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G o o o o oo o 0o o o o o CO Library The Weath 1HIBFNE to. Weather Year Ago Minimum 67 Mliilmu0 35 O Prediction Iin tonight Cloudy Friday Maximum yesterday 67 Minimum today i!4 MEDFORD. ORECibX,. THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1925 OUT UutMDtfc TcU. rW wfrhtM Taw NO. ?,0fi 708 HURT,. IN Medfoed AT ' o KILLED. TORNADO 5 MID-WEST STATES ARE SUFFERERS 8000 Homeless, Death Toll Is Highest in History Chil dren at School Trapped Twister Short Lived Small Towns Devastated Speedy Relief to Stricken Areas. CHICAGO, Mar1. 19. (By Associat ed Press.) At four p. m. toduy the tabulation of casualties and Injured from Weanesday's storm and tornado, according- to best available reports showed a minimum estimate of 742 cleaths'nnd a maximum of 900. The minimum estimate of injured was 2192 and the maximum exceeded 3000. . CHICAGO, Match 19. If Hie present reports or casualties stund up, yesw.rday's disaster will sliow the largest death toll of any tornado hi this country. Previous IUbIi records wore:. 1H84 Six hundred dead, south ern sUilcs; Five hundred . dead St. Louis; 1IM)8 Flvo hun dred dead, southern suites. CHICAGO, March 19. Estimates of dead In five states from yester day's tornado stood late this, after noon at 70S minimum and 9J25 max imum. ; (By the Associated Press) Dead estimated at 208 to 942. Injured estimated at 2500 to 3000. Homeless estimated nt 8000 to 10,- 000. A mid-afternoon tornado, the worst iour to strike, when children were packed In schools and workers In stores and shops, yesterday's storm in five mid-western states allll held many victims buried nnd unreported thlH afternoon. Where it did the worst damage, the tornado lasted leas than live minutes. It flattened heavily constructed schools and business buildings with worse results than the casualties in lighter dwellings. Bubies In homes were special suf ferers. Fires still raging: or smouldering and millions of dollars worth of wreckage delayed counts of the large wreckage. From the field north of death lists. , . the Orient mine, one of the town's The hardest hit places were the'ehief sources of livelihood, the dark snlall cities In southern Illinois outlines of rescue workers probing West Frunkfort, - Murphysboro and: the debris for bodies, were visible. Carbondale. Here and there could be heard the Nearly all the destruction was in ' pitiful cries of the injured, still pinned the soft coal fields. beneath the wreckage. Some of these Next to Illinois tho .worst suffer-lwere extricated just before breathing ers were In Indiana and Missouri 1 their last, while others died as they with fatal echoes of the twister com ing from Tennessee and Kentucky. Ited Cross,' state guardsmen, army aviation forces, railroad resources piled into many special trains and private relief from two of the na tion's largest cities, Chicago and St. Louis, with a host of contributions from smaller' cities, concentrated on southern Illinois. Two towns in tho wake of the tornado were reported to have been virtually erased from the map while a large section of another was laid In ruins. But one home and a school house were the remaining-structures in the village of Farrish in Frank lin county, 111., the . four dwellings left standing at Griffin, Posey coun ty, Indiana, a town of 750 people, were badly damaged. One hundred city blocks at Murphysboro were practically flattened. Seventy blocks In the residential section were swept ithe city was converted into ambu by flames. i lances. Business houses were closed. Setting a record for swift legls- Two National Guard companies are lation, the members of the Illinois' in charge of the situation. The town, - . h"t"Yr. has not been placed under (Continued on Page Five) 'martial law. SHEPHERD. GERM SLAYER SUSPECT, HELD IN PRISON CELL LOEB. JR. OCCUPIED CHICAGO, Mur. 19. William D. Shepherd, foster father of William McCUntock, orphan millionaire today occupied the same cell In which Na than Leob. Jr., aw$ed trial nine months ago for killing Robert Franks, while prosecutors investigat ed a theory that the typhoid germs he Is accAeOof giving McCUntock to kill him may have come from the city health department. They established a connection betweGi two health de partment employes and the National University of Sciences, whose head Charles C. Falman, named with Shep herd in the indlctmenv charging Mo Babies Lie, Row On Ro win Morgues Of Stricken Section CHICAGO, March 19. A Daily 8 News dispatch says: . "The bodies of 18 babies were ' fr placed side by side in one i- morgue. 4- "The landscape, as far as the eye enn reach, is a mass of debris. Houses, wires and poles -I- were mingled. Here a bouse had been moved from its foundation, there a side had been ripped off, leaving two stories exposed, a bedroom and bedroom furniture In sight. One woman, with blood streaming down her cheeks, talk- ing In a foreign tongue, had her shrieks of grief turned to cries of joy when a man approached her carrying a baby. The baby had come through untouched." DEATH IN WAKE OF West Frankfort, III., Hard Hit By Cyclone, 102 Dead Re covered Devastation Ri vals Battle Scenes France Militia in Charge. . .WEST FJtAXKPOUT, 111... MarA 19. -(By the Associated PresB.) One hundred and two bodies have been extricated from the ruins of the bulld IngK wrecked in yesterday's tornado. More than 200 seriously Injured were taken to hospitals. Two hundred and fifty buildings in the north and west' sections were lev- eled. An early estimate by Sheriff Dorris placed the property loss at more than $2,000,000. Dawn today presented a picture of desolation that rivalled the war strick en portions of France. As far as the eye could see the landscape was a huge irregular mass of twisted debris. It was extremely difficult at 'first to determine accurately details of the picture. Here a whole house has been moved from its foundation, at another a side had been ripped off, while in other cases, what had once haen homes, was i Muitiiug uui uiiiv jitro yj v uvioicu were hastened to emergency hospitals or other homes. One of the most pitiful sights was that of a mother lying terribly mang led while an infant crying lustily, crawled about he inert form. At another home the body of a woman was found onthe porch, a deep gash In the head. She apparently met her fate while endeavoring to flee from the storm. A miner still in his pit clothes and carrying the limp form of a five year old child walked dejectedly in the path of rescue workers to a pile of wreckage that until yesterday con stituted his home. In the debris were found his wife and another son, both terribly Injured. The morgue was fill ed to overflowing with bodies. On one side of the structure were the bodies of eighteen babies. Practically every delivery' truck In Cllntock's murder, said he gave the germs to Shepherd for administering to McCUntock. Included In the Hut o( the faculty of the Fuiman school were the names of Wlnfield S. Hoerger, a health in spector, and Dr. Harry Rand, former ly In the bureau of dipffihi-ria control. L'ntil a month ago, prosecutors said Hoerger's duties had been to receive typhoid nnd other germ culftres at the city laboratory. He denied being a faculty member of the school and said he was only a student there. Dr. Rand was listed as the medical director of fjfnlmans SCHOOL DESOLATION AND STORM RELIEF WORK STORM AREA IS STARTED President Urges Red Cross to Give Aid Los Angeies Starts Subscriptions New York Offers Aid Pullmans for Homeless. ' . WASHINGTON. Mar. 10. Presi dent Coolldge, who is president of the American Red Cross today suggested to Chairman John Barton Payne that all of the facilities of the organization be put into operation to relieve storm sufferers in the middle west. "Information has reached me." he said in a communication made public at the Red Cross headquarters, "of the disaster that has overtaken a portion of Missouri, Illlimls and Indi ana. "It is said that many people are homeless and many are injured. I suggest that you put in operation all the facilities of the Red Cross to assist in the required relief. I am sending a telegram to the governor of Illinois that you will do so." LOS ANGKLES, Cal., Mar. 19 The Los Angeles chamber of commerce early today opened subscription lists for n relief fund for the tornado- stricken areas of Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. . NEW YORK. Mar. J9. Mayor ITylan today telegraphed to governor of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana in behalf of New York City, off era to aid victims of yesterday's tornado. BOSTON, Mar. 19. The Christian Science hoard of directors today an nounced that it had placed $40,000 at the disposal of 'the commutes of the church for the relief of tornado suf ferers in the middle west and that contributions for relief might be sent by the public through the mother church relief fund. CHICAGO, Mar. 19. Women nnd children made homeless by the torna do will ho provided with sleeping cars as temporary shelters nnd sent to Murpbysboro, ill., at once by the Pullman company. Sixteen standard sleeping cars with kitchen cars were ordered out of Chi cago at 2 p. m. and a similar number from St. Louis is due in Murphysboro at 8 p. m. i CHICAGO, Mar. 1 9.--Thousands of dollars were pouring Into Chicago radio stations today in response to appeals for aid for the families of the dead and injured In the tornado dis tricts. Pledges totalling $72,000 were re ceived by the Chicago Herald find Examiner and thousands more were pledged to the Chicago Tribune thru radio nppeals. SENATE QUITS AND . NATION REJOICES WASHINGTON. March 19. Mem orable for Us breach with the White House over the Warren nomination the special sesslom of the senate which convened March 4 had passed into history today after pursuing Its turbulent way to the very closing hours. With the Senate's adjourn ment sine die yesterday congress has closed Its doors until the convening of the regular session on the first Monday in December unless called In special session. Of this Presi dent Coolidge'has Indicated no Inten tion. TEAPOT LEASING WAS CONCEALED CHEYENNE, Wyo, March 19. (By the Associated Press.) The teasing of Teapot Dome to Harry F. Sinclair was deliberately concealed from con gref and the public, according to testimony read at the naval oil lase annulment suit here today from the deposition of Rear Admiral J. K. Rob ison chief of navy engineering. "Wo concealed what was being dqgie in the Wyoming reserve because we wanted to get it done," Admiral Robi son said In cross-examination con ducted by Owi J, Roberts of govern ment counsel Baby Daughter of Mrs. Alice Registers Her First 3Thf (Chirami iQiiniHtr llusuttai FOOT Here Is a copy of the first foot prints of the child born about a 'pok ago to the daughter of tho E OF TEXAS, f S FIGURE DEAD Long Active in National Af fairs, Democratic Circles Romance of His Daugh ter With English Soldier Is Recalled. WASHINGTON, March 19. Former Senator Culberson of Texas died here early today, lie was 70 years old. Senator Charles Allen Culberson of Texas, one of the strongest political leaders the Lone Star state has pro duced, was for many years a promi nent figure on the democratic side of the senate chamber, which he entered In 1899 after having served his stato In a public capacity for nearly 20 years. Including a .term, as attorney general and two terms aa governor. His fourth term In the senate com pleted his political career, for while he sought nomination again In 1922 he failed to survive the primaries, trailing two other candidates, one of whom was former Governor James E. Ferguson. Although he never -lost his firm grip on senate affairs; he was inca pacitated for active participation thru a stroke suffered in 1909, when he was the minority leader. The condi tion, due to a nervous disorder, was partially relieved in 1910 and as a member of the finance committee Senntor Culberson took a prominent part in the anti-trust. legislation of that period, hut his health again broke down and his nervous trouble developed into palsey, following which he gradually transferred his activities from the capitol to his pri vate suite in the senate office build ing. He was somewhat sensitive re garding his physical condition, his associates said, and hesitated to ap pear frequentlyln public. He continued, however, to partici pate generally in committee work, In which he always had been active, and played a prominent part In framing the Espionage Act of 1917 as well as numerous other war measures. Ho also served as chairman of the appro priations committee durlnif the demo cratic regime from 1913 to 1919. Senator Culberson was born in Dadevllle, Tallapoosa county, Alabama Oct. 10, 1855, the son of David B. and Eugenia (KImbnl) Culberson. When three years of uge he was taken to Texas where his father became a prominent figure in public life, serv ing as on adjutant-general in the Confederate army, a member of the state legislature and a representative in congress from the 44th to the 49th session. Senator Culberson w.i sent to the Virginia Military Institute when he had completed his studies in the grade schools, and upon his gradua tion in 1S74 spent two years studying law In the University of Virginia, whcrehe became a Judge of ihe stu dent law court and orator r the Jef- rerson i..uerary society, noin excep tional honors. He was admitted to the bar In 1877 and at Ace ok a high plaof as an attorney and practitioner. Tvi 18&2, CULB R N AM (Continued ou?ft Six) Roosevelt Longworth Signature with Her Feet PRiNTS vflioHT.;: 6 late Theodore Roosevelt.. Tho mother haB decided upon Paulina as the buby'a name. F ILL- MURPHYSBORO, III., Mar. 3 9. (By Associated Press.) As the after math of a spring tornado which wrecked this city, Murphysboro today counted 106 dead in morgues, counted for fifty others dead but not yet brought to the Improvised recelv ing rooms and searched for an est! mated 150 to 260 buried- In the debris of the 1000 homes and 100 downtown buildings. Injured persons were beyond count, hut various hospitals, hastily impro vised first aid stations and homes re ported hundreds of injured. Of that number It was feared that many would die. . The city proper with Its 15,000 in habitants, covered five and one-half square miles Today more than two square miles was Uttered only with charred debris. The electric light and gas plants here were destroyed. Heart rending scenes were enacted as the dead were takn to morgues and Injured to relief stations. - Virtually every one of the hundred and six bodies counted wua torn and battered."'' In many instances huge snlinters and pieces of planks had been driven through them. Hardly a bodv lav irt the long lines In the morgues but which had broken ana twisted limbs. In some instances nearly every bone in a body would be broken, indicating the tornado nao picked up the body and hurled it tnru space. 1 - 3 INDIANA! IN STORM'S PATH hvansvii.lE. lnd.. March 10. Vhr. Irwtlfinn tnWtlH PrlnCGtOWU, nnranaiii. ni,i rirlffln. torlav wure engaged In tho work of digging their flnnri nnd lnlured from the wreckage of homed, storeH and office buildings leveled by tho tornado. ir,..aF1lH nt 9AH nnrnrtnM Were re nut-tori killed nnrl hundreds Injured At Princeton twenty were reported killed and sixty injured. At Qriffln six were reported killed vllle the casualties will run nearly as high. 1 . Failure of tho electric light plants in the stricken cities and tires wnu n MrirnvBi) nNnrlv .VPrv hlillilinir in the stricken portions worneu anai t onnl harden ns unon tne rcHcue workers. . E AND WHEAT WASHINGTON, March 19. Amer lgin farmers Intend to plant 13.9 per cent. more spring-wheat and 2.3 per cent more corn this spring than tho acreage harvested: last year, the de partment of agriculture announced toil a ya Iter a canvass just completed. CORN Florida Playground of Rich Swept By Fire; Loss Is $4,000,000 4 f PALM BEACH, Fla.. M-.rch fr 19. More thin four million dol- h lars worth of . property lay in fr ruins here today after the fire of 4 lust night which swept through the Breakers and Palm Beach hotels, destroying several shops and cottages and for a time threatening the destruction of 4 that entire section of the city. 4 4 Smoldering ashes was all that 4 4 rt-malned of two noted hotels of 4 4- the playground of millionaires 4 4 as steps were made to check the 4 4 damage to property nnd verify 4 4 rumorH that there had been a loss 4 J4 of life. No' confirmation had come 4 4 early today that an elderly man 4 4 and woman had lost their live 4 4 In the Breakers. 4 4 444 4 4 fr4t CHILDREN DIE By. SCORES IN Parents Seek Missing Tots in1 Morgue Village of 500. Is Hard Hit Fires Still Burn at Murphysboro Property Damage in Millions. rHICAOO, March 10. DeSoto, village of COO, hud hardly a family TORNADO unscathed by . the storm tragedy, j nois, rich coal fields, appeared to With 1-uthfens hand the storm luid'have suffered the heaviest loss of the town flat and toduy the bodies life nnd the biggest property damage, of thirty school children from there Smoke still poured from the debris lay in Carbondule morgues while stricken pnrents hurried from one scene of death to another fearful of what they might find. In Carbondale morgues bodies lay row upon row upon Improvised biers while a sfeady Btream of people filed past in an effort to Identify the vic tims. Baby twins lay Bide by sido and a stricken mother was taken away ufter she had seen her babies and fainted. Murphysboro, probably hardest hit by the tornado, suffered a physical damage of upward of $3,000,000 from wind and fire. At noon twelve fires were still burning in various parts of the town. Upward of fifty city blocks in the town of 13,000 were Frnnkfort. en route here, estimated lnld waste and many bodies were that one undertaker there had sixty burned beyond Identification. Two or seventy bodies nnd another under square miles were laid waste. Two . taker probably had the same amount, buildings were dynamited in an of- "Tho whole northwest corner of fort to check the spread of the 'west Frankfort Is razed and con flamea. The Mobile and Ohio shops, ditions there are as bad as they are employing 1400 men, were destroyed here," Scoby said. "Three school by fire, an (85,000 Baptlstchurch buildings were virtually destroyed, was in ruins and a 2t7,000 addl- The tornndo scooped out the een tlon to the high school was two-, tor "6T the high school, turned houses thirds destroyed. Yesterday when lend over end and devastated block win lornauo broke Joe Bostof, chief of police, rushed to tho school build Ing to help take out the children. The first tot he found was his .own. Hhe wha dead. Valiant efforts were being made to give care to the injured. Carbon dale hospital, lodges nnd homes were thrown open to the injured from De Soto nnd other nearby towns. SALEM, Ore., Murch 19. Oovernor Pierce today issued a requisition on the governor of Washington for the extradition of George S. Hval, who Is wantod in Lane county to answer to a charge ot obtaining money by false pretenses. He Is under arrest in Seattle. Van Svarud, a Lane county deputy sheriff, will go to Seattle to- return the prisoner to this state HIGH LIFE TRIAL GROWS BITTER LONDON, March 19. The- Dow- ager Countess Carnarvon today took the stand in the sensational Dennls toun case. Once during her testi mony she nearly fainted, but was re vived with smelling salts. The Increasing bitterness wl t h whlrh the Dennistnun case is being fought was notlcenble during the continuation of cross examination of the defendant today and there were a number "of heated exchanges be tween Lieutenant Colonel Dennlstoun and Hlr Kills Hume Williams. Den nlHtnun asserted that the kit rod it'' tlon of money matters Into The case was "pure invention on ftie part of his former wife, not only to show up me, but to show un my wife, the Dvager Countess Carnarvon." Hlr Kills persisted In attempts to get tho witness to admit he had -bor rowed various sums of money from TABLEAU OF Southern Illinois Towns Swept By Disaster Fire Adds to Horror Many Children Perish Martial Law Pre vails Food Scarce. MUUPHYSBORO. 111.. March 19. (liy the Associated Press) South ern Illinois early today presented a vast tableau of death and destruc tion and Its horror stricken inhabi tants waited anxiously for more defi nite reports on the toll of lives taken by yesterday's tornado which swept clear across the central south ern part of the state. With the stricken towns almost completely isolated, definite reports as to loss of life were lacking, but estimates . placed the number well above the 1000 mark, with many more Injured, some of whom were dying. nge also lacked definite figures, but was benevea 10 nuve mounieu iu over several million, dollars. sweeping across me AiissiHsippi from tile lower section of Missouri, the hurricane Invaded Illinois at Oorhum on the Mississippi and wend ed Its way -in an nlmost straight eusterly direction into Indiana, lay Ing waste towns and farms in an area over several hundred square miles. ' -. v''--.- Murphysboro, West Frankfort, ' Be- Hoto and 1'arrlnh, nil sltuuted In llli- of Murphysboro's smouldering ruins while its citizens Btlll search the ruins for other dead. Rescue work was greatly hampered by fire and it was euid that many of tne in jured were C4emuted in the bluzfng debris. This city early today was burning In many places. The main business section was virtually wrecked and streets were filled with poles and debris and wrecked automobiles. Many doctors and nursos who ar rived from all parts were taken to tho basement of the Presbyterian church which was not destroyed. ipt Snnhu fin iinrlertnkflr from Marion, III., who came through West . alter block." Tho wind cnrrled automobiles great distances," ho said. "It turned one house almost at right angles to its foundation." The number of persons burned In their homes after being crushed is undetermined, nccordlng to Major Robert Davis. An Associated Press correspondent made a tour of the city at 3 a. m.( and counted 85 wrecked automobiles. Fires everywhere still gjowed nnd flured ' with increasing fury and the streots wore lilted with homeless people. 'Food is scarce. Restaurants that woro not wrecked' were trying to ob tuln food from Carbondale. (Continued on Page Five) MARKS I FURY his former, wife after the divorce, but Colonel Denulstoun, while admit ting he had received sums of money from her, declared she sent them ' "out of generosity on her part," and not as loans. When Hlr Rills asked If the Coun tess of Carnarvon had given Dennis tnun 100,000 pounds upon their mar riage to "weBerve your dignity," and the witness replied "yes, sir" Sir Kills flawed hark "do you think that after you hod accepted 20.000 pounds and a flat from another man's wlfevou had much dignity to preserve?" Colonel Dennistnun, who had tes tified that Countess Carnarvon gave him this amount in 1922, which was before the Karl of Carnarvon died, ? turned to the court protesting "my lord, this is blackmail." The court, hoover, ruled that thq question was permissible