Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-22
DETAILS OF THE WINDS WORK


NASHVILLE, Tenn, November u.
Tennessee was swept last night by
abe most destructive storm ever
known in the State. More than fifty
people were killed and hundred
more injured, while the damage to
houses, timber and other property will
reach large figures.
The storm entered the State from
Northern Mississippi and swept across
in a northeasterly direction. Great
damage is reported from the counties
bordering on Mississippi and further
On Columbia, in Maury county, is the
heaviest sufferer. Lavergne, Noleng-
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-five dead and some fifty injured,
the List so far as known, being as fol-
lows:
THE DEAD.
Misses Florence and Evelyn Farrell,
Captain and Mrs. A. F. Aydelott, Guy
Aydelott, Paul Aydelott, James Cherry,
Miss Lizzie Forsythe, Mrs. Tom Carrel,
Mrs. NJ. J. Viles, all white; --
Winfield, wife and child, Tom Hack
ney, John Scott, Glass. Brown and
wife, Peter Adams, - Frierson,
cook at the Carrels, five unknown ne
groes in the Emergency hospital.
THE INJURED:
Clayton Tucker, badly bruised and
in a dangerous condition; Joseph C..
Reed, fatally hurt; Belle Cooper; Mrs.
Jones; Maggie Reed; Minnie Jones;
Lulu BostcK; Mrs. Sarah Russell; Su-
Sc Lowell, all are white and are bruised
and have scalp wounds; Will Hickman,
colored, broken thigh; Bob Sowell, col
ored, seriously hurt in the back; jim
Johnson; Dan Sowell; Will Brown;
John Frier Lucius Walk; Phil Lipson;
Ball Hickman, all colored, injured bad
ly, bruiseu and scalp wounds; Lee
Farrell was blown out of the window
and while badly hurt Will not die.
The path of the storm is about 80
yards wide and was through the north
western suburbs of the town. In its
path everything is completely wrecked.
Not even the iron and stone fence OF
the arsenal grounds ar standing.
The house of Captain Aydelott, the
Farrells and other large residences were
demolished.
With the exception of the four
houses the storms path was through
a section of town populated chiefly by
negroes and the poorer classes and
the houses were mere novels. 1t is
estimated that $50 of thin wr totally
destroyed and larger number damag-
ed. The suffering of these people rem
dered homeless and bereft of all their
goods, is pitiable.
The number of houses destroyed in
the Nolensville neighborhood is 10.
There were two fatalities, Mrs. Mamie
Hampton, aged 25, and Mrs. Nancy
Bramlett, aged 65.
Twelve persons were injured more
or less severely. None are thought
to be fatally hurt.
All Of the sixteen houses were totally
destroyed.
The ba1y of Jim Christman, COL
ored, reported lost, was found three
hundred yards from the house at ten
o'clock, lying near a branch uninjured
One of the family dogs was lying by its
side
At La Vergne, sixteen miles south
OF here on the Nashville, Chattanooga
4 st. Louis road, the velocity of the
wind was marvellous, and from best
reports lasted only about twenty sec
onds. In this short time about thirty
five dwellings were turned into kind
ling wood The loss OF life is small,
compared with the miraculous escapes
made. The wind made swath about
200 yards wide through the middle of
the town. The La Vergne High School
and the depot, the two largest build
ings, were laid fiat on the ground. The
loss on these two buildings is placed
at $1,000. The railroad lost four sec
ton houses also, each valued at 5000.
The victims of the tornado are George
Robertson and his six-months-old
child.
Mr.. Robertson's house, which was
a very strong log structure, was in
the middle of the path of the storm
and was laid fiat on the ground. At
the time Mr.. Robertson and his child
had retired, and his wife was sitting