Mattoon, IL Tornado, May 1917 - Revised List of Dead

48 Recovered at Mattoon.

Mattoon, Ill., May 28.-According to the best obtainable figures, in the absence of any official statiscal agency, forty-eight bodies have been recovered, forty-six of which have been identified as a result of Saturday's tornado. Between fifteen and twenty persons are unaccounted for. Three hundred persons are badly, though not fatally hurt. Two hundred more are suffering from slight injuries and approximately twenty are expected to die.

The revised and Amended list of dead as gathered unofficially is as follows:

MRS. E. HYDE, THOMAS HYDE, TEDDY BRIDGES, MRS. C. TEMPLE, JACK PIERCE, I. G. SPITZ, ARLETTA TUDOR, MR. AND MRS. OWEN WAGGONER, OJSEP [SIC] TAYLOR, JAMES TURNER, MRS. N. COONS, MRS. L. TAYLOR, MARGARET TAYLOR, JOHN WILLIAMS EDWIN DAUGHTERY, WALTER MELTON, MRS. DE HOHN, MR. AND MRS. W. REDMAN and son and daughter, JOHN GRUBB, HARRY BEAVER, MRS. C. ANDERSON, two unidentifed women, MRS J. DAVIDSON, MRS BICKERS, MRS. J. GRUBB MRS J. REED, WILLIAM BURKES, EUGENE BURKES, WILLIAM BROWN, T. C. BENSON HARRISON STOKES, F. A. SPAULDING MRS. E MULLINIX, MRS. A. TURNER FREST DAVIDSON LIZZIE HICKEY, MISS LLWELLEN, MISS HERITAGE, ____SWANSON (boy) EARL WHITE, MRS. D. HOLLOWELL

The Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City, IA 28 May 1917

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BODY BROUGHT TO INDIANA

LAFAYETTE, IND., May 27.-The remains of MRS. LEWIS DEHAHN, formerly of this city, who was killed in the tornado at Mattoon, Ill., Saturday evening, arrived here tonight and were taken to the home of her parents, MR. and MRS. MARK CRIDER. The funeral will be held at St. Lawrence Catholic Church Tuesday morning.

The Indianapolis Star, Indianapolis, IN 28 May 1917