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TORNADO TOLL FIFTY-SIX NEW ORLEANS, La., April 18. The death toll from tornadoes, floods and blizzards over much of the nation in the past seventy-two hours reached fifty-six today. To the total of forty-nine deaths from tornadoes in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama, were added six more from floods and one due to a spring blizzard in Colorado. With rehabilitation under way in the tornado-ripped states, it was believed that all missing persons had been accounted for, leaving a known death toll, by states, as follows: Arkansas, twenty-six; Louisiana, eight; Oklahoma, seven, and Alabama, one. Floods of the Ohio River and tributaries in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia took four lives in Ohio and two in Indiana. Hardest hit by a tornado was Center Point, Ark., where seventeen persons were known to have been killed. The town itself was practically wiped out. The flood danger had not been dissipated today as the Ohio and Wabash rivers, as well as smaller streams, rose higher in many sections as a result of continued heavy rainfall. In Colorado the blizzard piled snow drifts as high as ten feet on highways, leaving many persons marooned. A heavy snow in Nebraska also isolated motorists and others in many parts of the state.
