The age-herald., 1900-11-22
CENTRAL TENNESSEE
Later Reports of the Destruction to
 Life and Property.

Nashville, Tenn, November 21-Tennes- gee; was swept early last night by the most destructive storm ever known in the State More than fifty people were killed and hundred or more injured, while the damage to houses, timber and other prop erty will reach large figures.
 The storm entered the State from north ern Mississippi and swept across in a north easterly direction. Great damage Is re- ported from the counties bordering on Mis- sissippi and further onL Columbia, in Maury County, is the heaviest sufferer. La vergne, Nolensville and Gallatin also felt the winds fury, the storm finally losing it's force against the Cumberland mountain range.
 Columbia's casualties number twenty five dead and some fifty injured the list so far as known being as follows. The dead: Misses Florence and Evelyn Farrell.
 Captain and Mrs A. F. Aydelotte.
 Guy Aydelotte.
 Paul Aydelotte
 James Cherry. Miss Lizzie Forsythe
 Mrs. Tom Carroll.
 Mrs M J. Viles, all white.
 Winfield, wife and child.
 Tom Hackney.
 John Scott
 Glass Brown and wife.
 Peter Adams.
 Frierson, cook at the Carroll.
 Five unknown negroes in the emergency hospital.
 The injured:
 Clayton Tucker, badly bruised, danger ousy; Josie Reed, fatally hurt; Belle Coop CT, Mrs. Jones, Maggie Reed, Minnie Jones. Lula Bostck Mrs. Sarah Russell, Susie Lowell. All are white and are bruised and have scalp wounds Will Hickman, colored, thigh broken; Bob Sewall colored, seri- ously hurt; Jim Johnson, Dan Sowell, Will 1ohn Eriar TnniIIs Walk Phi1lin- son, Bill Hickman, all colored, injured, badly bruised and scalp wounds.
 Mr. Lee Farrell was blown out of the window, and while badly hurt, will not die.-
 The cyclone struck the Mount Pleasant pike two miles south of Columbia and fol- lowed the pike in a northeasterly direction. The path of the storm Is about $50 yards wide and was through the northwestern suburbs of the town. In it's path every thing Is completely wrecked. Not even the iron and stone fence of the arsenal grounds is standing.
 The houses of Captain Aydelotte, the Farrslls and other large residences were demolished.
 With the exception of these four houses the storms path was through section of the town populated chiefly by negroes and the poorer classes, and the houses were mere novels It Is estimated that 150 of them were totally destroyed and a 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 25.
 Mrs. Nancy Bramlett, aged 65.
 Those injured are: J. B. Hampton, aged 70; Miss Lucia Hampton, aged 24; Mrs. Malnda Jennett, aged 70; Aubrey Hamp- ton internally hurt; Thomas Hampton. badly cut and bruised; Emma Hampton, arm broken: Mrs P. C. Vernon, c ollar- bone and rib broken; Ernest Stephens, in ternal injuries; Leslie Stephens, slight bruises on the head; Allen Fly, internal in- 1uries; Mrs. J. W. Fly, internal injuries; Miss Fly, badly bruised. All of the six teen houses were totally destroyed
 Mir Hampton had $400 in money and this was blown away.
 The baby of Jim Chrlsman, colored, re- ported lost, was found 300 yards from the house uninjured. One of the family dogs was lying by its side.
 At Lavergne, sixteen miles south of here on the Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis road the velocity of the wind was