Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-03-24
TORNADO SECTION
HUNS WITH WORK
Hundreds of Homes Spring.
ing Up as Order Gradually
Replaces Chaos.
Br IN. Associated Press.

CHICAGO, March 24.-Southern IL
linois and Indiana and other States in
the path OF last Wednesdays tornado
hummed with industry today as the
work Of rebuilding and restoration
progressed.
Warm sunny weather prevailed in
penters piled hammer and saw on hum
dreds OF new dwellings and relief
workers continued to aid thousands Of
injured and homeless.
Danger OF epidemics was lessened
today az sanitary measures were ad
vanced. Water supplies in affected
communities were watched and a supply
OF diphtheria antitoxin was rushed to
Carbonate. the relief center. Doctors
reported the weather had decreased
fear of an extended outbreak Of disease
The drive for relief funds continued
with totals increasing hourly. Chicago
expected to raise its quota of $4,000
within 4s hours. Another 100000 wac
provided when the Illinois Lesisls ture
passed an emergency relief bill. From
Washington II was announced that the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States and the Red Cross had arranged
for commercial organizations to turn
over TO Red Cross units all relief con-
tributions.
Seek work for Men.
With virtually all of the dead
buried. J. y. Sletten. secretary of the
National Funeral Directors Associa-
ton, said that registration of graves
had been carried out with such care
that the location or each grave is on
record voa ar
Pending rebuilding of factories.
relief workers were centerine efforts
on obtaining employment for work
insmen, who were the greatest suf-
ferers. Appeals were made TO the
State to start road construction in
the Illinois area to provide tempo
rary employment.
With three additional deaths at
Griffin, Ind, the number of fatalities
in five States was increased TO s13
but this figure did not include a
score of persons believed TO have
been incinerated at Murphysboro
The Red Cross announced that a,s3s
persons were injured. Property loss
was estimated in the neighborhood
of $50, 100000
Searching parties returning from
West Frankfort said they believed
all dead there had been accounted
for. Conditions are excellent, Mayor
T. Bangley wired Gov. Len Small in
announcing that troops, with the ex-
ception of medical units, no longer
were needed.
At Murphysboro work was in
progress on hundreds of homes in
the 1872 city blocks destroyed by the
storm. The city was gladdened by
the announcement that the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad shops, employing
1,400 men, and another of its largest
industries. would be rebuilt Bank
ers estimated the loss in Murphys-
boro at 100000. Only Is or 20 per
cent of the houses destroyed carried
tornado insurance, although most of
them were protected from fire
Whether insurance would he paid
on buildings set on hre after the
tornado passed was an undecided
question.
Rehabilitation work also moved
rapidly in Tennessee, Kentucky and
Indiana. The death toll in Indiana,
where Griffin and OwensvilIe were
razed and parts of Princeton
destroyed, was increased to 1872 today.
Griffin. in which building operations
nave started, is not suffering from
the rising waters of the Wabash.
Fears were expressed. however, for
families in the rural districts. al.
though two days supply of food
was distributed there Sunday.
FLOOD THREAT lessons.