The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-04-11
TWISTER.H|I TOWN
TREPORTEDBLOWN
COMPLETELY AWAY
100 Known injured, Many Miss.
ing and Believed Dead.in
Wake Of Storm
FAMILIES ARE WIPED OUT
Greatest Number Of Victims Are
White; Four Towns Bear
6runt Of Wind
FAMILIES ARE WIPED OUT

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Little Rock. Ark. April l1.-(A-
With some Of the more inaccessible
parts not reached by rescue workers
who centered their attention on car
ing for the injured. the casualty list
from yesterdays tornado In north Ar
kansas stood at noon today ct =
known dead and probably more than
100 injured. Property damage could
not be estimated.
A wide area. OF almost complete
waste was left by the tornado Ia the
Swifton section, where the greatest
damage resulted.
The known dead were listed as fol-
lows:
~ in swifton area. rs
8 near Parkin.
3 at 0uion.
8 ct Larado.
2 at Wayne, where two childrer
also were missing. -,
The number Of injured was 20 great
that no accurate estimates could be
obtained.
Twenty-one persons were dead It
swifton. 20 miles north OF Newpoet
and five 1t 0uion. The latter town
was reported to have been blown com.
pletely away. All the victims wGro
white. @
Twelve negroes were killed In the
vicinity Of Parkin.
The list Of dead included the fol.
lowing:
swifton community: Charles Def.
|ries. Is, his daughter, Grace, q: III.
and Mrs. T. G. Bullard ana their
|daughter. Leona: Mr.. and AGrs. paul
Butler and their daughter. .Zala. D:
Mrs. Ed Riley and three children.
Buster. Ruth and m infant. Nra.
Esther Riley, mother -in-law OF Mrs.
Ia Riley: Howard Willss " M. and
MS. Cleo Nicholson; Mrs.. A. J. Row
lett: John 10y: Mrs. Russell Long and
daughter viney, ~. and L. Z. Hud-
| gems.
At Guion: Miss Thelma Pierce. 30:
Miss Thana Tilton, Claude Campbell
and q mother and child.
The missing list included. two chill
dren Of Charles Defries ct Svifton.
Jack and Ruth Defries: and . son Of
T. G. Bullard.
At the village Of dorado. 10 miles
north Of Jonesboro. six persous were
killed. Henry Lowthan. his wife and
three children met death In tho col
lapse Of their home and Tom Adams
was killed when his home was de.
stroyed. The Baptist ana Methodist
churches and the school house were
leveled.
Five persons were injured north of
Bono. but none fatally.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Lucas were
crushed to death in the collapee of
their home five miles south Of Wyune.
Their two small children, asleep Ia
the house. were believed to have per.
ished also but their bodies had NIT
been located today.
Rescue Work Hampered
Rescue work was hampered BY the
rain soaked soil. BY debris which
blocked the roads and by swollen
streams.
Rescue parties left Newport, swif-
ton and Batesville 1T dawn today IN
trucks and ambulanres.
The death list was expected to
mount as the parties searched the
desolate areas for bodies and the "a.
jured. which were being y,1shed to
hospitals at Newport and Datetville.
Hospitals In both towns reported thev
had long since been filled with H.
injured which were brought = 1Gcn
Guion and Swifton and the .oomrnunl-
ties Of 6need and Postum Tfor !nso
last night and early today.
30 Caakets Or6oeo1
Thirty-two caskets wsre oont -
train from Little Rock early to6Ay
together with stretchos@' ara 9irs$ &i6
supplies and physicianD 1nd nurses.
Physicians and nuroo1 hAnx!odly lG .
cruited from cities near the aTieken
areas labored untirtneiy thzougioo:
! the night aud today.
Red Cross officials 'at 1atoovill6
reported to the Associated Pre- eoyly
today that Of the $ injured n hoops-
tails there from Oujon. s6totAl $50
50 seriously injured that littlo hn1po
was held tor their recovery.
At Newport many seriously injured
were Ia hospitals.
| Ctnshoa % Deat6
| A vacant stogo building at SWilf0u
was converted Into 8 temporArS
morgue wtero mutilatGd bodies wGro
placed. All the dead ara tn1uyed IS
the Switton cectton Wcre FARMERS AtSli
their families. several families Ncse
crushed 70 death under the deofts q
their hogno IA n y, I IS
The tornado aftsctsd = - x,t,,.