Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 4

g e Murphysboro, in Dire REMAINS terrific storm. of Murphysboro, IIL RESCUERS GET AID TOHARD HIT FARMS Rains Make Relief in Rural Sections Difficult—People Appear Stunned. By the Associated Prese, BENTON, TIL, March 2 workers today were just beg g to push into the remote portions of Franklin County, where the tasks of removing the dead and injured, car- ing for the survivors and burying vietims, have been carried on by neighbors whose homes escaped the wind. Auotmobiles loaded with food and clothing today torturously made their way over the still almost impassable 1gnes surrounding Parrish, Four Mile Tane, Buckoo School House and Mount Btna Church. Sober-faced farmeis today worked among the wreckage, picking out what few things will ever again be useful. Neighnors with their horses and wagons plodded up and down the roads, ca £ the re- covered goods to places o Keep- ing. People Are Stunmed. The people move dully about debris, making no comment “Anybody killed around here:" they say calmly in response to questions. “Why, ves, my woman 1ad when the house fell.” Or, “No, none of us got hurt, but over therc where you see that pile of wood, my nelgh- bors’ two chifldren wers killed.” Yesterday and today processions composed of one or two automobiles, 2 fow wagons and buggles, filed along the roads to the scattered hill- side cemeteries. Burial ceremonies wero even more simple than those held in the stricken towns The drenching rain which fo'loived immediately after the tornado mads the stiff clay roads impassable to au- tomobiles. One country doctor spent Wednesday night going from farm to farm in a borrowed wagon, and the task of caring for the victims de- volved on those whose homes were not razed. With telephone communication broken and the roads blocked to all traffic &t intervals, avithout lights other than oil lanteérns, the farmers worked without food and sleep re- leasing victims from debris. The in- jured and dead were removed to neighboring houses until ambulances and one or two physicians were able to make their way through from the towns. amid th Beer Sale Starts. VANCOUVER, March 2 Vancouver hotels today began the sale of beer by the glas Not all the hotels were ready to begin sale of the beverage at 10 o'clock, the scheduled opening time, due to delay in obtain- ing the new licenses and in the de- livery of the beer but the majority “wera-open by noon Eighteen OF THE BLUE FRONT HOTEL AFT Twelve persons are reported killed when the hotel bui! CYCLONE STRU This photograph was taken Thursday. when surviving pupils searched the wreckage. ing collupsed. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 22, 1925—PART T. MURPHYSBORO. This Winois town was directly in the path of the Copyright by Uuderwood & Underwood Many pupils were killed when the wind struck the Logan School Tornado Death List Compiled In Illinois and Indiana Towns Following is a partial list of the identified dead from Illinois and 1 diana_districts hit by Wednesday tornado Murpheysbore. Ill.—Cooper Stout, B A. Orlando, Ben Hopermill, John Hopermill, Hugh Reeder, Ernest Hardwick, John Dewitt, Edward Neil, Ernest Bjick, Hewitt (a boy), Spa- nales (a man), Brinbridge (girl), Dickson (a girl), Ben Haberneihl, Robert McCord (a child), Mildred Tucker, Mrs. Sam Hodman, Mrs. J. W. Gibson, J. W. Miffin, Frances Hom- mer, Joe Moore, Doris Miller, Davis Ellis, Sam Kerens, Arthur Duncan, John Hamerhahl, Ben Hamerhahl, Mary Davis, John Swafford, Frank Baroni, Mrs. Ardell Shangler and child, Mrs. Louig Miller, Robert Pilts, Luella Pilts, Tressy Schamler- berger, Clara Balley, Dr. I. R. Way- mans and son, August Hasserbrook, Alworth Gregory, Helena Bowerman, Mrs. George Baker, John Dewitt, I, J G. J. Andrew Haasebrook child, Doris Stevenson, Jerry Calla- han's cLild, Albert Callahan's child, Ernfe A. Hinchcliff, Robert Stevenson, Joe Correnti’s child, Helen May- cook, Columbus Pierson’s child, J. G. Harris, Campbell Hiep, H. Coontz, D. Darby, Dr. Forshe son-in-law; Mrs. Mary Brandon, Mrs (ieorge Berger, Arthur Dunne; son of Illinois Central agent: Everlyne Bos ton, Mrs. James W. Gibson, daughter of Coroner Forshee; J. A, Jami McAllister, Mrs. James Fielding's year old son; T. B, Barbey, Mrs. W lace Blacklock, L. Lipe, Bernard Sheeley, Minnie Beck, Mrs. Martha Halliday, S. M. Haney, Meridian, Miss.; J. A. Jones, W. E. Neal, Ernest Hard wig, Ben McAllister, Mrs. James Fielding, Clyde Liep, Jerry N. Mifflin, Willis (child), Joe Baroni, Albert Nausley, son of Ray; Mrs. Wallace Blacklock, Ivan Lipe, Bernard Sheeley. a reporter; Mrs. L. File, Minnie Gock, B. A. Orland, E. C. Harrls' boy, Octavla Trombly, Kvelyn Boston, Edna Hayes, Robert McCord's bo; 2 and Mrs. O. 8. Silvey, —— G Early Russell, John J. Grewe liam Shurloazie, Dolph Isom, negro; Mrs. Jones, negro; Mrs. Kelly, negro; Maj. Verbal and wife, Mary Mainard, Clements, Herbert Lennington, Mrs. Sam Rodman, Mre. Slater, negro; sister of Necie Coffer, Joe Henry, Mra. Anna Loy, Charles Loy, Thomas Loy, Earl Varner. West Frankfort, IL-Mrs, Violet Powell, Mrs. Olla Oller, Mrs. Jos Hand and infant son, C. L. Hicl William Morse, Blacksmith ‘Mine, No. 1; Andrew Hancook, Elbert Williams, Mrs. C. L. Hicks, Mrs. Nancy Kelley, Mrs. Barton, Mrs, Lorena Ford, John Ford, Mrs. Charles Campbell, G. L. Russell, J. H. Bean, Mrs. Clark and daughter, Mrs. Hattie Neible and daughter Anna, Leroy Roberts, Fred Gray, - Telkla Siskouski, Margaret Biggs, Kenneth Owsley, Donnie Wampler, daughter of C. R. Wampler; Dovie Wampler, Mrs. C. R. Wampler, Wesley Gunter, John Drabish, Sarah Wydbett, Helen Nootney, Belleville; E. E. Burns, Falls City; Amelia Panovich, Charles Deaton, Ruth Hicks, Mrs. Charles Fisher, Ordeil Karnes and sister Anna and two ehildren, Fred Biggs, Joe Watson and al- ter, Mrs. Walter Smith, James M- Mrs. Joe Butler, Mrs. Bob Mrs. Ola Burton, Mrs. Fred . Randall Biggs, Elizabeth How- nie Sanders, William Norris, Nell Hand, Mrs. Fred Burbank. Oscar Whitting and_two small children, Elmer Lewis, Mrs. Flora Dixon, Frank Doner, Ida Ogden, Charles Campbell, Wayne Dale Brown, Jesse Brown, Billy Jean Brown, John Novotney. Mahaley Starns, Randall Karn Mre. Tim Karnes, Roscos Karnes, baby; Elizabeth Cody, Fred owerby, Jim McCowan, Oscar Karnes, Loraine Karnes, 14 unidentified 1, —Harold Hughes, Mrs. Joe Butler, Margaret Neal, twin gi six-week-old daughters of Mr. and Mrs, John Bracher, Har- vel (a boy). Hawlett (a girl), Tina Burnett, Frank Woods, Miss ay Hide, Elmer Estey, Fannie Sills, Brown (a boy), Brown (a a woman. three bovs, one girl all unidentified; George Bullard, Mary Neil, John Butcher, Mrs. 8. O. South, Mre, Arthur Palson, Aus- tin (boy). son of the Rev. Stecess; —— Hewlett (boy) Spanales (man), Baker (man), —— Bain- bridge (girl), Mrs. Norton Bffsh, Mrs. Fred Woods. Helen Watts, Viola 9 d, Mrs. Brothard and her twin 3 Oliver, Mrs. Brothard, Eulalfe Morrison, Mrs. Jenry Bul- d, Mrs. Temple, Joséph Hartley, Electra Beasly, Richard Beasly, R, L. Hyde, unidentified woman about 60. Benton, Tll—Martha Braden, Mrs. Layman Price, Layman Price, Eugene Price, Andy Downs, Ivan Smothers, two children of Carlen Taylor, Mrs. Gray, Isabel Launius, an unidentified child, an unidentified negro. Dexoto, Hughes, girl); White County, Ill-—Fred Bennett, Mrs, Jumes Stokes, Mrs. Kelly Fitz- gerald, Mrs. Harry Maurer, Cross- ville; Mrs, Orval Warthen, George Speck, Warthem (child), = Wilburn Felty, Herman Bingman, Vernon Mil- ler, John Wilson, Willlam Ri¢hard- son, Mrs. Bolen, Willlam Dietz, Rob- ert Clark, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Jack Murdach, Mrs, Sumner, Hollis- ter, Mrs. Rhein Sumner Hollister, daughter of Mrs. Sumner Hollister; child of Elsa Wilson, John Frymire, Albert Murdach, Mr.' McMutry, four children of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Warther, Enfleld; Mrs. Jane Ryppy, Trumbull. MeLeansboro, IlL—Emily Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. Randall Ballard, Mrs. B. Bal- lard and two children, Mrs. Harriet Tyler and daughter, Monroe Lamp- ley, Mrs. John Ray, Lonnis Smith and three children, Mr. and Mrs. John Trobrough, Wesley Cluck and son, Carl Hunt, John B. Lockwood, Frank Oglesby, Sam and Arthur Hanagan, 12-year-old son of Mose Mayberry, Mr. and Mrs, Sumner Hollister and daugh- ter, the baby of Leslie Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Adams, Elsa Wilson and family (number not known), William Hanagan, Rev. Marion Pittman, Mrs. Charles Webb, Mrs, John Ray, Hugh Copyright by Uu 1 Hannah derwood & Underwood DEMOLISHED LONGFELLOW SCHOOL, WHERE MANY but the tornado turned it into a mass of flying masonry. The afternoon classes wete being heard when the storm struck. Roy Braden, Wilma Braden, Ettle Kerley, Mrs. Gray, Hattie Smith, Ivan Smothers, Martha Braden, Ber- tha Kerley, Otto Kefley, Homer Ker- ley, Charles Gunter, Mrs. Bert Gunter, Christina Gunter, Mrs. Belle McFa land, Ivory Williams, station agent at Parrish, Royal Eugene Galloway, Billie Cunningham, Mrs, Gray, Mrs. Frank Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Melvin, Sam Flannigan, Columbus Hicks and daughter-in-law, Mrs, Ar- thur Shew, Mrs. Silas Sullivan, John Gammons, Mrs. Monroe Ing, Andy Downs, Layman Price, Beulah Price, Jackie Jean Price, Merl Taylor, Ken- neth Taylor, Mrs. Gertie Clem, Mrs. C." Cunningham, William Rainey. Holland, Ind—Mrs., Herman Law, Mrs, Law's baby, Ruth Wilson, Mrs. Edward Napler. Logam, Tnd—Mr. and Mrs. William Rainey, Mr. and Mrs. Jce Melvin, Parrish, Ill; child of Be-w Gunter, Charles Gunter of West Frankfort; two children of Albert Brady, Mrs. James Kerley and daughter, Sam Flannigan, farmer, near Parrish; Co- lumbue Hicks and daughter-in-law Akfn, 11IL—Mrs. Arthur- Shue, Mrs. Silas Sullivan, John CGammons, Mrs. Monroeing, Mrs. Olie’ Flannigan and John Lampley. 3 Beaumont, Ind.—Mrs. Fannie Symp- son, Moody Sympson, James Wi Willlams' ‘wite, Willlams® baby, Ceeil Mosier and Dick Smith. Goomers, Ind.—William Smith, Liz- zle Smith and John Smith. Bask, Il—Joe Muscari, Charles Beavers and two daughters of James Barringer. Lexington, Ky.—Richard Brown. Bridgeport, Ind.—Eskill Aikens. Dolan. Rarrigh,. UL—Mrs, Deboria Ralney, Grifin, Ind—Mrs, Flo Kokomoor, |Strickland, Willjam Gregory, M i flm_:' Murphy: 2“'- chief | Rany L, Kokamoas, Thomasdaisings ‘Annie Osborne, millions. WHAT 1S LEFT OF THE RESIDENTIAL SECTION OF MURPHYSBORO. The business section was laid waste, very few buildings remaining standing. home was left standing. This general view shows only a part of the havoc caused by the great wind. [ ham, Wiliam W. Seldman, Hester Price, Willlam Kern, Auburn Sanders, Virgil Horton, Sid Hight, Clarence Combs, Olife Ofler, Paul Stonebarger, Helen Harris, Ethel Grubbs, Harry Vanway, Helen Vanway, Wilma Kern, James Oldham, Cecil Sears, Ferd D. Leshman, Charles _Majors, Mrs. Charles Elsterman, Wade Stratton, Clarissa Young, Vera Young, sister of Clarissa; Charles Stallings, Mrs. Bal- lard Daugherty, Willlam Gregory, Golden Willlams, Mrs. Ray Strickland, Winifred Fisher, Mrs. Manzie Cox, Thomas Kern, Mrs. Charles Majors, Mrs. Lou Denby, George W. Walker, Richard Nash, Mrs. David Mayers, William Woods, Princeton, Ind.—Nellie Cooper, Edna Wilkinson, Dole Wilkinson, Mrs, Thomas B. Nash, James Wallace Whiten, Hazel M. Garrah, Riley Reeves, Robert Banner, Viola Nuth- man, Marthd Birkaw, Mrs. Frank Metzger, Ora Berry (negro), Mrs, Audrey D. Rankin, Mrs. Arch McClurkin, Mrs, George Miller, Sam Key, Raymond Hubbard, Denzil Shoulders, two children of Sam Key. Owenaville, Ind—William King, Elizabeth King, Walter King, Lucy King (his wife), Harvey Jourdon, Richard Wattérs, Mrs, Harvey Jour- don and small daughter, three Jones sisters, Lemuel Watters and small son, Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Williams, Norman L. Pollard, Rosanna Wil- llams, Willard Willlams, two childrén of the Creek family, L. C. Jordan and two small gons, Mrs, Brady Johnson, T. Griffin, Roy Oller, Paul Stone- berger, Helen Harris, Ethel Grubbs, Harry Vanivay, Walma Kern, Thomas Nottingham, Willlam Westheideman, Lester Price, Wilmer Kern, Auburn Sanders, Virgil Horton, infant and four others . unidentified, Sid Hight, Clarence Combe, James Oldham, Cecil Sears, Fern D. lashman, Mrs. Roy HILDREN WERE KILLED. This school was supposed to be storm and fire proof, Louisa Denby, Richard Nash, James Lamar, Mrs. William Price, William Price, jr. (infant); Mrs. Charles Stall- ings and Mrs. Christopher Elsperman. Gorham, IlL—Reuben Crain and wife, Jane Crain; Mrs. Mary Moschen- rose, Louise, Edward and Andrew Moschenrose; Sally Incheliff, Joe Rob- ert Dunn, Needham (baby), Lafay otte Needham, Willlam Foncree, Opal Rosenberger, Margaret Brown, Law- rence Gale, ncy Reeder, Charles Barton, Gus Reeder, R. Bean, Della Cross, Gerald Cross, Charles Gordon, George Thormure, Kitty White, Bertha Casey, Dick Johnson, Frances Stamp and Murray Asbry. STORM BELT TURNS UNDAUNTED TO J0B OF BUILDING ANEW (Continued from First Page.) uppermost in the minds of the resi- dents: Burial of the remainder of the 189 killed, a huge memorial service on the public square tomorrow and the decision of officials of the Mobile and Ohto Railroad on rebuilding shops here. In the last point was wrapped up the question of permanent rehabilita- tion of Murphysboro, and civic lead- ers were hopeful that the great area the shops covered soon would be a scene of reconstruction. The shop site, in the center of the 162 square blocks laid waste by the tornado, presented a picture of utter devastation today, with no portion of the former extensive industry possible of reclamation. Over the huge area plles of .debris still smoldered to- night, amid the gaunt specter of scores of box and flat cars and giant locomotives. Photos. | % Copyright by P. & A. habitants, employed 1,400 me Reconstruction got actively under way today, although it was confined to repalring business blocks and scores of the less seriously damaged homes. Another tour of the devastatedl area late today served only to em- phasize what the horror must have been in the first hours after the catastrophe. In spots fire still smol- dered in the leveled debris of 1,000 homes. Tents were springing up throughout the district today. Alongside their former homes some of the people were building anew of canvas, but for the most part the soene remained an unexplored wilderness, carpeted by unrecognizable relics of homes, up- rooted trees, broken poles and tangled wires. Searching parties continued to fn- vestigate the masses of debris for bodies. The death list today was cut to 187 from 208, when identifications of all but one body eliminated duplica- tions. Late today two persons died in hospitals and brought the officlal death list is 189, After a full day of activity by gravediggers, undertakers and preach- ers, perhaps half of Murphysboro's storm dead were under gruond tonight. As many as six ministers within hearing of one another held services for the dead in the twin cemeteries, St. Andrews and Tower Grove today. All ceremonies were curtailed so that none of the dead might go to their last rest without church service. Overall-clad grave diggers, resting from their toil, were pressed into service intermittently as pallbearers. Tomorrow all Murphysboro will turn to an expression of sympathy for the storm victims when union memorial ervices, led by the ministers of all churches, will be held at 2 p.m., in the public square about the courthouse, Songs will be limited to “Nearer M God to Thee” and “Rock of Agel Rev. L. S, McKeon will preside and| ‘suilhdelivae the benediotion Acre after acre is filled with the debri op3 by Under ct Path of Wednesday’s Tornado, Now a Mass of Wreckage e s s SN AL SRS of the storm. and hardly 00d & Underwood ORDER SIGHTSEERS | FROM STORM ZONE Guards to Patrol Indiana Roads—Burials Proceed as Toll Goes to 103. By the Associat INDIANAPOLIS, Relief wor zones Grifin w Most of the Wedne While injured still death list several pers New Harmony & critical c found and day, bring Military author to preven il the str H. Kers pealed to th away from the recked ing out that congestion ization £ worl the attempt of motc zones. All roads le and Griffin will t State troops with ord > but those on relief wor Trucks and tractors wer employed today Grifin_to away the mass af debris under which additional may be found Wkile lands around the tow# are inundated by the swollen Wabash River, there is little likelihood that the waters will reach Griffin ! phone lines in Owensville and Prince ton, torn down by the wind, rapidly are being replaced and munica tion partially has been restored. Offers of financial ald have bee many, but the Red Cross and other relief workers say much money will be needed to take care of the habilitation and relief measures. $15,000 ADDED TO RELIEF, s expected zones, poin emora rt of relie would Members of Chicago Board of Trade Raise Fund. CHICAGO, March 21.—Membe: the Chicago Board of Trade contributed $15,000 for a special tors nado rellef fund. This sum was raised in 24 hours, Fred S. Lew acting president, announced today. The money will be turned over to the Red Cross A committee of 17 grain men raising the relief funds. N of A company being organized in Bo liva for the purpose of raising fru sugar beets and cattle and the cul- ture of wine has a capitalization of