Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-03-28
RUINS
| SHOW 823 DEAD
IN FIVE STATES
! Lief Workers Aid Victims
.of Storm in Illinois, Indi-
ana. Missouri, Tennes-
see and Kentucky.

A. Of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,
Il enfncky and Tennessee, it was dis
i o.el thar about S23 persons had
1esn killed and 1890 injured. Several
fowns were completely obliterated and
fbnsands were made homeless.
q The Illinois total of deaths is 645,
indiana us. Missouri 81, Kentucky
- Tennessee about 80.
Following the wind in many cities
M towns. fire broke out. In some
SEES the relief work already had been
organized so well that the confiagra-
hons we're under control in short
fime. In others scores of MANNED and
bead we're burned almost beyond rec
ignition
Two towns in Illinois and one in In
Diana we're virtually annihilated by
h. tornado. The towns in Illinois are
Parrish and De Soto and the Indiana
town is Griffin. The present outlook.
according to correspondents, is that no
sTor will be made to rebuild them.
1hey are all gone. But they may
home back. State Senator Sneed re-
buses 10 give up as TO De Soto. MY
sather is buried there" he said. And
b. Griffin, though not a house is left
standing one old man announced he
houid return and rebuild. II don't
want to die anywhere else" he said.
Illinois Suffers Most.
Murphysboro, West Frankfort and
BE Soto were the Illinois cities that
suffered most from the terrific wind
f!asl Gorham also suffered heavily
D. dead and wounded. In Indiana.
Griffin Princeton and Owensville were
hardest hit while in Missouri, Bfehle
suffered about ten deaths. Gallatin,
Tenn. reported that about thirty had
beea Killed there.
In q number Of towns the lighting
systems were out of order and dark
pess hampered the workers at night.
National Guard troops are protecting
these places from possible looting
Pullman cars have arrived in many of
Pie villages to provide sleeping places
tor the thousands of homeless. while
tent villages are arising rapidly.
IN few cities where there had
been happiness, prosperity, and future,
the tornado blasted all. In others 1t
showed fendish eccentrieity by level
ing and blackenlng portions, while
sparing the rest.
Towns Swept Away.
Nearly half of Princeton, Ind, was
Emitten. A sister city, Griffin, was vir-
tualIy carried away. De Soto, H.,
with 800 people, lost it's existence. A
neighbor. Gorham, Of 300 souls, was
wiped out Murphysboro, H., lost
nearly three square miles of its bust
ness and residential sections. Other
hhmiets are yet cut off from telling
their story.
Property Losses in Millions.
Those in charge speak in millions
when asked to estimate material
losses, The brief dispatches read
Sl"o0o in southwestern Kentucky"
'S@"ooo0 at Princeton" "S6.OOO.O 900
Ia southern Illinois" 100000 in Mis-.
soarA" At the other scenes no one
act ventures 10 estimate.
Ile tornado took its toll over a ter
Ftef} Of 300 miles in five hours and
within the same period of time outside
aia was covering that distance TO
asFg help and comfort to survivors.
J ae Red Cross rushed supplies from
sl Louis Chicago offered $500. 600
-ae illinois legislature appropriated a
.lae amount and the Missouri ieglsla-
Jaee $4,000.
Grim Story in morgue.
= was at the morgue Of southern
!. aais' largest city where the story Of
Y 81 Franklort's tragedy was briefly
oa5 -ruiy Old Nlnety-one bodies Law
etched III long rows, and the first y
|eIe the forms Of little children rang
IS rom eighteen months to -four
Eears Of age.
taaF lay IN a pitiful row on q lonp
races uncovered so some heart.
mother or father or perbans
u o.aer brother or sister might claim
' EN- One by one the little bodies
81 tagged with a family name az
'arHtaacatioas were made
mine known as No. Is. u men
sl 20 their deaths when the plant
@'e ground was demolished
i+.Eiale was the destruction vented
aa Aurphveboro.
More than half Of II now Is LITTLE
IMAM kindling wood and smolder-
E ra'ns n hundreds of homes
aTS q bsttering by field art,parv
lo no more 10 a town than ne
a.io did to the stricken area ~
SSa"ro Brick buildings went
weaker frames. Thlrty.seven
were crushed 10 death m ,ba
81 two school buildings. Two
Is which contained 500 resi-.
a1d 100 business houses we're
me buildings DESTROYED vas
$500 Baptist church whore
Fas being held when the
49, struck. Another was new
edition TO the high school
Sc Police Joe Boston fonnd
nls daughter IN these
re dry grass On some az ths