aid
the homeless, the toll Of destruction
to life and property still remains the
greatest ever recorded in similar Ca
tastrophes, with S4S reported killed
and 2,909 injured in the five States
affected. sstsas
While the casualty lists had been
reduced from first estimates in some
instances, word came from hitherto
unreported places to keep the total
casualties almost AS high as indicated
in first messages from the devastated
towns and hamlets. After a night Of
terror, dawn revealed that some small
towns had been virtually obliterated.
while whole blocks of larger places
had been level and fire had added to
the horrors OF the wind.
After a night OF, terror, dawn re-
vealed that some small towns virtual
" had been obliterated. and entire
blocks in larger places leveled, fire
having added to the destruction.
At Murphysboro 141 are dead and
500 injured. Property damage there
was $4,000, 900.
West Frankfort has about 100
dead and about five times that num-
Der injured.
De Soto. a village of 500. six miles
from Carbonate, virtually was oblit-
Grated. One hundred eighteen, in
Guiding thirty school children, are
dead, $50 were injured.
Gorham was wiped out and ninety
OF the 500 Inhabitants are dead and
zoo were injured.
Nearly half of Princeton, Ind, was
suitten. go 7s-
Griffin virtually was carried away.
More than q dozen other Illinois
and Indiana towns and villages re-
ported from one to forty dead.
Oficialsh speak in millions when
asked to estimate material losses.
The Is dispatches read: 100000 in
Southwestern Kentucky; $4,000
00O at Princeton; "$6,OO0,OOO in
Southern illinois,: $500, 1000 in Mis-
souri, 2lsa
The tornado took its toll over a
territory OF 800 miles in i've hours,
and within the same peiod of time
outside aid was covering the area to
carry help and comfort to survivors.
The Red Cross rushed supplies
from St. Louis.
Chicago offered 100000.
The Illinois Legislature appropri-
ated 100000; the Missouri Legisla-
ture, $4,000.
The Southern Illinois American
Legion gave $4,000.
Other contributions are expected
to reach 100000.
From the casualty list it appears
that more than 100 children and
babies were victims. Every avail
able dwelling was a morgue in the
zone of visitation. Serious opera
tions are performed virtually out
doors. Columns of persons three and
four deep several blocks long still
waited in the darkness to claim their
kin and friends.
s-Apparentiyfar arising in the Missouri
Ozark hills. the tornado jumped and
zig-zagged. Its path was about a
mile wide at some places; in others
1t could be measured in feet. Mis-
souri,, Illinois and Indiana were Wis
tied in turn and then the storm swept
into Kentucky and Tennessee.
A brakeman on an Illinois Central
train. who saw the De Soto tragedy,
described the tornado ':as a crash OF
thunder preceded by two binding
flashes of lightning, after which moth
ing A former war chaplain said
It could be likened to the war zone
in France-there was no other com.
parison.
Bodies in most every form of Gre
nation, and torn or crushed, were
being removed from ruins. Compare
lively few have been found whole
Identification is made by means OF
rings on detached arms in some in