Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-22
DEATH LIST GROWING
Over Seventy People We're Victims
Of the Storm in the
South.
The Main Storm Followed BY a
Number Of Smaller Pro.
portions
Members nf prnminant Eamilias
Members Of Prominent Families
Among the victims-Ma Many Ne.
groes Homeless.

gr0es Homeless.
Nashville Tenn, Nov. 22.-The cy-
clone that passed over Tennes see and
Mississippi from southwest TO north
east left in its wake innumerable tor
| nadoes. These, as we'll as the original
cyclone, Were terribly destructive 10
property, and with the main storm
caused at least sixty-eight deaths and
the injury Of seventy three pefsons
At Columbia the county seat off
AIaur,- county. Tennessee, on the Louis
| vile & Nashville road, forty miles
south Of Nashville, the worst loss was
suffered. There forty persons We're
killed, AM. about fifty injured. The
names Of all the dead and injure,! have
not been ascertained. For Columbia a
partial list follows:
The dead are Miss Florence Farrell,
Miss Evelyn Farrell. Capt a. f. Ayde-
dloht Mrs. A. f. Aydelatt. Paul ssyaslott,
/ Guy Aydelott, James Cherry. Miss Liz
4 zie Fors ythe, Mrs. Thomas Carrel, Mrs.
4 NJ j. Niies. Winfield. WIFE and.
Hchild, colorse; Tom Hackney coiored;
John Scot eolofed. Glass Brown and
jwfe. 5coloief. Peter Adams, coiored,,
/ F,riersion. coloreda cook for the Carrel.
ifan?ily: five unknown negroes in the
i Halefger hospital.
The injured are CLAYTON Tucker. had
Ily bruised and in dangerous conai-
ton: Josie Reed, fatally hurt; Belle
il fsooper. scalp Wounds. Mrs. Jones, body
bruises: Maggie Reed, scalp wounds
and body bruises; Minnie Jones', body
bruises. Lulu Bostick, body bruises:
Il Mrs Sarah Russell, scalp wounds; Su-
SIG Lowell. scalp wounGs; Will Hiek-
man eolor4ss broken thigh; Bob RON
4 ell coiored, seriously hurt in the back
Jim johnson, Seolored; Dan RoWe!l, col
4 cred: Will Brown, c5lored: John Fr!er
colcre!: Lucius Walker. enlored.
tsPhillipsen. colored: Bin Hickman. coli
cted. badly bruised and scalp wounds:
E Lee Farrell. blown out of a window and
badly hurt.
Tue Farrells and Ayaelotts were
prominent families. The Misses Farrell,
wii9 we're Killed, were well known in
nashville society.
The storm struck he Mount Pleas
a ant turnpike Two miles south Of Colun
u bia and followed it in a northeastelly
direction. Is path is about $50 yards
4 wide and thru the northwestern sub
, urbs of The town across Duck river nd
for about three miles out on the Nash
willie turnpike. Where the storms fury
\ was dissipated. In the storms path
/ everything is nspletely wrecked. No;
even the iron and stone fence Of the
| {United States arsenal ground is stand
4 Ling.
The houses of Capt. Aydelott and the
tlSFarrell family and other large resi-
1 dencess were demolished. With the ex-
l 1 ceprion of these four houses the storm
| path was thru a section Of the towr
populated chiefly by negroes and thu
poorer; classes and the houses wers
znleres novels. 1t IS estimated that $50 OF
them We're totally destroyed and ;
larger number damage The suffering
Il ofsthese people. rendered homeless, be;
reft of al their goods, Is pitiable.
The storm entered the state from
Irorthern Mississippi, and the village o
II La Grange, on the Southern railway
Iiffty miles east of Memphis, suffered sc
riously. Thirty stores, a plow factory
three churches. the railroad station ant
a number of dwellings We're destroyed
The property loss is placed at .Q0t
n At least six persons We're killed. Tn
ISknown dead are:
Walter j. Moody, assistant manage
Gather plow works; wife of Brow
May, colored.
The injured:
Robert Tucker Of the Gather ploy
, works; Ed Smith. railroad agent; Sar
III xikl,. a
Fannia NJ Nance, Jessie Stafford.
The first appearance of the storm o
!. Ithis side of the Tennessee river was /
j. Wayne county, at Indian creek. In thi
!. county a number of dwelling houses an
!: one church were destroyed and Their
!. We're a number of minor casualties, bu
i. M deaths are reported.
I: Damage was also done at Martin
!. mil and w. u. Morrison's store nea
!: Naynesboro was destroyed.
B Al Nolensville in Williamson count.
!. eighteen miles from Nashville. sixtee
L houses We're destroyed. The dead are:
I. Mrs. Nancy Bramlet and Miss Mann
+ Hampton.
1. The injured:
j. 70. Hampton. aged 10: Miss Luell
!. Hampton. aged %: Mrs, Malinda Jer
: nett. aged 10; Aubrey Hampton. ir
Z ternally injured: Thomas Hampto,
!. badly cut and bruised Emma Hampton
arm broken; Mrs. r. G, Vernon, cole
j. bone and rib broken: Ernest stephen
i internal Injuries: Leslie Stephens sligs
bruises on the head; Alien Fly, intern;
i injuries: Mrs. ] M. Fly, internal ii
i: juries; Miss Fly, badly bruised.
I. The baby of Jim Christmas, colore
i reported lost, was found 300 yards fro
i. the house 1t was lying near a tree ar
I. was uninjured. One of the family dos
i. was lying by its side.
+ At Lavergne in Rutherford count
K. about sixteen miles from Nashville, I'll
greater part Of the town was destroye
The high school building and railros
a station were laid fiat, as we'll as nun
Der Of business houses and dwelling
The only dead are:
George Robertson and infant child.
The injured are:
Mrs Charlton, collar bone broken; 81.
year-old child of Mack Jordan. cam
recover; Gilmore House, seriously HUI
u Three negroes We're killed at Bixley
- store in Williamson county.
At West Harpeth. in the same count
the house Of man named Wilson WI
DIS destroyed and his wife and child we