The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1901-05-31
FRIDAYS STORM.
TRACK rs MARKED BY HEAVY
PROPERTY LOSS.

The storm which swept over
West and Middle Tennessee las
Friday afternoon was of consider
able severity, although SO far as ii
known no lives were lost in this
State.
The storm struck in lower West
Tennessee, passing through Tip.
ton, Lauderdale, Dyer, Gibson,
and Weakley counties, then going
up through Clarksville, Columbia,
Nashville and out to the southwark.
Many houses were unroofed, barns
and outhouses torn down, trees
uprooted and fences laid low. The
heavy wind was accompanied by
hail and rain.
The damage around Clarksville
will amount to several thousand
dollars, large warehouses being
unroofed and the tobacco badly
damaged by water, and hundreds
of trees blown down. The cupola
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church at Dyersburg was wrecked
and the colored Odd Fellows hall
was badly damaged; the roofs of
number of other buildings blown
off, and damage at this point will
run up into the thousands.
At Trenton chimneys on the new
court house were blown and the
slate roof damaged; the roofs re-
moved from the roller and cotton
mills. AT Gibson the house con-
tanning stock of goods owned by
W. j. Rust was unroofed, the roof
being blown 900 yards. A big
tent, in which protracted meet
ing was being held at Milan, was
demolished.
The street fair in progress at
Columbia suffered greatly and the
in the tents sus-
pended. Torn canvas and bedrag-
gled paraphernalia were visible in
every direction.
At Lewisburg, in Marshall
County, mill was unroofed and
trees and fences blown down in
many places. Louise, the little
Of j. W. Nichols, was
sitting in swing in neighbor's
yard when the storm came up; al
arge tree was blown across the
swing, breaking it into pieces, but
he child was unhurt.
The property loss at Ripley is
estimated to be at least $25, 900
md outside in the county at $780,
100. Horses and cattle were kill
ID along the track Of the storm.
Considerable property was de-
troyed in the vicinity of Hum
,oldt.
The damage by floods and wind
n East Tennessee will run to over
2, 900, 200. Carter, Unicoi, Sulli-
an, Greene, johnson, and Wash
ngton counties have suffered sore
Y.
At Elizabethton about one hun /
red houses and $4,000 is the
,ss. Destitution prevails with t
lany families and Mayor L. F. I
filler has appealed through the '
Press for aid. Con- ]
ressman Brownlow has made re- t
uest for /, 200 tents and blankets s
,om, the War Department at i
Washington, and has secured the I
shipment of enough to t
,commodate fifty families. Do Q
atoms have been pouring in from n
,wns of upper East Tennessee, as
ell as Knoxville, which is helping =
a small way to relieve distress. Il
he Southern Railway is hauling p
! supplies free of charge. The q
'wn was swept for a distance of 9
mile and an eighth, and the food 2
strict is said to be sad picture. q
ighteen houses are piled in one .
zap, many are completely cover u
with sand and fifteen are in the 8
sw bed Of Doe River. 0
The greatest destitution is at
oane Mountain, fourteen miles q
,uth of Elizabethton. There 300 '
eople are destitute. Men are :
them maintenance by s.
Irrying provisions over the noun q
ins from Elizabethton to them. .
Three lives were lost in Todd q
ounty, Kentucky, by drowning P
a swoolen stream, Mrs. r. A. Z
orrow, her little daughter, Ruth, l
ID Miss jamie Craig. @
State Peabody Institutes, 1
"a
State Superintendent of Public T