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^ 'J jst ", ,' . < _ . ; , 7 - ; \ ' " •'•'•y-.'\ : ' ~ ; .• - ^v:, •;; v: ¥*;-'-."•••••- •M' THIS ITcHEKBT PLAJWDEATJgE, BIcBEBTRT, ILt. <fj; SJt: General View of Illinois Tornado c4 This is a panoramic view of the devastation caused throughout southern Illinois by the recent hurricane in hlch buudreti* wi Uv«mp were lost, many hundreds of people seriously injured, and millions of dollars' worth of damage lted. «*m#4 I Tornado-Swept Street in DeSoto, 111. I l A ffnt» fril*ig TVi^ts itiil k*it>a sft MjtM%kv%KAwi miv i wi iiumv imIm j>. • * •%* m*. itiUa UiiySUvi1U %/>•** * Childish Envy Was Not 4 Altogether of Beauty 4 We are accustomed to talk about *> "truth at .any price" and "honesty is Hhe best policy" and "truth, the whole * truth and nothing but the truth." That .jjt fts all very well, no doubt, but I aider the following anecdote, *i ilark Train relates In his t\ jfgraphy; It speaks for itself. " A child's frank envy of "the privileges - 0nd distinctions of Its elders is often rlT| delicately Battering attention conwliich autobiaud \ tlie reverse of unwelcome, but sometimes the envy is not placed where the bneflciary is expecting it to be placed. Once when Susy, my daughter, was seven she sat breathlessly absorbed in watching a guest of ours adorn herself for a ball. The lady ^was charmed by this homage, thij mute and gentle admiration. and v as happy In It. And when her prett/ labors were finished and she stootf; at last perfect, unlmprovable, eloped like Solomon in his glory, she paused, confident and expectant, to receive front' Susy's tongue ... the tribute that was burning in tier eyes. Susy drew an envious little sigh an<1 said: "I wish I could have crooked teeth and spectacles!'*--Youth's Com panlou. Submarine Sirens Electric sirens for submarines have been invented by a Swedish engineer to prevent collisions of the boats and to warn other vessels to clear out of the way when the subs are about te return to the surface of the water . '•**.- . '• ,*v:n *- " I Removing Dead From Demolished Hotel okeofthesukvivoib 823 DEM, 2,990 HURT BY TORN ADO FIVE STATES . • * - f • x_ Some Towns in Illinois and Indiana Totally Destroyed by T wister--Victims Be- Aided by Relief jjffis-': Woricert.^/^ , Chicago.--Following thb organisation of relief in the tornado-stricken area of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kentuoky and Tennessee, It was disclosed that about 823 persons had been killed and 2,900 injured. Several towns were completely obliterated and thousands were made homeless. The Illinois total of deaths Is 645, Indiana 100, Missouri 27, Kentucky 18 and Tennessee about 33. Following the wind in many cities and towns, fire broke out. In some cases the relief work already had been organised so well that the conflagrations were under control in a short time. In others scores of maimed and dead were burned almost beyond recognition. Illinois Suffers Moat. Marphysboro, West Frankfort and De Soto were the Illinois cities that suffered most from the terrific wind blast. Gorliam also suffered heavily In dead and. wounded. In Indiana, Griffin, Princeton and Owensvllle were ^hardest hit while In Missouri, Riehle suffered about ten deaths. Gallatin, Tenn., reported that about thirty bad been killed there. In a number of towns lighting systems were out of order and darkness hampered the workers at night. National Guard troops are protecting these places from possible hinting. Pullman cars have arrived In many of the villages to provide sleeping places for the thousands of homeless while tent villages are arising rapidly. In a few cities where there had been happiness, prosperity, and future, the tornado blasted all. In others It showed fiendish eccentricity by leveling and blackening portions, while sparing the rest. Towns Swept Away. Nearly half of Princeton, Ind;, Wi(S smitten. A sister city, Griffin, was virtually carried away. De Soto, 111., with 500 people, lost Its existence. A neighbor, Gorham, of 800 souls, was wiped out. Murphysboro, III., lost nearly three square miles of Its business and residential sections. Other hamlets are yet cut off from telling their story. Property Lossss in Millions. Those In charge speak in millions when asked to estimate material losses. The brief dispatches read: "$100,000 in southwestern Kentucky," *$2,000,000 at Princeton," "$6,000,000 In southern Illinois," "$100,000 In Missouri." At the other scenes no one yet ventures to estimate. The tornado took its toll over a territory of 300 miles In five hours and within the same period of time outside aid was covering that distance to carry help and comfort to survivors. The Red Cross rushed supplies from St. Louis. Chicago offered $ri00,000. The Illinois legislature appropriated a like amount and the Missouri legislature $85,000. Toll of Dead Mounting. In southern Illinois, where terrific Havoc was wrought in four towns, Murphysboro, West Franfort, De Soto and Gorham, all in coal mining territory within a twenty-five mile radius of Carbondale, the relief center, the toll of dead and injured continued to i mount as additional bodies were taken | from the ruins. The death list was i above the 500 mark, while between | 2,000 and 3.000 were Injured and thou sands were homeless. Relief workers said the loss of life might reach 1,000. The property damage In the area' was estimated at $7,000,000. Grim 8tory in Morgue. - It was at the morgue of southern Illinois' largest city where the story of West Frankfort's tragedy wa^s brief ly but grimly told. Ninety-one bodies | lay stretched in long rows, and the ! first twenty-one were the forms of ! little children, ranging from eighteen I months to four years in age. j They lay in a pitiful row on a long table, faces uncovered so some heart broken mother or father or perhaps an older brother or sister might claim i them. One by one the little bodies j were tagged with a family name as J Identifications were made. j At a mine known as No. 18 twelve j men went to their deaths when the I plant above ground was demolished. Terrible was the destruction vented on Murphysboro. Makes Kindling Wood of Homes. More than half of It now is little j more than kindling wood and smolder lng ruins of hundreds of homes. Hours of battering by field artillery I could do no more to a town than the ! tornado did to the stricken area of | Murphysboro. Brick buildings went with the weaker frames. Thirty-seven children were crushed to death In th« collapse of two school buildings. Two square miles which contained 500 residences and 100 business houses were leveled. One of the buildings destroyed was a new $85,000 Baptist church, where a funeral was being held when the tornado struck. Another was a new $267,000 addition to the high school. Chief of Police Joe Boston found the body of his daughter ii^ these* ruins. The dry grass on some of the lawns was actually uprooted. Looting began early at West Franktort and guards fired several shots In the darkness at prowlers In the ruins, but none were wounded or captured. West Frankfort is without water, except that hauled In. Thirteen persons are said to have burned to death when they fled to the basement of a Murphysboro restaurant. A woman and her smaii twins were found side by side, dead, in a field near De Soto. There the disaster fell largely on persons of limited means, some out of work because of the shut down of coal fields. Many women and children and a score of babies appeared on the death lists. Entire families were wiped out. One man, searching through a morgue for his wife and three children, found the bodies of his babes side by side In one room, his wife In another. Identify Dead by Jewelry. Many of the bodies were mangled, scarred or burned, some beyond recognition. Identification In many < Instances had to be made by rings or other personal belongings. The government. Red Cross, state troops, private institutions and individuals combined in the huge task of caring for the Injured, giving shelter and hunting bodies. In Murphysboro, where 147 bodies have been recovered, 8,000 persons, or two-thirds of the population, were homeless. One hundred clt$ blocks were demolished there and the power plant wrecked. Seventeen students were killed in the destruction of school buildings. Woman Blown Into Trsstop. Forty-five bodies had been recovered at De Soto, which virtually was obliterated. More than a doien other Illinois towns reported from ope to forty deaths. At De Soto a woman with a baby in her arms was blown to the top of a tree, where she clung until the storm passed, and then descended virtually without Injtiry. Soldiers are everywhere on duty In the area of suffering and citizens have organized themselves and are digging In the ruins of their homes. Some who probe the wreckage are seeking to retrieve a little part of what were once their belongings. Witnesses said the towns in the storm's path were wrecked In a few minutes. Ojftl described the deadly visitor as a greenish black funnel, slanting at an angle of 45 degrees. A deluge of hall followed In Its path. While the storm started In Missouri shortly after one o'clock. It did not reach Illinois until around three o'clock, and It was nearly dusk before it took Its last savage blow In Indiana. West Frankfort In Ruins Working under lights from automobiles and from bonfires built from wrecked framework of houses, hundreds of rescuers were searching for bodies of victims of the tornado which swept West Frankfort, 111. Public buildings, lodge halls, and churches were converted Into temporary hospitals and morgues. Eightyfive bodies already have been recovered. The Injured number 000, many of whom will die. The town Is a picture of ruin. Scores of buildings are demolished and the streets are strewn with wreckage. Tangled wires and splintered trees Utter the streets. Naked walls from which the rest of the structure lias been torn stand out as grim silhouettes. And all of this thrown into fantastic contortions by the flames from a dosen fires which sprung up here and there among the ruins. Fire, departments from surrounding towns aided the local department In checking the flame*. Fire Follows Fire ~ As they put down one blase srother sprang up In another section. And through It all the firemen were constantly called on to leave their work and h^lp in rescue. The picture after the storm was one of pathetic suffering. Dead and Injured were strewn about the streets, and among them ran frantic men and women, or crying children, some almost unclothed, seeking their loved ones. Relief^Work in Indiana. In Indiana relief measures also were going forward rapidly under the direction of Gov. Ed. Jackson. Of five towns struck in that state, Grlflin, a Posey ci unty village, suffered most. With 47 bodies recovered, it was believed that the death list might mount to 125. Griffin virtually was wiped ont, and systematic work at rescue was -lield up for a time because few were left uninjured In the village. Military lines have been drawn about the entire area. At I'riuceton. which counted 20 dead, the 2,000,000 shops of the Southern railway were destroyed, throwing 400 persons out of work. Most of the homes destroyed were those of workingnien. « It was announced from Washington that national headquarters of the Red Cross, with its chief. President Cool- Idge, taking the initiative, had set In motion its entire machinery of mercy to the injured iind homeless. Sees Children Die in School. • Centralist, 111.--A dramatic eye-witness story of the death of a score or more oi children In the school at De Soto and of the virtual destruction of the town vas told here by Max Burton. Burton is telegraph operator for the Illinois Central at Tamaroa, a few miles from De Soto, and on receiving a flasji of the destruction lie'motored there, being the .first outsider to aF rive, and found the town a mass of debris, with dead and injured strewn in the streets. All Houses Oestro/ed. "It seemed to me there was not an entire house In the town," Burton said. I I 1 1 I I I 1 M I I 1 1 1 1 I 1 H I 1 1 1 ! :: 823 Killed, 2#90 Hart in Tornado -from towns affected by fit* tornado announce tU dead and 1,990 Injured, as follows: ILLINOIS Pead Injured Murphysboro ... West Frankfort De Soto .... .... Gorham McLeansboro .... Parrlsh ....,. .j., Logan .. .. iJTVT, Bentott . .<s...'... EnHeld ......... ThompeonviU# .. Hurst ........... Bush ......... Akin Carml .......... Urosaville ...210 ,..107 ..118 ,.. »0 ,.. ST , ... SO ... IS . . I S . . 1 1 ... • ... « ... • ... « a ... l Totals Griffin .. Princeton . Owensvllle Posey vl lie Kllsabeth .-. INDIANA • CIS rvso 20 22 • 6 1 Totals Gallatin Shelbyvllle Wartrace . KnoxviUe . Klrkland . .100 TEKNESSEB .. . . 27 * ..... i • I i i. «6 l 10 1,145 .. Mo 100 -So • ."'.<0 • S15 ;>:v >."#o Totals .. Blehle:.. Cape Girardeau Perryville .v.". Annapolla ....... AUenburc ... . MISSOURI is • j : ,! Totals KENTUCKY Beaumont .... Holland Lakeland Springfield .... Lexington Bridgeport ... Totals Grand totals n 1 1 1 1 1 i l l 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 n i n 17 • 4 5 1 1 1 .10 •• :>o •i-60 'io 149 60 10 40 16 • "People were hurrying _ out on the road, north and south, with a few belongings clutched In their arms, more for protection against the storm than anything else, so far as I could see. **I went directly to the schoolhouse, after running and walking two and a half miles, and the first thing I saw there was the bodies of about twenty little children laid out on mattresses and blankets. There was no one there to claim them, so I thought the people whom I had seen on the road were their parents, but I learned later that the children's parents had been killed or Injured, and those who were not dead were being hurried by automobile, special relief train -and ambulances to hospitals in Carbondale and Duquoin. "The principal of the school was there try! ig to Identify tfce bodies of the pupils. He also was worrying over the safety of two girl teachers I who were unaccounted for. The prin- | clpal was l.loody from his Injuries and staggered In his walk. Ho bad barely escaped with his life. Carried Bodies From Ruins. "About twenty-five bodies of school children v. ere plied up Just outside the playgrounds, and a search was being made for others In the ruins. While I stood there they took some of the bodies away and brought others out of the building, which by then was a mass of smoldering ruins, fire having destroyed what the cyclone did not. "The hallwav of the school had caved In, and what few rescuers were oH hand were frying to uncover other bodies of pupils and locate the two missing teachers. "I walked out beyond the school grounds and near the city limits I saw the bodies of two babies, apparently about six or eight months old. They were dead and their baby clothes had been torn from them. Sees People Fleeing Town. "Every tree that was left standing and every fence had garments, bedclothes and household goods hurled against the west side of them. This indicated the 6torm traveled eastward. I, saw furniture, automobile tops and clothing scattered everywhere, and saw many people fleeing from t^ie town with hardly any garments. i "The business section was practically destroyed by fire and wind and nearly every home was flat on the ground. "I saw about forty, automobiles plied up In one big pile and thought this was u garage that had been struck. "Then 1 s&w another car Just outside of town that looked like the peo pie were trying to get away, but had failed. The car had blown from the road over to the railroad right of way and was wrecked, but I could flnd no bodies. Firemen Aid. in Rescue Work. "1 offered what help I could, and they told me the bodies were first taken south to Carbondale, but that the hospital there was soon filled and they then took the injured to the Duqufiln hospital, north of De Soto. 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