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j city for an hour fighting off any one
wno auemptea to noia mm. At last
he was caught and taken to the Jios
pital.
THE DEAD
Everett Dunlap, 15; John Nelis, 25;
Gray Davis, 35; Mrs. John Davis,
mother of Gray Davis; Orville Davis,
G, son of Gray Davis; Mrs. Archie
Fletcher; Mrs. Alice " Williamson;
Razor, 12, son of W. T. Razor;
Newton, res. -unknown; Ber-
nice Day, 8; Ethel Day, 16; Jule Day,
6; Ray Day, 22; Mrsr Mary E. Wil-
liams; Mrs. Vera Higgins, daughter
of Mrs. Williams; Ernest Waterman,
G; Wm. Lowery, 58; Price Skelton;
two sons of Ernest Gray, a farmer;
Russell McClain and five unidenti
fied.
Newcastle, Ind. Fifty physicians
and nurses froin neighboring towns
took care of wounded in improvised
hospitals. Fifty are seriously injured
and 100 or more lightly hurt. Mar
tial law exists.
Cincinnati. Three persons dead
and 50 injured is toll police figures
today give of tornado that swept over
Cincinnati last night and struck as
with hammer blow the suburban res
idence districts of ML Lookout, Hyde
Park, Red Bank and East End.
One killed was Ohmer Glenn, 82,
capitalist His house collapsed,
caught fire and was destroyed. His
housekeeper, Miss Daily Holmes, was
seriously injured.
The other dead are: Matihew Mc
Carthy, 3, killed in the wreck of his
liome, and John Nelson, 80, market
gardener, wlb slept in his wagon
and was killed "when the wind up
set it
About a dozen houses were com
pletely destroyed. Scores were un
roofed and partly wrecked. Many
families had miraculous escapes. The,
house occupied by George W. Sny
der, his wife and son and Charles
Lamb and his wife was turned into
a pile of lumber in a second. None
of the occupants was more than
bruised.
"We heard a sort of whistling and
then the windows began falling into
the room," said Snyder. "Then the
whole house seemed to rock. The
floor seemed to lift up. The roo fell
off our heads. The furniture tum
bled together. I thought it was all
off with us. And then suddenly I
found myself on top of a great heap
of wood all that was left of. our
home."
DISMANTLE AMATEUR RADIO
STATIONS IN EVENrQF WAR
Washington, March- 12. Every
amateur wireless station in United
States will be dismantled by order of
the president if war comes, accord
ing to authoritative announcements,
here today. This would be one of
the first moves to protect military
and naval plans.
Officials admitted reports of hidden
German wireless statloris are causing
them much more anxiety than the
serious matter of bomb plots. Federal
search for these stations has been re
doubled, not only In the United
States, but in Mexico and Central
America.
AMERICAN LINE STEAMERS TO
RESUME SAILINGS
New York, March 12. An an
nouncement posted today in the of
fices of the International Mercantile
Marine here, carried the information
that the American line passenger and
freight vessels will resume sailings:
No date for the resumption of busi
ness was given. It would be a vio
lation of a request from the navy de
partment to give such information.
The four passenger ships, the New
York, Philadelphia, St. Paul and St.
Louis, already are fitted with super- rt
structure and deck plates for the V
mounting of guns and they could'be
fitted in a shopt.time.
Fort Smith, Ark. Seven persons
were killed with an ax by Addie
Green, insane negro woman near
Nashville, Ark., Saturday night.
