Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-03-13 | Page 1 | Death Toll in Fierce Storm Set at Forty

DEATH IDEATH TOLL IN fiERCE STORM SET A AT fORTY Injured Counted at While Property Damage Mounts Into Millions Red Cross Gives Aid TENNESSEE FEELS WORST EFFECTS Two Little Towns Virtually Virtu Virtually ally Demolished in Path of Blast Lost Trains Are Found by Radio CHICAGO March 13 13 Gradual restoration of telephone and telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph facilities In the storm swept area ares between the Rock Rocky mountains and the tho Appalachian range today today- brought additional details of ot death and destruction the dead nearing a a. total of forty the Injured counted at approximately and damage to transportation lines of communication communication com corn homes and business buildings reported at millions of dollars The worst effects of ot the storm a heavy downfall of ot snow or rain ac accompanied accompanied ac ac- companied by a II high wind that reached the proportions of ot a cy cyclone cyclone cyclone cy- cy clone in some localities were feit felt at PInson Tenn and Deanburg Tenn Teno where the te death toll was seventeen and the Injured totaled between fifty and seventy-five seventy per per- sons Those little towns virtually were demolished and today a contingent of ot Red Cross workers were on their way there to relieve the sufferings of ot the Injured and homeless NINE DEAD IN KENTUCKY Central Kentucky felt the Irresistible Irresistible irresistible tible force of ot the gale storm and andas andas andas as Its Us effects were being checked today counted Its dead at t nine the injured at approximately eighty and property damage close to 1 In Ohio two persons were re reported reported reported re- re ported killed one at and andone andone andone one at Scores were Injured Public Publio utilities companies of Michigan were reported to have suffered totaling about Wire companies at Grand Rapids said the storm In the western part of the state caused a loss of nearly and SagInaw Saginaw Saginaw Sagi- Sagi naw companies estimated damages at Practically the whole state of or Wisconsin was recovering today from the effects of ot a heavy snow RADIO FINDS TRAINS The storm brought out a new use for radio when lost trains were located by broadcasting from Chi Chi- cago cage Train service throughout th the storm area was materially delayed and in some sections schedules had hadnot hadnot hadnot not yet et been restored Numerous Numerous towns today tody were still without adequate wire facilities to place them In continued and constant constant constant con con- stant communication with other towns In Illinois Iowa Wisconsin Missouri and Indiana work work was was un under under under un- un der way to restore communication and transportation facilities