Show I Pathway of Tornado Resembles Battlefield TEXARKANA Ark April 16 Every available doctor and nurse from this city supplemented with citizen workers Boy Scouts and corps of ot amI ambulances am am- I answered emergency ncy calls for help which gradually began filterIng filtering filtering filter filter- ing through when at t the storms storm's hel height ht calls for help reached here shortly before th the wires failed tailed The path of ot the storm is one of or desolation today and tales of ot th the d devastation wrought brought by relief workers who spent the night in the wrecked districts districts districts dis dis- promises to exceed first re re- re ports The storm according to meager r re reports reports re- re ports originated in Gregg county in northe northeastern Texas and property and crop loss in the affected area was said to be great Passing through Cass county the tornado covered a path about half halt a mile wide and swept a timber section which had not been heard from at midday Housed w were te damaged or destroyed d at MI MIneola I Avenger Linden OFarrell Atlanta t and Gladewater in Tex Texas s. s Skirting Texarkana by a narrow margin the full force of ot the storm struck the community three miles northeast of ot here where the first toll of f death In Arkansas was exacted Shiloh seven miles northeast Is a heap of or wn wreckage kage the hurricane crossIng crossing cross- cross Ing tn the Potter Sims and Bo Boyce ce tan j tanI where farm tann buildings and I negro tenant houses houses' hous' hous s' s were wrested from front their moorings moorings' and and deposited In inI fragments fragments' oVer a a wide vide surrounding territory I Darkness hampered relief workers during the night many of the injured d dI I being located only by their cries of ot I suffering Along the Ninth street road leading east from Texarkana the densely wooded areas today bore the semblance of a battlefield after a hea heavy artillery fire Massive oaks and pines were twisted off oft or uprooted Boy Scout workers in quest of the dead and injured spent hours in re removing removing removing re- re moving the wreckage Num Numbers ers of or wounded found too remote to b be transported transported transported trans trans- ported to the highway were being cared for In outbuildings and makeshift makeshift make make- shift shirt shelters |