The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-07
Bodies or Hundred
 More h Wreckage
an estimated 5000 homeless persons
 Towns Hardest Hit
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an estimated 5000 homeless persons Towns Hardest Hit
 Chaotic conditions existed IT. Gainsville, a manufacturing city oi 10000 in the mountains of North Georgia, and in Tupelo, a farming center of 1000 in northeast Missis- sippi. Partial electrical service was restored in both cities early today but both were without water, com munications were badly crippled and acute food shortages threatened National Guardsmen enforced what amounted to martial law and had arrested more than 20 persons Tor alleged footing.
 One half of Gainesville, including the business district, and one-third of Tupelo were leveled by the 300 to 400 mile an hour tornadoes that struck Tupelo Sunday night and Gainesvill Monday morning.
 In Gainsville, the National Guard and the Salvation Army fed hun dreds from soup kitchens. An es- timated 20oO homeless in Gaines vile had been quartered in private homes by the National Red Cross Several thousand more were guar tered in school houses and other public buildings.
 Cases of Illness
 Several cases of illness were re- ported in both Tupelo and Gaines vile which, according to first diag- nosis, were due to contaminated drinking water. Aided by National Guardsmen who rounded up the refuges, large staffs of emergency physicians and unrses marshalled in Atlanta, Memphis, and other com munities near the storm centers' administered typhoid, diptheria' and other anti-toxins.
 Those who objected to immuniza- ton were innoculated anyway un- der iron-clad health regulations de- creed by civil authorities and en- forced by the military.
 The bodies of the dead were be- ing carried to improvised morgues in Gainesville and Tupelo and au- thorities, fearing they might become a menace to the living, ordered thai they should be buried as quickly al possible. Mass funeral services be- gin in both communities today. Il was believed that scores of bodies would be buried in common graves There was a possibility, if any alarming outbreak of disease devel. ops, that mass cremations would bt ordered.
 Counting Bodies of Dead
 In Gainesville Red Cross officials had counted 154 bodies. of whict 122 had been identified. Approxi- mately 60 of the victims were negroes. WPA and eco workers aided by labor gangs recruited bJ city officials and private business still searched the business district finding new bodies hourly. Some authorities expected the ultimate death toll to reach 200.
 In Tupelo. 148 bodies had beer recovered and almost all identified There, too, 1t was feared that more bodies would be found. The ultimate death toll in Tupelo probably vii not exceed 175.
 The tolls in the smaller com munities were definite, not subject to revision.
 1900 Hurt in Tupelo
 Of the 1900 injured in Tupelo not more than 300 were seriously hurt of whom approximately T were critically injured. Red Cros officials counted as injured all thos' who had received only the minol bruises, that, under disaster condi tions, necessitate administration O anti-teterus serum. The more criti cal of the Tupelo injured were taker to Memphis.
 Of the Gainesville, injured ap proximately 100 were critically hur and may die. They were taken b. special train to Atlanta.
 It was believed that threateninl food shortages in both Gainesville and Tupelo would be alleviated to- day by the arrival of heavy ship ments from outside. Early today the works progress administration moved in six truck-loads of foot to Gainesville.
 Gainesville and Tupelo offlcial were prepared to ask financial ait from federal and state government for rehabilitation. It was estimated that it would be weeks before ever the debris could be removed and a least year before all damage coult be repaired.