The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-05-07
SOUTH VISITED
BY TORNAOOES

New Orleans, La, April 24.--A
wind of cyclonic proportions swept
over portions of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Tennessee, Alabama and
Texas, leaving a trail of dead and
injured. The number Of killed Ia
estimated at close to 200 and the
number of injured at thousand,
with many portions of the afflicted
districts to hear from. Most of
the dead were negroes. Perhaps
dozen white persons were caught
In falling buildings and fatally
injured or 80 seriously disabled as
to require medical attention,
The loss of life was chiefly in
the quarters of colored people,
where the wind destoyed their
cabins, burying the occupants in
the debris, or in the farming
sections of the country, where
trees were uproOted, telegraph and
telephone poles torn up and gener-
al destruction became an encore to
a storm which swept with tornado
like fury throughout the country.
Tonight it ie difficult to state the
exact loss Of life or the extent Of
the destruction of property, for
there is little or no communication
with the points where the wind
and rain did it's greatest damage,
but the property loss is certainly
up in the millions.
In Louisiana scores of small
towns were destroyed or partially
wrecked. These included Amite
City, Arcadia and Independence.
Belle Grove, Melton, Logan, Pine
Ridge, Quitman Landing, Fair
child Creek and Purvis are serious.
ly damaged by the storm.
In Alabama Bergen was the
chief sufferer. Many were killed,
am ong them the wife and daugh-
ter of Section Master Moore.
Fifty persons at the lowest esti-
mate were injured. Those most
seriously hurt were carried to
hospitals at Birmingham, Ala.
One woman, Mrs. Edward Nc
Gully, died on the train. Two
other members of this family were
seriously injured.
At Bergen trains were blown
from the railroad tracks and con
siderable other property damage
was done.
Reports also say that the storm
struck Aibertvllle, Ala, late this
afternoon and destroyed nearly the
entire northern portion of the
town. A cotton mill was blown
down, the storm ranging north
ward, doing much destruction to
life and property. An unconfirm-
ed report from this section gives
the death list as from 40 to so,
with scores of persons injured. A
special train was sent from Birm-
ingham tonight. Aid is also pour
ing in from all other directions.
From Meridian, Miss, comes a
report that Mrs. John Minniece
and her child were killed outright
and John Minniece was seriously
injured, while a number of other
persons were hurt, and there was
considerable destruction of prop.
erty.
Richland and Lamourie, La,
were struck by storm and nearly
u fifth of their population injured.
Winchester, Miss, small town,
is reported wiped out. Fifteen
persons are known to have been
killed.
Natchez, Miss, reports so
known dead in the Northern
Louisiana storm. Hundreds of
plantation cabins were destroyed
in this section.
Mobile reports nine at Hatties-
burg, Miss.
There seemed to be six tornadoes
in progress travelled apparently in
progress at the same time. The
tornadoes travelled apparently in a
zone hundreds of miles wide at
places and proceeded from west to
east.
Saloons Ousted and Mayor
'QuifS Office.