| Show VV Storms at a Glance Glanca i Dead At least 52 2 Injured More than 00 f f Property damage Several mil mil-l lion Hon dollars 1 States hit by tornadoes ant alid mil strong trong gales Illinois Indiana Kentucky Missouri Michigan Ohio Kansas New York YOlk and andt Pennsylvania I Four persons were killed jia it Ohio Two others lost their Uv in m Kentucky two in Missouri Missourian U an anone and andone one each in Michigan Pennsyl vania and New York J. J The army and the Red Cr Crow mobilized disaster units and eme emu gency equipment food and clothing cloth clots ing were rushed into the I areas An allotment of was WD made by the American R n Rel dl Cross to aid victims' victims in Missouri Indiana and Ohio Homes stores factories and churches fell before the sinai ing attack of the t tornadoes az n and like gale win winds D. D De Drenching e 1 hin rin throughout the storm belt added add to 10 the suffering mageS ni towns in Illinois were Travel was impeded and com cati ns disrupted in many Ir ar i Heavy Toll ToU It 1 F Four o 0 u r Ii a small m al all I C county Illinois 1 is lull the heIJe heaviest yi st da damage g In into fifi and and- pr property and md In in la the BUB um l injured In Bunker Hill Hill- IlL about SO JO of ot the town of 1500 was was tt ii The R Red Cross Cros said the was 19 19 the the most in any anI ot towns smashed by the tornado Property damage was estimated d' d da a half million dollars l' l i In nearby near Fo Fosterburg l per perSons er sons sons were killed scores cor in injure and nearly all of the towns town 11 homes and stores were wrecked w damaged Five persons lost the lives in Gillespie and the estimate property damage in the city oJ was about lii fourth Macoupin county town hi ban hit was Woodburn where four four per persons sons eons were killed Several homand horn hom and stores in the village of were destroyed f Hospitals were taxed be O capacity in the stricken area 40 miles northeast of at S 5 St Louis About victims victims' we wen taken to hospitals hospital in near near-by AJ ton and Litchfield Ill Cuts Wide Vide Path The twister which struck j four our communities first wa Wa T r ported at New Athens Ill HI w wit he it cut a path feet wide the business d district It hit bitT Free Freeburg burg and touched at the edge edge- fl Alton before racing on its path of devastation J JIn In the meantime torna tornado tord co co r F roared o 0 a are r a d through separated across the ip river river in MI Missouri ouri M More re of ot were injured inured a score persons persona 1 the s stricken ricken area aiea Later winds of ot gale proportion swept across widely scatter latter points In Indiana Indiana la in Rising S su Leo Kokomo and Several per persons ons suffered Hu damage was hea property and De Destructive winds c caused nu rod muc property damage in several w WJ a aern Ohio communities Two ch cm ern dren were killed at Landeck i Oh when a twister roared over One m man an p w Mer Mercer er county town One killed kUle l at Ottawa Ohio ana T other at Urbana Ohio The ato swept over p parts of ot northern J 1 tt tucky killing a father an and his Friday night the rain and vi IV win northeast storms m moved 0 v. v ve e d Pennsylvania la a across ros Ohio state tate Winds in r sO New York areas reached a velocity of or J Row W we than 70 miles an hour ripped from buildings building treSS tree u rooted and public utility 1 poI felled V |
