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Show SEARCHING RUINS IN TORNADO WAKE Many Families Made Homeless and in Need of Financial Finan-cial Aid. BIG PROPERTY DAMAGE Thousands Turn Out for Rescue Work Strange Freaks of Twister. NEWCASTLE. Ind., March 12. ! With 19 persons dead and 200 injured, Newcastle today began clearing away the debris left by the cyclone which swept the southern part of the city yesterday afternoon. Fully 500 homes were destroyed or badly damaged. The estimates of the ! property loss remained at about $1.-000,000. $1.-000,000. The death list began to dwindle ear-, ly today when persons who had been reported killed began to appear or were found among the injured. Searching Search-ing of the ruins continued, but as no 1 more bodies were found, the hope was. expressed that all had been accounted) tor. The city was under police and military mili-tary control approaching martial law. Several companies of Indiana national j guard were patrolling the damaged districts. All saloons and factories were closed. Workers from the factories fac-tories were busy clearing the streets. Newcastle, Ind.. March 12. With the coining of daylight, se.trch of the ruins left in the wake of yesterday's tornado which caused tho death of at ' least twenty-four persons here, the serious injury' ol thirty-six others and about $1,000,000 property damage, was j redoubled and it was believed several more bodies would be found. More, than 200 families were made homelc j about half of whom will require Immediate Im-mediate financial assistance it was estimated. The tornado struck the city from the west after leveling the rolling mills of Blue River valley. It swept through the entire width of the city from Sixth, to Twenty-fifth streets. The first home in the path of the twister were prac-J tlcally leveled to the ground after 1 which the wind apparently raised slightly, taking the roofs from the houses from Tenth to Twentieth streets, where it again dipped, sweep, lng practically every house before it reached Twenty -fifth The greatest damage was done in the south part of the city where a great many of the 1 factory employees reside and several; thousand were homeless throughout the night. Two hundred special officers of-ficers were sworn in by Mayor Wat-kins Wat-kins and a strict patrol of the affected af-fected districts was maintained Storm Cuts Wide Swath. The tornado cut a path from 300 to 500 feet in width through the city for a distance of eighteen blocks. It entered the city limits near the south, west boundary line and worked its way In a zigzag manner north for two blocks and then east. It turned south near the eastern limits and left the city in a southeasterly direction Because of darkness and a heavy fog last night it was impossible to estimate the extent of the property damage. Three or four ruins caught flr and at least one body was found badly burned after the fire was extinguished. The storm lasted only a few minutes. Thousands of Rescuers. The entire city turned its attention to rescue work with Major P. A. Davis of the Indiana national guard and Mayor Wat kins in charge. Three companies of Indiana national guard were here before 1 o'clock. A citizens' relief committee was being organized and will take up tho work of giving assistance. I 'ommunlcation with nearby villages was broken off but reports from persons per-sons coming into Newcastle in auto mobiles were that, at least, seven per. sons had been killed In the vicinity. It was repotted three had been killed at New Lisbon, three at Moreland and three at Mount Summit. Strange Freaks of Storm. The tornado played many freaks acts as it whirled Its way through the city. On a number of streets every' house with one exception was leveled to the ground and In one block every second house was wrecked and the other homes escaped untouched. Entire En-tire roofs were torn from houses and carried for squares and one house was picked up and caried a half square and set down against practically unharmed. un-harmed. 3 t Red Cross Called. IIICAGO. March 12. A message re-i celyed by the Red Cross here early today from Mayor Watkins of Newcastle. New-castle. Ind . which was badly damaged by a tornado yesterday, said that ap-1 proximately 500 homes had been destroyed de-stroyed and that many persons were in need of aid. Mayor Watkins has! appointed a relief committee, which has issued an appeal for help for the sufferers. The message to the Red Cross said no food or clothing wasi needed, but that money for furnish-' ings for homes and furniture was needed. Cincinnati Death List. CINCINNATI, Ohio, March 12. The death list resulting from the cyclonic windstorm that leveled numerous houses in Hde Park, in the east end of the city, last night, had not increased in-creased today. Three people, two men and a boy, are dead, while hospital authorities au-thorities are working to save the lives of four others who are known to be1 dangerously injured. No estimate of the property damage had been placed early today. More than 30 houses were either completely leveled to the ground or damaged to such an extent as to make them uninhabitable. unin-habitable. The rescue work was efficient. ef-ficient. howeer, and all of the homeless home-less are being well taken care of by : neighbors. Four More Dead. RICHMOND, Ind., March 12. The! ijeiim tun ui y esieraay s lornaao in Wayne county was increased to four J early today by the finding of the, bodies of two laborers near Hagers-town. Hagers-town. Hagerstown is sixteen miles west ot Richmond and the storm that struck , there is believed to have been the! same one that wrought such havoc at Newcastle The roads south and west! of Hagerstown were blocked with fall-1 en trees and telephone poles and it! wa hard to pet information from the stricken section. The tornado spent its force before reaching Richmond, although al-though the wind reached a high velocl-1 ty and rain fell in torrents. 00 |