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Show ILLINOIS AAEA sum loss PAWN FINDS "LITTLE EGYPT" SLOWLY SQUIRMING OUT OF MASS OF DESTRUCTION Estimate Shows 626 Known Dead, 738 Reported Lost, and 2,500 Injured; With a Property I Loss of Over $10,000,000 Dawn Friday found death swept "Little Egypt'' beginning to squirm out of the mass of destruction left by Wednesday's bitter cyclone". The hourly casualty lists placed in various vari-ous spots over the stricken area so sufferers may find out what has happened hap-pened to missing friends and relatives showing 52(1 known dead. 7.'i6 reported re-ported dead and more than i500 Injured. In-jured. Prostrated, but with the hurried efforts ef-forts at. temporary relief supplemented supplement-ed by the arrival of trained workers, supplies and medicines, the storm stricken area of the Ohio valley Friday Fri-day continued to count the terrific loss In life and property of Its greatest great-est tornado caslastrophe. A committee from the state legislature legisla-ture visited the stricken area Thursday Thurs-day and Governor Len Small, who also toured the district, was expected at Carbondale Friday to aid in directing di-recting relief measures. Seven hundred hun-dred and fifty tubes of antitetanus serum, the last available supply at Indianapolis, was being rushed to Carbondale Car-bondale and Murphysboro. Relief measures were well under way and further Increments In strength of personnel, housing facilities facili-ties for the estimated 8000 homeless foodstuffs and medicines was promised prom-ised from federal, state and private sources. Day dawned on a tented area. Where Wednesday there were dozens doz-ens of industrious little cities and towns, this morning were tented villages vil-lages scattered among the debris. Six states making survey of their losses in lives and property from Wednesday afternoon's tornado, brought out figures showing: ; The known dead total, 577. Over 500 persons unaccounted for. Approximately 3000 injured. The property damage will reach $10,000,000. In Missouri and Illinois there are 426 dead; 9G in Indiana and 53 in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama. The heaviest property loss is in southern .Illinois. ( j I. The extent of the tornado showed it the worst in American history. H reached down into Alabama, struck with its main force first in Missouri, devastated southern Illinois, sped Into Kentucky and Tennessee and Indiana, Indi-ana, where it showed great fury. |