The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-04-20
MUCH DAMAGE
TO PROPERTY
IS REPORTED
Deaths Occur in Five Differ
ent COunties-Buildings
Wrecked in Others
One Teacher and Several Pu.
pills Killed When Various
Schools Are DESTROYED

Springfield, ILL.,, April 20.-(A}--
Line squalls that extended like in
visible tentacles from Greene cou mt y
yesterday. one striking southeast ward,
the other northeastward, left u known
death list Of %. nine others listed
as probably fatally injured and about
100 less seriously hurt
Property damage in the five coun.
ties where the storms took human
life. and in half a dozen other coun-
ties which felt their force in dimin-
ished violence, was roughly esti-
mated at 81 100000. Many buildings,
most Of them in farming communi-
ties. were destroyed, and considerable
damage was done to crops.
Greene county, almost directly
north Of st. Louis, suffered most
heavily in casualties. Nine were
killed there. Another death resulted
u few miles west, in Calhoun county.
One arm Of the tornado wind
reached from Greene county 60 miles
southeastward into Bond county.
where one life was lost.
The main series of squalls. how
ever, bounded northeastward, taking
four lives in Sangamon county and
four more in Logan.
Storm Hits Indiana, Too
While the loss Of life was confined
to relatively small territory, most
Of central and northern Illinois, as
well as a part Of Indiana, felt the
wrath Of the high wind. Damage was
reported nearly as far north as Mil
waukee. Wis.
The Greene county toll was dis
tributed in four small communities.
Miss Ann Keller, teacher Of the Gen.
tcrvillc rural school near Carrollton,
the Greene county seat, lost her life
when caught under debris. although
none Of her pupils was killed. She
had ordered them to take shelter bv-
meath their seats.
At Wrights, another rural center
in Greene county. four died, includ-
ing a mother and her baby. while
three others met death not far away
/, at WOodyville, and another death
was at Athensville.
Sangamon county had three deaths
in the little hamlet Of Buffalo Hart
two men and an infant. One was
killed ut Loami, where five persons
also were reported suffering from
injuries which may prove fatal.
Pupils Killed
Two school children were killed ut
Chestnut, in Logan county, while .
father and son lost their lives at Mt.
Pulaski, in the same county.
Clarence Gallagher. principal Of the
Chestnut school, received report
from a station agent that the storm
was approaching, and methodically
marched his 80 pupilA from the Sec
ond floor to the first, where they
huddled while the wind crashed
through the upper floor, tearing ~
away. The two pupils who were kill
ed were struck by flying bricks g
they dashed from the building when
the storm struck.
Thirty school children at Buffa3o
Hart were saved when their teacher
herdcd them into the basement Ol
church which was being used as =
school. The first floor was badly
damaged. A school near Corniand
was razcd and the pupils blown into
a nearby field, but only three were
injured.
Towns Are Levcled
CORTLAND and Buffalo Hart yir'
tually were lcveled.
Roads in many places were i'm
passable, due to trees fcllcd across
them by the levc!ing winds.
The Indiana storm damage WA
confined to an area about Brazil
where several barns and other farm
buildings were blown down and trees
uprooted.
While Yesterdays winds.orms dit
not approach in intensity the tor
nado that took several hundred hvcs
in Illinois two years ago, the com
paratively small death list was con
sdcred due to the fact that onl!
small communities felt the brunt o.
the winds.