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Show TORNADO RUINS ' INDIANA TOWN Twenty-one Known Dead in Newcastle and Injured Are Estimated at 200. NEW! A.STLE, Ind , March 11 Re-jporl- reaching here early today from I surrounding towns were that three I persona had been ktfled at New 1 is-bon. is-bon. three at Moreland and three at Mount Summit bv the tornado which yesterday caused the death of 23 persons per-sons here. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind . March 11. A tornado swept over central eastern Indiana In-diana late today, killing more than a score of persons at Newcastle and two children in Wayne county. The total number of injured will run over 200, some of whom are probably fatally hurt. The damage will total well over a million dollars at Newcastle New-castle and several thousand dollars in Wayne county. Wire communication was crippled by the storm and reports were meager and hard to obtain. Adjutant General Harry B. Smith of the Indiana n.iilonal guard was ;n his office late tonight directing measures meas-ures of relief. He said his reports were that 26 were dead and 150 in jured at Newcastle. Two companies i of militia were ordered to Newcastle I to police the city. Physicians, nurses, undertakers and ambulant es were sent from nearby towns. Two Bpecial in-terurban in-terurban cars carrying 30 phvsicians and nurses were sen' from here earh in the evening. George Dyer, general superintendent of the Lake ErW' & Western railroad, said late tonight thai he had retehed word from railroad officials at Newcastle New-castle that 42 bodies had been removed from the wreckage in the storm-swept district and that at least 2a persons in the hospitals probably would die. He said the report came from a division superintendent, who. in an automobile, had made a trip through the devastated devastat-ed district. TORNADO PLACES TOWN IN RUINS IN FIVE MINUTES NEWCASTLE Ind. March 11 More than a score of persons were killed and 150 were injured, some fatally, in a tornado which wrecked 300 residences resi-dences in this city late today. The I propertv damage was roughly estimat ed tonight at $1,000,000. The storm swept over the city in a southerly direction, demolishing practicall everything in a path almost two blocks wide and more than ten blocks long. For several hours the city was entirely cut off from communication commu-nication Governor Goodrich was asked to send troops to police the cit, which, is in darkness tonight, owing to the demolition of the power plant. The ezacl number of dead may not be known for a day or two, as prac-J lically all the bodies thus far found have been dug out of the wreckage of their homes. The search tonight was hampered by darkness, but with the comine of daylight tomorrow it is believed more bodies will be found Late tonight 21 bodies had been recovered re-covered and six persons were missing, it was believed other bodies still were buried in the wreckage which had not been searched. A revised list of th$ dead follows: EVEREiT DUNLAP. BERN ICE DAVIS. MORRIS DAVIS. JAMES NEILIS. GRAY DAVIS. MRS. JOHN DAVIS DAVIS, son of Grav Davis. MRS. ARCHIE FLETCHER. HALER, young daughter of John Haler. RAZER, 12-year-old son of W. T. Razer. MRS. ARCHIE WILLIAMSON. i MISS OPAL WILLIAMSON, daUgh- j ter of Mrs. Williamson. NEWTON. HERN ICE DAY. MRS. MARY B. WILLIAMS. MRS, VERA HIGGINS, daughter of jj i Mrs Williams ERNEST WATERMAN, aged 6. Two men and one boy, unidentified. H I Among the missing are L William Davis, J. W. McLane and two sons, Mrs. Newton, William Ixiw- onfusion and disorder followed in ( the path of the storm. Those who M caped injury and death ran wildly about the streets, women and children 1 crying and wringing their hands and j men shouting and cursing. The men I finally settled down and began the work of rescue, digging in the ruins of their homes for missing member! of their families. IH inly two or three bodies were found in the street. f Several fires broke out in the wreck- if age on the south side, but a heavy rain kept them troni spreading While many substantial residences were dam- J aged, the greatest destruction was in I the factory district. There was little warning of the ap-! ap-! proaching tornado. A huge funel-' funel-' shaped cloud suddenly appeared in the wesl hanging low, and sweeping to-i to-i ward ihe city with lightning-liko I speed Groups of persons on th j streets began seeking shelter, men 1 I and women running wildly through the 'streets. iH The tornado lasted only about fivo minutes and was followed by a hard rain, which also stopped in a few min- S One witness of the storm, who wan j driving with his family in an automobile, automo-bile, reached the courthouse square when the tornado struck. Deserting his car, the man and his family sought shelter in an excavation for a new building. Crouching In mud and water knee deep against the protecting wall of the basement, they remained there until the storm had subsided. |