New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 19, 1925, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1925, WORST STORM IN HALF CENTURY Stories of. Almost In-| describable Horror, Suffering and Desola- | tion Are Coming From ‘The Devastated Re- gions of The Middle West. Worst in Half Century According to Reports The Associated Picss, Chicago, Mareh 19.-~The most devastating storm this country has had in nearly half a century swept | through portions of six mid- weatern states last night, cellecting & doad and injured toll estimated at upward of 4,000 and causing prop-, &ty damage of many mlilions, ] Bo prostrated were portions of Tl- Mnois and Indiana through which the tornado traveled in a eerles of erralic hops, that definite figures on loss of life and property were im- possible carly today, although avail- able reports trickling in from terri- tories in which communication vir- tually was cut off, added to an un- certain casualty Thousand Re;o}ted Dead Early This Morning At dawn the reported death list: #tood nearly 1,000, while approx-: imately 3,000 were injured, Several towns in the path of the| twister, which apparently came out of the Ozark Hills, due to low bar- ometric pressure in Arkansas, and first struck at Annapolis, Mo., vir- tually were destroyed, while fire in many places added horror to havoc. So terrific as the force of the storm that bodies were reported e ried a.mile, while timbers from the wrecked town of De Soto, Ill, were! found in Duquoin, miles away, | The greatest 10ss of life, according to avallabl oports, occurred in | southern Illinois, where more than 800 were reported killed as the tor- nado tore northeastward through | Murphysboro, West I'rankfort, De|/ Foto and other larger towns of the area. At De Soto a scheo! house was razed, only three of the 230 occu-| pants reporied cscaping without in- | juries, while §8 bodics had been taken from the rulns last night. main path of the tornado was | Tess than 200 miles in length, but di- | visiona of the' twister hopped off in several directions, Btarting from Annapoli moved northeast and two other towns on the M of the Missigsippl rive Illinois, traversed that near the Indiana its fo in eouthern northern Kentucky. he he itorm r eiriking | ouri vide mped into | Indiana and Storm Mov;d Along in Several Separate Lines Another line apparently moved southward from Annapolis, through | Cape Girardeau, Mo., and struck isolated portions of northern central | Tennessee and Kentucky, A wind | siorm was alzo reported from [Morts- mouth, Ohlo, but without scrious damage, With its var tornado appar %00 miles of territors in the diract p Mo., to Princcion, bl was the d life heavy. apparent being repor While ¢ oif-shoots, the aversed nearly | . although only | from Annapolis, Ind., about 165 ige and less of of the storm de, in piaces it vd 300 feet. s of the des the storm came in on comuumication, reli 1 into the stricken_ nearhy s olation Jef ippled | f was| a by lines of being rusic from man Relief " workers, medicine and supplies pa‘ched immediately from § Clicazo Troops wi trict in 1 Sma peal for aid In the ato cal compan flized for guard It » announe thorizing $508.000 be introduced in the ture oduy , « Lot of lif towns, towns Uoctors, nurses, | is- Louis, and oher Te inols on ord vho also issucd points int 5 the dis- srnor ap- rushed o an verai towns f the Indiuna n o in m were luty and ve a t for i Tiinois legisla- path lo mobs! m, especially bill Wwo as e was reported from most of taem i Tiiinois, but it believed that death and destruciion d many others in tho storm arca from which repoTs were still to be received Churches and Schools Are Used as Hospitals Volunte worl under the handicap of durkness, heeause of the prostration lighting facilities in many placca, worked throughout the night, recovoring the deal, alding the injured, and keeping guand over properiy S|chool was v houses, chur avrmories o able p were into as _morgues and| In many instances it was nec to move the dead and in- jured to nearhy towns because of the lack of available places of sheiter. | Ronfires ‘were bulit to provide light for workers while even auto- mobile headlights were used According to avallable reports, the | storm struck virtually without warning, and inhabitants of the ter- ritory traversed had no time to flee | from its fury. Stories of the storm's erratic be- havior cam® frem many points. With an irresistible energy erushed entire blocks of buildings, | destroyed mine tipples, uprooted | trees and snapped telephone like matches, the woall avs prcased ozpitals. time and again, | have ' fin and.. | ranged from five { not known wiic | trom Kentucky and Tenn ! FPrankfort, | stroyed, {and only | today. i transported ther |carried two ca that | ® finaneial relief twister whirled |storm ' whieh through the air, dipping to earth|states in 1384 | jumped {moved on into Indiana that its most One Train Is Reported Having Been Damaged | In only one lnstance was damage to a train reported, and it was not| clear whether this resulted from the stor Louls and San Francisc: assenger traty No, 105, southbound, | ent Into a ditch near South Green- | field, Mo,, and two coaches over. turned, bt no onc was reported in- Jured, At Annapolis, Mo,, where the first low fell, cvery building was| wrecked or damaged with the prop- | erty leas In that town of 1,200, alone placed at a half milllon dollars, Sinail loss of but considerable property damage, occurred in three other Missouri townsy Bielile, Alten- burg and Cape Girardean, all on or I near the M'asissippi river. until into the Illinols But it was not across storm and devastating effects were fell, The three towns in Iilinols hard- est hit were Murphysboro, with an estimated death M of 200; Wes nkfort, with 100 ceaualties, and De Soto, where 150 were belleved perished, least 200 were in souther I damage AL d thought to be n Indiana, with the to Princeton, Grif- where death lists 100, Thousanda | s and arrival of shelter | were logked forward to were home! d suppile eagerly, The total dead in Missouri stood at slightly more than a seore early to-| ay. while 23 deaths were reported | in Tennessee, most of them in Sum- | ner county, in the north central por- tion of the atate. Eight were in Ken- | tucky, ‘Enters Ken.tucl;y After 1 Passing Over Indiana | The giorm eniered northern Ken- tucky from Indiana and apparently | | spent its force there. No loss of life | was in Ohio., although was reported from a 1ortsmouth, in the | of the state, Jt was ther this was an iso- | e or the last breath| ce. | teports tervific damage fin | southern TMlinois piled up early tos| y. The tornado first hit Illinois at | Gorham, on the Mississippi rmr.! leaving seven dead and eighty in-| jured, and proceeded northeastward | throygh Bush, Hurst, Murphysboro, | De Soto, Oakville, Benton and \\csl‘ reported some damag high wind southern pa lated disturban of All homes in Gorham, a town of | 300 population, were reported de- either by wind or flames, | one buliding was left stand- | | ing in Hurst. The west end of Murphysboro, & city of 11,000, was completely de- molished and still was burning early Citizens and organized fire squads used dynamite in an cffort to | | | stop the progress of the flame Parvish, Til, reports said, was virtually obliterated, with a loss of jife estimated at 80. A score of other towns, including Duquoin, Thomp- onville, Logan and Dubois, euffered verely. Most of buildings destroyed were frame, as the affected arca in- cluded many small towna and coun- dlstricts. the Pathetic Stories of Death and Desolation One of the mosi pathetic stories came from De Soto where the school hovae was destroyed with heavy lo: of life, The twister carried awa) top story of the school and the low er walls crumbled, burying 250 chil- dren and teachers, few of whom cs- cap~d death or injury, Witneraes to the catastrophe sald that the bodies of the child vietims were piled on matresses and blan- kets on the playground, with few to claim them. Mos the adult pop- ulation having taken to hos pitals, The stor: of the schoul, himself, and with from his wounds, tricd to give aid and comfort to the victims. Fire completed destruetion of the school house and it was probable that many of the bodies might not be identified A schook bullding also was de- at West Frankfort, but the loss of life has not been ascertain. ed. This mining towa of 12,0007suf- fered heavy loss of life and prope: . with about one third of its resi- tial and business district demol- ad,. It also saw the destruction of the Orlent Mine, largest In the world Carbondale, cxcaped damage point of rescue forces in the southern part of the state. Its armory and hospitals were filled with dead and injured, e from towns in the storm's pathway. The storm, elemental in its inten- sity, was meteoric in its flight. Strik- ing Annapolis at 1:30 o'cjock in the afternoon, it had completed its course in a little ever three hours. *d Cross relief is being handled through the central division at St T.ouis and the headquarters at Washington sent instructions to Hen- ry M. Baker, director of disaster re- lef, at Sullivan, Tnd., to procced to the ternado zone. of been was told of the prineipal severly injured hlood streaming who, stroyed 1y second b} 8 which was rallying | Newspaper Organizes First Relief Train The first Chicago train, erganized {by the Chicago Herald and Examiner il'fl Chicago at ten o'clogk last night ! with two hundred doctors, nurses and assistants aboard. The special of medical suppiies and a car of tents. Most of the per- | |sonnel was assembl HI through radio appeals. At the request of Mayor |Dever, the Chicago Tribune started fund with a sub- ption of $1,000. Yesterday's tor ado was the nine- polea | teenth such disaster . since a great swept the southern Three great storms [with heavy loss of life and large Buildings were carried hundreds property damage occurred last vear of feet, while at De Sota a grain ele- | with two in 1923 wator was moved intact t the mid. seven were killed | Loralm m- whul 10 e of & road 40 {oot axed Tast June sixty by & ternade at s T it yM\rn in | were | struck in southwa | five or more injured Alabama, South nml Georgia, Forty deaths were re ported in a storm in Misslssippl and Alabama in May, Princeton, l;di;na, Reports 20 Killed Princoton, Tnd,, March 10-~Twenty dead in Princeton as a result of yes. |terday's tornado, was the figure t |placed today by officers of two com- panies of state troops, which tooft charge of the city late last night, The number of dead may be in- creased slightly as roports arc re- celved from the countryside, KENTUCKY RAVAGED BY GREAT STORM At Teast 16 Persons Killed in State By Ths Assoviated Press, Louisville, Ky., March 19—At least 16 injured, several probably fatally, a series of storms in Kentucky y terday afternoon, according to re- | ports to the Associated Press hege today. All members of two familigs in Metcalf county were killed or ser- iously injured when their homes demolished. Six of them were killed and the remalning two badly | hurt. Four lives were log county near Scottsville. Three ne- groes were killed near Louisville, and one life was lost each in Yayefte and | Franklin counties and near Spring- ficld. A storm of tornado in Allen tern Kentucky in Metealf and Mopgoe disturbances of caused the deaths Allen, Barren, counti T.os marked intensity fn other sections, Reports of much damage in the southwestern countics could not be confirmed because of crippled wire factlities. INDIAN!/ ‘ATH TOLL |Number of Persons Killed in Likely To Exceed 150 Indianapolis, March 19-—The dead in Indiana from yesterday's tornado probably will exceed-150, according to figures obtained over damaged | |telephone and telegraph wires 1n the soythern part of the state. The village of Griffin, in Posey |county, probably was the hardest h\., the death toll there being re- ported upwards of 100 with forty bodies lying in (he streets and only four houses standing. It had a population of 750. In the light of today's develop- ments 25 was believed to cover the death list in Princeton and vicinity, while fifteen are known to have been killed in Owensville and three in Lilizabeth. No attempt had been made today to estimate the probable rond the statement that it will run into millions of dollars. are being bent on the recovery of bodies and aid to the injured. PALM BEAGH HOTEL FIRE SPECTACULAR (Continued Trom Tirst Page) Chief Thomas Haney sonville fire department Palm Beach attending the convention and he assumed man of a section of firemen and volunteers. He was credited with directing the efforts that prevented the spread of the fire ta buildings south of the Palm Beach hotel, E Many Gaing Home Many persons were understood to have made arrangements last night to leave today for theif homes {n the east, Homes in Palm Beach and West Palm Beach were thrown open to ons left without quarters. persons were attending a meeting the society of arts at the home of Mrs. F. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia when the fire was discovere ANl left hurriedly to at tempt to safeguard their hom Loss is $1.000,000 total loss from the fire has estimated at more than four dollars. The estimated damage to the Breakers alone has been put at one million, while the damage to the Palm Beach hotel is fully a quarter of this amount. Twenty three persons have been arrested, mostly negroes, on charges of looting. A check-up of hotel registers, al- most completed today, failed to re- veal that any lives were lost in the fire. Although rumors presisted today that the Palm Beach-postoftice was robbed of $20,000 in currency in the cxcitement incident to the firg. here Jast night, the postmaster denied that there had been such a rebbery, In the meantime authoritics were investigating rumors that the fire, which destroyed two hefels and did much other damage, was started to make possible the robbery of guésts and the postoffic 5 KILLED, Cape Girardeau, Mo., Mz Five persons were kiled and twe when i day's storm struck the farming re- glon about 25 milee north of Cape State of the Jack- W at Rotary com- pe Many The been millions of | Girardeau, according to reports re- celved h ay. The only wire communication this morning out of Cape Girardeau was with ro, 111 Doctors returning from 111, said that 15 persons werc to be dead when a train ieft that town with about injured from Cairo. An entire fam- ily was reported to have beén buened Gorham, known special 50 there riahed lagt | to death im the fire after the storm. | lomorrow. Carolina | persons were killed and ecor 8 ( in| proportions | damage be- | All cfforts | 'STORM WREAKS HAYOC IN SOUTHEASTERN HISSOURI Brief Bulletins From The Stricken Areas || —_—_—— | Annapolis, Missouri, March 19— With twe men killed, three persons Tornado Centers Around Annapolis,, |seriously hurt and 100 gthers mnrn‘ or less seriously Injured, Annapolis | today had completed checking upon | the havoc wronght late yesterday by |the tornado_that swept southern Mis- sourl, p Mo, Which Is Kevelled by Winds Associated Piess Poplar Bluff, Mo., March 19— Three persons were known today to have been Killed in the southeast Missouri region that was swept yesterday's tornado centering around Annapolis, 45 miles from _here, Other reports of the storm came Ind,, March 19.—Gri- Posey county, Indiana, a town of 750 people, was almost obliterated in last evening’s storm, only four |badly damaged houses ~ standing. Forty bodies were found in the streocts. Evansvitle, ffin, Three men napolis and many probably fatally. Among the ter is a seven year old girl. Annapolis was levelled, the debris Leing thrown over upon the were killed at injured, The Associated Viess, Springfield, ., Twelve are dead ! at Enfield, 111, and an undetermined number injured, according to tele- graphic communications established side by the Western Union this morning. | . | Wires are all reported out between | ¢y, 10 Norris City and Enfleld. rescue what they could of their be- o longings. principally bedding, in or- By The Assaciated Press, a S & » | “Cairo, Til, March 19.—The ‘death | 4°F to protect themselves against the cold that followed the storm. total at Gorham, Ill,, today was esti. | (mated by railroad officials at 75 with 150 injured, When the storm struck Gorham a Moctor was giving a woman paPent a hypodermie. The weman and her |husband standing nearby were killed | but the doctor suffered only a broken |collar bone, three By lat- fnhabitants of the rural school-house of Cape Girardcau by the wind, | A report that ten had been killed at Biehle, 15 miles north of Cape Girardeau, was unconfirmed. Another report was that one had been killed and fen injurcd at Al- tenberg, northwest of Cape Gir- ardeau. FARM CENTERS ~ HIT BY TORNADO Logan, Tl, March 19.—Seven per- | sons are known to be dead here as a |resuit of yesterday's tornade. The number of dead and Injured in the rural districts outside of Logan can- not be estimated, because impass- able roads and paralyzed wires, in the was carried off Bush, Ill, March 19,—S8even per- |sons were killed at Bush and sixty | injured, while eight persons are not | accounted for, as a result of yvester- | |day’s tornado. More than 150 per- | sons were made homeless, | A special train took the injured | to Herrin. | Rich and Prosperous Districts Devastated Associated Press. Chicago, March 19.—Most of the towns in Illinois and Indiana, which fiered from the tornado of Wednes day are in prosperous areas, and are Duquoin, TIl., March 19.—Between of and 100 persons are dead and | many hundreds are injured as a re- sult of the tornado which struck De !Soto vesterday afternoon. Fifteen of {the dead and 100 injured were brought here, 35 |industries, fruit-growing sections and dairying. Modern buildings in some | Murphysbero, T, March 19.—One [towns were but recently constructed, hundred and fifty-two bodies have up-to-date mines, including the already been recovered here, from |Orient Mine, the secont largest pro- 100 to 150 more are believed to be |ducing pit in the world, which re lin the wreckage and 250 persons are cently established a record for one in emergency hospitals suffering |day's tonnage, were destroyed, add- {from serious injuri ing thousands of dollars to an unes- timated property damage. Murphysboro, the county ot Jackson county, has a population of 10,073 and is located ahout sixt: miles north of Cairo, in the heart of a dairy district and fruit growing country. West Frankfort is the center of a coal mining country and likewise is not far from Cairo, but s closer to | Herri | recent months, Jefferson City, Mo, March 19.—| West Frankfort, A resolution to appropriate $25,000 [cated in Franklin county. for the relief of the stricken peo- |population of 8.478 ple of Murphysboro, 11, and ad-| Poseyville, Ind., is a noted trading .arrm territory in Missouri and Illi- {point, in Poscy county, and is located in the path of the severe wind-lon the Chicago & Kastern Illinois |storm yosterday, was introducea in and Tilinois Central railroads, 1t has the house of the Missouri legisla- a population of §50, Springfield, T, ernor Len Small, his son-in-law, March 19.=-Gov- accompanied by | Col, A. E. Inglesh, |and A, C. Bothfuhr of Kankakee, ieft shortly before noon teday for |the storm arca, At the same time, eral C. E. Black directed 108th medical regiment, Chicago, to en- !train for Carbondale. seat Adjutant Gen- however, lo- It is has a (Continued from First Page.) ing blocked by the of ¢ plied up under Lamberton street bridge by the wreck The raiiroad officials had unable up’to this time estimate damage stoek which will be considera The body of Engincer removed from the wreckage at this afternoon. mass is been any g |ture today. Princeton, tn Gibson county, is a | prominent station stop on the Chi- St. Louis, March 19.—A cago & Fastern Illinois and [picce of iron placed upon the track |raiiroads. Many factories and a rai !at New Greenfield, Mo., late yester- road shop located here, day caused the wreck of St. Lou San I'ranciseo passenger train num- ber 103, investigation disclosed to- day, Iirst reports were that the |train had been blown over by the | tornado, No one was injured, A boy admitted that he placed the obstruction on the track rail, Tuscumbia, Ala, March 19.—Res- cite parties from Tuscumbia and Russellville today were aiding the stricken families at Littleville, this county, where a tornado yesterday killed one person and Injured sev. eral others, The home of W demelished his wife badly in illlam Green was Green was killed and and five-year-old daughter red to give of the to roll hle. Moore was Mass. Public Ihhtee Orders Rate Suspension Boston, March 19.—The Massa- chusetts department of public utili- ties today suspended until July 1, unless otherwise ordered, the opera- tion of increased rate lules sought by the New England Tele- phone_and Telcgraph company the stat The tentative date the schedules had previously April 1. The company filed its petition with the commission in December and a number of hearings have been held at which the case of the tioner was presented. Hearings for the case of the opponents of the rate increase, including a Jarge num- ber of cities and towns in the com- monwealth, will begin May 4 Committee Chosen to Consider Incinerator Mayor A. M. Paoncssa t noon appointed a commit council members to confer wi health department ibility of cstablishing a mu incinerating plant for the garbage and refuse. serve are Aldermen John F. Macrz, and H. Christ. Rodman nd Thomas Fay A committee consis cilmed Donald T. ¥ Nair, E. T. Ringross Rengston was praisal Engin request for a senee weekly in th is after- in on . for been 1 lisposal of W He peti- RATED next six mont March 19.—Thomas warden of the C state penitentiary, was exencrated today of the charges of prison mis- management, brought by former Governor Sweet in a decision of th tate civil service commission by two to one vots. TYNAN EXON Denyer, Tynan, ] rado Bricklayers, Plasterers Strike on $3,000.000 Job New York, March 1? ricklay- ors and plasterers struck today on the 83,000,000 Steinway building t cause of a dispute between tl sclves as to which craft d the stucco work, an inter-union con- troversy which has smoldered eral months. Building contra less to avert the now are watching developm closely in r it may extend throughout the country. This wo! threaten completion four lion dollar building getting under weather. C. G=*Nor head of the Luilding trades employes. lsavoring to dring oficers of the twe unions tog | for a settiement. a DIES SUDDENLY iry, March 19.—Herbert M assistant treasurer the Waterbury, in Thom- pyelitis nose. Water! 8Cv= Upson, Chase Companies, Inc., {died suddenly at his home |aston this morning of septic caused by an infection of the of ors © power- and clash here bi ust spring SOL PRIC of a | Boston, March 19.—The Standard Oil Co. today announced a reduction of one cent a gallon in the price of gasoline, making the refail price 24 cents. Other companics operating in this area/ intimated that they would meet the Standard Oil price program way h th man e inter by | from the vicinity of Cape Girardeau. | An- | hill- | 8ix children were injured when & | vicinity |known for tifeir farming and mining | n, the scene of much trouble in e ——— MANY INJURED DIE A5 HOUSES BURN Fi:> Adds to Horvor of Tornado | in Tliiois By The Associated Press. Murphysboro, 1. M: Ilinois today rch 19 Southern presented a of death and destrue- inhabit- vast tableau tion, horror-stricken ants awaited more definite toll of lives taken | as its reports on the ¢ yester- day's tornado, which across the central southern part of the state, | With the stricken towns definite as to general loss of life were ing, Lut cstimates placed the num- ber well above the one thousand | mark, with many more injured. The amount of property damage also ‘1«:‘ ked definite figures, but was sev- eral million dollars. Sweeping across the Mississippi from the lower scction of Missouri, the storm invaded lilinois at Gor- ham, on the Mississippi and tore its way in an almost straight easterly direction into Indiana, laying waste towns and farms over seéveral hun- | dred square miles. Murphysboro, West Frankfort, Parish and De Soto, all situated in | Tllinois’ rich coal fields, appeared (0 lm\n suffered the heaviest loss lives and the biggest property flanmgr Smoke poured from the debris of Murphyshoro's smouldering ruins, while its citizens "anl\vd for <lf‘nd swept elear almost little | Ramiet immediately began to | completely isolated, reports Many Die In Flames Rescue work was greatly pered by the fi and it was trat many of the injured were mated in the blazing debris. | National guard troops have closed all roads to Murphysboro. The city at 5:30 a. o, burning in many places, The main business section was virtually ! wrecked and streets were filled with poles and debris and wrecked auto- anobiles, | Train loads of doctors and nurses, who arrived from ail poi were taken to the basement of the Pres- byterian church which was not d stroyed. Bert Ecoby, an undertaker from Marion, Iil., who came through West I'rankfort en route here, said two undertakers there had 60 or 70 bodies each, 'he whole northwest West Frankfort is razed and condi- tions there are as bad as they arc hére,” Ecoby sai “Three school buildings were practically destroy The tornado scooped out the cen of the high school, tu d end over cnd and devastated block lafter block. “The wind carried autemobiles great distances. It turned one Imost at a right angle on its foun- dation,” FEcoby added 85 Wrecked Automobiles An Associated Press correspond- ent made a tour of the city at 3 o'clock and counted wrecked au tomobiles. Fires still glowed or flared with increasing fury and the streets were filled with homeless peop! TFood is scarce. What resta were not Wrecked are trying to ob- tain food from Carbondale. | De Soto was razed with the ception of a dozen houses, aceor ing to B. W, Krysher, member the National Guard company of Car- bondale. He reported that the schoolhouse there was demolished and estimated the dead child numbered from 80 to 1 He said that many other children bad- Other reports here and in Carbon dale strengthened early reports th casualties in the stricken area wer great Dynamite was used night to stop the fires, huildings razed by the nas the E!ks' clubhouse At De Soto, too a grair s yanked from its foundation and fonty feet without being molished Royalton ar small mining town )y the storm and at Royaltor \l persons veported to killed and a few injured however, were Bloomfield. At Parrish and West the number of dead was at , while the toll of in this city was believed aronnd 150. From 130 have been killed re most of the vietim iren either buried under their schoolhouse or the flames that burst out structure had tumbled i twisted steel and crumb About one-third of We tort & town of 8500, wa wiped out by the wind When West cavercd from its panic was started at once pital was quickly fi and nurses from nearby calied to the rescue and wor hnrricane raged wit St. Louis. East ham- cre- today was corner o er houses house irants ex- of were v Among the explosions clevator W moved 1 Dloomfi also w struck sever- e have No casu, ttes, reported from r estimated life he man said to e T ed from Belleville But 5 Buildings 1.cft Five buildings were loft t e who returned in the schoolhouse 600 death Soto it was reports from th wher greatest toll reported the ruins night Fre incidents tornado were num the hurricane rag \at planks torm fram | ber carried to | miles away. were m 'RED CROSS HUSTLES ALONG RELIEF WORK Doctors, Nurses and Supplics .\rv Being Rushed Into the Stricken Areas Washington, March 19 The American Red Cross’ relief faclli ties were put into operation in force toddy in cfforts to relieve the suffe ers from the storm which wrought in the middle west yesterday. Reports reaching headquarters havoc here from field workers showed sup- | plies, doctors and nurses procceding to the scenes of the worst havoe from many point With the co-operation of the Mis- sourl Pacific railroad trains are carrying tents and relief work- ers from Bt. Louis to Gorham, IlIS and Annapolis, Missouri A group of relief workers, doctors and nurses in charge of Henry M. Baker, natifonal dircctor of disaster ief the Red Cross, was duc at Murphysboro, Tll., at midnight. Another group of workers is pro- ceeding from Washington to Prince ton, Indiana and F. E. Burleson, with nurses and medical supplics is on his to West IFrankfort, Franklin county, by special train from St. Louis, of way THREAT T0 WITNESS IN CHAPMAN GASE (Continued from First Page) past year. An- is an escaped convict from section during the derson the Atlanta penitentiary with a price | d. He escaped with serv- year sentence for nection with the famous New York mail robbery, engineered by Ander- son and Chapman. It authentic, the cord only phasizes the belief of the authorities that friends of Chapman are present in Hartford and perhaps in this city, ready to be of assistance to the pri oner, whose trial on the murder charge opens next Tues: Lver since Chapman arrived in Hartford from Atlanta prison, he hgs been un- der an exceptionally heavy guard nd absolute secrecy has covered all his movements, opening of the trial nears, pected that the guard will creased considerably. Chief Hart would not say whether 'extra precautions will be taken to protect the state's witnesses Chapman, but it is understood that staying under cover as much as possible, On the to the county building in Hartford, the witnesses from this city have been accompanied by members the detective bureau, Besides the will test inal when Ne on his he eni- it is ex- be in- all of them are local witnesses who noted erim- he is brought before Judge vell Jennings and a jury will be v against the with Chapman undep “Waldo W. Miller,” the is alleged to have u field. Several of omen who were in t! apman and Walter Shean. young married woman now living a Atlantic City, is known to have been in company with Shean at an inn in Ag ass., the Friday night preceding the rder here, It is probable that she will be calied upon to identify man as the man who posed s do W. Miller,” although Chief hat b of the fact she is a married woman, she be spared the publicity that would nd her presence vitness. at trial of it two wecks is the Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn and evidently Judge Jennings con- curs in this belief ally in view of the fact that he seems to cipate that some time will 1 in picking a jury. King to members of the e close of the Tuesday 1dge said that 1 would admitted to the had been one ment Ahe name name which 1in Spring- witnesses a m Hart Ause t the Chapman will spe be con- A\ n waring publi trial aft chosen we chosen.” added emed to indica is not hopeful that the ury will t considerabl by the jury ever Pic accomplighed with- delay, this being widespread publicity given the ¢ A list rors has been summoned to next Tuesday, but it is hardly that twelve juryme s that King out caused of 12 appear oxp noowi application to have ¢ entire mak Juring t will N h know it is od ye nill te trial by to show o Cxpec rday man he m ssity noli e such Al trial and under prevent any attempts bandit to intimid custody a hes b AvY Euard to friends Att State's 0 (vets Two Years in Prison F0< Panmz Bad ( hccl\\ Glouc tenced t penitentiary inted in Arges Mass. serve He G THE HERALD CLASSINIED BRING RESULTS Ab> | his con- | As the time for the | against | trips | of | anti- JARTIAL LAW 4T~ ~ PRINCETON, IND. To Guard Against Looting- Towns Are Devastated Evo Three 1sville Indiana and Ind March 19, Princeton, Owensville CNgARY dead |age Griffin today were din t work of digging their and injured from the and tornado that wreck- of homes, storcs office buildings e velled by a struck those Upwards of places late 200 Wednesday. persons re- ported to have been killed and hun- dreds of others were reported to have been injured, No estimate of the property damage was available, Princeton, with a population of than 7,000, most e riously yaffected three In- diana towns. T persons were reported illed more than 60 injured At Griffin, six were reported dead d an unknown number injured, while at Owensville the casunitfes, it was said, would run nearly as high. Dublic libraries, social halls and stores were transposed into tenpor no and hospitals, At Princeton al was de- slared to looting and to place the work under a re- sponsible wer« morc was the of the wenty and s ma prevent relief head Fires Burst IFailure of the in the stricker which broke every ‘vmr\s law Forth electric light plan cities and the fires destroying nearly building in the stricken por- of the towns, worked addi- tional hardships on rescue workers. |1 parties formed in nearly all of the fowns which werc not ravaged by the The local chapter of Red Cross anized relief parties and sent supplies to the stricken cities last night. Every available nurse and doctor here was despatched to the ravaged fowns Only Two Buil At Griffin the w buildings remained | Heinz pickle factory recently constructed {more than §1 was hiown to the ground and nearly all other bhuildi n the southern part of the , city wreeked. s out, were windsf or gs Left IIs of only two standing. 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