Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 5 | Tornado's Toll Exceeds Twenty

TORNADOS TORNADO'S TOll EXCEEDS TWENTY Nineteen Deaths in Iowa Storm Now Known to Have Occurred By Associated Press DES MOINES I INES Iowa May 13 22 2 With the death list gradually gradual Increasing as belated reports came In tonight knight from front the sections of or central Iowa swept b by yesterdays yesterday's tornadoes Indications were that the fatalities would exceed twenty Nineteen deaths had been reported d definitely tonight scattered I over t the 1 en entire en cn- tire storm area from Crom In Crawford Crawford Crawford Craw Craw- ford county eastward for COt more than miles The Injured were believed to exceed the property dama damage c. c latest accounts show probably more moto than It was reported tonight that a number num her ber of the Injured probably bl would die and this and the possibility of lIC more mor victims being discovered In ta n storm storm- wrecked buildings s Is feared eal e Boones Boone's d death ath list of oC six remained un unchanged iti- iti changed with the other fatalities re reported reported re- re ported as follows follows' Newton 1 Denison 1 I Carroll 2 Churdan near Jefferson 3 near KIdora 2 Chelsea 1 near 1 Walker 1 Dubuque 1