Show Tornados Tornado's Toll Hits 50 in iii Three States State Millions of Dollars In Property Damage Reported By Associated d Press Winter Vinter dealt its hardest blows of the he season seMon to the nation Tuesday A paralyzing blizzard smothered a large section of of- the great plains following M o 0 n d a ys y's s tornadoes which took at least 50 lives in Ar Ar- Arkansas kansas kansa and Louisiana Hundreds were injured in the tornadoes more hundreds were homeless Winds up to 60 miles an hour blotted out visibility with driving snow Old timers in the D Dakotas c called it the worst storm they ever saw Lt Gov Robert Crosby scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- to call tl the tl e 1949 Nebraska legislature to order at noon Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day at Lincoln wired that he was snowbound at North Platte anc and unable to make it it Chadron Neb reported 37 inches of ot snow Mill Millions ns of dollars dollus in property damage resulted from the blizzard the cold and the tornadoes A heavy loss of cattle caught t by the storm on the rang ranges was predicted predict predict- ed by cattlemen In addition the thet t tornado mado wreckage was e estimated in the hundreds of thousands thousand of ot dollars H Heaviest I A t l Toll The heaviest toll of lives an and property damage was from the thi tornadoes which struck ck in hi Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas Louisiana and K Kansas h s. s The e lumber mill town of ot Warren Ark 90 miles mUes south of Little LittleRock LittleRock LittleRock Rock was the the- target of the mos most devastating blow At t least 4 46 were killed and between ant and injured in the community o of Search was made for additional additional ad ad- bodies Two other tornadoes killed four fou persons and injured more than 60 in northern Louisiana and near nea El Dorado Ark All through the night dazed survivors survivors survivors sur sur- at Warren stumbled through the ruins of a block 20 industrial industria and residential area many aimlessly aimlessly aimlessly aim aim- lessly others in search of rela rela- tives Doctors Rally Doctors and nurses from nearby nearby nearby near near- by communities and from Hot Ho Springs and Little Rock rallied on the stricken area They worked through the darkness rain an and hail by lamp and candle light t to treat the stream of injured The dead gathered by common consent at a single funeral home overflowed the small morgue inta into int a garage The storm struck at pm and lasted only 15 minutes but bu its arrival as most of ot the town See Page 4 Column ts 5 I- I 1 j I- I x t 1 e k e I. 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I s.- s. e 4 Ar i I S I S r I I k 1 j-c j e S S S S 55 S 5 S 1 4 m mt 3 F C- C t q 4 Associated Freu Arkansas Felt Full Fury of Raging Tornado National guardsmen and state police examine wreckage of or Church of God at Warren arren Ark J which uns ns as demolished b by Monda Mondays Monday's tornado The terrific i hammered areas areal of three Arkansas In Jn I Its grim sweep Bod Body in foreground was as found In church wreckage Tornados Tornado's r S Toll Reaches 50 Continued from Page One prepared for supper wa wu heralded by an ominous roar The Louisiana blow sped aped down the Cotton valley scene of a similar similar simi simi- lar disaster last year killing a farmer and nd an old month baby Twenty-nine Twenty Louisianans were yvere In in In- After leaving Warren the storm skipped to the vicinity of El Dorado Dorado Do Do- rado lado killing hilling two others and in injuring injuring injuring in- in juring more than a score An early January blizzard bUzzard centering Tue Tuesday day in northeast Nebra Nebraska swept Nebraska swept ka-swept swept across the plains states dip dipped ed into the Texas panhandle panhAndle panhandle pan pan- handle and howled into northwestern northwest northwest- em ern Minnesota Minneota Mercury Plunges Temperatures plunged to as low lowas as 28 below zero in Butte Mont Winds ranging in velocity from 40 to 60 miles an hour swirled heavy falling snow into huge drifts over the blizzard belt of the Dakotas Dakota western vestern Nebraska western western west west- em ern Kansas eastern Wyoming Colorado and northwest Minne Minne- sota The mercury ranged from 10 to 15 below to 5 above in western Kansas Snowfalls ranged from three to eight inches Chadron Neb reported 32 inches of snow on the ground Many highways were blocked Schools in several communities were closed Business and industry industry industry indus indus- try were forced to slow v or curtail operations in some sections The storm moved northeastward northeastward northeast northeast- ward and northwest Iowa was in for some of the strong winds ant and driving snow Colder weather was forecast for sections of the north central states Colder weather was forecast for eastern Kansas after a varied menu of weather weather for for the state state slate tornadoes hail rain snow thunder and lightning over a hour 24 period I The m mercury cury dropped dropp d to 2 below at Spokane Wash Wish and to 4 above at Winslow Ariz |