Show STORMS SEEP SWEEr EASTERN COAST I ND Al ALABAMA BAMA I II Gale Sale Over Atlantic States I Adds Seven to Fourteen I IDeath Death Toll in South SouthE PROPERTY E DAMAGE AT HIGH FIGURE Red Cross Rushes Relief Into Stricken Area Wind Cuts Broad Path LEAD TROY Ala Oct 26 25 AP Reports today indicated that the tornado that struck stuck widely separated fed e ed l places in this section of Alabama killed l seventeen persons injured about thirty and caused property l loss ss estimated at I Relief was sent today to the stricken communities in Barbour ke and Crenshaw counties which were hardest hit Among the dead Tin J in Crenshaw county is John Mrs Peacock who had lived live to the age ae Tot of TROY Ala Oct 26 AP AP Res Res Residents dents of ot many portions C oj cf Pike Barbour and Crenshaw counties today to- to day were vere endeavoring to bring order order or- or to-I to der out of oZ chaos that resulted from i faT 8 tornado which claimed a known t toll ll of oZ s seventeen lives lIve Injured l many nany rendered horn homeless eless hundred and aId left thousands of ot dollars' dollars damage damage damage dam- dam age In Us Its wake Red Bed Cross forces and local loc physicians wern min mIns ministering to the then n needs eds of ot the Injured and arid were as ns- ns slating the stricken people to orient themselves A relief fund was subscribed subscribed sub sub- scribed here yesterday afternoon and land made immediately available to the relief workers who went Into the field The tornado seemed to have its origin in jn 1 county where I if swept down with tremendous force tearing its way across the breadth of Pike county one end and on eastward east- east ward tard into Barbour where it apt ap- ap t rears ears to have spent itself CENTENARIAN AMONG DEAD iNear Near Jear Luv Luverne rn V seat i toOt tet ot Crenshaw w two were were killed both of ot them aged a and d one past years ot of are ace Th The death list could not be completed com com- as ns to o names owing to the widely scattered districts district'S sonic some of ot Rhem them remote from telephone and telegraph t communication and the general Impairment to wires by the thet t tornado ISa ln In addition to two dead ead in Cren- Cren Crenshaw Crenshaw shaw county there were wore eight dead in Pike county and seven in Barb Bar- Bar b bour ur Of the eight who lost their lives in Pike four tour were children of the same family while their father fatherland land and mother were seriously Injured fand a d are not expected to live Two other persons of ot the tha same family name Knight were also Injured In Barbour county six negroes were killed RAIN IAIN FOLLOWS WIND Residents near the tho path of the tornado ornado were aroused by the roar of I the twister and the cries of the thel l Injured They rushed Into the stricken area In a of rain working for hours in a search for forthe forthe the dead and giving aid to the in In- In LAn An emergency call to Troy sent doctors ambulances and nurses from here In the storm path and soon scon scores of ot injured were being Brought rought Into the city taxing hospitals hospitals' hos has hosi i capacity to Its Ita utmost The dead 1 ad and injured were picked up inthe In m I the fields nelda in the roads and under the debris of fallen buildings and trees t The tornado came at the tIe conclusion sion on of a a. period of Intense heat and threatening weather of Saturday It WI S by a n. severe electrical s storm orm Troy citizens were planning t today toay y to go into other portions of of C he e county by the torn and seek sr-ek further funds for relief relict of ot the Uie victims of the tho storm |