Evening star., 1948-03-28
q Dead, 100 Injured
After New Tornadoes
Lash South, Midwest
BY the Associafsd Press


CHICAGO, Mar. 27.-Pre.Easter
fornadoes and gales that ripped into
eight States have added % more
fatalities to March's vicious weather.
rampage. The new deaths brought
the Nations eight-day storm death
toll to 7S.
The latest rash of twisters-which
struck last night in the South and
MidWest-also injured more than 100
persons and caused property damage
Of several million dollars.
A March mixture Of snow, hail,
heavy rains and strong winds
trailed the twisters in the Midwest.
Destructive winds and hail storms
hit parts Of Alabama and Tennessee.
A stiff northeast wind off Lake
Huron pushed ashore q massive
6-foot wall Of ice at Saginaw Bay,
Mich The ice mass, which started
q glacieriike advance, damaged
four cottages and threatened 100
others. However, shift in the wind
reduced the danger, at least momen-
tarily. .-.
Waves Flood Chicago Drive.
In Chicago. the wind pushed high
waves over the Lake Michigan
hreakwater and flooded the outer
drive from Twenty-third to Forty
seventh streets. Trafic was de-
toured.
Last nights tornadoes killed 10
persons in Indiana, three in Ala
bama and one in Louisiana. Twis-
tiers, or gales, also struck parts OF
Illinois, Missouri, Georgia, Missis-
sippa and Tennessee.
The twisters followed by exactly
one week q similar series OF tor
nadoes that struck from Texas to
New York, killing AZ persons. Thir-
teen persons also were killed in gales
that swept Oklahoma Thursday.
West Central Indiana was hardest
hit by the new tornadoes. Twelve
we're killed in the little town OF
Coatesville, which has $50 popula-
ton. The winds smashed Is homes
and several business houses.
Town Half Flattened.
Danville, q town OF 1000 popula-
ton 20 miles west Of Indianapolis,
was half fiattened, but only one
person was killed. Three were dead
at Hadley, a small community be-
tween Danville and Coatesville; one
In Clay County, 40 miles southwest
of Danville; one near Fortville. 20
miles northeast of Indianapolis, and
one mt Crawfordsville.
Red Cross disaster units and State
Police moved quickly into Coates
vile. A temporary hospital was set
lid in a school building and q
n1orgue In q business building.
Forty-six Indiana storm sufferers
we're in hospitals and several others
received first-aid treatment for less
serious injuries.
Col. Robert Rossow, superintendent
of the Indiana State Police, said
property damage would run lin the
millions"
Illinois, Missouri Hit.
Tornado damage of more than
sio0, 900 was caused in illinois ard
Missouri, although only TWO persons
were injured. The twister hit st.
Charles County, Mo-, skipped across
the Missouri River and then struck
again in Southwestern Illinois.
Damage to Smart Field, an in
activated Navy training base near
st. Charles, Mo, was estimated at
100000.
Three persons were killed and at
least 40 injured at Aliceville, Ala,
which was hit by two tornadoes an
hour apart.
y. Near the Georgia boundary, a tor
nado ripped into Opelika, Ala. Car
tersville, Ga, also Was hit.
Twisters also struck Birmingham,
Ala, and Belzoni, Miss. Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was raked by stif1
winds that damaged six dwellings,
three stores and a church.
At Columbia, Tenn, officials of the
Monsanto chemical plant estimated
damage of $500, 900 was caused when
high winds toppled two 1O0-foot
smokestacks and ripped concrete
roof OF one building.