The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 7

THE KANSAS CITY STAK TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 1959 A Winter Tornado Rips Through a Populous Area of St Louis STORM KILLS 1 9 (Continued From First Pace) i ret) St Louis civil defense head pushed co-ordination of rescue and rehabilitation work Hardaway reported some looting Eighty rational guardsmen were ordered to stand by Damage at Arena An ornamental tower on the Arena scene of many of a world's championship fight was sheared off and a top section of the television tower fell in its parking lot nearby The Arena is to be the site of the Akins-Jordan welterweight championship fight BURIED MORE THAN TWO HOURS this man finally was extricated from debris Of a 3-story building He was grimacing from pain at the moment of his release His little son found with him in the wreckage had died while the two were imprisoned A TRAIL OF WRECKAGE IS TRACED ACROSS THIS AERIAL VIEW of part of the storm-damaged area in St Louis The street at the left is Washington boulevard and that at the right is Delmar boulevard and the view is westward from the edge of the downtown area A trail of wreckage and shattered buildings extends from the lower right of the photograph diagonally across it to the upper left Wirephotos) March 6 The storm smashed into an adjoining building and a roller skating rink there was nearly demolished A yellow brick smoke stack toppled at McAuley hall a Catholic home for women workers where about 150 persons were asleep It could have fallen either way but toppled onto a separate struc ture to the rear killing two maintenance men Sleep Through Storm Nearly all the occupants of the home slept through the Morm Sister Mary Xavier re- ported The area around Busch stadium home of the St Louis Cardinals also was hit Several persons were buried in the rubble The ball park itself was undamaged Numerous fires broke out in the hardest hit area but they were brought quickly under control Gas mains were shut off after breaks were reported Policemen cautioned rescue workers not to smoke Five children of one Negro familv were being cared for at Homer Phillips hospital Their parents were missing but the hospital said an aunt has been found rin Jefferson City Gov Tames Blair said all facilities of the state government wojld be offered to St Louis fin Washington President A Second Semester on TV jly by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education the National Broadcasting company the Ford rTHE second semester of "Continental Classroom" a nationally televised course in atomic and nuclear physics will begin tomorrow morning The 16-week program will be televised at 6:30 o'clock Foundation the Bell Telephone System Standard Oil company of California General Foods fund International Business Machines corporation Pittsburgh Plate Glass foundation and 1'nited States Steel corporation Mondav through Friday on Telephone Circuits Are Jammed Overworked telephone circuits between Kansas City and St Louis and from St Louis to Kansas City and other cities created long delays in completing telephone calls today in the wake of the St Louis tornado Many Kansas City callers seeking to determine the safety of friends and relatives in St Louis were advised by operators to "try again in 20 minutes" Officials of the Southwestern Bell Telephone company here said some calls were completed immediately but other callers encountered long delavs semester course in introductory physics Persons wishing to enroll may contact the registrars' office at the two schools They should have completed a course in general college physics or the first semester of "Continental Classroom" Dr Harvey White professor of physics at the University of California Barkeley is the instructor Leading scientists will appear as guest lecturers Purpose of the course is to focus attention on science and its role in education and to improve teaching of scientific subjects It is sponsored joint- A KENTUCKY TWISTER Carrollton Ky Feb lOtAPl A tnrnaHn hit a farming arna channel 4 WDAF-TV Rockhurst and William Jewell colleges will grant! three semester hours of credit to students satisfactorily com-! pleting the course Twenty persons from this area were among an estimated 4000 throughout the United States today and injured at least six persons Five homes were damaged and several barns flattened as the twister struck in a 3-mile path who were enrolled as credit students at 238 colleges and universities during the first READ AND USE STAR WANT APR Eisenhower at a press conference said all the federal government's emergency fa-j cilities have been alerted to lend a hand in St Louis Eisenhower said disaster re-! lief experts already have hcen sent there by the Mi win i BELL TELEPHONE HOUR THIS TELEVISION TOWER of station KTVI-TV CRASHED in the storm the top part striking the apartment building in the distance A segment of the top floor of the structure seen between the two arrows drawn on the photograph was chopped away by the upper part of the tower Office of Civilian and Defense Mobilization Mayor Raymond Tucker made a tour of the disaster area this morning and re- ported We have this hng odav he arpa ch ters well under control now He woud donations be said no state help would be sem 0 tne Red Cross head as jquarters 417 East Thirteenth Tornaloes in indiana street Indianapolis Feb 10(AP All contributions will go to Small tornadoes hit the north the disaster relief headquar-edge of Mitchell in Southern ters in St Louis The Red Indiana and a small area south Cross here is taking welfare RISE STEVENS of Indianapolis today Mean- irquiries from this area about mm while the worst floods since relatives in St Louis 1943 were building up in the upper Wabash river valley OUT OF BANKS IN OHIO More than 20 expensive' homes were damaged badly in sat of Emergency at Two a 3-block suburban area nine CH Out Mlita miles south of Indianapolis in Columbus 0 Feb 10(AP) a little twister shortly before A state of emergency existed DUKE ELLINGTON ELLA FITZGERALD daybreak in Findlay and an emergencyj There were no reports of proclamation was being pre-injurics pared at Van Wert today as Georgetown a small town rain-swollen streams in the1 west of Lngansport was iso- northern half of Ohio forced lated by floodwaters of tht evacuation of thousands Wabash and Fel rivers Boats The Blanchard river the and moving vans were seit "old mill stream of the song to rescue families neared the flood crest it State police evacuated 20 reached less than three weeks families at Rattle Ground ago at Findlay A state of north of Lafayette emergency was proclaimed there and a National Guard BREAKS IN TWO LEVEES company was called out to aid in evacuations Illinois Area Near Hannibal At Van Wert Mayor Clark Mo It Flooded Spitler was drawing up an Hull 111 Feb 10 (AP) Two emergency proclamation as large levees on Hartley creek Town creek overflowed the broke in the night flooding downtown section and forced 25 square miles next to the hundreds to flee Mississippi river Livestock losses were heavy and farm- Morgue Usl in St Louis WATCHING THE SAW USED TO FREE HIM a victim of the St Louis tornado awaits release Debris of a 3-story building at Whittier and Delmar streets surrounds the victim whose left arm still was pinned by a fallen timber when this picture was made In close quarters the man using the saw is outside the camera's scope MARTHA RUSSELL WRIGHT NYPE GRANT J-OSiANJSTESElSr Special Added Attraction Tornado Toll St Louis Has Had Two Earlier Bad Tornadoes ray the Anroteri Pres property loss in a tornado THE tornado that caused Damage in San Angelo was death and destruction to estimated at 3 4 million day in St Louis was the third dollars one of major proportions to A Vicksburg Tornado hit St Louis in the last seven Vicksburg Miss bore the THE NEW YORK CITY BALLET COMPANY St Louis Feb lO(AP) The city morgue released this list of known dead in the tornado that struck St Louis early today (addresses are those where the bodies were found: ers were moving equipment to higher ground No deaths or injuries were reported Several families were evacuated 36 was covered with from two to four feet of water in two places A wrecked automotive which had hit a telephone pole was found on a rural road in four feet nf water Its occupants were unaccounted for Hull la six miles east of Hannibal Mo Mildred Campbell Negro 25 of decades brunt of a tornado early in December 1953 Thirty-seven lives were lost and 25 million uvea i i 1 1 mi iiniuuii 4202 Delmar A tornado killed more than Pari Oamnhell NVtrrn kdttrem qq persons in St Louis on Michael Campbell Nero OQ 1Q7 nriQ nn dollars in property damage m- flicted The tornado also hit 11 MY 27- 1896 cost 306 hves Texas and Louisiana for an STARRING JACQUES DAMBOISE MELISSA HAYDEN A 1ST ID FEATURING DONALD VOORHEES A3STI3 THE BELL TELEPHONE ORCHESTRA PRESENTED BY THE BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM Rose Marv Campbell Neero 4 same address Carrie Campbell Nejrro 3 Worst in 1925 lover-all toll of 48 deaths Records indicate that the The little town of Udall counted 79 killed and John Hantak 72 of 442i greatest toll ever taken by a Kas tornado in the United States 200 injured in a tornado that was approximately 700 lives hit Kansas Oklahoma Texas TO AID STORM VICTIMS 1 Red Oosi Seeks Fund for St Louisans Red Cross chapters in the Greater Kansas City area are making an appeal for contributions to tornado victims and March 18 1925 in Missouri Missouri Arkansas and Iowa Illinois and Indiana ion Mav 25-26 1955 It took 127 The largest previous re-i lives in all h'prnin(? Unidentified white man about 56 same address Harrv Martin Nejrro 41 3862 Paee Harriet Martin Negro 38 same address John Martin 4 their son same address Alma Pearl Womack Negro same address Lonnle Franklin Negro 5 of 3841 Cozens Unldpntified Negro woman about SO of 1901 Washington Rosa Coker 54 of 2200 Farrar Willie Worlev Negro woman corded toll was 420 on Febru-i One of the more recent tor- TONIGHT 7-8 PM CHANNEL 4 -D ary 19 1884 in Alabama I nadoes of major proportions their families in the St Louis! Georgia South Carolina and took 54 lives in Missouri in North Caroline jcluding a Kansas City suburb LIVE IN COLOR NBC-TV A tornado May 11 195': and Kansas on May 20 19o took 124 lives in the Waco andj Comparatively few torna- 2iSfi Bacon area Henry Kirchhoff chair-mar of the Kansas City-Jackson County chapter and Claude Wilson chairman of the associated Red Cross chapters of Greater Kansas City Ravmond Coonev 20 of 4202 San Angelo areas of Texas and does strike in the East but UrimSI caused almost 60 million dol- one centering in Massachu- lars in property damage at setts on June 9 1953 took 86 unidentified Negro man about 4V no address Fannie Ivor Neero 60 of 2758 Bacon Waco This was a record fori lives.