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K ! WEATHER Ihnu Tbareday, raider Is sorters \ ♦ ortOMuii Friday fate , ' .• . .igr i -mm- i ■,'' VOItUME FOlRj NUMBER 18 Several Towns Almost Completely Obliterated By Stormy Wind; With Wires Down, Full Extent Os Havoc Has Not Been Determined KNOWN DEAD OVER 900 - WITH LIST INCREASING 2,674 PERSONS INJURED W «T ■ <f*»*. *■• i * , t ’. "• o -■ ■»■■■■" - 14,- ‘ t In Town of Parish, Only Th&e Out of Population of 500 Escape Death or Injury—Eighty-Eight 4 Bodies in Ruins of School Building at DeHota— Late Report Says 700 Killed at Parish and West Frankfort Alone. • ; ' ■ .MsL .»SF T ' CHIC A (JO, March 18.—A Iwrnadu tore through southern Illinois today altar Inahm* western Uhwouri and then canned considerable danaxe in Indian befere it died oat to the north Mgi after collecting a reported toll of 3,811 persona, ded} or injured, jss the Muds of estimates available toigght from the ywHe*|, Wiile darkness apd prostrated wires made collection of difficult, c.UimatcM which came in through various oeuftos with ever increasing totals, placed the total deni at 957 aad the injured at 2,874 before midnight ft* fallWllmi of property was enormous sfverul Towns entirely n|ped out and such populut* place*# an WcsLTrankfort and Murpliy res boro having lonj whole blocks of ballings. -J In ike town of Parish, only three persons were miid to have ♦Heaped drnth or injury out of a population of 500. . - Qi ' j BODIES CARRIED A MILE ; V\ The aloim «ms so strong at Parish t harries were ck/ tied more ijian a mil.-, it was reported. Msrphryshoro. where the dead totaled 100, a schooth<Mise wus blown over <45 iht ***■■ ftf 24S PUP»>H "Kile at Desota. lair estimates placed the dead at 100 and the injured at .100 out of a total popu lation of 705. ' „ A special achoolhounc at Desota also was ruzed and only . ,hrw of !!•♦ 250 occupants escaped unhurt, while eighty eight bodies already have been taken from lh r ruins. The v —-latest reports say that 700 persons were killed ol Parish and Went Frankfort alone, but other information plarrd the loss In these towns somewhat lower. WIND rbORK TO EARTH • It watt around .1 o'clock when the tornado again touched earth with ils mighty swish, swinging through Murphys boro and Desota and laying those places waste in the twink ling of an oyc. The wind rushed on close to the earth for 15 or 20 mile* and then apparently lifted until it came to C'armi, 111-, "ear the Indiana line. s Aftertaking its toil in that district, the storm again arose only to descend more than 20 miles west of the state line at Princeton, 111 <» * y Among other lowns'and cities to report damage and loss We were Desota. Illinois, with 150 casualties reported; k/ III., with all bat three of a.population of 500, re ported either killed or Injured; Princeton. Indiana, with an . estimate of 100 casualties; Griffin, Indiana, with 20; Grohnnt. 18, with 87; f arml, 18., with 150, and ('rossviUe, Ihish and IBinois, reporting serious damage and numerous cas -unities. MIIRPHYKHOKO IN FI.AMES » i 8- LOUIS, March 18,—Passengers arriving in IsMikt *UI 8:45 tonight on a Mobile and Ohio train, which pussed through Murphy shoro, IIL, two hours previous, reported that „the city Is “rompletoly in Barnes.*’ Water maiwhuve hurst, they. said, and there are no lights. Ajpthe train stopped to ! take on 50 refugee*, citizens by the hundreds were seen run ning frantically through the streets, clad onV in blankets. ■ l Eallmatin of the dead in Murphybboro ranging from 100 to IMil A 'P ■■ i t % " v 2k 1 /'.‘"A ?* l ii if J . fCoattoaod os pus* two) v THE GOLDSBORO NEWS $4,000,000 FIRE IN PALM BEACH, FLORIDA • ■' 1 ( jp Mystery Still Enshrouds Brutal Slaying -»■ ™*P * 850 DEAD - ✓ ' <r —— March It—A prelim inary tabulation at » p •»., of town* that had mad- report* of *U-- ca*unit tea tn IHtsoia, Indian* nod Mlaaourl. gar* a uKal of SS» d«*d and 20»f» Injured, adth vir tu* !ly no record of th* liAvy dam •** In rural regions. KNOWN DEAD IN GREAT DISASTER NOW NEARLY 900 f West Frankfort Reports 350 Persons Kelied and 650 Injured PRINCETON TOLL WAS 100 Parish, ffliaoia. Said to Have Lost Seventy-PftiT and Over 400 Hurt t HirAflO, March IH, (Apj- Orral d-s tract ten es property aad rnaay <M-ssllles r—ult-d fro* g tornado that >»cg throws* Wurpbr«born, * wad ether - <MHithrm llllneis |.mn« lute (e. day. Wire, sere desti In the place, aFeeted, hat report, from -uriuundiaa territory Indicated that the drad aad Injeivd aitshi a umber mere thua UM«. £ The ,term aepaashily eentered si Uafphyabnrw, where the ,trrel« are regorl<d fall es sreekage. Fire U -aid to h»«r broken out la the dehrlti, shite lia-tdluj, at arheadsle are glied with Injured. Otts-r Inwaa re perted -trh-kea are HsTtnuik t«rt, lie-ota, Hgr,t, l'arl,h, Hta tnn itnd Ua,h. Prini-cion. Inlf., alao waa. reports „\«ivty riannerd. upward or tliree wvsv people killed or 'njured. Early (a«ealty Table , Tlie table of <-ieualt{<*. with the town* llnt«y U the order which the «<orm *truck. (rghiwn: T»"n Head Injured Ansepokn. Mo. 2 10 Altontusa 1 10 Mnrphytitioro. 111, jno ?.oo t , *n IV aotd 85 lOrt .»>•«»> 5 GO Murat ( 4n ■ Wet Prank tact, ...... 350 tif.o It. ninti a 60 ' lxir«n —r, ng° I’artah 7» . 422 TbnnipMmvllle g 411 Mclamsaboro 17 w» 1 P'fßti ,f. . 2 -46' I f'nmarJlle'. j m (tsißn. f .Go 7A rrlmeton. Km ;m» Hi I rats th n 13 Total, 'em t#m NPW TOROK. March IS Spoi' cotton nntet Middling 35.65. Cotton futuraa cJuned ntwudy. Mart h 2642; ( May 21(0; July 25 *7; On 25 3& tiyc. 25.31 7 t POISON BOOZE IS SOLD HERE • * * Y a •*. tnaly-k <* the rwnt'nfti at » plat koitir, far *hUk«), rr. **•<•••*<l frafrrday (hat at Iran I one M«r<> h—Uawrtr la 4»ul4«bam l» 4Httaa 4raatur<xl alcuhal. Th* • parlmra «f tha pak»a. *ahaiH. la 4 In a loral rkraiWt far »n»l). •*«. wa« fkr manlft* as a pint »f •Hwd ah Wiry that (>Mp«raril) par at; <nl a ai-li.kaoaa > as tha aaMaalty aai-llar hi tba Tba kaatta««ar f ahaa* wai ...... • ■., i y , - - ~ - - • - - ■ - - ■ -- - GOLDBBORO, N. C. THURSJUY MORNING, MARCH It. 1925 . =3e*c42s**=r =r = IMIiRPHYSRORO AMONG WORST HIT Bf STORM - ijK -T’ia . t 1 ; Town Witt a Pupuluttam of 11,(MM) Sufrri Heverely „ From Turnaiu RURAL DAMAGE UNKNOWN Darkness Descends Over Strick en Section With Population Panic SI riclutn f Hlt VKO, Harrh 1< (4P) Uere than ÜBr geeaen, M« re- I Irtrttrt kilted ee piiarad by a *er aado which ,s«fd threuih north era llllarte aad Isdinna Isle le day, ra««la« rrart preMrty dam age, aad vlrtaaNy sAptea nut . Nre er three teftea in pa peth. from Mi,wearl tu the aertheaat. Whre, were dewg ia ereey dlrec. tiea aader the fary of the wkhd, . aad It wa* tgipoynible tw grt the reported eaMieUite leoifhd. MurphyelMwo, io tnllea u(nttß#eM~ fit Weet Want, fort, %Mt a pope In Mott '♦ H.ntMl. tuttermt eerrrtly wKh a cueunlty Mnt w pish ee 2M. Or* it havoc waa wrought to Ini! f nge m tbla . It* end ns* hrohft out in the di-hrle. On imports of Oi e attuathm ** n offer waa Wade hy Qovsrawr lam Smalt to eta troop, ttt Murphyeboro when rrttef imlna and Rnd front tor Iter a pnpureV to dt-jmrt Pom Ohli-Igo aud Bt. I mute tor the ntorm ar».o. Peegle FnuKlen , v ”‘ While rv'tmad <t»imteb»iw from tswVlwM, experlrmri, ihougts that tlret . nrtimaemi of the eeanattlen mptit prove em,v«tlve tl nnemrtl oarteln from rtpoula artaiartfua ,’t» many ptece* on the edit- of the vtorni'a path that the died migUl number lu thw hundradr. Nq nepr-rte had been svrtv-d at « late honr of dgm «e in the rural reahm* Dgrkneen <Wrind-d ov*r the area "'only after the wind had Shifted Ua way to the nortteuat. and tte akieeta of the demokhhed town, were dlted w 4* traslc lababitaMn. ctam tsrlna over the pit*, «r wreoteute mwklng mlaalng frinndi and rete tlvca. Prom the receaaca of the Jum ld«d tlmlM-r, earn, th* rric of iS yured p r«M. prtine<l K:n,. th the wrechage. while the hodlaa of rhr <-ad could he aeea faa dwa «n the] .Sdira wU r- it waa ImponalWe to eaffkiua ttms. The twmtter wlwt aptwrentty asaunsd ita pmportloon la -aatera Mienourt abortly wrier 1 o'olwrk *hfa after nooa. It wdpnl mrt moat of Annap oil,. Mo, .ind (h*n tore ita wity-i Lnn-aa the M aatanlppt rtvnr /Win H linote app-rmitjy IlftJng U* devae latlns lords a»1 apiwadlag out Ilk- a ; i»**r o-lta Until the varloua twl«t%ni H-Meodrtt. MSB* 25 mil-, w,t «r th* VI ertaalppf GI.OKIA SWAhHUN Hill.M FOR T. ». PARIS. March K*—Gloria Swan »on. flit* atar. and her huntwind. Mar- ; j dum cl d* la Falatmt. Sp» te->hed j to Mil on tb« Utter Faria, for .Saw *Ynrk. today ± MBaaaaaaaMHMHM * kaa aaf f)#f kr*a ra*aalr4. h hr* ll*Ml la liar# k*ra fhr #aa aka '"•* tka pntaaai 4 llfinar MalatMay ibaf caatr «ar> a*ar raaaltlaff la >kt<«Mfk fha pnrrhaaar. a.aum fraai ha thaw. f r Tha ftahUham fldjci, a ko«» na«« waa a»t itlialmxt, U arraa* tnaiH fa arMa* akaat I a*rlark ta tka aiaralav. Ut»r atakla* a h* 4a hr kWhaa «tavy>, k# h «*M la ka«» takaa a 4 rink aal as tha fhl kattla, akirk ha par* o o » Officers Scour Country Search For New Clues ———' ■' '■ V . ' June INHttr, First SuspscfcAmpUtL Is (Mill BslMtr Held. Although Neither Hinson or Ivep Are Able to Ideutify Him as ( ompankm of the Bluln Mm i ■ 1 A dark ahroud wf my at ary atltl hovara ovac th# hrwtaP atefing i»B --day nlaht or dirty Monday morn la a or Dwva Hohnow. local hsrhar. an<v while county awd o4y uAcers w - lawvtnu uo atony unturawl la thn ad fort to land ip gu Jty party bah ind I rlnan bar*, thara have teMo little further di vatopmanu in tfa# caaa. All day yeatanlay Deputy Thlsk” Rhodaw waa httgy wouring (tea by aayn -nd h«lgva far bMa of avMaace onnecied with tkt hoe- Ida murd-r.. placing lona- thrawda tngathvr. and »i nnwafai wtiaaaa— who might »hed> anm- I ght urn thn affair. Rher iff W..D. ChMt not egad from a otek he Soiv.wln* a ivtowt attack of appendletua, to tend - h » aht la runniac Die t rtnSnrt to nackh * frihtiT). Refteewf ~* Both Bhtffff Grant and Dopufy VtKxlea fetw retlueei whan quaa- Mgftod cotsmntlng the V (art davtyi <pn > nta tg the coop tlwi aaouawl t*a lot»reat of tha ant ra section. Tha aht riff *ald (hot for obtitoua rrtt aoaa be would nos to* In • path Inn to make an annauncamtut tw th* piwaa for per hup, eeverml day*, and ttr th a reaaqo tw wapopar account, rs the kileel angina to the 4mg*dy nre gat offte'el. hut azw baaed on ra porta • mat min* front unofficial dr olaa. June Pelt*r. arn-rtaO Monday nio[mjn* follow ng th.- crime, fa b*t»a hew aa a auapeot pendjng a thorough Inveatigatlon of car law fewtun# tbnt ?»re f.tleged to have a tearing on lha •laying of Hobaon He atlll maln a , iff cal Ind ff-rence, and de nlto any tnowle’wr whatxoever of I th crime or (hat ♦»* knew the doed iohd or liad aver aeett bn to hla knowledge However, ofllcra attach l no tittle rLtilfWage- to the fa-f thpt i SU the morning after 'hr* murdwr. J Potter drove to Tmflrange and made ’ ,t»t«mrM to frlrmd* In that place ttl«u “h* fad be«n acrueed of ktfllng a man. aad hrd to get atndghleamdj oiit." H< le -ateo —ld to hava gone from loGr.in.te lo Jaaon. and to tmv« i made the wmo atotvmeat there It wa, repoit-d ttet hr" made th«aa (Mlirent, tefore he had been cob h-pltd wuh tha tragedy “ p«''rr Retain, AHarsey 1 jyntwe and Robert Suttra. whd are. rtteuad to be th- men to .'A'tewn Potter mada tk* rfatemeeit of be'n t ac*u(md of mardar’. were noH-i Committee Finds All Croat Elections Void UK!/)RADIS, .Woalaeia. March t« J ■ Th- election committee of th* chemlMT declared Invalid thd alaellona of alt the candtifat’a of th- Croatian agrurlan jwrty. an oppoaltlon group | Th- el—lion, loog place laat month. ’ th- front ten p-rty. led by St-fun*, i Radltcli. winning nearly 70 eeate. i L I r*a»a4 lb* tinlii linin' Iran I 'll nritn iNHilkKrr I* l.lttla tlaahlaata*. M* M ter4l> Ml 4«wh M*rt bi* b*4) baraaia aar r*a«l»rlair kin nuraa. •MM. Hl« mite, nrMav *k»al N t'rM i*mm4 Mr In IM« r.>udltl..» nlwi «W *«l In Ik* liHrkaa, but a War abahla* bin far ****oil nlaal** •M a»Hr*»* rrataralir**, «•> ■Mr In aran** bln. ('aartarrt )• that Uw I Rrt Uat n'ght by Sheriff Grant to • appear at M* «Ac« today, for.tha t P«rpage of « -lag What Inionw«'on ►j b-y know, cowitermag Pottera *. fjM-ment wd act osp tba day tok lowing Ut* murdyr • .Atiorury Gate Hrturea bag bom i retHiicd by l-.xttr. awd la uafhartag ev (!enm- taudiffy. <o prove that his *!) H *a tg no' way eouaected with th*‘ M.frthg es Pave Hobaon. No > d-tiiMe -teiratt ion nt bwm indued ng-lml Potter: 1» merely being I » « tttepdrt Howwver. Jobtt Httieon at.il Afcl*l Ivy. who dtacovar *l ifhterb lb a draakya dupor Ob a i trtMly % jmKi to tha Mart* Spring# ee-* on tedor# fly* murder. ' wo«a i ,ttjmm«ned ter the rrtpoea of hkentt- of. Hotman ■aw with Hobeop. * Ivey »U ha, alitt -t drove hla mr , i rxi llahaou +h hA lay is the roaA ‘drttuted with wfr«n|hy. and that aa he wa* d 4« at hJni owt of tha road n man rteppod out of tbw wnmta by tha-alde of tha mad aad advanoed to- I word the two. Mr. I nay dooiarad he naked the ether If ha hod oat "been with Dave” od the newcomer aatd he bad. * I-art Mato Off Mebuea ‘But I am tfwviugh with him. for lie hue rnraed me with names I have never taker before.- the stranger la ewkd to have Mated. "Tc«, bat el nre you Mortal wKh Mm you ought to gut him hoefc bom# Hr la to no rondKfou to take oar of hlmaalf." Mr. Ivwy wld ha told! the m, n. and tha latter responded, l j “f>*> HI took,after him all rtffM." j Mr. Ivey aaid he than aceompankct th- cempNatoa of Hobaon to th* 1 home of John Hlnnon. and that th# latter -turn-d with than to tha ! car. and tried tn Induce th* rtrttoger to take Hobaon Into hie honte and the two epenl t*ia nVght. but thte tha , othrr decbo-d to do. j Tibet waa th 1 * last a-en of Hobaon j "Mil ha body wa* <1 .mu «-«d about dayterfsk 0 Mon lay morplnt bv two nearo men, who reported the diaoov -ry to Hiaoon. When asatebiooe arrived Hobaon waa found la a root •ts court 'tad blood, hla throat «te*h on both aides, and hla Ilf* btond •winiy ebbing away. Halted In th# aato to which be won being removed to (iokteboro. shortly after the car i raacbf.l thq hqed-anrfatwd Hedjaz Troopft Kill 300 Wahabiß in Battle CAIRO, Rggypt. March 11. A dla pelch from Jeddah reports that irnope of th- Kingdom of the lledja* ®n Bun day neveraly defeated th« Wahabi trlbeain-n. who loat too in killed. The lledjai troops are aatd to _ha»# suffered nine killed end 30 wolilltl-d I k* b*l takra bat M* 4Hub. fh* , mi kiwuki a »a»flnw al Ik* Hnnm |a ■ laral 4ra«nri»l. «k* l« ■Una rk**M, far aalayala. Tk* raaaN mi kl> aMnlaallaa «baa« 4 tar# »< a alar an 4 4aaala«-a4 al. i ibr »li*a«*4 wkhk*| In baa n**» J rabal, a«*4 ml*ml»*lj far *il*r. aal »ppJlru»l« aa lb* h«*4). M malar *4 alrabal, nbll* aat ■a in waa4 alrabat, It waa |N>lßla4 aal, la fMikaavaa, aa4 la larva 4aa— aaaally ynm fatal. ■ -s' .«L’. • :• MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS i m L \ L - "ff ■-—■■■ '■ ■' i o' iM ’V*. ti.d.' - .fflM-' PRICE FIVI CRNTi AGED COUPLE " , LOSE LIVES R HOTEL BLAZE Tho Rroohdro upl Pah Im4 T»t. NoM IhflH-. Si. . 4«e«4 to PWO| Juki* , CITY W\H THREATSNED M7= yßM ! M PALK BEACH. Mirth It* Kirc. which for o lla# throat* s&rjteiSLrg mated In txtmm «| IMICIE tkrralanad t« HtS I# Sr ||- MU | aw -i <o **®y ** rHpwtIMMU RJNKHim (tut lm#| iMrby, aid nifl^to >■ ■ *«T«£2aS lirfSrSStt iieorh wm niwfrtgM* & oniTo donfor for a thßo. r*w (ettogae KrtwyoO ■ Hro-ft«hUag for®# h*M BM *»• i-co ttt K worth touch! Ih* (Mom. (■'our cottages belonging to So burned Breakers hotel Afci lylagjhM mediately sooth of It. wer* burffito . m 7 o'clock tonight. Om of iflKl were occupied by Leonard Ahl. 2* , unother by t barlea V. tiebMUAK' both atKoM. A bftobtrhf yoohto lylog «■£ the north lake 'in’ l 111 tho tteliNM' I burned. 7 kllHdi hi wL Pot* Enoch by «pffc> tnmoMl* being drleoo rapidly toH| at or ‘A KtrU report* at itt— of life If )%• fire, wh’i'b dmuoyed Mo fhflM§g Hreski ra Hotel M Pglwi fcilh M>ia •og*ttor won, the Pofcn Bench WM nanfe by tho,outh<> ni#h« Jt w * jiiw hi need that oa eMAty man hikl weoiaa wtiooe ideotfMMo ■HII unknown were baroetf to 4Hpi II la heUewrd by Nh taeeoUgaUfedM* It era that other —toe will ho fh* elude* In ih* death toil who fllo final accounting So Om4*. .WF Thomas CTSttlUvaii { Weds inf mini i tiapf iIRKKNWTCH. Coon , March 1&~ i bomea tmollWao. bt M*W Ydfh. Who WM Haalatent I*6 mutv a* mm - ratary'to the IM|MBa blent wilano, today married Mbo Virginia ( ram. at Chicago. Tho dpi* pic h«d planned lo he ■antiS M hut they aligned away aopfifro aecretly married to tho lima, by a juatto* of tbe yoteS ~r Ts Jf Nurw’s Error Blamed For Death of Hm I .OS ANCMJM. CoHCh Marsh I<U ('nrooer frank Nonce ■ ■■miafnd Here tonight, following no atMofyy in iwo hemisphere* (or hlo darodooS "*ea and aa a soldier of fterton*. ihat th* i>l< tureagtie gghMog Mo* earn* to hIM death loot ftundoy 00 a j rennlt of medicine *»—-rninoofr- tt mini.ter-d" «t the office of Or. Wat er V Brent. An lOOOOot Will ho ImM I tomorrow According to NMbre. a tturwe ggljyl "he physician'a office became 00B* "■ed regarding tho tmedlclM gttA *■»* in he administered W Cmßb. Ilotile tn the physician a Were UHNtakeo beentWt at stmUMßy. . .. . . .4. .. . oßl'v>
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