Jackson County IL Archives News.....500 VICTIMS IN CARBONDALE HOSPITAL March 19, 1925
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St. Louis Post Dispatch March 19, 1925

    Injured storm victims from Murphysboro, DeSoto and surrounding country are
being brought into Carbondale today by special train and by motor truck.  An
estimate at 9 o'clock this morning placed the number of persons in hospitals
here at 500.

    The Carbondale hospital was filled during the night and extra cots pressed
into service.  Members of the Elks' Club turned over their hall as an emergency
hospital and Carbondale pastors threw open the doors of several churches to care
for tornado victims.

    A special Illinois Central train brought scores of injured to Carbondale. 
Motor trucks were pressed into service at DeSoto, the storm victims being loaded
into the trucks and made as comfortable as possible during the trip.  Most of
them were children.


Additional Comments:
Widely considered the most devastating and powerful tornado in American history,
the Great Tri-State Tornado ripped through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on
March 18, 1925. In its 219-mile-long wake it left four completely destroyed
towns, six severely damaged ones, 15,000 destroyed homes, and 2,000 injured.
Most significantly, 695 people were killed, a record for a single tornado.
 
 
Transcribed by Mary Riseling from grandfather C. E. RISELING's collection of old
newspapers.

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