’HE CIIILKOOT POST
•gr-y _Chilkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska.___
... -Published without expense to the Government._
Vol.5..Friday, March 27th., 1925. .. No.13.
500 Quarterly. $2.00 Yearly.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thousand?: injured and killed by tornado hitting five states last
week. Bulletin - Chicago, March 19. - Bc-ports totaled this after
noon gave the tornado dead at 708 to 942, injured 2,072 $hich makes
it the worst tornado in this country. The previous record was in
1884 in the Southern States when 6C0 were killed.
Undated. - It is estimated that the dead in the storm which
struck portions of five states yesterday afternoon id from 500 to
1000, injured 2,500 to 3,000 and homeless from 8,000 to 10,000.
It was midafternoon when the tornado struck, the worst possible
hour when children packed the schools and workers were in stores
and shops in five Western States. Many victims are still hidden and
unreported this afternoon. Where the tornado did the most damage it
lasted under five minutes. The death toll was the heaviest in the
larger buildings, school houses, etc.,and lighter in smaller build
ings where babies were the principal sufferers. The hardest hit
places were small cities in Southern Illinois like We.st Frankfort,
lurphysborc and Carbondale. ijent to Illinois, Indiana arud Missouri
suffered the worst with fatal ©<£h<$©sof the twister reported from Ten
nessee and Kentucky. The Red Cross, State militia, Army aviators
and railrod resources were called into action early last night. The
largest cities, Chicago and St.Louis, are concentrating their aid^on
Southern Illinois. Two towns in the wake of the tornado are eraseo.
from the map and but one dwelling and the school house are left in
the village of Parish, Illinois, and only four dwellings left in
Griffin, Indiana, a town of 750 and they are damaged.
One hundred city blocks are flattened at Murphysboro.
The Seattle Daily Times and Ben Ferguson have mailed to Governor
Scott C.Bone, of Juneau, two checks totaling $634.35, the total of
the Alaska dog team reward for those engaged in the antitoxin race
to Nome during the recent diphtheria epidemic there.
Former United States Senator Charles A.Culberson, of Texas died
in Washington liarch 19. He had been in ill health lor several years..
He was attacked with influenza, Sunday, Iviarch 15th,
Nearly 500 American girls, who are spending the social season in Lon
don, are casting beguiling looks in the direction of Alanson B.
Houghton, ambassodor to the Court of St.James. By a sweep of his p
Ambassador Houghton will raise or crush the social ambitions of the
lot of them. The girls or their parents have applied for the privi
lege of being presented at Court. About forty will be selected.
Returning nort to ti e arctic to continue his work, A.kalcofcb
Smith in passing through Juneau said: 111 discovered the oil *n
1914 by getting swamped in a lake of oil I tried to mush through,
was in to my waist and my dogs pulled me out. It took a year for wore,
of the find to get outside and even now the richness of the minerals
and oil deposits are scarcely believed”. "A spring near Point Barrow
runs a river of 200 barrels of oil into the sea daily. I have du0
foot and found twelve foot veins of the best bituminous coal you
ever built a fire with, and have mapped silver, platinum and gold^
deposits in various places'1. Smith has spent 25 years in uhe Arctic.