Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-20
DISEASE IS FEARED
IN TRAIL OF STORM
Possible incubation Is to Be
Discussed Today-ReIa-
tiVes Seek Dead.
BY the Associated Press.

realization of the appalling disa ster
which befell the circuit of small cities
and towns within a radius of so miles
OF this city daWned today when. after
another night of toll In darkness to
recover the injured and dead. reca-
pttulation of the disaster OF Wednes-
days tornado showed the number of
dead climbing steadily above the 500
mark, with between 1000 and 5000 in
jured and property loss OF $4,000. 600.
Relief measures were we'll under
way, and further inrrements in
!. strength Of personnel, housing facil-
tiles for the estimated 5000 homeless.
foodstuffs and medicines were prom
lsed from Federal. State and private
sources.
Gov Len Small was due TODAY for
conference with military medical
officials and citizens who, having as-
capeo the ravages OF the elements.
we're rallylng to the assistance of
their more unfortunate brethren
II was understood one of the sub
oects OF the conference would he the
possible incubation against certain
diseases OF those in the devastated
district.
rev Bodies Unidentified
NO plans for funerals had been an
ouhceo In any of the stricken cities
-, vas renewed that, with a
rarr OF order being restored. ar
rangements would be made for 80.
ing most of the hundreds of victims
me END OF the week Only a, few
p1ules remained unid titled.
saipIy twoscore bodies were co
marred as to prevent recoeni
tlon, and 1t was explained thar tbay
ouio De buried with a joint service
ont "a entire Families were wiped
ana indications were they would
mony Single cere-
Additional State troops poured into
the stricken area last night ana ~
oay' along with doctors, nurses SIM
pIles and foodstuffs. The soldiers M
polieo the devastated district and
eI, neu on all who could not display
airy passes or give sufficient rea-
son for being in the zone.
Visitors Block Trafac.
nevertheless. visitors and sight.
seers py the carload invaded the tor
naoo district yesterday and todav and
~ sumo places practically blocked
franc for hours. One man renortad
ne was two hours driving miles
On hard road in the storm area. his
peins impeded by the curl
Gus motorists.
Horham continued to be the scene of
greatest suffering, as well as the
greatest loss Of life, although the
HttIe town of De Soto, virtually Oh
liberated, had a higher percentages If
casualties "a
rural communities lying between
tne devastated cities and towns had
sent IN only meager reports TODAY.
put casualties were not expected to
We neaVy' as the Information which
trlckIed in indicated that one of the
whims of the blast was to sween
nigh over the rural districts. then
10 swoop down with full force on the
towns.
Search for Their Dead.
The toll of the tornado LAY in
state through the night in q score
or 1mprovised morgues in as many
little towns and villages With
rough boards and boxes as their biers
and sheets and blankets as their
shrouds, the long rows of still forms
lay in mortuaries, churches, clubs and
private homes.
Between the aisles of bodies-manv
of them those of school children and
number of those of babes in arms
walked an endless stream of men.
women and children searching for
loved ones
1t was task for which there had
been no time before because of the
urgent needs of the seriously in
jured, and was beine enacted amidst
scenes OF sorrow unparalleled in these
communities to which mining dis
asters with heavy losses of life are
not unusual
The scenes were made the more
pitiful because of the horrible ven
geance which the elements had
Wreaked upon their victims. OF 200
bodies viewed by representatives of
the Associated Press, scarce a one.
even of little children, but was
mangled, SCARED or burned. some Of
them beyond recognition.
"Crucifxion,, She sobx.
AS one gray-haired woman tottered
past a row of bodies of school chill
dren, victims of the De Soto disaster
she seemed to express the sentiments
or all when, with tears streaming
down her cheeks, she turned tn a
companion and sobbed:
crucifxion"
While heart-rending scenes were
peins enacted over the bodies, scarce
~ less pltful were the pictures r.
be found in the makeshift hospitals
That was especially true AT Mn.
physboro, where doctors and nurses
who had worke ed since dawn lahored
Tar into the night by candle light in
alternating the pain of the more des-
perately hurt
Broken victims of the storm wore
wheeled or carried in rapid success
SION peIore little group of doctors
VINO pronounced the fate of the suf
terers after cursory chances and t,rn
ed to the next
Operate Without Ares.ha.,
More often than not hope was held
out, but an extraordinary number Of
amputatons were found necessa ry
In Carbonate yesterday before the
arrival of relief train filed win
Chicago doctors and nurses the des-
perate situation. with hospitals.cIos.
ged, churches and homes filed with
the De Soto victims, caused surgeons
to operate without administering an
anesthetic.
At Murphysboro two dogs exhibited
true canine affection for their master
pinned in death beneath the debris of
burning building when they br-ayed
streams of water played by flremen
to tug at his lifeless form, refusing
to be driven off until ffremen chopped
away the rubbish and recovered the
body.
Saved in Husbands Arms
One woman was held tight in the
arms of her husband and saved from
possible death while three walls of
their home were blown away from
about them.
The fourth wall remained intac.
and the husband chung to it and h
and his wife escaped unhurt.
The new $4,000 fire truck of tn
Herrin, ILL.,. department, which wit
companies of the Anna, Benton ar