The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-11-23
STORM SWEEPS ACROSS STATE
or TENNESSEE.
LIFE AND PROPERTY LOST
Many Killed, Others Injured-De-
vastation Almost Complete
in Some Localities.

Nashville, Nov. 21-Tennessee was
swept last night by the most destruct-
i've storm ever known in the state.
More than SO persons were killed and
hundreds of others injured, while the
damage to houses, timber and other
property will roach large figures.
The storm entered the state from
northern Mississippi and swept across
it in a northeasterly direction. Great
damage is reported from the counties
bordering Mississippi and further on.
Columbia. i'll Murray county, is the
heaviest sufferer. Ii. Vergne, Nolens-
villo and Galatin also felt the winds
fury, the storm finally losing its
focre against the Cumberland noun
tain range. C%olumbia's casualties
number 25 dead and some so injured,
the list of the dead so far as known,
being as follows: Misses Florence
and Evylin Farrell, Captain and Mrs.
A. F. Aydelott, Guy Aydelott, Paul
Adyelott, James Cherry, Miss Lizzie
Forsythe, Mrs. Tom Carol, Miss M.
j. Viles, all white.
= Winfield, wife and child, Tom
Hackney, John Scott, G.. Brown and
wife, Peter Adams, D. Fryerson,
cook at Carols, all colored, and five
unknown negroes in the emergency
hospital.
The path of IL storm is about $50
Yards wide and Wa through the north
western suburbs Of the town. In it's
path everything is completely
wrecked. Not even the iron and stone
fence Of the arsenal grounds is stand
ing. The houses of Captain Aydelott,
the Farrells and other large resi-
dences were demolished. With the
exception Of these four houses, the
storms path was through a section of
the town populated chiefly by negroes
and poorer classes and the houses were
mere novels. 1t is estimated that $50
of them were totally destroyed and a
larger number damaged. The suffer-
ing of these people, rendered home
less and bereft of all their goods, is
pitiable.
The number of houses destroyed in
Nolensville is in the neighborhood Of
Is. There were two fatalities and
twelve injured.
Mr.. Hampton had $400 III money
which was blown away and only part
Of it has been recovered. A baby 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 it's side.
At La Vergne, 16 miles south Of
here, on the Nashville, Chattanooga &
St. Louis road, the velocity of the
wind was marvellous and from the best
In this short time about IS dwellings
We're turned into kindling wood. The
loss of life is slight compared with the
number Of remarkable escapes. The
wind made a path 200 yards wide
through the middle of the town. The
La Vergne high school and depot, the
two largest buildings in the town,
We're laio fiat OH the ground. The
damage to these buildings is 81, 900.
The railroads lost four section houses
also, each valued at 5000.
The victims of the tornado are
George Robertson and his six months
old child. MI. Robertson's house, a
log structure, was in the middle of the
path Of the storm and was demolished.
At the time Robertson and his child
had retired and his wife was sitting
neal the bed sewing. Mrs. Robert
sons escape was marvellous. When
found the body of Robertson was
pinned across the back by a large tim
Der and a large wound had been made
in his neck. No mark could be dis
covered Oh the body Of the child. In
almost every home there were several
injured.
In Williamson county much damage
was done, but the town of Franklin
escaped with comparatively small
loss. Houses and timber in Sumner
county also suffered considerably.
In Tennessee great suffering is ex-
perienced by those deprived of their
homes at La Vergne and Nolensville.
The rise in the Cumberland river at
Nashville is the most rapid known in
20 years, the water having gained 20
feet on the guage since yesterday
morning.