New Britain herald., 1927-04-20

Pulaski. in the same county.
 Warned Of Storm
 Clarence Gallagher, principal of the Chestnut school received a re- port from T station agent that the storm was approaching, and method- ically marched his eighty pupils from the second floor to the first, where they huddled while the wind crashed through the upper floor, tearing 1t away. The two pupils killed. were struck by flying bricks as they dashed from the building wien the storm struck.
 Thirty school children at Buffalo Hart were saved when their teacher herded them into the basement of a church which was being used as school. The first floor was badly damaged. 4 school near Cornland vas razed and the pupils blown into nearby field, but only three were injured
 Cornland and Buffalo Hart virtu- ally were levelled. At Cornland two grain elevators were all that re- nained standing. Starr Center in Calhoun county, where the storm first struck Illinois was Na'tened.
 Roads in many places were im- passable. due to trees felled across them by the lovellng winds. News of the disaster in many places was carried by men on horseback. com- mnnication lines having been wrecked
 AS early as : o'clock yesterday morning barometric conditions pres aged a storm of tornado violence An extremely low pressure existed ever the middle west, including tho state Of Illinois.
 Indiana storm Area The Indiana storm damage was confined to nn area about Brazil. where several barns and other farm buildings were blown down and trees uprooted,
 A methodical check of the stricl- "n sections was under way today, with Carlos Black. aljutant general cf Illinois directing it. Relief meas ures were in the hands of the Red Cross and other agencies. While yesterdays wind storms did not approach in intensity tho tor rado that took several hundred lives in Illinois two years ago. the com raratiyely small death list was con- sidered due to the fact that only small communities felt the brunt of the winds. In the other Illinois storm. large centers of population were devastated.
 Memphis. Tenn, April 20 Ps-A picture Of widespread destruction in portions of the Mississippi valley was painted today in reports coming in from areas where the Mississippi and it's tributaries were ruthlessly running rampant over millions Of acres of fertile soil.
 Driven from homes and their pos sessions thousands of persons were marooned on levees in need of food @nd shelter.
 Scores have perished In the flood H1NNl N' li' 'NdNi lulI!p-t IldS HfNtl be known as there is no possible way to check the families of tran- sient tenant farmers in many sec lions.
 The entire St. Francis basin Tn southeastern Missouri and northeast ern Arkansas was in the path of the waters which yesterday thrust over and through the St. Johns levee north Of New Madrid, Mo.
 Many Towns Threatened There is no outlet for the mass of water from the Missouri break down 10 where the St. Francis cmptics into the parent stream near Helena. Ark, more than q score of towns and vil- Iages lie in the path Of the flood.
 4 break in the White River l-,se near Clarendon. Ark, west and south of the St. Francis flood and separated by several ridges, miles apart, was causing acute distress Tributary levee breaks along the streams in the state were occurring at an average Of two a day.
 Crying For Rescue.
 At Maeto Bottoms Tn Arkansas county, relief expeditions reported , that refugees were running up and down lnVe.s, crying out 70 be res cued. Many sought safety In tree tops.
 An Arkansas National Guard of , iiCcr, flying over the territory be- tween Little Rock and Pine Bluff, yesterday dropped warnings 10 i homestcadors 10 flee the rising waters caused by q break in q lcvce at Fourche Bottoms, in Pulaski county.
 Tn" aviator reported refugees 'llnglnG 10 church st"eoles and in trees. to escape the rising tide. | official cognizance of the situa- ! lion was taken in Tennessee when ' Governor pcay asked for an imme- diatc legislative appropriation for the relief of thousands made refugees in the nort western portlon Of the state. Adjntant General ". C. Boyd with q company Of National Guards men. has gone 10 Union City 10 direct tho states part In the campaign against the mighty clements. Hick- man, Ky, vas one Of the great refugee ca nps along the river. 1t Is almost directly opposite New Ma drid. and the rows Of army tents