HEAVY CASUALTIES
IN WAKE OF TORNADO. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, March 23. The tornadoes in five of the Southern States have left 275 dead and perhaps 2,500 injured. Late toVnighfc information revealed that more than two score of widelyscattered communities had been alleeted. The distribution of the casualties by States is as follows: Alabama, 20!) 1 dead and 2.200 injured; Georgia, 31 dead and 150 injured ; Tennessee, 17 dead and 100 injured; South Carolina, 2 dead and 25 injured; Kentucky, 2 dead, with the injured not estimated.
2500 INJURED, 7000 HOMELESS NEW YORK, March 23.
A further message from Ifii iningham says that the deaths resulting from the tornado passed the three hundred mark oil Wednesday. As the sombre work of rescue and rehabilitation progressed, estimates of the injured mu as high as 2509. The homeless are estimated al upward of seven thousand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1932, Page 5
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