The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-22
WILD HAVOC IN TENNESSEE.
Names of Many Victims of Storm
Given.


the most destructive ever known in the
state. More than fifty persons were
killed and 100 more injured, while the
damage to houses. timber and other
property viii reach large figures.
The storm entered the state from
northern Mississippi and swept across
in a nOTtheasteTly direction. Great
damage is reported from the counties
bordering on Mississippi and further
on. Columbia, in Maury county, is the
heaviest sufferer. La Vergne NOIans-
vile and Gallatin also felt the winds
fury, the storm finally losing its force
against the Cumberland mountain
range.
COlumbia's casualties number TWEEN
ty-f1ve dead and some fifty injured, the
list, so far rs known being as follows:
The Dead.
Misses Florence and Evelyn Farrell.
Captain and Mrs. A. L. Aydelott.
Guy AydeiOJt.
Paul AydelOtt.
James Cherry
Miss Lizzie Forsythe.
Mrs. Tom Carel.
Miss NJ. J. Vues. all white.
Winfield and child.
Tom Hackney.
John Scott
Glass Brown and wife
Peter Adams.
-- Fryeson, cook at the Carols.
Five unknown negroes in the emer-
genCy hospital.
The Injured.
Clayton Tucker. badly bruised and in
! a dangerous condition
Josie Reed, fatally hurt.
Belle Cooper.
Mrs. Jones,
Maggie Reed.
Lulu BOStiCk.
Mrs. Sarah Russell.
I Susie Lowell.
/ All the above are white and are
| bruised and have scalp wounds
! VIII Hickman (colored). broken
/ thigh
Bob soweH (coIored), seriously hurt
/ in back.
J Jim johnson. Dan SOweH. VIII
/ Brown, John Fryer, LucUis Walk,
! Phillipson. Bill Hickman Gall colored),
injured badly. bruised and scalp
wounds.
/ Lee Farrell was blown out of the
window and badly hurt, but viii not
The path of the storm was about $50
/ yards wide. and was through the
( northwestern suburbs of the town In
/ its path everything is completely
! wrecked. Not even the iron and stone
/ fence Of the arsenal grounds are
/ standing.
The house of Captain Aydelott, the
/ Farrels and other large residences
/ were demolished.
Negroes Suffer Most.
With the exception of these four
houses the storms path was through
a section of the town populated chief
/ ly by negroes and the poorer classes.
[ and the houses were mere novels 1t
/ is estimated that $50 of them were to
! tally destroyed and q larger number
! damaged
The suffering of these people, rem
dered homeless and bereft of all their
( goods, Is pitiabIe.
The number of houses destroyed in
the NOlansville neighbOThood is six
teen.
There were two fatalities. as follows:
Miss Nellie Hampton, aged %.
Mrs. Nancy Bramlett, aged g.
The Injured.
J. B. Hampton, aged 20.
Miss Luella Hampton. aged %.
Mrs. Malinda Jemm, aged 20.
Aubrey Hampton, internally hurt.
Thomas Hampton, badly cut and
bruised.
Emma Hampton, arm broken.
Mrs p. c. Vernon, collar bone and
rib broken.
Ernest Stevens. internally injured.
Leslie Stevens, slight bruises on head.
Allen Fly, internal injuries.
/ MIS- J. w Fly, internal injuries.
Miss Fly, badly bruised.
| All of the sixteen houses were totally
, destroyed.
Mr.. Hampton had S4O0 in money. and
this was blown away, and only a part
of it has been recovered
Dwellings Are Demolished.
Alta Vergne, sixteen miles south of
here, on the Nashville, Chattanooga &
St Louis road. the velocity of the wind
! was marvellous, and from best reports
! lasted only about twenty seconds In
this short time about thirty-IiVe dwell
= ings were turned into kindling wood
? The loss of life is small, compared with
/ the miraculous escapes made The
: wind made a swath about 200 yards