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Show 37 LIVES LOST IN IIMLOf Property Loss Will Reach $1,100,000; Troops Clear Away Wreckage. NEW ALBAXY, Tnd., March 24. Six additional deaths reported today made a total of thirty-three persons who lost their Uvea because of the storm here yesterday. yester-day. Three-fourths of the wrecked area has been explored, and the list of mlsslnff is being reduced almost hourly by reports from missing persons who have been cared for In private homes. Of the 100 or more who were Injured, it was said probably seventy-five were badly hurt, but that less than a dozen were In a serious condition. Tlie institution of relief measures was prompt. Citizens of Louisville subscribed $12,000 and sent motor trucks loaded with food and clothing. Later in the day the chamber of commerce here Issued an appeal ap-peal to the country for aid. estimatinf? that $200,000 was needed. State troops are supervising the work of clearing away the wreckage and searching the ruins for bodies. The first organized effort to estimate j the property loss w:is marie late today by a committee nppointed by the chamber of I commerce, the New Albany real esta te board and Rod Cross representatives. The committee, after an examiniUion of the i devastated diHtrlcts, placed the loss, including in-cluding damaced or destroyed homes and contents, at $l.ir,3,000. When rescuers today examined thr; ruins of a negro school house which was expected to yield a number of bodies, they found only a badly frightened hut practically prac-tically unhurt negro boy. J o had heen pinioned beneath the debris, but was protected pro-tected from harm by overhanging timbers. |