Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1942 — Page 5

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Property Loss § $1,000,000

“As Tornadoes Strike Goshen, Shelbyville.

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into the southwest edge of town, ripping roofs and crumpling walls from factories in .the industrial area, and dipped again in the heart of the city, tearing off and hurling to the street the roof of the fourstory Shelby hotel. Power and communication lines were disrupted for 15 minutes, some sections being left in darkness for more than an hour and half. In the industrial area, the gale

leveled the Shelby Packing com-f-

, pany tomato cannery. At a grain and feed plant, thousands of bushels of grain poured into the streets when the roof and one wall toppled. At two: other plants, automatic sprinkler systems flooded the buildings and ruined thousands’ of dollars worth of. stock as the roofs were blown off, Two women picked up by the wind and hurled to the ground were injured slightly. Seriously injured was John L. Metx, 26-year-old army private just returned home on furlough, who was struck by falling . debris while walking in the downtown section. ; Hits First in Illinois At Shelbyville also, the civilian defense guard went into action for the first time along with members of the state guard and city police and firemen, clearing away the debris and preventing possible looting of the business district. The first storm struck at noon yesterday in eastern Illinois and left a death toll of 14 in a dozen wrecked villages. Five hours later a tornado swept over Lacon, a town of 1500 near Peoria, killing at least six persons and injuring 60 others critically. The storm in western Kentucky caused at least 14 deaths as it swept through Muhlenburg and Grayson counties. 5 Ten were killed at Browder, a mining community in Muhlenburg county, and 31 injured were taken to the county hospital at Greenville.

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By ROBERT MASSEY United Press Staff Correspondent JACKSON, Miss, March 17—A death toll which may exceed 100 and property damage which will run into millions of dollars was counted today in tlie wake of toinadoes which swept through Mississippi and Tennessee yesterday. The heaviest toll was counted in thickly settled north-central Miss-

e |issippi where 70 bodies have been

recovered and more were expected to be found. This tornado apparently originated in west-central Tennessee, roared southwest, and, after crossing into Mississippi at Michigan City, disappeared after creating havoc in Greenwood, 100 miles southwest of Michigan City.

Score of Towns Wrecked

The tornadoes ripped paths of ruin through a score of towns and communities, most of which still

.lare without lights and water. Some _ | have

been . isolated because of wrecked communication lines ‘and |S

blocked highways and late reports)= ‘may boost the toll.

Even in towns where I visited and where communications had

been restored, there were dozens of buildings and farm houses and cabins which had not yet been searched. Most of these were small, poorly constructed dwellings which were reduced to broken planks by the force of the winds. At Water Valley, Miss, one of the hardest hit towns, I counted eight dead, including one who died early today in a hospital. There were 41 injured there, 26 of whom were being treated in improvised hospital quarters in a high school gymnasium. Grenada, Miss, and the surrounding area, had the biggest toll of dead and injured.. Six bodies were recovered but there were numerous buildings which had yet to be searched and many persons had not been accounted for,

Came With No Warning

The Mississippi storm which came with no more warning than the usual season bluster of March winds, struck between 4 p. m. and 5 p. m. yesterday, the “typical tornado hour” It hit first around Greenwood in northwestern Mississippi, then turned southward. The Tennessee tornado, which apparently was a different one, hit in the west central part of the state. Seven were killed in the Rumson’s store communty near Selmer, Tenn, and five near Lexington, Tenn. A farmer was killed near Coopertown and a woman in Henry county, several miles from Paris. The tornado struck the western state nospital at Boliver, where it caused damage estimated at $100,000. None of the 5000 patients at the hospital was injured but the hospital was in darkness for a time and patients ate their evening meal by candlelight and were put to bed early. Power failure was reported in several towns and some TVA lines into Memphis went out. Mrs. Jessie Findley Anderson, mother-in-law of Oscar Johnston, president of the National Cotton Council, was one of the first to see

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the Mississippi twister. She said she was on a train, going from Ita Bena to Greenwood when she heard the roar of the storm above the noise of the locomotive. “Buildings just exploded in a ball of fire as that twister hit them,” she said. W. M. Newman, conductor on the train, said it was raining hard, and rubbish and big timbers were floating around like feathers.” “A big black cone,” he said, dipped down and touched a cabin. It disintegrated with a roar and a “big yellow flash.” Five automobiles, all occupied, were lifted from the highway near Greenwood and dumped into the Tallahatchie river.

2 Tornadoes in One Town

One woman, whose automobile wa$ not blown off the road, saic the wind lifted the hood from the motor and hurled it through the windshield, over her head, into the back of tha automobile. Thirty . minutes later, another storm, perhaps the “back lash,” struck Greenwood, residents said, ‘Baldwyn, Miss., 20 miles north of Tupelo, reported that it had two tornadoes. The first killed at least six persons and injured 75, 10 of them critically. The second inflicted no casualties, but it unroofed or wrecked churches, dwellings and 25 per cent of the business section.

Farm youth find a chicken coop two miles from home following last nights Wrtiso west of Lin-

Here is the Louis Jackson farm of Lincoln on the soorning after the storm. In addition to damaging the corn crib, machinery, barn and grainery, flying debris from an iron shed injured the Jacksons’ 12-

Mississippi Fornadess: Kill at Least 70; Several Towns Are Ripped to Pieces

A woman had just given birth to a baby on the outskirts of Baldwyn when the tornado shrieked down upon her home. She gathered up her new-born baby in one arm, her next youngest child in the other and fled toward town, with three other children trailing her. A motorist picked her and the children up, after they had run two blocks. ‘The Mississippi storm which came with no more warning than the usual season bluster of March winds, struck between 4 p.| m. and 5 p. m, yesterday, the “typical tornado hour,” It hit first around Greenwood in northwestern Mississippi, then turned southward. The Tennessee tornado, which apparently was a different one, hit in the west central part of the state. Mrs. Jessie Findley Anderson, mother-in-law of Oscar Johnston, president of the National Cotton Council, was one of the first to see the Mississippi twister. She said she was on a train, going from Ita Bena to Greenwood when she heard the roar of the storm above the noise of the locomotive. “Buildings just exploded In a ball of fire as that twister hit them,” she” said. W. M. Newman, condtictor on the train, said it was raining hard, and rubbish and big timbers were floating around. like feathers.” “A big black cone” he said, dipped down and touched a cabin. It disintegrated with a roar and a “big yellow flash.”

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