The Globe-republican., 1908-04-30
RUIN IN ITS wake
THE RECENT STORMS IN SOUTH.
ERN STATES MUCH MORE Sc
WE'RE THAN REPORTED.
The KILLED NUMBERED $50
Towns Seriously Wrecked 46, Houses
Ruined 2,500-Injured Persons
1900 ornado In Mssis-
sippi Sunday.


New Orleans, La, Apr. 27.-The to.
.als Of death, misery and ruin caused
In four southern states by Friday
Tomatoes came to hand Sunday in ap
proximately correct form.
Briefly stated, they are: Killed,
about $50; Injured, painfully or seri.
ously, 1900; homeless, several thou.
sand.
Towns reporting serious wreckage,
40; habitations and business houses
practically complete ruins in these
towns, about $500
The above figures do not include the
wreckage on plantations and farms,
scores Of which were struck and dam
aged.
The number Of dead may never be
known accurately for the reason that
about 300 of them were negroes and
they were buried in many commune
ties without cayeful records being
made of their numbers. While some
OF the first reports giving apparently
reliable death lists have since proved
unreliable, nevertheless, remote places
which were late in reporting their
dead have served to hold the total
death list uniformly around $50. The
manner in which this death list has
grown for two days in spite of con-
tinual subtractions from early reports.
has been melancholy index of the
interstate scope of the disaster.
BY following the wreckage of towns
the general direction of the lorna does
can be traced closely Apparently the
storm struck in three separate cur
rents, each describing the arc of cir
Gle and travelling toward the northeast.
The first of these struck through
northern Louisiana, Mississippi and
Tennessee before daylight Friday
morning The second appeared furth-
er south about seven o'clock in Louisi-
ana and Mississippi. This apparently
was the portion of the storm which
had swept through Alabama and
Georgia on Friday night and Saturday
morning. The third portion of the
storm appeared during Friday after
noon further south than either of its
This was the storm
which demolished Amite, La, and Pur-
Wis, Miss, the towns in which the
was worst.
Sunday was one of relief measures
throughout the wrecked district The
ruined towns have been visited by
thousands of spectators, many of them
with a few dollars in their pockets to
distribute among the needy. Sheds
made from the wreckage have become
che homes of hundreds.
Small parties of men on horseback
have gone through country districts
taking inventorN,s of the assistance
needed and rendering aid where it was
most necessary. At least dozen
'unds have been started in as many |
SlIlCS dHu lUWuS
Following is list by states of the |
Is towns reporting more or less dam.
lge:
Louisiana: Lucerne, Kenmore, Lee
nourie, Richards, Amite, Essie. Pine,
Angle, Frankelton, Sheridan, Award,
u.
Mississippi: GILES Bend, Purvis,
'hurch HILL Lorman Tillman, Melton,
'axterVille, Bruxton, Sunfower, Wah-
lax, Wingate, Columbus, Walls Fair
hild's Creek, Quitman's Landing, Nc
.aurin, McCallum, Winchester, Pine
tidge-total 10.
Georgia: Columbus, Chipley, La
range, Harris, Griffin, McDonough,
ocust Grove, Cedartown, Cave
g.
Alabama: Albertville, High Mound,
latton, Leesburg, Settlement, Blounts
ille-total 6.