The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1925-03-27

Friday, possibly, preparations Will
be completed for hundreds OF tuner
ais. Many multiple services are con-
templated, with the possibility that a
number of the unidentified dead will
be Inferred together.
In many of the towns where the
tornado struck, rescue workers tolied
Thursday night in utter darkness
searching for other victims, while in
adequate corps OF doctors and nurses
with limited supplies ministered to
the hundreds of injured by improvised
lights.
Further relief on a wholesale scale
was in immediate prospect Thursday
night. In addition to company OF
troops at Murhpysboro and one at
West Frankfort, Company l and Com
pany K of Salem and Cairo, respec-
ticely, were ordered to West Frank
fort, and Company L of Hillsboro, a
medical detachment of the 1O6th Cav
airy and medical detachment of
the 129th Infantry, were sent to
Murphysboro.
ELEVEN CARLOADS
From Chicago a medical regiment
eff 800 men, II car loads of supplies,
eight carloads of rations and go Pull
man cars were dispatched to the
stricken district, while extra nurses
and doctors hurried here late Thurs
day from Chicago, st. Louis and
other nearby cities.
The disaster apparently fell most
heavily upon people of limited means,
oh T. h NTcrf
of identified dead, the names Of very
few persons who had attained prom
inence were found.
] Murphysboro, West Frankfort, De-
Soto and Gorham, all within a radius
of 25 miles of Carbonate, in the
southern Illinois coal fields, bore the
brunt of the disaster.
At Murphysboro Thursday night
141 men were known to be dead, with
the total loss of life estimated at 30C
and upwards of 500 injured.
Murphysboro, a town of $4,000
covering Approximately five and one
half square miles, had two-fifths Of
! its area in charred ruins, 100 business
houses wrecked or seriously damaged
and 1000 homes destroyed, with
about 1000 persons homeless.
The city was without gas anC
light, although desperate efforts were
being made by public service company
officials to repair broken cables anC
wrecked power plants.
Fifty square blocks, including TIVE
square miles of the residence section
were a mass of tangled debris, while
firemen still fought smoulderng EN-
bers in a dozen places.
Half a dozen arrests were made TO
looting and troopers impressed sight
seers into service with axes and SHOW
els and also as stretcher bearers.
FIND $50 BODIES
Murphysboro, Ill, March 2O.-Witl
152 bodies recovered Thursday from
the wreckage OF the tornado, la5'
estimates pace the number OF deaC
at approximately 200. line same mum
Der lie seriously injured in imprOViseC
hospitals.
Inc STORM and night of fires whici
followed have rendered 5000 (abOL
twO-Jmrds Oh the population nome
less.
The force Of the wind wrecked tn,
citys power plant, cutting off waite
and light. Approximately 100 block
OF the city were demolished by tn
storm and 10 more were swept b,
flames.
139 KNOWN DEAD
West Frankfort, H., March 49,
Revised figures late Thursday Shove,
1879 persons known to have been kill
ed in Franklin county by Wednesday
tornado. Of that number LOT wer
residents Of West Frankfort, % o.
Paris, and the remaining from rura
sections.
Desnfn. Ill March 1Q.=With