Show WRECKS kikui HUHN CITIES MANY LIVES ARE LOST AND MUCH DAMAGE IS DONE AS WIND GOES THRU ILLINOIS dead 1 fill E emergency 2 bay MIT morgue us 1 injured nj I II 11 fill ll 11 A alt 1 1 A available 11 able buildings building relief i 1 pouring tn carbondale ill III more the than halt a thousand persons are r it known 1 to be den dead it and conservative estimate place pines the 1 total low loss of life at f from to 1000 us an the results res ci to of the tornado termed which devastated a score core of illinois bud and indiana a n a fie and towns on met march ill eighteenth g h tc in addition to 0 the loaa ie of me life b be tw tween 2000 and ad persons were in aured care of at the them probably total fatal ly y other thousands thousand 0 were ove on made do homeless and property damage estimated at bet between neen T and BOO was caused by the freakish play ol of the be elements B out twenty tour four hours houra after the camax catas trodge the federal government abate let red crosa cros and private institutions and individuals combined in the her aulean task of eating caring lor the injured gai giving ng shelter helter ff to the IT homeless less and ad IT hunting no t off tor for bodies yet con concealed ceithel in the flattened dolen improvised morgues in a dozen 1 lit IT 4 it tie B raw towns and ad village ill go w were packed 1 to the doors door with lr long g it lines of the vic I 1 tims then of the trag tragedy ly wh who throughout brom bint the day had bad romilner remil romil ned uncured to tor ex an cent tor for tile the assenti il mini rations of the hard 0 pressed eased morticians the neglect was due not net to lack of reverence rence on n the p part rt ot of the mourn ins ing loved love ones on but to the tact fact that that the needs ot of the injured an and it dy dying I 1 1 IT engaged the immediate attention on of the th be bereaved survivors ilc in a many ot of the town where the zy tornado struck to rescue workers culture tolled ir in utter dar dikea knesH searching J g tor for or I 1 1 victims t while abd inadequate a a OV corps ot 1 d doctors cloy and it nurses or with limited sup aup ph altes ministered to the hundreds hundred of injured by improvised lights further relief on a wholesale acile 10 lo we was to in immediate medow in prospect pio pot to in adit more to a 0 on try I 1 of f troops creep at mur and one at west Frank company I 1 and to company ou thirty J h of sale salem ind cairo respectively were ordered to 10 west frankfort and co company replay L of hillsboro Hlll a medical detachment detachment of at the one hundred and sixty cavalry and a medical azat detachment of the one ole hundred and twenty ninth I 1 in infantry hundt wo were bent to murphysboro Murphy sh from chicago a medical Tet of men eleven carloads of sup plies blui OB eifert hl carloads of rations ration mid and sixty pul pullman ITO n cars to wine arp lie t to 0 t the h stricken district while ettia n nurses ur s es and it doctor hurried here late fi 13 om ere Chic chicago go st lome leon and other reir b y cities T the ba th disaster cut apparently tell fell roost meet houll heavily up upon people of limited means w omen amment and ad Th chiedi ildie en 1 in the I 1 long lists of identified dead the namen I 1 a of very ten fee pec persons who haj arm attained prominence prout I 1 nence were found murphysboro Murphy abow west Prank foi t D de soto bud and get gortian to all 11 within a rad radius of twenty twety five miles ot at Carbon carbondale dle 1 an fn the southern illinois soft coal helda bove bore the brunt of the disaster digester |