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Show 1 ois OF Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky Struck by Tornadoes Which Wreck Towns and Destroy De-stroy Millions of Dollars' Dol-lars' Worth of Property. Prop-erty. MORE THAN 1000 PERSONS INJURED Mattoon and Charleston, Charles-ton, 111., and Andale, Kan., the Chief Sufferers; Suf-ferers; Crop Damage Is Not Heavy in General, Gen-eral, the Wind Striking Only Here and There. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 27. Reports from tornado-swept sections sec-tions of Jefferson county place the . ' number of dead at Sayre and other A small hamlets at twelve. The f number of Injured may reach 100. CHICAGO, Jlay 27 More than 150 persons were killed, a thousand or more injured and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed by tornadoes which swept through Kansas on Friday, Illinois Illi-nois and Indiana on Saturday and parts of Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky and southern Illinois Sunday. Reports indicate that a large amount of farm implements, needed to produce the bumper crop desire this year, was ruined, although tjie spasmodic wind struck only here and there in its frightful fright-ful play through the rural regions. Crop damage is said to be not heavy in general. gen-eral. The heaviest toll of life was taken at Mattoon, 111., a city of 10,000 population, ' in the broomcorn country of central Illinois, Il-linois, where fifty-four are known to be dead and 500 injured, with a property loss of J2.000.000. Charleston. 111., ten miles east of Mattoon, Mat-toon, was also partly WTecked Saturday evening, with a loss of thirty-eight lives and 150 injured. The property loss there is a million dollars. The next most serious loss was at Andale, An-dale, Kan., where twenty-six were killed and a score injured on Friday. Sunday's Storm. Dublin, Ky., suffered three dead and ' seventeen injured today. South Dyers-burg, Dyers-burg, Tenn., was reported tonight to have lost two killed and fifteen injured in a tornado that swept Dyer county today. Near Blytheville, Ark., nine persons were reported killed and a dozen hurt. ; "TV.- Reports from Indiana show at? least seven persons killed at Hebron, Kouts and other places, and the death list may reach twenty. More than 200 were Injured In-jured in the Indiana territory swept by the storm. Smaller towns in Illinois lost a dozen dead on Saturday, with two score injured, while in the southern part of Illinois windstorms today killed a half dozen and injured a score. Summary of Casualties. Summary of tornado dead and injured: Dead. Injured Mattoon, 111 54 500 Charleston, 111 38 150 Andale. Kan 26 GO Other Illinois towns i 18 65 Arkansas 9 12 Indiana 9 200 Kentucky 25 67 Tennessee 6 53 Totals 1S5 1107 Property damage, $5,000,000. UNKNOWN NUMBER OF LIVES LOST IN SOUTHERN STATES MEMPHIS, May 27. At Ipast twenty-one twenty-one persons were killed and more than forty injured in wind and hail storms which swept through portions of western west-ern Tennessee and Kentucky and eastern Arkansas today, according to meager reports re-ports received here tonight. Twenty also were reported killed near Hickman, Ky.. and several killed and a number injured at Payre, Ala., near 'Birmingham, up to midnight. Damage to property and growing crops, particularly coUon, was heavy. Right persons were reported killed near Tims Lake, near Manila, Ark. ; one at Clear take. six in Dyersburg, Term., und 1 at Patte Landing, near Tiptonville. Tenn. All but the last six were white j prisons. I j? Dyeisburg reported thirty-two injured. J (Continued on Page Two.), I Mil II ME i i -MMSH: i i i 5 , : (Continued from Fage One.) ; In the vicinity of Fane Laniine; twemy- ; five or thirty persons wrye injured and ; four were seriously hurl near M:iniln. . I Property damase. hut no casualties. was reported ne;ir Malvern, Ark., and j Troy and Newbern, Tonn. DEATH LIST CROWS AS NEWS ARRIVES AT HICKMAN, KY. PADl'CAH, Ky., May 27. Telephone ' mossapea received here tonight from lli'-kniiin, Ky., slated that icorts from points along I he Mississippi river from ! Tiptonville. Tenn., lo wit hin two miles of Hii'kman Indicated that prohahly r'ifly persons had lost their lives In a tornado which swept along: I lie eastern ba nk of the river late today. rHm;me at llk-k-man was reporte 1 to be Ninall. Thirteen persons: wore reported to hnvr been k i 1 led on t wo plan tat ions wit h!n four miles of Kirk man. Dublin a nl Moscow, Tpiiu., wrvf reported to nave j hern virtually dcstroyel, and teveral other small communities Were said to have suffered suf-fered heavy damages. T-iy 9 o loek tonipht many in lured had hesrun to arrive in Kick man from points down the Mississippi river and the small hospital there was filling rapidly. As toon as the reports of the storm bc-a;i to reach Hb-Uman rescue parties le; t there, proceeding down the Mississippi. Missis-sippi. A t , o'clock, t h'rty minutes after the storm is said to have broken over the district between Tiptonville and Hickman, a heavy rain swept over Paducaii, accompanied accom-panied by a hisrh wind. The excursion stea mer Ski new which left Padurah this morning for Cairo, 111., had not been heard from a I a late hour tonight. INDIANA IN PATH OF STORM THAT SWEPT ILLINOIS By International News Service. CHICAGO, .May 27. More than ICO persons per-sons were crushed to death In the twin cyclones that went rushin? across the state of Illinois late Saturday afternoon . and then spent their force in western Indiana. ' Wire communication with the stricken districts was being slowly restored to-' to-' nierht. The best available figures on the ; known dead at an early hour were as i follows: ' I Mattoon, 111.. 50. Charleston, 111., 3.y j 1Vester eldt. 111., 6. I Modesto, 111., L. Manhattan, 111., vicinity, 3. j .loliet. 111., vicinity, 1. : Peotone, 111., 1. j Hebron. Ind., 3. Black Hawk, Ind., 2. I Ruins Being Searched. , Large gangs of rescue workers are still digging in the ruins at Charleston and Mattoon in the belief that more bodies may be uncovered. Many farming communities directly in the path o the storm have not been heard from and at least a score of th 600 injured victims are reported dying tonight. The death list may reach 12o. Early estimates place the property damage at approximately fj, 000.000. : State militiamen, scores of Red Cross workers end hundreds of phsicians reached Mattoon and Charleston early today and set about the work of rescue. I For many hours a single telegraph wire i was the sole line of communication reaeh- tng out from the city of Mattoon. It j was commandeered by state authorities I and railways for urgent business and only meager news dispatches telling of 1 scenes of horror reached the outside ' world. I The dead at Mattoon follow: I MRS. CLAUDE ANDERSON, I MRS. DORIS BICKERS. j BAKER, Illinois Central railroad ' section hand. j BARKER, Illinois Central railroad section hand, i TEDDY BRIDGES, 12 years of age. HARRY EAKVERS. MRS. NANCY J. COON. EDWIN DAUGHERTY, 10 years of age. MRS. ALEX DAVIDSON. I FOREST DAVIDSON. I MRS. GR U BBS. 1 A SON OF MRS. GRU BBS. THOMAS HYDE AND WIFE. MRS. D. HOHN. MRS. ORA HERITAGE. BABY HICKEY. WALTER MELTON. JACK PIERCE. MR. AND MRS. REDMAN, SON AND DAUGHTER. MRS. JACK REED. I. G. SPITZ. HARRISON STOKES (colored). BABY SWANSON. MRS. CHARLES TEMPLE. JOSEPH TAYLOR. MRS. LEE TAYLOR. MRS. MARGARET TAYLOR. ROY TAYLOR. I ARLETTA TUDOR, 4 year old. I JAMES TURNER. I OWEN WAGONER. ! MRS. OWEN WAGONER, j JOHN WILLIAMS. 1 EARL WHITE. ! THREE COLORED MEN. FOUR i WOMEN AND A LITTLE GIRL, UNI-I UNI-I DENT!TIED. I Death's Toll at Charleston. j At Charleston, county seat of Coles ' county and a city of 7 500 inhabitants, the ! cyclone took a terrible toll in dead and j injured. Thirty-five bodies had been re-I re-I covered tonight, 2,".o Injured were under treatment by physicians and 1"00 per- sons were homeless. The property loss 1 at this town alone ts more than $70,000, ! Charleston's entire business section is a mass of ruins. Roth railway stations, two hotels, four la rfre grain elevators a nd all the public utility plants were razed to the ground. The city Is not under martial law, hut a company of national guardsmen Is patrolling pa-trolling the streets and roads with loaded rifles, denying passage to fll but those carrying passes signed by the mayor or Captain Hunter of company D, Fourth Illinois Il-linois Infantry. Weird Pranks of Storm. The storm played many weird pranks at 'harlcston. A two and one-half story brick building on the outskirts of the town, housing a garage and blacksmith shop, was one of thr; first to colhi ps.-1. Twelve persons were inside but not a one was hurt . Clark Nelson, a railroad man. was taking tak-ing a hath wh'-n the balloon-shaped -loud struck. The wind picked up the bathtub with Nelson inside, carried it several rods and snt it crashing to earth. Ncd-i Ncd-i son was killed. Mrs. Job a una McMahon, 7'., took her three grandchildren to the home of Mrs. George Briggs, wife of an engineer, whm the wind first increased In velocity. The i firf-t puff levek-d the house and killed ! both Mr?. McMahon and Mrs. Briggs. By some miracle the three children emerged from the wreckage unscathed. Krvin Jerkins was training a race horse at the Charleston fair grounds when the storm approached. He drove straight Into the onrushing cvclone and Vs killed. Normal School Untouched. The large state iinrma I school n t Charleston, In the 'enter nf the storm attack, was utitoiu bed, though every other oth-er window in the town was broken. Wiu-n the cvclone swept tlie residence district of f'harleston It skipped from the home of J. A. 'olby to tlie hnme of Willla m 1 Long, dodder! another house and then 1 M rif k the home of WiUia m Cobble. In each of the three homes one person was kiiMd. 1 lewf t neers M the Charleston storm idc.iarcd that f.vu unuil clouds apparent ly collided in the heart of the city with ;n explosive noise. H was the t .ven,;y-first anniversary of; p vy-or.c that killed thirty -five persons i in th vicinity of Charleston and caused ?n,nuO,ouo damage in ISI'fi. The number of dead In the vicinity of Wcstc-i-veldt was increased to six this afternoon. af-ternoon. Kiglu-year-oM C wendolyn Carroll, one of ;i ;roup of tiny tots who were man-g'ed man-g'ed ivhen the 1'nitod Kvnngelionl church collapped, died in a hospital. Her right b g cad been crushed off at the knee. Abraham Unjoin once practiced law In i. 'ha rp st on. The re met cry w cere the body of h!s step-mother lies was directly in the path of the storm, which tore several sev-eral tombstones from their places. 400 Residences Razed. The cyclone cut a path half a mile wide i in Charleston and half of the northern! section of the town is in ruins. Four hundred resldencp were razed. The Commercial an I M a pie bote!?, the Cha r I est on. Whallcn Brother, Grant and C. 1 . Griffin & Son elevators, the Charles-iron Charles-iron company and Read & Brother Lnm-h.?r, Lnm-h.?r, t""e gas and electric plants of the r'linols Central an.1 Public Fervice company com-pany were wrecked. Mrs. Holly Parrish was rescued from the ruins of the B'g Pour elevator at I i"hf rlet on after she bad been Imprisoned ; for eighteen hodrs. Sp probably will die. i When militiamen dug their wa- Into the Indus of the Ray less home In Charleston : this afternoon they found Mrs. Bayles i ilea d. with hnr ba by in her arms. For miles east and west of Charleston ' whole orchards were uprootpd and farm buildings leveled to tlie ground. Tlie storm shuck Mattoon at 3:30 p. m., rushing in from tne west. It cut a path three blocks wide through the northern half of the town. Scores had miraculous escapes. "1 was standing near the counter In my store." said A. I,. Tewellyn, a grocer. "I was knockei to the floor. When I tried to arise I found I was pinned down by debris," ,1. 1. Folwcll was standing In his back yard. He was lifted over a fen e, carried i seventy-five feet and slammed against a tree. ; On the roads near Mattoon were found several wrecked automobiles. Whether their occupants were carrieo away by the storm and killed or eenped with minor Injuries will not bp known for severa I davs. T're countv authorities are trying to find the owners of the machines. Dead at Charleston. By international News Service. CHA RI.KSTON". 111.. May C7. The known dead here as tlie result of Saturday's Satur-day's storm a rv J. R. SWEENEY. MRS. J. R. SWEENEY. JOHN WENZ, JR. NAPOLEON HUFFMAN. R. C. BARNES. MRS. R. C. BARNES, GEORGE KILGORE. JESS HUDDLESTON, ERVIN JENKINS. TE O KNAUSS. MRS. J. A. COLBY. NELLIE BINGAMAN. CLARENCE BINGAMAN. MRS. SARAH LINDER. FRANK CASE. MRS. GEORGE BRIGGS. MRS. JOHANNA M 'M AH ON. ! MRS. B. E. BAYLESS. PAUL BAYLESS. MRS. WILLIAM COBBLE. MRS. WILLIAM LONG. MADELINE LQNG. MRS. CLEM WRIGHT. BERT NEEDY. BID WARMAN. CLARK NELSON. GEORGE A. SMITH, SR. MRS. SAM SHORES. J. W. JOHNSON. DOUGLAS HUGENT. MILDRED OWINGS. WILSON GOODMAN. TEN -YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF GUY STEWART. MRS. JESSE HUDDLESTON. AN UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN. FIVE ARE KILLED WHEN THE STORM STRIKES INDIANA By International News Service. HAMMOND, Ind., May 27. Five per-I per-I sons are known to be dead, five others are dying and forty injured In Indiana towns bit by the tail-end of the storm that swept across Illinois late Saturday. Telephone lines are down to several farming communities and it Is possible the list of dead will be further increased. The known dead in Hebron are: E, B. PRATT, 50, crushed beneath an elevator. LESLIE KENNEDY, 13. killed by a flying fly-ing timber. MRS. ALICE KENZIE. The wind rushed through th outskirts of Hebron, a town of l.VjO, demollshlfeT cottages and destroying the Gridley -JP ' vator. At Crown Point, Ind., the fair ground stands and barns were demolished demol-ished and Joseph Shields, an aged horso trainer, was fatally hurt. At Cedar Lake the Calmon stock farm was razed and Mr. and Mrs. George Calmon were fatally fatal-ly injured. At Lowell and Shelby mine damage was done and two persons injured. Between Crown Point and Hebron the wind overturned a railroad construction camp of eight cars. The cook's car caught fire and several of the workmen were injured and burned. FOUR KILLED AND FIFTY INJURED IN GNE OF THE STORMS ST. LOUIS, May 27. Four lives were lost and at least 'f ty persons were injured in-jured in a tornado that originated near Murphy Hboro, lib, this afternoon, then rose and swept across the southern tip of Illinois to drop into Kentucky, causing caus-ing considerable proper t y damage, according ac-cording to reports tonight. Three persons are reported deaH and seventeen hurt at Dublin. Ky., according to a telegram from Cairo, 111. Miss Sylvia Nelson and another person per-son were killed and about thirty persons injured at Barclwell, Ky.. according to a. message received over tlie wires of the Illinois Central railroad and corroborated by i 'alro. The tornado is said to have destroyed the Illinois Central depot there a nd razed about twenty -five residences a nd a large flour mill. From Ba rdwell the whir liv Ind passed on to Clinton, where many were reported hurt. Relief is being sent to both towns from Cairo. Reports of Ions of life in southern Illinois Il-linois could not be verified, tint considerable consid-erable property damage was done. Manhattan Victims. By International News Service. MANHATTAN. 111.. May 27. The identified iden-tified dead in this vicinity as the result of Saturdov's storm are: CLINTON SCHWEIZER. LOUIS HOLMSTROM of Green Garden. FRANK DRUMM, SQuth Wilmington. Black Hawk Victims. TKKHK HACT10. Ind.. May 27. Mrs. Ada Pierson and Frnnk Fairhurst, n section sec-tion hand, were killed at Black Hawk. Ind., this county. In Saturday night's storm. The railroad station at Black Hawk was destroyed and cars blown off the track.. 6 KILLED, 8 INJURED IN MOTOR ACCIDENTS Ey International News Service. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. May 27. Two mot or pa rtiep dro e into the jaws of dentli by electric trains In Alameda and Contra Coru counties today. One collision at Moraga. Contra. Costa countv. took toll of five lives. Another at California and Virginia streets. Rerke-lev. Rerke-lev. snuffed out one life and caused Injuries In-juries to eight persons. A p-'trtv of five, returnfnc from a pi'nic, waM struck bv a fast electric train of the Oakland. Aniloch A- Eastern rail- wav at the Moraa rousing. The train was derailed. The motor car and Its oc-cii oc-cii t a m s were hurled feet, the quin- tette being killed Instantly. The motor was rompM elv wrecked . The Rerkclcy ao:ilcnl killed a 3-year-old U:lkl |