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- Published March 12, 1917 - New Castle Daily Courier, New Castle, Indiana.
CYCLONE DEATH TOLL REMAINS AT NINETEEN
CITY AWAKENS TO GREAT WORK OF CARING FOR
HOMELESS AND RELIEVING SUFFERING OF INJURED
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THE DEAD:
Earl E. Razor, age 14, son of W. T. Razor, 1322 S. 21st.
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*Published March 17, 1917 - New Castle Daily Courier, New Castle, Indiana.
The funeral of Earl E. Razor, who was killed by the cyclone Sunday, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
The remains will be held over until Monday, when interment will take place at South Mound.
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- Newcastle Busy With Rebuilding And Relief Work
Downtown Street Quiet, but the Devastated Region Is Scene of Great Activity.
Burial of Earl E. Razor Will Be Held On Monday
Newcastle, Ind., March 17. - But one week has passed since one of the most destructive cyclones in the history of the state swept through Newcastle, claiming twenty-two lives, maiming and injuring nearly two hundred and causing property loss estimated at nearly a million dollars. Although the tornado is but a few days past, to Newcastle resident who have experience dread, anguish, sorrow and deep sympathy it has seemed a month. . . .
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Lad to Be Buried Monday
The last of the victims of the cyclone will have been laid away with the burial, Monday, of Earl E. Razor, 14, son of W.T. Razor. The Razor boy was one of the last of the first nineteen bodies hurried to the morgues to be identified.
The Star Press, Muncie, Indiana. Sunday, 18 March 1917.
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