New Britain herald., 1927-09-30
Bodies of Victims Fill Morgues Saturday and Sunday to Be Days of Funerals- Hospitals Treat 500 Injured.
Soldiers With Orders "To Shoot to kill' Guard Debris - Wind Follows Path of Historic Storm of 1896.

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 Ing death list in yesterdays devas- tating tornado here reached s4 90. 1 day when additional bodies were
 found and some Of the injured died.
 The body Of a third girl was found in the ruins of the Central High school and it was found two others were buried there.
 All but four Of the dead were | identified
 | More than 500 were known 10 have received medical treatment at hospitals and first aid stations, while several hundred more were believed to have been slightly in- Jured and made no report to police or hospitals. The injured are scat tered in hospitals over the city. The identified bodies were being removed from city hospital morgue to undertaking establishments today, days of many funerals. IS Reported Missing With Is persons reported missing. many injured in a critical condition and portions Of the devastated area unsearched for bodies, the Post Dis patch estimated the total dead
 might reach 14u, the number killed fin the city's historic tornado of 1896. Estimates of the property damage remained between s10.000,000 and s100, GOO, 0,00o, the range mentioned by E. E. Christopher building com- missioner.
 Hundreds Of families, left without roof. or with sides of their homes laid open by the storm, slept last night in the National Guard armory and other improvised quarters, and were fed today from field kitchens, placed in service by Red Cross dis aster relief forces.
 Soldiers Patrol Streets Militiamen of the 13Sth infantry. St. Louis National Guard regiment, today patrolled the streets west of Grand Boulevard, directing motor- | ists through q maze of fallen trees, shattered roofing and broken glass. All of the city's 1,5o0 policemen. called out when the storm broke at 1 p. m. yesterday, remained on duty today. regardless of their regular hours.
 Industrial District Razed The wind, with velocity o' 90
 
 southwest to northeast, raging the Manchester avenue industrial dis trict, the Lindell boulevard and other central and north side resi- dence sections and crossed the Mis- sissippi river to the tri-cities of Venice. Madison and Granite City, H.. where eight deaths and nu- merous injuries were caused. The devastated region irregular i in shape and of varying width, has an area of about six square miles 1 in St. Louis alone. In the central west end. the devastation extends i between Sarah street and Newsstand lavenue, north from Forest Park avenue across Taclede avenue. West Pine and Lindell boulevards and widens north of Olive street, reach- ! ing Grand boulevard near Van De- venter place.
 Sarah street continues to be a | line of heavy damage as far north ! as Easton avenue and near Fair i Ground park the trend toward the river becomes more direct. Between the park and Mckinley bridge. a thick tract Of wrecked houses cN- | tends along North Ninth and ad- [ joining streets. with marked dam age on Herbert, Montgomery and
 other streets.
 Old brick houses of cheap con-
 struction, in some parts of the tor
 nado zone, were shattered almost
 as completely as the frame houses and sheds.
 Follows 1898 Path While the path Of the storm was
 nearly parallel to that of the lS96
 tornado, 1t was not The same. South-
 crn St. Louis and East St. Louis,
 Ills, which bore the brunt of that
 calamity, escaped yesterday with
 heavy blow and a hard rain, as did
 the Cabanne and northwestern resi- dence areas the downtown section
 and the western suburbs.
 Maj. LaSsitcr Takes Charge
 Washington, Sept. 80 lP-Major
 General William Lassiter. com
 manding the sixth corps area. Chi
 cago. was placed in direct charge
 of army relief work in connection
 with the St. Louis tornado by war department orders issued today in
 response to q request for federal
 assistance from the governor Of Missouri
 | General Lassiter will proceed to
 St. Louis. He already has made preparations to move . thousand
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