Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-11-20
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SEVERAL LIVES ARE LOST AND
GREAT DAMAGE TO PROP
ERTY AND CROPS
Railroads Are Suffering in Mississippi,
Tennessee and Alabama-A Large
Number Of Trains Are Abandoned
People Crushed in Buildings.

Memphis, Tenn, Nov. Height
persons lost their lives, scores Of 9TH
ers were injured and property and
crops suffered great damage by tor.
rental wind and rain storm which
originated on the gulf Saturday night
and Sunday swept northeastward
through Alabama, central and north
ern Mississippi and western Texas.
In Its northward course it razed
scores of buildings partially demolish-
ed hundreds of others, caused COM
plete Generalization of railroad traf-
| fic and cut off telegraphic communica-
tion with many points in the affected
territory.
Cotton in the fields blown down
lby the wind was beaten into the
ground Several places in the path
way of the storm cannot be commune
Gated with and when complete reports
have been received it is felt that the
}.loss to both life and property will be
greatly increased.
Many Towns Struck.
At Mathison, Miss, nearly every
building in the southern portion Of
| the iown was destroyed.
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were lost,
At Maben, Miss, nearly every build.
were lost
| At Mahen, Miss, near Wooford,
a telegraph operator and his wife sus-
tanned injuries which may cause their
death. The bank ad several brick
buildings were demolished.
! AT Bolivar, Tenn, nine inches Of
rain fell in twenty-four hours and
thousands of head of cattle were
caught in the lowlands. Relief parties
were sent out today, but little could
be accomplished in rescuing the
| drowning cattle.
Railroads Hard Hit.
All of the railroads passing through
jackson, Tenn, are tied up by wash
outs near that city and about 1000
! Feet of the Mobile & Ohio tracks near
McNary, Tenn, have been washed
away The water in the vicinity is
higher than ever before known. Gren-
ada, Miss, where serious damage is
practically unscathed, the damage
there being insignificant.
Among those places from which
communications is cut off are West
Point and Columbus, Miss.
Throughout northern Louisiana a
heavy wind, rain and electrical storm
was also reported, causing serious
damage in some sections In portions
of Arkansas some damage was done
to crops.
Are Crushed In Building.
At Tchula falling tree crushed a
small frame building. Fire followed
and a woman and child were burned
| to death.
At Noconnah creek. a few miles
from this city, railroad trestle fell
under a switch engine, and the engine
plunging into the stream carried with
it Engineer c. v. Patterson and Fire
man A. R. Ritchie, who were drown
1 ed
RossviIle In Inundated.
Wolf river, in the vicinity of Ross
vile, Tenn, is out of its banks and
the town in inundated. The water in
the public square is four feet deep
and great damage has been done 70
property.
| For eight miles the water is from
one to six feet deep on the tracks Of
the Southern railway
Last night the Louisville & Nash
willie railroad annulled all night trains
4 from Memphis. The Nashville, Chat
tanooga & st. Louis expect to have
their tracks in condition today
/ On the Southern road all trains are
i detoured via the Frisco and Mobile
i & Ono routes.