The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-22
Telegraph Lines Are Down and De-
tails Meagre.
TENNESSEE is STORM SWEPT.
Dispatches Received Upto9 p NJ. III.
dicatc That the Tornado Which
Passed Over Northern Mississ-
ippi and Western Tcnncs-
see Was Of Unusual
severity
(By Associated Prcss.)

! (By Associated Prcss.)
| NASHVILLE, TENN. November 2.-
| Tennessee was swept last night by the
most destructive Storm ever known III thSi
State. More than fifty persons were killed
! and a hundred more injured, While the
damage to houses. timber and other prop
| erty will reach large figures.
| The storm enter-d the State from
| northern Mississippi, and swept across III
| a northeasterly direction Great damage
| is reports q from the, counties bordering on
| mississippi and further on to Columbia, III
| Nauray county, is the heaviest sufferer.
! Lavergne, Nolansvils, and Gallatip also
| f5lt the winds force, the storm finally
| losing its force against the Cumberland
| mountain range
THE INJURED.
| Columbia casualties numbsr p and 80 in
| jurd, as follows. as far as known:
Dead: Miss s Florence and Evelyn Far
| rell, Captain and Mrs. A. F. Adelott, Guy
! Adelo,t. Paul Adelott. James Cherry, Miss
J Lizzie Forsythe, Mrs. Tom Carroll, Miss
NJ. j. Viles, (all wtitsJ. Winfred. wife
and child: Tom Hackney, Thomas Joscott.
! Glass Brown, Peter Adam, Freyson, cook
i at the CAROLS. Five unknown negroes in
! the En- rgency hospital.
| Ths injured: Clayton Tucker, badly
| bruised and in a dangerous condition; Josie
! Reed fatally hurt: Bslle Cooper, Mrs.
| Jones, Maggie Reed, Minnie Reed. Lulu
! Eostwick Miss Sarah I.usse.l. Susie Lowell,
| (Al are white; have ioruis-s and scalp
| wounds. VIII Hickman, [co.ored) broken
| thigh.
| Bob Sewell (coloreD. seriously hurt in
| the back. Jim Johnson. Dan Sewell. Will
| Brown, John Fryer, Lucus Walk, Philip
son, Bill! Hickman, all colored, injured
badly, bruised and scalp wounds.
Lee Farrell was blown over a window,
and While badly hurt, will not die.
PATH OF STORM
The path Of the storm is about five hun
dred yards wide. and through the
northwestern suburbs of the town. In its
path everything is completely wrecked
Not even the iron and stone fences of the
arsenal grounds are standing. The houses
of Captain Aydelott, the Farrells and
other large residenc es We're demolished
With the exception of these four houses
the storms path was through a section
of the town populated chiefly by negroes
and poor classes, and the houses were
mere novels 1t is estimated that one hun
dred and fifty of them were totally de-
stroyed and Il larger number damaged
The suffering of the people, rendered
homeless and bereft of all thier goods is
pttiab!e.
The number of houses destroyed in No
lens2iile vicinity is sixteen. There we're
two fatalities, as follows:
Miss Mamie Hampton, aged twenty
five.
Miss Mamie Bramlett.
THE INJURED.
Those injured are:
j. B. Hampton, aged 20; Miss Lucia
Hampton, aged 30; Mrs. Malinda Jennett.
aged 30; Aubrey Hampton internally hurt:
Thomas Hampton, badly cut and bruised.
Emma Hampton. arm broken; Ernest Ste
phens, internal injuries; Leslie Stenheas.
slight bruises on the head; Allen Fly. in
ternal injuries; Miss Fly, badly bruised,
Mrs. j. w. Fly internal injuries
All of the sixteen houses were totally
destroyed. Mrs Hampton had 500 il,
money, and this was blown away and only
a part was recovered.
A baby OF jim ChrlSman, colOred re-
ported lost. was found 800 yards from The
house at 10 o'clock, lying near branch
uninjured. One Of the family dogs was
lying by his side.
At Laversne. sixteen miles south of
here, on the Nashville, Chattanooga and
81. Louis road,th velocity of the wind was
marvellous and from best reports lasted
only about twenty seconds. In this short
time about thirty-five dwellings were
turned into kindling wood. The loss of
life is small compared with the 1liracul-
Gus escapes made.
The wind made sHiath about 200 yards
wide through the middle of the town.
The Lavergne high school and the de-
pot. the two largest buildings were laid
flat on the ground. The loss of thase two
buildings is placed at $1,000 The railroad
lost four section houses, each valued at
$500.
MORE VICTIMS.
The victims Of the tornado are:
George Robertson, and s:x-months-old
child; Mr. Robertson.s house which was
very strong log structure. was in the
middle of the path of the storm, aud was
laid fiat on the ground.At the time Mr..
Robertson and his child had retired and
his wife was sitting near the bed sewing
and before the latter could even warn her
husband. death had claimed them Mrs.
Robertso1's escape was marvellous When
found the man was pinned across the
back by large timber and {, great scar
was on the back of his neck No mark
could be discovered on the BODY cf the
child. Both are thought to have met IN
slant death.
In almost every home there were sew
eral injured. those most seriously being:
Mrs. Charlton. collar bone broken: six
year-old child of Mack Jordan. cannot re-
cover: ElTnore House. seriously injured.
In Williamson county great damage was
done, but the town of Franklin escaped
with compare lively small loss
Houses and timber IN Summer county
also suffered considerably. but first re-
ports sent out from GaIlatin were exag-
gerated.
Great suffering is being experienced bv
those deprived of homes at Lavergne and
Nolansvil!e.
The rise in the Cumberland River at
Nashville is the most rapid known in
twenty-five years. the water having climbed
twenty feet on the gauge since YESTERDAY
morning,
AT COLUMBIA.
Loss Of life Estimated at frun Thirty