Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-04-02
WORKERS START
REBUILDING TOWNS
Restoration Begins in Areas
Hit by Tornado-Less
Danger of Epidemic.

Chicago.-Southern Illinois and In
diana and other states in the path of
the recent tornado are humming with
industry as the work of rebuilding and
restoration progresses.
Warm, sunny weather prevails in
most of the stricken territory as car
penters ply hammer and saw on hum
dreds Of new buildings and relief
workers continue to give aid and COM
fort to thousands of injured and home
less.
Danger of an epidemic is lessened
as sanitary measures are advanced.
The water supply in every affected
community is watched and supply
of diphtheria anti-toxin was rushed to
Carbondale, the relief center, at the
direction of DR.. l. d. Rawlings, direc-
tor of the Illinois department of health.
Doctors and nurses reported the SAM
tation situation mach improved and
that favorable condition of the weather
had greatly decreased fear of any ex-
tended outbreak of disease.
With virtually all of the dead buried,
j. N. Sletten, secretary of the National
Funeral Directors association, SAID
that registration of graves had been
carried out with such care that the
final resting place of each victim may
definitely be located.
Pending rebuilding of factories, re-
lief workers are centering efforts on
obtaining employment for working
men, who were the greatest sufferers.
Appeals were made to the state to
start road construction in the Illinois
area to provide temporary employ
ment.
With three additional deaths at Grit
fin, Ind, the number of fatalities IN
five states was increased to S13, but
this figure did not include score OF
persons believed to have been incin-
Grated at Murphysboro. The Red Cross
announced that 1880 persons were IN
jured Property loss was estimated in
the neighborhood of $20,0OO,OOO.
Searching parties, returning from
an all-day Investigation of West Frank
fort ruins, announced their belief that
all dead there had been accounted for.
Conditions are excellent, Mayor /.
Bangley wired Governor Small in an
nouncing that troops, with the excep-
ton of medical units, no longer were
needed.
At Murphysboro work was in prog
ress on hundreds of homes in the 152
city blocks destroyed by the storm.
The city was gladdened by the an
nouncement that the Mobile & Ohio
railroad shops, employing 1,40O men,
and another of its largest industries
would be rebuilt Only Is or 20 per
cent of the houses destroyed carried
tornado insurance, although most of
them were protected from fire. Wheth-
er insurance would be paid on build
ings set on fire after the tornado
passed was an undecided question.
Rehabilitation work also moved rap
idly forward in Tennessee. Kentucky
and Indiana. The death toll in the
latter state, where Griffin and Owens
vile were RACED and parts of Prince
ton destroyed, was raised to III.
Griffin. Id which building operations
have started, is not suffering from the
rising waters of the Wabash. as one
railroad to the town is in operation,
but fears were expressed for families
in d score Of neighboring farmhouses
cut off by water from medical aid and
food. The current was too swift for
rowboats. The rural districts, how
ever, were given two days supply of
food on Sunday.