Evening star., 1925-03-23
4 MONTHS Of WORK
NEEDED TO RESTORE
STORM RUIN AREAS
Plans Under Way Today for
Rebuilding, With Dead Buried
and Refugees Housed.
RELIEF FUNDS POUR IN
FOR STRICKEN POPULACE
Complete Surveys Will Be Made of
Territory Hit by Cyclone,
Authorities Announce.
Rr the Associated Press.

Rr the Associated Press
CHICAGO, March 2S.-Saddened by
the final tragedy of its greatest tornado
disaster. the burial of its dead, south
ern Illinois and Indiana today turned
undaunted to the mammoth task of re-
Mobilization through which, it is planned,
survivors of last Wednesdays catas-
trophe will be returned to the same con-
ditions that existed before the storm.
All injured have received medical at
tention, and all homeless have been pro-
vided with temporary shelter, it was an
nounced, as plans got under way for a
virtual rebuilding of the stricken areas.
colossal task faced the agencies en-
gagged in reconstruction work as ar
rangements were made for complete sur
veys of the storm territory.
-Four Months More Work.
1t was anticipated that four months
or more would be required to clear hum
dreds of acres of ruins, restore thou
sands of shattered homes, rebuild fac
tories and establish new systems Of
sanitation.
Henry NJ. Baker. head Of the disaster
relief committee of the Red Cross, an
nouncei that his organization expects
10 rehabllitate every family affected by
the storm. He also stated that an
emergency unit of the Red Cross had
oeen established in every stricken town.
and that temporary relief to the injured
ana homeless had been fully taken
care Of.
Funds Raised Rapidly.
with funds for the storm sufferers
eeing raised in all parts of the coun-
try through appeals In churches.
newspapers, by radio and many other
agencies, the national headquarters
or the Red Cross in Washington an
nounced an appropriation Of $4,000
10 augment similar funds being
raised by local chapters
James l.. Fieser, vice chairman in
charge of domestic operations. who
returned TO Washington from ST.
Louis, reported that immediate de-
mands and emergency requirements
had been met. but that permanent
relief presented an enormous prob
lem. Mr.. Fieser called the tornado,
which caused more than 500 deaths
in five States, the most serious in
the history of Red Cross disaster re-
lief operations"
Epidemic Danger Past.
Danger of an epidemic in Indiana
was said to be remote with the ar
rival of additional medical supplies
advent of State sanitary officers All
water in the Indiana area also was
being chloronized.
DR.. Herman n. Bundesen, Chicago
health commissioner. has arrived at
Corbondale, Southern Illinois relief
center, to aid in the fight against dis
ease. DR.. Bundesen said that the
greatest danger was infectious dis
eases, particularly typhoid fever
VII nd Ct, op1a
were held Sunday for most of the vic
Tins in five States, while preachers of
all denominations asked for divine
guidance in church services on the
first Sunday since the disaster
Casualty List Unchanged.
A further check of casualty lists
brought a few changes in individual
items, but did not materially affect
the totals. Deaths stood at s03, with
1888 injured, or a total casualty
count of 3,742, but slightly reduced
from figures tabulated by the Asso-
ciated Press the first day of the dis
aster Deaths by States were; Illinois,
s2s; Indiana, 100; Tennessee, SO; Ken
lucky, 1S: Missouri, IA. Five ad-
ditionaal deaths occurred at Murphys-
boro, bringing the identified dead
there to 1874, but relief workers esti-
mated 20 or more persons were incin-
Grated
Murphysboro. the chief sufferer,
buried nearly so dead Sunday, with
services in the wrecked bandstand in
the public square. Other funerals
were held today. Most of the citys
homeless were living in tents and
yesterday 5000 persons were fed at
relief stations. The first shooting
since the arrival of troops was re-
ported when negro was shot in the
leg as the result of an alteration
with soldier An unusual number
of fires in the ruins has added to
problems.
De Soto Buries Dead.
De Soto. the little village of 500
which was blown away, has finished
hurying it's dead. The cemetery has
so fresh mounds, with only crude
wooden crosses carrying penciied
names as markers. Thirty of De
Soto's 20 dead were children. Some
families have returned to the village
and are attempting to re-estabIish
demolished homes, but the general
opinion is that the village never will
be rebuilt
Griffin, Ind, where so perished, to-
day was cut off from all relief ave-
nues except a single railroad when flood
waters of the Wabash inundated roads
leading to the town. Gov Ed
ward Jackson. who inspected the
storm territory, was forced to drive
through a foot of water in leaving
the town. Reinforced military lines
held back thousands of motorists
seeking to visit the devastated terri
tory.
DEATH LIST INCREASED