The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 19, 1925, Page 1

4,000 § area [-SEATHER)| pp The Newspaper: W ith the Bigrgre at: ( Meculation ania Washington HOM i A= indi The Seattle Star. ii Ii HOME 4 NO, 19. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, MARCI 19, 1925. * ae WO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Giome Illinois’ D { WHERE STORM KILLED HUNDREDS Bee s Death 20 Towns Are # Chivagos Beck Auroras Le hart: t Hond, To ebegew Rapid Joliste \* | --Otawa ; Wale | Kiunrakeo 43 °. Streutor — Toll Increases! . t NitiitihereBowo Bears Brunt of Raging = “4. Fury That Spread Destruction aN Sr LOUIS, March 19.—The death toll in storm-rocked A } Kao southern Illinois increased this morning when reports - file = _ Destroyed in | uci. Cyclone Path § <5 Isle 2amitagton Howdy, folks! Well, it will 1 rte Nhs Hargis rocco for the reached here that between 400 and 800 lives had been lost oe Va Danville Riatfnand, i girls to put a ure, ut Murphysboro, where the storm reached its greatest *Quipay // Springtiala | BY UNITED PR Bi Btyfe Note intensity, Heunihal 1 Ws : peereer PWARDS of 1,000 persons have perished and 3,000 were ii & pergon to w Computing on the 400 death list this will make the total } iets airs | *aokmorwille Y, mu injured in the most disastrous cyclone that ever visited aE @M automobile is crepe ma death list near 1,000. te vas’ Lisastana } the country. : a Half the town is a charred ruin as a result of the subse- ly quent fire, She never ras knoten to get off the, Estimates are that 900 were injured in the city. Some key; of these are in the crowded Murphysboro hospital, which k Nearly a score of populous towns were virtually de- | Pop ; stroyed. As many more were badly damaged. Five states were affected by the terrific blast which late yesterday > ik struck in Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, Indiana, A wonderful singer was Mamie Mc- dt — “lle | Bhe never teas Known fo ovt off still is standing, some have been sent to other cities, while h hina vee \Kentucky and Tennessee. How could she get off, when she| OlNErS are in improvised emergency tent hospitals. oS recpcnrville i Fire followed the cyclone at many points. The full force , e workers are handicapped in] At a. Lerinceteie a Prustihefi yp fu Eo eta ‘Duaueln of received. the. brunt of the ae “a pe unvillel 3 of the storm centered upon Murphysboro, Ill. This town h lot of beneds okies down in The received Pent oF. am ‘ } . 21; was practically leveled. The death list there will be stag- Santa Maria are plate shy, accord ty are! recove 5 melt Oh gering. Reports at noon today estimated the dead at ing to Manager Kil But not A ‘oads are have | Lebation, + 400 and declared the list might reach 800. in the hotel room a mass of mud. T # are force ( rred wreckage Oi | Thousands are homeless thruout the stricken area. Mil- lions have been lost in property damage. Red Cross and other relief organizations have taken charge of the work <i 20 fight the debris which the death ; . 4 piled upon the tracks. ee Ne ROOPS AND RELIEF a Uke num | WORKERS ARRIVE ; : hes mrengricla } y Bowling Green _. of rescue and care of the storm victims. School houses le 7 be aug ct aaa mh fires of + poh Y Tr. + ae weer | and public buildings have been turned into temporary | degrees order is beir : continuing to i} L eHophinaville | (4, morgues or hospitals. Relief workers are searching thru prsuek, openers from ae ee ee Sire sod gerd May ig ———— /e"" the ruins of wrecked homes and other buildings for the |many of the str ot | 8 flames ex hy 6 This map shows the course of the tornado that, starting in the Ozark mountains last|4¢84 and extricating the injured. oe cnitia h the un aw many ts fa of th night, swept northeast thru Southern Illinois and Indiana, killing hundreds and injur- fF a rants ee aan ee Aerie qnenn eres A Turn to Page 7, Column 4 ing thousands, The arrow indicates the course of the twister. Murphysboro, Ill., appar- S*™™. Bee Oe aa ete ‘ wrecked. Trees and parts of wrecked buildings were thrown The baseball players went down! city ently was the hardest hil, with from 400 to 800 killed and 900 injured. Two hundred South, Var relivf ie nd fift ok Me d and 40 ied: in. Want Frankfort, Til. One hundred ane , were or miles. Even bodies were reported found a mile or more But father gets spring training | shelter and food in to the riba Ind 40 ke TE Bush, IN. Griffin, i 4 Sad nt ar GAGES anid 4h y a} Nes Eye-witnesses tell of finding bodies with arms or legs ee eet. tee eee : city. Numerous workers eet Di ee Pee Tee chatatc A shh _ twisted off, apparently by the force of the wind, and others Coartin Fe coaagiafliegasl sign iy BY HORRORS i '7 Pe aA —> pierced thru by flying timber: poker: y to . | THEORETICAL TORNADO As reports from various sections were gathered today house Frantic $ f ic arm anc S re | MIGHT MAKE A VISIT | no doubt was left that the disaster is the worst of its Of ell. the nee yeatinn vi ® rantic Survivors of Storm LIN PUGET SOUND AREA kind in the country’s history. The greatest death toll pre- We how to Gnectis tnsen yea Bemoan Loss of Relatives : N viously taken by a cyclone was in 1908 when 500 were Yor when the show is over FiO We ; evas a e yy orna O AY Bert eer Deee killed fn Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Mhe docan't wens ¢:7er8 hich work e t BENTON, It, March 19.7 ka faetsa ubics ithe The terrific blow of yesterday was followed today by : Seo gee ked th to | weather bureau has kept records, || high winds in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Northern i i saya thet collars the. Small Communities and Larger Towns | in theoretically |} York. ee on made so small he can saat ol she 1g lends car? y- A Ms bereau ¢ A 90-mile gale hit this territory, blowing down wires \ ily tuck hia napkin In any more: Tod had takent in I ath of Dez ith Stor m | : that . t and ee Ses Ue UE TA EVERYDAY ; - norte Woe ae CH-CENTRAL Ulin P wikis Jans t! || Ado were exts mote s ae - sir, he’s a real thorobred. : vat ae Wednesday's windstorm Thompsonville, with. about. 6 : ; ney iglcge bereits t a pedigree as boro, Ill, 400 to $00 900 ‘ s ; Gitardoats with || tractive. # pie. - | long as your ari. - : fie pur chase Mis F arde n |] truc f ew ter him, but it'sg@d Savdieea ; mug forms Other towns, such 4 , t i Rappenax ant too much trouble. ; egion roundabout k and. Crosstown, ca t . aoe oy Turned down an > " ‘ med by t Mis H acd : . y uy ° 2 ne ee ee oS ea i... oe In Tennes ext “Indescribable Desolation,” Former Residents of Mid- : oan oe on rie nae ver fation of t baie pd ai le ab Says Illinois Editor West Fear for Friends Li'l Gee Gee. the dumbest 1920 con The cas tic : RS sate a ections of the countr » . Bie es | abl len the The w ex re QUOLN, 1, Marc Former residents of Illinois, Miss a he like musical | hit by eyelones, the list was increased joward. the early he. year -f |Ifirst authentic story of the destruc. | S0url. Indiana and Kentue! on by the following axser-b for ‘mamma, re are few > ton. the hardest hit aici \aiseteten acuriidebera | Sanne awaited reports on eee Griffin, Ind. dead. Most of the er ed started. that state, wit t ema dein Murphysboro, | the extent of the tornado Thursday, Hikes. to athes population still unaccounted for ed by the co erritio force. | Tr tens than 7600. Griffin has. but was told today by A. W. Es-/gs reports over the news wires pea Si Cats Waal Tetured could be x orting casual! 350 pe si) Pedy oitle leon ct “PUPILS K| D: editor of the Duquoin Call, |"brought added details on the extent 4 from parking space,| Poseyville, Ind 8 ) at the de mall com: | 4,¢ In Kentuch ringfield anes t outsider to/of the di or, Get Lor fe Pin P 9 #P tl Gwanavbie. ina 5 to 29 > fore had bee from whic with 1,500 p t was the net fc LLE x y : H. L. Bushnell, of John Graham Pee ee tere | Princeton, In 0 200 1 750 persons ConieEVilie atericle BW the ald ; see rae > after the!» Go, and president of the Univer: 4 er county, Tenn... 34 20 rma—lifeless the 1920 « Loga Central Minot. ati is In. storm struck anc s description of Illinois club, received several cee coesename, Tar Neat Sednccatapeet hak: 400 Udine me the Baby was |had 1,400; Herrin in "Bloody W 1 in what In called the. coun-| REMOving Bodies of Children ot tne tragedy was the first authon-|inquiries, lin ‘relatives reside im al morning about 8 o'clock by resi-| P | Hamson county 00; Me most important ufact 1 points north of the storm area, he Caner cries Unsversiny, Guu tare a rea See ee eee were the half-crazed shouts 1+ P had 00 and Benton aii beald ' death toll “the | | From Storm-Wrecked Bldgs. |"! ‘ nicaae pear meabtie hites re said. : wg ah es a the loud stockings coming to school. |tiT* bor ons as they pulled their dead jabout 7,200, Other Illinois com: | pr y lors factories and| ST. LOUIS, Mw, March 19.—The| “The Storm struck tho city at . W. Hurlbut, of Spelger & Hurl- —U, of W. Daily Jatives from beneath the |munities stricken included Garm jal plant all kinds is ex-| School children attending their {the southwest corner and swept di-! put, formerly resided in Evanston, an | | eek : mé were eo ‘badly Injured |with $700; Murphysboro with 13,-! pected to be h classes late Wednesday were great |rectly thru the business section, | Ind., which was in the path of the . Ye DIARY y n route to hospitals. Lit brig: NZ ‘- gee sufferers from the cyclone which cutting a swath about 100 yards | tWister. Mr. Hurlbut has no rela- (March 18) |tle groups huddied around in the J J ' | swept th wetion tives in the area now, he says. Lay long abed, reading and smoking. | lGireat Zirat shiouting® then moat A galing wide Bf 3s lapsed at West Frank Samuel B. Rogers, a street car thence up and to the tub, and to singing ae ag | fort ar 8 bodies have been re-| “The dome was lifted completely) conductor, formerly resided in merrily, but did get some soap in my Prosecutor Boosts Sum for! '"* pate a d B It” S moved. att this Gite intl. Bad duro | Blo! IL. allghtiy ‘i eye, and to howling fustily, And did . ¢ cl A iurled down omington, Il, slightly north of wonder why a jo sing when tak-| . : nN é€ W A POL collapsed at Murph = pevheg +) schoo {the path of destruction which th Tora bath, and thon’ yasuicuine some, Cameron, Still Missing | 34 Killed, 20 Hurt ornado ep t hore and abgut halt dhe.200 fupie| tty mas stot the high shoot | OCs eve aes is that you can always turn it on joud and drown | ‘Town in Alabama Witness Tells How} ™=- ; N. E., of the Minois Women's club. q World | S Startled by President Will SUM Mn [e222 Saws, Storm Hit_ Annapolis Sacre henna he wom jwifo and b.y« Neale Daugghied badly | jRONTON, Mo., March 19,—Like | fore ek cloud, the cyclone nv in a tornado which struck! huge oI | vnich tala. waste “Amapotls tevel| STORM VICTIMS GET only, mine being, “Hall, Hail, the Ganj Pj still are unaccounted for j was demolishet a and virtually every! family has many relatives in the All Here!” but why 1 do sing that ait.) Denuty Prosecutor Harry A.| IN Tennessee Towns by Many Death Storms |’ ral school near Orient was {building in the path of the storm district, Mrs. ‘Rogers sald ‘Thurs. ome bivoe « SeeP'y+| Rhodes Thursday boosted the bail of} MEMPHIS, ‘Tenn. March 19. yed and the seven pupils are|"@ wrecked. Fire broke out. al |}day. She-is awaiting news eagerly. 7 ee ae Moncreiffe Camere Seattle attor-|-phirty-four persons were killed and | “—— | ane most immediately after the storm) john W. Nelson, Star reporter, je ; ney, wanted on a $3,000 embezzle-|apout 20 injured by the tornado OTABLE disasters during the and 200 injured in southern Mi At Gorham, where the death list |SWePt over the town, One woman shocked by the storm news. His ‘All the world's a stage,” sald! ment charge, from $6,000 to $20,000.| which xwept Sumner county lato} N past. 26 yearn in the “tor ourl and southern Illinois | is estimated at 30, half the dead are |W48 burned to death and I counted | her with a wife and two chil- Shakespeare, which leads us to be-| Charges were filed inst Camer H. L. Brown, chairman of| nado belt” of the Middle West March 18, 1913—Loss of life in | believed to be pupils, as a school {159 bodies of storm victims in one} dren live at West Frankfort, IL, in eve he was writing publicity for!on just a few minutes after he he siootinty Red Crown. cHaptet, ‘re ind Southwest include these Peorin, Ul; Vincennes, Imi. and | building collapsed there undertaking: establistiment |the heart of the scourged district, | Bome of these omnibus companies. | heen released on bond on a smaller! icq by Jong distance telephone to June 28, 1924-—-More than 100 tows In Leitstatian KAA teahe “Arrom Brucphystory 1 waht a West nietett, according © newa Pe |grand larceny charge earlier this Nate aan No townd were| killed, 3,000 injured at Loraino 6 rectly to Do Soto, This town is! dispatches, suffered the heaviest toll i The varkeep said; “This stuff is| week. He immediately disappeared cas deseiding to Bid n und Sandusky, Ohio April 24, 1908— Nearly 500 ‘5 Dead in Towns completely wiped from the map.| of storm damage, over 400 being re- 3 stout, |and has not been located by deputy f iad March 27, 1924— Twenty-four killed in wind storms in Missis- | Near Louisville eee ee based it are 2 ting | Ported killed. Altho it may taste queer, sheriffs holding the new warrant . : killed in Kansas, Oklahoma, Mis ippl, Louisiana and Alabama | UIs * 9 Where ANG Holy, ONS-LAES. uh C. E. Bogardus, ¢ ist, as But when you take a drink, get ut Meanwhile, Rhodes said, he is re- Illinois Governor ourl and Ohio. June 5, 1908 — Twenty-seven leew He Mappa i of aie ne Aa |Dobulation. escaped death | be ON RATA TR cagies For you can’t die in here.” lcelving a flood of complaints alleg-! . . tly, 1923—Sixty-three killed killed northern Kansas and | vas, at 4 i + | “Phe scene is one of absolute | ¢, is ti Jing similar grand larceny activities. | to Direct Relief ik fend aa tone | yout Nobraska i aaReece ae ‘aviite Sana 1 in’ the | and indescribable desolation and the| the dnt neroreae ‘he! no “Arrest Man Who Shot Wife.’—| In the latest charge Cameron ix al-| SPRINGFIELD, Ul, March 19 April 26, 19 Neatly 1001 May 9, 1905—Thirty killed at I ieesivae OF ouisvillo and scores are lioeror of fire adds to the travail aped the fury, oftthe wind:deriine alind. Leap lbepe atta leg ei al Rebar alarm sae ae souk killed in various Oklahoma towns | Marquette, Kan | Damage will total hundreas ot |°f the day.” |W. B. Forkner, president of the t, tut, this is going too far! | the federal farm loan bank at Spo-jern ilinols to persona Gla ee lage May 11, 1905—One hundred | |, Damage of ie Tndlana’ oluies. wam “enlereds ayiie * * | kane for a cHent here, working under | relief work In the tornado-stricken lato aa thirty killed at Snyder, Okla na a te ‘queries. fron tormer “ndianah vem 1 sa aa voli Bir his official title of secretary of the area. He was accompanied by Col June 23, 1919—Sixty killed, 400 Bastar’ 3—Ono hun: | Louisville escaped disaster by a : i ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SAYS: | : aheatiba A. Bi. Ytiglesa buildi destroyed at i drergus dred forty teitea hartoW “inateln dents, but had no news of deaths or Pie aay Eisentto.2Seleniaentinr rr Z yas staal hd il | alia, Minn phy F aaeovad Bilieieled e ® |injury to relatives of Seattle rest- . “One advantage Fe Pe eit ae d [is Bureaus came yy eu lomeles: dents. Forkner is head of the Uni- 4 of tavint a radio | | __ May 21, 1917—Sixty#even killed | in Omaha, Nob,, tornado _|Tornado F Reaches versity funeral’ parlors. ag | i- Wi W, Stauffer, 4723 18th aye. out the sound of your neighbor's phonograph.” denees were blown down by the ter rifie wihd HE LAST 48 hours have been marked by heer ‘Special Session Announced to Con- | OE Se i Pyrtle «traveling salesman. |! QF COMING TORNADO * Congress ma represents a be an asset; it also ‘| | | | | | at Me ability. ° aH. ¢ , yes 3 reat. le which have taken an enormous toll in lives Here Is a Good [ae id Lai, ad ea cae 7b yalautea WRERIABE 4 Oh, let me sing of gentle spring, || property. sider Further Tax Reduction Ho : Good suddenly and with such intensity ‘Phat was all thousands of ] The birds, the buds, the grass; || Upwards of 1,000 persons are reported dead, more than 3 \ me in a Goo the townspeople had litte oppor-{| “t#ens in midwest tornado-strick- OF betty onions, peas and beans|! 9 QO are injured in the tornado which swept thru South- || wasmiNGTON, March 19%—J pected to return and work upon || District Lunityatat aaa: © en areas ‘gots yy eanenday Many a ne smaner 2s for gaat j ‘ vester jana. |! p toolldge plans to « h was 0 o the ground] ° gabe a : ae aie, il ern Illinois, Eastern Missouri and Southwestern Indiana. President ‘ Sd iat pao vel fi [the prospective tax bill, so that al And is moderately priced na ‘tg so Ved i‘ aon Bete thrice: the bydione Laxsacerle ne Sauerkraut week, Buy a In Tokyo, 2, 134 homes were destroyed: and’9,104<are ent r to consider further tax re. | be Ingrendis for the return WOODLAND PARK VLD W “When T came to my sonses 1{] 28 anys 1 hom fas x ites 4 couple of barrels just to keep'| homel following yesterday's fire. duction, mere of tho senate !Of congress in September HOT WATER looked around and saw only three|| "ado alarm hte tke pe Naty . eine the house in case of sick Thirty-four miners are entombed and believed dead in were informed today as they pr Tho record of congress from the || Cimndest view pre ‘ 3 [lor four houses standing, whe babi : sudden Beant pe ti i ry = rere Fairmont, W. Va.;“ollowing a terrific explosion Tuesday || pared to close their offices hore 0nd | yeginning of the regular session in itt Ponty eb l@ndia net there had been 900 to 400. The}! cuoh as precedes a tornado, atito. 5 vf ‘or home for the s om 1 eunent plendid hot ane shad Rit crane ‘ at a 5 STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! \| night. 1 for | Lt f : i Ha fq | December to the end of the apecial winter Heating plant, ete, Lat ‘I | house wa anding,” Ne’) matically operates the apparatus Spring “greens” are preparing tol] giwo hotels were burned to the gxound at Palm f Pee wae tical ktias ia Charmi nsession of the senate yesterday wa Hert anere tice tab AR by hh fer a WO Pyrtio tf 8, that i makes an made con spring upon a hel v7 aa of annroximately $2 Inance committee —an¢ airma : ; rie Se Pehah eatin | \ : Heck /} tact and rings a gong, Ordinary Pes itier sepa, WOENG: | Beach, Mla,, entailing a loss of appr rximate Ly $2,000,000. Vien of the house ways and means | Marked by « failure to meet the fleing 1 tert | AM, “was that one lore house w torms have no effect on it, Bhe Kisses are intoxicating.” | Hundreds of persons are homeles® in Rrujilla, the prin- || comittee were told to have mem-| president's desires, elimaxed in the uch. 16 MHE: WVahG: AAS Gonuran untouched in the middie of t he “Avarniing: tt. ‘piveesccomned He: ‘Let's get soused, 4 ll cipal city of Northern Peru, their adobe homes having |!bers ready for call ut Meitae ne Bia tfonal sreiegtion st the nomin« |] and seo who Is offering this || “devastated town In sae ha all only a. minute op. two betokeethe a eae, ‘ aste: part of July or the early part offation of Charies B, Warren as at | nace to you Was a woman who was ill, andl] fui force of the eyelono ah been washed away by yesterd floods. H\ August, These committees are ex: |torney general J yi members of her family. en raaiitapkcutmiaoeienien. te 1 ¢ t