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Show ILLINOIS AREA ! . SURVEYS LOSS DAWN FINDS "LITTLE EGYPT" SLOWLY SQUIRMING OUT OF MASS OF DESTRUCTION Estimate Shows 526 Known Dead, 736 Reported Lost, and 2,500 Injured; With a Property 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 526 known dead, 73G reported re-ported dead and more than 500 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 castastrophe. 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; 96 in Indiana and 53 in Tennessee. Kentucky and Alabama. The heaviest property loss is In southern Illinois. The extent of the tornado showed it the worst in American history. It 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. |