Evening star., 1936-04-03
TOWNS IN STORM
PATH BEGIN WORK
Of REHABILITATION
40 Dead and $500, 900
Loss Toll in Five South
ern States.
MEDICAL AID RUSHED
TO AVOID DISEASE
Greensboro Dead Include Three
Burned-32 Residences and
Is Stores Destroyed.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Ten Southeastern communities went
about rehabilitation today as a de-
structive storm which left at least AZ
dead, hundreds injured and property
damage Of more than $2,500.000 blew
itself out to the north.
Twelve were dead in Greensboro, N
c.; 18 at Cordele. Ga, and 10 in scat
tered communities in Georgia, Ala
bama, Florida and South Carolina. In
Georgia alone the death toll was rs
Travelling erratically across the five
States, the tornado winds lashed Cor
dele, a town of 1000. at dawn yester-
day and struck at Greensboro, city OF
60 900, at dusk.
State and local authorities of Georgia
and North Carolina rushed medical
supplies to fight disease from water
pollution and to prevent infection Of
open wounds caused by the storms.
Havoc in Cordele.
Striking Cordele at dawn, the
tornado leveled an area three blocks
wide and two miles long.
If it had come two hours later q
still more appalling death toll might
have followed because two substantial
brick schools. normally housing 2,o0C
students were demolished.
Storms Of similar nature. but OF less
Intensity struck later at Tignall, Sasser,
Leesburg, Vidalia, Bald Springs, WASH
ington and Lincolnton, Ga; Gordo,
Ala: Hampton, S. c.. and at Con-
cord, N. c.
Early last night winds OF terrific
force descended upon Southwest
Greensboro, ripping out a swath several
blocks wide. 1t lifted, but struck again
a few miles away at Bessemer. with
out, however, causing any fatalities.
Havoc in Greensboro.
A strip Of business and residential
property in Greensboro az miles long
and three to four blocks wide. a
quafter-mile south of the main busi-
ness district, was left a shambles.
A Red Gross survey showed 80 resi-
dences demolished, 226 others badly
damaged; is stores demolished, SO
others badly damaged; 8 industrial
plants demolished. II others badly
damaged, and 4 churches badly dam
aged.
OF the injured, one was reported by
physicians as having little chance to
live through the day. He was Gar
land Jones, 8, whose skull was frac-
tured as the twister overturned an
automobile carrying the Jones family
to prayer meeting.
Fires followed the Greensboro storm,
despite a downpour Of rain, and three
of the known dead we're burned IA
tally. They were Mrs. Ruby Balm of
400 McAdoo avenue and Mrs. ]. B.
Ayers and her daughter Gloria, 8. Of
All McAdoo avenue.
Mrs. j. w. Sparrow, daughter Of
Mrs. Balm, was trapped in the burning
home, but was rescued.
Other Greensboro Victims.
The other known Greensboro victims
were: Mrs. Maude Viola Clendenin
johnson, 406 Gorrell street; Mr.. and
Mrs. John Murphy, 408 Gorrell street;
J. H. Powell, colored, barber of Reids-
vile; Robert Ward, colored. restaurant
employe; Ned Lee, address unknown:
J. L. Taylor of Asheboro street, elec-
trocuted by q live wire; Elizabeth
Torren, colored, who died Of heart
attack when the storm struck her
home, and Robert Mitchell, 18, COL
ored.
The 400 block Of Gorrell street and
McAdoo avenue, Just west, were the
worst hit spots. Only one building OF
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