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Show TORNADO CAUSES INDIANHORROR. NEW ALBANY. Ind, March 23 Between Be-tween twenty-five and fifty person were killed and probably 100 more were injured by a storm which late today swept over New Albany, demolishing demol-ishing scores of residences and several industrial plants. Twenty-five bodies have been recov-tred. recov-tred. and it is expected this number will be materially increased when all the debris of wrecked buildings has been cleared away. The lighting system for the residence resi-dence section of the city was put out of commission by the storm and the work of rescue is proceeding slowly. Known Dead: The known dead are: BABY PEERING. CHARLES MVAFFEREY. CLARENCE MOSS. EDWARD JOHNS. MRS! CHARLES DAILEY. MRS. WILLIAM HUFF. MISS ELSIE LOPF. MISS MAY LOPP. MRS. BUNCH. MRS. PEYTON. MRS. JOHN D1DELOT. a daughter, Cecilia. 14; son. 6; a bady of 2 years. ROSE HUFF. 5 year of age. ZURSCHNIDE. a boy 15 years of age. Nine unidentified bodies. Baby Dies After Rescue. The Deering baby, about 6 months of age. was found floating in a small stream into which it had been borne by the wind. The child was alive and clinging to a dog which apparently-had apparently-had been killed byr the storm The I baby died in th arms of Its rescuer. Later an aunt identified the baby and I then reported that both the father and1 mother had been killed. The streets in tho path of the storm are a mass of wreckage. An appeal to the city authorities of Louisville brought a large number of policemen to aid in maintaining order, and all available officers from the Indiana state reformatory at Jeffersonville and from the Jeffersonville police force were hurried hero. A call was made on the goernor for state troops. Early in the night plans for furnishing furnish-ing relief to those whose homes had been destroyed were formed at a mass meeting, where a large fund was subscribed. |