The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-03-23
STRICKEN AREA.
STARTS W0R K
OF REBUILDING
Every Survivor of Great
Storm To Be Given Aid
BY Officials
PLAN COMPLETE SURVEY
Four Months May Me Needed
To Rebuild Shattered
Homes and Factories

Chicago, March 23.-(By the A. P.)
--Saddened by the final tragedy of
its greatest tornado dsaster,--the
burial of it's dead--souther Illinois
and Indiana today turned undaunted
to the mammoth task of rehabilita-
tion, through which it is planned
every survivor of last Wednesdays
catastrophe will be returned to the
same conditions that existed before
the territory was laid in ruins. All
injured have received medical atten-
tion and all homeless have been pro-
vided with temporary shelter, 1t was
announced, as plans got underway for
rebuilding the stricken area. A
colossal task faced the agencies en-
gagged in reconstruction work as ar
rangements were made for complete
surveys of the storm territories.
1t was anticipated that four
months or more would be required
to clear hundreds Of acres of ruins,
restore thousands of shattered
lish new systems of sanitation.
Providing destitute families with
means of making living was an
immediate need receiving attention.
Committees from several southern
Illinois counties will meet this week
to select a joint body which will
direct all permanent relief work
! after surveys have been made of the
needs of the district.
=. Henry M. Baker, head of the dis
aster relief committee of the Red
Cross, announced that his organiza-
tion expect to rehabilitate every
family affected by the storm. He
also stated an emergency unit of the
Red Cross had been established in
every stricken town and that temp
orary relief torthe injured and home
| less had been fully taken care of.
With funds for the storm suffer
ers being raised in all parts of the
country through appeals in churches.
through newspapers, by radio and
other agencies, the national head
quarters of the Red Cross in Wash
| ington announced an appropriation
of $4,000 to augment similar funds
being raised by other 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.
Brief and simple funeral services
were held Sunday for most of the
victims in five states while preach
ers in all denominations asked for
divine guidance.
A further check Of casualty lists
today brought few changes in in
dividual items, but did not material
ly affect the totals. Death stood at
803 but 1888 injured, or a total cas-
ualty count of 3,742, but slightly re-
duced from figures tabulated by the
Associated Press the first day Of the
disaster.
Murphysboro, chief sufferer in the
tornado, buried nearly SO of its dead
Sunday with services in the wrecked
bandstand. in the public square.
Other funerals were held today. Most
of the city's homeless were living
in tents and yesterday 5000 were
fed at public relief stations.
| An unusual number, of fires break
ing out in the ruins has added to
problems of relief.
DeSoto, the little village of 500
which was blown away, has finished
burying its dead. The country GEM
etery has fifty fresh mounds with
only rude wooden crosses carrying
penciled names as markers. Thirty
of DeSoto's seventy dead were chill
dren., Some families have returned
to the village and are attempting to
reestablish demolished homes but
the general opinion is that the viii
lage will never be rebuilt.
Griffin, Ind, where fifty perish.
ed, today was cut off from all relief
avenues except single railroad
when flood waters of the Wabash
River inundated all roads leading
to the town. Governor Ed Jackson
who inspected the storm territory
was forced to drive through a foot
of water in leaving the town. Re-
inforced military lines held bacl
thousands of motorists seeking tt