Kalamazoo (MI) Gazette, March 25, 1917, p. 1.
STRICKEN CITY CALLS DOCTORS
$250,000 Needed at Once to Relieve New Albany, Ind., Swept by Tornado
New Albany, Indiana, March 24-An appeal for $250,000 cash to relieve the New
Albany tornado sufferers was sent out tonight by John J. O'Connor, director
of the Red Cross relief work. He announced that about $20,000 toward that
amount was in sight. Residents of the city held a mass meeting tonight to
plan relief work and re-building.
The number of known dead remained at 34 with the probability that the total
number may reach forty when the search of the tornado-wrecked buildings is
completed. Officials stated 500 persons needed immediate medical attention,
more than the doctors in the city at present were able to care for, and
urgent calls were sent out for more physicians.
Two more companies of National Guard troops arrived tonight, one from
Princeton, Ind., and the other from Indianapolis. The city was in darkness
again, the lighting system not yet being repairs.
Two commissary stores were opened late this afternoon and hundreds of hungry
persons fed.