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H.Vtf.rVTNl The GT IMES PULL Leased Win Report Th United Pratt Evtry By Telegraph. THE WEATHER Fuir; colder tonight; Friday, fair; strong northwest winds. 1 VOL. No. 303.

SAYltK, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1925. Eye Witness Tells Of Terrible Scenes lit ins cesih mii ARE MADE HOMELESS IN SOUTHEflEI FART OF IEEI1S in si win INJURED AND I1HE ii been in mm A. W. Essick, Editor of Duquoin, Describes Desolation Caused By Southern Cyclone Five States Affected by Terrific Blasts. Magnitude of Disaster Grows As Communication With Small Towns Is Restored-Many of Victims Are School Children Roaring Twister Cuts Swath Three Miles Wide from Annapolis, Missouri, Across Illinois Into Indiana.

Breaks Out In Several Towns. Many Children Among Dead of Day Among these latter communities was Parrish, 111., where the' wind was reported to have been so strong that bodies were tossed more than a mile from the oity. Many dead are reported from there, although it is a town of only a small population. The wind whirled across Illinois and made its last stand at Princeton, Indiana, according to reports to the Red Cross. There 100 persons were reported killed and twice that number reported injured.

It seems to have lost its intensity from there. Details Lacking. Meager details are forthcoming from the communication-paralyzed sections. At West Frankfort, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad yards were burned, surface plants of several large mines were destroyed and more than a score of miners, reported dead when the wash-house of the Orient mine was blown over. A number of school children were killed at Murphysboro when a public school in which 245 students were housed was blown over.

Rescue work was slow in starting there owing to the menacing fire which broke out. The storm brushed into Williamson county, but did little damage, save at Bush, where one person was reported killed. Herrin was only a few miles outside the storm's path. MKD1NA, March (United Press) A psychological impulse that gripped the brain and warped the soul otj (Mrs. Martha Wise, 13, was blamed for the Gienke wholesale poison plot.

Mrs. Wise confessed. After two hours of questioning the office of Prosecutor Joseph Seymour, Mrs. Wise admitted putting arsenic in the. water buckets at the Gienke home.

These deaths resulted: Mrd. Sophie mother of Mrs. Wise. Fred Gienke, her uncle. Mrs.

William Gienke, her aunf. At least a dozen other relatives were critically ill. NASHVILLE, March 19. Meagre messages coming from Sumner county, early today, indicated the death toll there may reach 50 and a hundred or more injured as a result of the twister which swept the county late yesterday. Medical aid and Red Cross workers were sent from Nashville shortly after midnight, last night to the villages of Buck Lodge, Oak Grove, Sulphuria, Pea Town, William, Angle and Keytown, which were reported demolished by the cyclone.

PALM BEACH, March 19 United Press) Martial law was in i fleet at this famous winter pleasure resort today following a disastrous fire which destroyed the Palm Beach and the Breakers hotels and caused a total loss estimated at several millions. While a company of national guardsmen patrolled the streets guarding thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, clothing and personal saved by the wealthy, search was made in the ruins for bodies of five persons reported missing. -ILJL building in the path of the storm wrecked. "Fire broke out almost immediately alter the storm swept over the town. One woman was burned to death and I counted 105 bodies of, storm victims in one undertaking establishment.

"From Murphysboro, I went directly to De Soto. This town was completely wiped from the map. Death and destruction are everywhere and not one-third of the population escaped death in the hurricane. "The scene is that of absolute and indescribable desolation and the horror of fire adds to the travail of the day." Sidelights BELIEF EFFORTS WASHINGTON, March 19. (United Press) President Cool-idge today sent a letter to John Harton Payne1, chairman of the American Red Cross, suggesting that he put in operation "all the facilities of the Red Cross to assist in required relief" in the middle west cyclone disaster area.

Mr. Coolidge sent Payne another letter suggesting "extension of any assistance possible through the Bed Cross organization to our sister republic of Peru, which has suffered from a flood and reported destruction of one of its important cities." Judge Payne said all facilities available for the cyclone relief work are in or on their way to the stricken zone. RED CROSS 111 STRICKEN IE WASHINGTON, March 19 (United Press) The entire resources of the American Red Cross were mobilized today to relieve suffering in the zone stricken by the tornado in Illinois, Missouri and Indiana. The headquarters staff of the Red Cross worked all night map ping plans for comprehensive relief. Doctors, nurses and surgical and medical supplies, food clothing and shelter materials are being despatched to every affected community as fast as transportation can be secured.

i DIES IT CAPITAL WASHINGTON, March 19. Former Senator Charles A. Culberson of Texas, died at his home here at a. m. today.

Culberson had been an invalid for some t'me but the immediate cause of his death was said to have been an attack of influenza. He was senator from Texas from 1S99 to 1923. Culberson was born in Dadeville, June 10, 1S55. LAND, NOT PEOPLE NEW YORK (United Prsss)-The time is not far distant when it will be necessary for the United States to substitute a policy of trying to find land for people in place of its tradition policy of finding people for land and hand ing out large pieces of the public domains to them," says an article in the American Bankers Association Journal. The executive departments at Washington are working on the determination of probable future needs.

PRICE THREE CENTS houses, barns and a school bouse and railway cars. Damage will total hundreds of. thousands. Telegraph and telephone wires are down. Louisville escaped disaster by a narrow margin.

The tornado which entered Jefferson county, mowed a long path extending 1,000 feet to a mile wide. MEMPHIS, March 19 (United Press) Thirty-four persons were killed by the tornado Which swept Sumned county, late yesterday, H. L. Brown, chairman of the county Red Cross chapter reported by long distance telephone to Memphis today. About twenty were injured, Brown said.

The tornado swept the rural districts in the northern part of the county. No towns were damaged, according to Brown, i WASHINGTON, March 19. Thirty were killed and an unknown number injured in a cyclone at -Gallatin, yesterday. H. L.

Brown, chairman of the Gallatin Red Cross organization, wired the National Red Cross here, toAay. The injured believed to number between 50 and 75, are being taken in ambulances to a hospital forty miles away, the message said. minnrn nwiurnn II1HITLU IVIHOO FAIRMONT, W. March 19 Two thousand feet in the depths of the Bethlehem JSiiie No. 41, at Barrackville, near here, rescue workers dug on tirelessly today In search of the bodies of 34 men who were entombed in the workings by a gas explosion Tuesday.

R. M. Larabie, state superintendent of mines, announced at dawn today, the rescue squads would have to dig through another thousand feet of wreckage before the chamber where the men were trapped Is reached. There is no hope now of rescuing the miners alive. Rescue workers are forced to wear oxygen helmets and brattice themselves in to prevent being overcome by tha poisonous gases that fill every crevice of the mine.

CRITICALLY ILL LONDON. March 19. (United Press) Marquis Curzon of Kedles-ton, lord president of the Council, was reported 'extremely weak" in a bulletin issued shortly before noon today. His condition was described as critical. Lord Curzon has been ill nearly two weeks with hemorrhages.

CONFERENCE ON CHILDREN CINCINNATI (United Press) rhe health of the school children of all countries of the world will be an important subject for discussion before the first meeting of the World Federation of Education Associations in Edinburg, Scotland, in July. EMPLOYES INVEST PHILADELPHIA, Pa. The American Electric Railway Asso ciation estimates that $9,350.00 has invested by street car riders employes In securities of the railways in 14 months. MARQUIS CURZON Death List The cyclone death list as revised at 10 a. is: Dead Injured Annapolis, Mo.

..2 35 Gorham, III 30 50 Murphysboro, 400-800 900 De Soto, III 150 400 W. Frankfort, 250 400 Royalton, III 5 25 Parrish, III 25 50 Bush, III 10 60 Caldwell, III 2 15 McLeansboro, 10 25 Logan, III 10 40 Orient, III 7 Unknown Griffin, Ind. 25 Unknown Poseyville, Ind. ..5 20 Owensville, Ind, 5 20 Princeton, Ind. ..20 200 Sumner Tenn.

34 20 LUDLOW, March 19. (United Press) "Just the usual Vermont family" will go down to Washington with John Garibaldi Sargent, the new attorney general. That's on authority of Mrs. Sargent who refuses to get excited over her husband's 'appoiiitmenlt and who didn't even cancel a proposed trip to Burlington on account of it. "We are the usual Vermont family," she told the United Press.

"We drive a lot, live much out of doors, enjoy our flower gardens, find time for bridge now and then, and on occasions take extended fishing trips." Mrs. Sargent, who before her marriage was Mjiry Gordon of Lud low, is five feet, eight inches tall ten inches shorter than her six foot six huBband and reflects the health which comes from digging in a flower garden and living out of doors. In Ludlow she always has been "just one of the townspeople." She is an active member of the thread and needle club and is known for her skill in fwinj; a regular attendant with her husband at the Universalist Church; and is a leader in the work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "I've always danced," Mrs. Sargent said, "and even now I quite frequently attend the little dances we have here.

I go with my daughter and her husband. But these dances aren't like the city affairs. Here everybody goes and we meet the neighbors. "Of late years Mr. Sargent hasi been so busy he hasn't been able to attend dances." While her husband is reported to have opposed women's suffrage, Mrs.

Sargent is a pronounced suffragist and believes in constructive child labor laws. Plans have not yet been made for moving the family to Washington, she said. "After all, it's pretty sudden," was her comment. She has few ideas as to her part in Washington life. "Of course, I am very glad for John's sake," she said, "that the president, selected him 'attorney! general.

"And I am going to be glad to do anything I can to help him. But, frankly, I hate to leave Ludlow." Mrs. Sargent was born at Woodstock, but she laughingly declined to say when. DEFEAT BLOCH BILL ALBANY, March 19. The Republican majority last night defeated attempts of Minority Leader Bloch to bring on to the floor of the assembly the Democratic bills providing for a minimum wage board, four year term for governor and limitiing the hours of labor for women and minors in industry to 48 hours per week.

HIGH AND LOW IN TEMPERATURE Miami, clear, 76; Yellowstone National Park, Wye clear, 16; Key eWst, Fla, clear, 76; Flagstaff, clear, .18. OTHER TWISTERS IN LAST 25 YEARS (By United Uress) Notable disasters during the past 25 years in the "tornado belt" of the Middle West and Southwest include these: June 28, 1924 More than 100 killed, 3,000 injured at Lorain and Sandusky, Ohio. March 27, 1924. Twenty-four killed in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Ohio. July, 1923.

Sixty-three killed in Pomeroy, Iowa. April 25, 1923. Nearly 100 killed in various Oklahoma towns and villages. June 23, 1918. Sixty killed, 400 buildings destroyed at Fergus Falls, Minn.

May 31, 1917. Sixty-seven killed, and 200 Injured in southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. March 13, 1915. Loss of life in Peoria, Vincennes, and towns In Louisiana and Tennessee. April 24, 1908.

Nearly 500 killed in windstorms in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. June 5," 1908. Twenty-seven killed in Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska. May 9, 1905 Thirty killed at Marquette, Kansas. May 11, 1905.

One hundred and thirty killed at Snyder, Okla. HE GALE BUFFALO, N. March 19. The wind reached a velocity of eighty miles an hour shortly before noon. Several street cornei-3 in the downtown districts were roped off to prevent accidents due to the wind rushing through between buildings, but no casualties were reported.

Eight lake steamers were blown from their moorings, but only one, the William A. Aniberg, suffered any material damage. A number of houses in course of construction were razed and nu-iueious puue glass show windows blown in. At Niagara Falls, the roof of St. Stanislaus Church was blown off and lodged against the parochial school.

One nun, a teacher, was slightly injured. Persons crossing the international bridge into Canada were obliged to cling to the guide rails to prevent being blown into the river. DETROIT BOWLERS MAKE HIGH SCORES BUFFALO, N. March 19. The Gardens of Detroit turned in the best score in the five man event of the A.

B. C. tournament early today. The Gardens rolled 2S69, placing them fourth in the list of leaders, Dwyers Recreation No. 1 team of New York, followed closely with a total of 2861.

Detroit Recreation team landed just outside the leaders with a total of 2703. Louisville has 18 teams entered for tonight. The delegation arrived last night to start an early boom to land the 1926 tournament for Kentucky. The leaders: Five man event North Center, Chicago, 2937; Grands, Detroit, 2905; S. C.

G. Cincinnati, 2889; Gardens, Detroit, 2SG9; Dwyer's Recreation, New York, 2861; Cadillacs, Detroit, 2S56; Wethes, Chicago, 2S39; Brucks, Chicago, 2S37; Ault and Wiberg. Buffalo, 2S34; Millett A. Detroit, 2826. Two man event Mills-Scribner, Detroit, 12S8; Peterson-Devries, Chicago, 1253; Fulton-Mounts, Indianapolis, 1245; Fischer-Fischer, Chicago, 1244: Cott-Schneckenberg-er, Buffalo, 1241; Teichert-Geigand, Buffalo, 1236; Schmaltz-Craycraft, Hamilton, Ohio, 1235; Snyder-Brib-lit, Detroit, 1230; Servas-Hilten-brand, Union Hill, N.

1229. RATIFIES TREATY ALBANY, March 19. Gov. Smith has signed the bill ratifying the treaty between New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for control and development of the waters of the Delaware river. DUQUOIN, 111., March 19.

The first authentio eye-witness story of the destruction of De Soto and Murphysboro, was told today by A. W. Essick, editor of the Duquoin Call. Essick was the first outsider to get into Murphysboro after the storm struck. "The storm struck the city at the southwest corner and swept directly through the business section, cutting a swath about 100 yards wide.

"The dome was lifted completely off the city hall and hurled down the main street. The high school was demolished and virtually every Cyclone Miners were at work In the pits near West Frankfort when the storm (truck there. They Immediately rushed -to the top and started in a franc-tic search to see if their families were Many Whose families had been saved, found parts of their homes blown down. A grim note of the tragedy was seen in the ruins of a home near West Frankfort. Rescue workers found the body of a mother and in her arms was a dead five months old baby.

The entire area around Duqoin, Benton and De-Sot was lighted about midnight from the flames which destroyed sections of Murphysboro. The fire broke out immediately following the storm and it was several hours before firemen were able to stop the speed of the flames by dynamite. In one morgue at West Frankfort, 18 babies, ranging In age from a few months to five years, lay side by side to day. ST. LOUIS, March 19.

(United Press) School children-attending their classes late Wednesday were the greatest suffer ers from the cyclone which swept this section. 'A school collapsed at West Frankfort and eighty-eight bodies have been removed. A school collapsed at Murphysboro, 111., and about half the 200 students still are unaccounted for. A small school near Orient, was destroyed and the seven students are missing. At Gorham, where the death list is estimated at 30, half the dead are believed to be students, as the school building collapsed there.

81 PRICE OF GAS BOSTON, March 19 (United Press) The Standard Oil Co. of New York will reduce the price of gasoline one cent in their territory, which includes New York and the New England states. The new prices will take effect tomorrow. BRANCHES OF L. OF N.

CENEVA (United Press) In add Jion fV the Se(retariat ami general headquarters at Geneva the League of Nations expects soon to have fully established branches In no less than four of the leading European capitals Brussels, Rome, Madrid and Paris. Upwards of 1,000 persons have perished and 3,000 were injured in the most disastrous cyclone that ever visited the country. Nearly a score of populous towns were virtually destroyed. As many more were badly damaged. Five states iwere affected by (terrific blasts, which late yesterdayl struck In Northeast Missouri, Southern Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee.

Fire followed the cyclone at many points. The full force of the storm centered upon Murphysboro, III. This town was practically leveled. The death list there will be staggering. Reports before noon today estimated the" dead at 400 and declared the list might reach 800.

Thousands are homeless throughout the stricken area. Millions have been lost in property damages. Red Cross and other relief organizations have taken charge of the work of rescue and care of the storm victims. School houses and public buildings have been turned into temporary morgues or hospitals. Relief workers are searching through the ruins of wrecked homes and other buildings for the dead and extricating the injured.

From every point come stories of terror incident to the storm. Children were killed when school houses were wrecked. Trees and parts of the wrecked buildings were blown for miles. Even bodies were reported found a mile or more from the town which the victim was believed killed. As reports from various sections were gathered today no doubt was left that the disaster is the worst of Its kind in the country's his tory.

The greatest death toll pre viously taken by a cyclone was in 1908 when 500 were killed In Mississippi, Lousiana and Alabama. The terrific blow of yesterday was followed today by high winds in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Northern New York. A ninety mile gale hit this territory, slowing down wires and seriously inter rupting communications. EVANSVILLE, March 19 Casualties in tle cyclone which laid southwestern Indiana prostrate late Wednesday were reported at 9 a. m.

as Twenty known dead at Princeton, Ind. Possibly twenty-five or thirty bodies still in wreckage and 100 persons injured. Twenty-five known dead at Griffin. Scores of others believed killed or burned to death in fire that swept the wreckage. From five to twenty reported dead and 30 injured In Owens'-ville.

The town is Isolated and only meagre reports are obtainable. Five reported killed at Poseyville with from 20 to 30 injured. Griffin, 30 miles away was heavily damaged. A heavy death toll is feared, but the destruction is so great a check has not yet been possible. Only a small portion of the 800 population have been accounted for.

Three hundred houses were destroyed, fire sweeping the ruins. Scores of Injured were believed to have been burned to death when trapped in the debris of their homes. The odor of burning flesh was noticeable as voulnteer fire fighters struggled to check the flames. LOTTSVILLE. March 19 A swirling, greenish yellow cloud sweeping out of Harrison county.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, March 19. Southern Illinois awakened homeless this morning, flattened by cyclone and gutted by lire. Death tolls amounting Inito the (hundreds reported this morning at 708 'property damages mounting to many millions and more than 1500 persona Injured, Is the result of the roaring twister cut a swath three miles wide from Annapolis, Missouri, across Illinois into Indiana. Whole towns have been almost destroyed.

De Soto and Gorhaxn are little more than charred mem ories. West Frankfort and Murphys tooro, the latter place where the hurricane seemed to reach dt greatest fury," were partly destroyed. It is estimated that some 20,000 persons are without homes as result of the whirling wind. Relief measures are under way today with nurses, doctors, tents and first aid supplies brought in overnight from Chicago, St. Louis and other cities.

Relief Trains Arrive. Relief trains have arrived at Murphysboro, Gorham and Annapolis. At Murphysboro the relief work Is in charge of Henry M. Baker, Washington, D. national disaster relief director for the Red Cross, who was in St.

Louis on business when first re ports of the storm reached here. In the entire devastated area hospital tents have been erected, kitchens built and bunks laid out for the victims. Hospitals of the entire arsa are filled to overflowing and in Carbandale, Benton and Duquoin the churches, schools and larger public buildings have been transformed into relief hospitals. The death-dealing winds swung down on Annapolis, Missouri, the first town the path shortly before 3 p. m.

Wednesday. Houses were leveled, trees uprooted and (debris whirled through the air. Only three personss are known to have died there, but many more were injured. But the real damage came after the storm struck southern Illinois where its deadly path included the principle cities of "Egypt" as the region is known. One-third of West Frankfort was flattened.

Subsequent fire also added misery. Three hundred homes are in ruins there. Eighty-five bodies have been recovered. At Murphysboro the town was almost wiped out. What few build ings remained standing soon were 'burned down by flames which could not be checked owing to the storm having ruined the water supply.

In several instances dynamite was used In an attempt to check the fires. Children Killed. Of the 150 reported killed at De Soto, 111., approMimately one-half were school children, according to reports here. The twister completely destroyed a combined high school and ward schopl ir which more than 200 pupils were housed. Eighty-eight bodies have been re moved from the wreckage of tha building and several students still are missing.

At Gorham, 35 persons were Bald to have died when the cy clone flattened the entire cSty. Few buildings were left standing and frantic calls for help were sent out by the victims. One of the relief trains has arrived here. Rjestfes these cities a score of smaller communities were wlpped out of existence and the loss of life, and number of injur ed probably will remain unknown for several days. Indiana, last night, took a toll of five lives In the vicinity of Louis-jand ville, injunng scores, demolishing been.