Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-19
W|NDSTORMS KILL
II IN FIVE STATES
School CoIIapses, Killing 3
and Injuring 25-Wide
Area Swept.
BY the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
AGO. January 19.-Spring
storms. two months ahead of time,
killed II VERSIONS in Ave States yesterday,
nIures, any more. caused heavy prop
erty csAAee and finally swirled away
UP the st. Lawrence River Valley.
In several places the storm that
moved northeastward from southern
Missouri, across Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio was OF tornado violence, espe-
cially at Cape Girardeau, Mo, where
two small children were killed; at
Maunie. Ill, where there were three
deaths. and at Fort Branch, Ind, where
one woman was killed.
Mississippi Is Hit.
Unseasonal rains and high winds were
reported over wide area contiguous 10
the path of the principal storm, going
as far south as Mississippi, Where one
man was killed. Two men drowned IN
the Ohio River when the storm capSlzed
their Skiff, and another was olo"n 1rom
a bridge at Louisville, KY.
Victims of the storm were:
Dorothy May Handley, II, Maunle,
Bernice Tucker, IS, Maunie.
Mrs. Amos Newman, Maunie.
Marjorie Hargraves, 4, near cape
Girardeau, Mo.
Buddie Hargraves, 3, near Cape
Girardeau. Mo.
Clinton Mahoney, "a, drowned IN
Ohio River between Milton, KY, and
o. g. Klossie, near Louisville, killed in
William Thrasher. 43, blown from
bridge at Louisville, KY.
Emelio Ferretti, about IS, Shelby,
Miss.
Shelby, Miss, storm and Is believed 10
have been buried under wreckage OF the
three-story hardware store and Masonic
Lodge building, which was leveled. Inc
roof of this structure was carried across
the street and dropped upon Ferrettis
shoe shop, crushing 1t and killing the
shoemaker.
First damage from the storm occurred
south of Cape Girardeau, Mo-, where
the two Hargraves children met death:
The storm, swept by twisting wind and
accompanied by rain, cut across ILLINOIS,
bearing northeast and causing damage
at Texas City, Norris City, Harrisburg
Chris CITY and Anna. Buildings were
blown down, and there was loss among
live stock.
CloudburstS were reported through
South Central Illinois section, causing
heavy damage by the flooding of build
ings. The small steamer Mary j. over
turned in the Ohio River at Mounds,
Ill. no one was aboard. Small streams
throughout the area overf1owed, and
trafic was halted in many places
where the water covered portions OF the
highways.
The violence of the storm was in
tensifed at Maunie, at the Illinois In
diana line. where a school building
collapsed, killing two children and Mrs.
Newman and causing injuries, some
serious, to IS pupils.
Rising Temperatures preceded and &C
companied the storm, thermometers
going as high as "a degrees at Evans
Vile, Ind. Temperatures began falling
when night came.
Related storms of less severity swept
Kentucky and Tennessee. The wind
overturned the skin in which Liter and
Mahony were rowing from Madison,
Ind, to Milton, KY, and their bodies
had not been recovered early today.
Thrasher, at work on bridge at Louis
vile, was blown into the river and
drowned.
A dispatch from Louisville said that
at Elizabethtown, KY, Blair Ackers suf-
fered a fractured skull and four other
persons were injured less seriously
when laundry collapsed, burying them.
A barn collapsed on Matt FREELY,
farmer living near Georgetown, KY.
He was injured seriously. Louisville
hospitals treated number OF persons
for cuts and bruises.
Because of the storms wide area and
unsatisfactory lines Of communication
to many places an accurate estimate or
the storm damage was impossible.