Show o nr Tr nn A c s TORM DEATH EAT L TOTALS LIST LIST 1ST TOTALS 16 t t r r- r c I ILLINOIS IS HARDEST HIT BY CYCLONE Georgia and Alabama R Re Rc port 78 Dead After Arter Blow v Government Offers Wa War Material l to Relieve lieve Cities Citie By r Press Inn C March fareh 20 29 The The rIle deal death list of the Palm Sunday torn tomi- tomi does docs tb tha t swept sections of eigl eight t states statts tonight stood Communication with many corn com con communities in the middle west ivest had bad on only been partly restored today and ind were that the toll of death an and antl destruction would be augmented The known dead in six central western western west west- ern era states num numbered r-e-d r ninety five while seventy eight were killed ia in Georgi and Alabama The property loss 1 rr ir tho the Chicago area liea was estimated a at while In ir the other states at affected at- at U the tho e material loss wa was large Elgin III suffered the heaviest heavies est property loss tho the damage there being I p 1 P i Illinois VV was the hit of th of th central states slates with thirty dead snort more than one thousand J I injured and nd homeless Indiana reported thirty six fatali fatal fatalities fatalities ties tics and nd Ohio twenty twenty-sIL Twelve were killed In and one ono each In Wis- Wis Wisconsin Wisconsin and Missouri The Tho death death in Georgia was placed at thirty eight and In Alabama at nt i cv cv- cv Districts most severely e affected 1 inthe in the tho Chicago o area were Irving Park Par within the elt city limits with six dead Melrose Park nine dead Elgin dead Maywood four d dead ad and l Plainfield Plainfield Plain Plain- field three dead Heavy property damage resulted i Sn in these towns town and al also in Wilmette an and I- I EVanston North orth Shore suburbs suburb Fourteen I n In Joilet JoUet At Joliet Jollet Ill III th three o persons were probably fatally injured fourteen w were r seriously l hurt and arid the tho property dam ago ao w was s estimated at a a. half halt mIDI minion on Troops s patrolled El Elgin n. n Melro Par Parl and Wilmette today and poll police details from Chicago wore on guard b at nt Dun Dun- a n g gWire Wire communication on with many o othe ot of the communities blasted by the tornado tornado tor tor- nado still was al paralyzed zed today Every Ever public relief a agency enC was organized org to today today today to- to day to aid victims In several places American Amerin Lesion Legion posts sent volunteers to watch for tor fo looters looter and assist In relief work A survey of or the tho devastated districts district was begun toda today b by Henry J. J Cox weather forecaster Tho The tornado was the result of ot a j combination of or two storms he lie said Ono One developed de In Alaska traveled through British Columbia and joined a a. from Cram the southwest which dc do- d in Southern Arizona and No Ne- vada This combination Prof Proto Cox Continued on pa page o 2 TROOPS PATROL STREETS IN DEVASTATED AREA Continued from Page Pago 1 L said ad resulted In fri a rotary rott motion which formed eddies and arni caused a tornado Offer Cities Surplus War Tar Material i Washington March 29 Surplus building equipment and supplies hold l holdby holdby b by tho war department offered toda today to cities clUes devastated 1 by recent storms E JC C C. Moro director of ot sales telegraphed mayors and postmasters of or more moro than a SCore score of ot municipalities suggesting It was i to tho the mutual advantage nd- nd vantage antage of or tho government gO and tho Industries of or those places to get Into direct communication concernIng concerning concerning concern concern- ing tho the reconstruction which the they will have hare to do Reasonable prices and emergency consideration of ot such orders I wore promised Storm Plays Plays Plays' I Q Queer Tricks Toledo 0 O Mardi March 29 Genoa Genoa Raabs Corn rs and Swanton began tonight to emerge from tho the wreckage caused b by the tho cyclone thero there lato late Sunday night Two were killed and arid fourteen seriously serious serious- l ly injured at Genoa At Raabs Corners Corners Corners Cor Cor- ners tour four mot met death and moro more than a score hurt Moro oro than a score were I I Injured at wanton Swanton At Raabs Corners a hamlet hamlot almost I er e every building was levelled le while tho the western section of ot Genoa Gonoa was de de- de At Swanton practically every building building- was marked marke t In some somo manner by tho the storm torm Members of or tho American Lc Legion lon post were guarding the ruins of the twenty or more moro homes demolished Relief Rello measures aro are being beIng- taken talen and anda a fund has been started at Genoa to build new homes for the victims The Tho section of ot tho the town destroyed was occupied b by tho the poorer classes Some Somo weird antics were played b by the storm at Genoa At tho the home of ot Don Boll Bell principal of oC the high schoola school I a old 2 bo boy sleeping sleeping- with its I parents was lifted from tho bed and I thrown across the room on a pillow depositing depositing- him ao so easily that he was not awakened Otto whose house was blaw noff nott tho the foundation was sitting blown oft off the foundation wa was sitting in tho the living room with one ono of or his another room with the other child The house was thrown back twenty feet feel There was little shock however and no one ono was scratched The furniture furni turo ture wa was not even moved mo I out of or place The Tho homo of or Hiram Johnson was swept awa away His wife was carried across the street where her body was found In a mass of ot wreckage a neIghbors neIghbor's neighbors neighbor's neigh neIgh- bors bor's former home horne Johnson Is In a serious condition Thirty-six Thirty rn Ino Dead in Indiana Indianapolis Ind md March arch 29 Latest reports orts from tho the swept storm areas arcas of oC northern Indiana pl place the tho number of oC dead dad from Sundays Sunday's tornado at thirty thirty- six Hundreds of or persons were injured I In ten counties and property damage will total hundreds of or thousands of ot dol dol- lars Many Inny persons have not been accounted acCounted accounted ac ac- ac- ac counted for Two a additions to tho the death list came camo from Adams county where no deaths had been leen een reported Eleven Ele dead w ro re reported from Allen coun county one In Sto Steuben ben county one In Montgomery count county and ten from Union Cit City In Randolph count Fun Full reports from man many rural districts districts dis dis- dis- dis have havo not been beon received Relief work ork Is being carried on b by local organizations org In towns or cities nearest the devastated rural districts Work ork In some sections was os begun beg to toda to- to da day Several counties In which no loss of or life was reported suffered Buttered heavy property damage Georgia Reports nine Fifty-nine Dea Deaths ls Atlanta Ga March arch 29 Revised Revised re reports reports re- re ports tonight ht from swept storm sec see of Georgia and Alabama cut down the death list to fifty thc LaGrange Ga reports t twenty six persons killed Eleven en were killed at Alexander City Ala ten at West Vest Point Ga five at Agricola Ala and one each cach at Macon and Milner Ga and C Cedar nr Springs Ala The Tho number of oC Injured was as large Property loss at was 35 estimated estimated esti esti- mated at with that at West cst Point said sald to be hun hundreds reds of or thousands thou thou- sands As far tar cast as Washington Ga Ca the storm caused damage estimated esti esti- mated at Ohio Suffers 1 Heavy Loss Columbus 0 O. March 29 S. Twenty persons arc are known to have been killed and more than fifty lCt injured and property property prop prop- erty loss running running- close clos to tho the 2000 mark caused In western Ohio dUrIn during dur dUr- In ing Sundays Sunday's tornado Darko Darke count county In which Greenville and Nashville are arc located suffered the greater loss Eight were vero killed In the two towns towns and more than a score In In- In jUrod Loss in the upper Miami valloy val val- val val- Icy ley Is estimated t tj bo be at least |