The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-22
Cyclone Which Swept Through Southern Ten
nessee Was the Worst Ever Exper-
fenced in That Section
"A Dozen Towns in the Track of the Storm
Were Wrecked, With Destruc-
ton of Life

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. A.-Tennes-
Zee was swept last night by the most de-
structive storm ever known in the state.
More than fifty persons were killed, and
a hundred others injured, while the dam
age to houses, timber and other property
will reach large figures
The storm entered the state from
Northern Mississippi, and swept across
&n northeasterly direction. Great dam
age is reported from the counties bor-
: dering on Mississippi and further on.
Columbia, in Maury county, is the heavi-
est sufferer. La Vergne NOlensville and
Gallaun also felt the winds fury, the
storm finally losing its force against the
Cumberland mountain range.
Columbia's casualties number twenty
five dead and some fifty injured, the list,
30 far as known, being as follows:
Dead-Misses Florence and Evylin Far
yell, Captain and Mrs. A. F. Aydelott,
Guy Aydelott Paul Aydelott, James
Cherry, Miss Lizzie Forsythe, Mrs. Tom
Carel, Miss NJ. J. Viles, all white; -
Winfield, wife and child; Tom Hackney,
John Scott, Glass Brown and wife, Peter
Adams, - Fryerson, cook at the Carols;
Eve unknown negroes in the Emergency
hospital
EVERYTHING WRECKED.
The path of the storm is about $50 yards
wide, and was through the northwestern
suburbs Of the town. In its path every
thing is completely wrecked. Not even
the iron and stone fence of the arsenal
grounds are standing.
The houses of Capt. Aydelott, the Far
Ills and other large residences were de-
molished.
With the exception of these four houses
the storms path was through a section
of the town populated chiefly by negroes
and the poorer classes, and the houses
l. 4ol hot Of
them were totally destroyed, and larger
number damaged. The suffering of these
people, rendered. homeless and bereft of
All their goods, is pitiable.
The number of houses destroyed in the
Nolensville neighborhood is sixteen.
There were two fatalities, as follows;
Miss Mamie Hampton, aged twenty-five;
Mrs. Nancy Bramblett, aged sixty-fve
All of the sixteen houses were totally
destroyed.
Mr. Hampton had s4OO in money, and
This was blown away, and only part
Of it has been recovered. The baoy OF
Jim Christman, colOred, reported lost,
was found uninjured 800 yards from the
house at 10 o'clock. One Of the family
dogs was lying by its side.
At La Vergne, sixteen miles south of
here, on the Nashville, Chattanooga &
St Louis road, the velocity of the wind
was marvellous, and, from best reports,
TASTED only about twenty seconds. In
this short time about thirtyffve dwellings
were turned
INTO KINDLING WOOD.
The loss of life is short compared with
F1,e number of remarkable escapes. The
wind made a path about 200 yards wide
through the middle Of the town. The
La Vergne high school and the depot,
THE largest TWO buildings, were laid
Hat on the ground The damage to these
hill &c railroad lost fOIlT
section houses also, each valued at 500.
The victims of the tornado are: George
Robertson and his six months old child.
Mr.. Robertson's house, log structure,
was in the middle of the path of the
etorm and was demolished. At the time
Mr. Robertson and his child had retired
and his wife was sitting near the bed
Sewing. Mrs Robertsons escape was
marvellous. When found the body OF
Robertson was pinned across the back of
large timber and a large wound had
been made in his neck. No mark could
be discerned on the body of the child.
In almost every home there were sew
Eral injured.
.. In Williamson county much damage
was done, but the town of franklin
escaped with comparatively small loss.
Houses anG timber in Sumner county
also suffered considerably. Intense suf-
Eerring is experienced by those deprived
of homes at La Vergne and NOlensVile.
The rise in the Cumberland river at
Nashville is the most rapid known in
twenty-five years, the water having gain
I'd twenty feet on the guage since ye.ter-
DAY morning.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE
Advices by the Associated Press and
special correspondents show that sixty
four lives were lost and many persons
Injured IN the territory visited by the
tornado. Telegraphic communicate ton to
the regions visited by the cyclone is suS-
pended and it is feared that when full
details are known the list of the dead
will be heightened. The following table
Shows the loss of life compiled from dis
patches forced through by courier and
telephone from the devastated localities:
Columbia, Tenn, 40; La Grange Tenn 8;
La Vergne, Tenn, 2; Thompson, Tenn
I; Nolansville, Tenn, 2; Love Station
Tenn, 2; Tunica, Miss, 5; Lula, Miss,
&; fernando, Miss, q Batsville, Miss
.; BoXley's Store, Tenn, 5; Franklin
Tenn, 0. Totals, Ga.
DAMAGE IN ARKANSAS.
CLARENDON, Ark, Nov. H.-The most
severe wind storm that ever visited this
section of the country passed through the
eastern part of Monroe county yesterday
afternoon. The path of the storm was
from 300 yards to a quarter of a mile In
width, and almost everything in It's Wav
was demolished