The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-26

New Orleans, April 25.-Prebably half a thousand lives lost, a hundred or more persons fatally injured and many times this number painfully hurt, together with a property loss running up into the millions, present a record so far of a cyclone which originated in the west two days ago Sweeping across Texas. Okla homa, Arkansas, Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, it has left a path of death, desolation and want in it's wake. seriously interrupted all com municaton between cities in the south and brought about chaotic conditions in many smaller towns.
 Mississippi already a sufferer from more than one cyclone this year, has l aGaip 3u-re iis bruR5 of the wind ana ] rains. Mississippi was the worst sufferer l in loss of life. lip to midnight tonight i the known dead there were 1ss, the seri- ously injured $50, while counting minor injuries those hurt in Mississippi Friday morning and afternoon numbered fully 1000. Of the injured in Mississippi pos sibly 200 were in hospitals tonight, while the remainder were cared for by friends
 In few places the destruction of life and property was so severe that some of the injured suffered for nearly 24 hours with only the scantiest medical assistance. and meanwhile were exposed to cold rain, followed by a scorching sun The white persons killed in Mississippi num- bered about 25 Nothing on which to base general property loss for the state has been received tonight. but it is known that about 20 towns were badly damaged. that several hundred plantations suffered losses varying in extent from one to sey- eral hundred dollars each, and that rail- read property sustained widespread dam age, including the loss of both trackage, trestles and box cars.
 Second in the list of sufferers stood Louisiana, closely pressing Mississippis heels in the matter of property loss.
 The death list in Louisiana, which up odark tonight had been estimated as small, has since mounted up with fright ful rapidity, until at midnight it stood at 99 These deaths, mostly negroes, oc- cured in an area about 100 miles long In the eastern portion of the state, along the Mississippi. River packet and other slow means of communication tonight be- gan bringing stores of at least some ruin and frequently of from one to a dozen deaths from all over this section.
 It appeared as if instead of few iso- lated tornadoes striking a few towns, as was supposed yesterday, the entire region was buffeted by d wind resembling q hurricane, which did damage every where, and in a few places developed into tclnadoes. Washington, Tangipahoa, Con- cordia and Rapires parishes each reported partial lists of losses which total close to $2,000,Oo0 These losses do n,r. include much plantation stock which was strewn dead over the face of the coun- try. The acute indexes of the losses were appeals for the necessities of life sent by several communities to neghbor- ing towns. The stories of how death struck its victims in this region are all largely the same, recitals of terrible masses of inanimate objects driven by the wind and miraculously passing some per sons. cruelty mutilating others and some- times killing an entire family.
 Appeals for aid in caring for the desti- tute and burying the dead were sent out in Concorda parish today. The dead Tn this parish number about 50, mostly ne- groes. The police juries, important bodies in Louisiana country communities, will meet on Sunday to devise means of re- lief. The damage in this parish is es- timated about $100000.
 Alabama and Georgia come third in loss of life with the dead estimated about the same in Alabama, Georgia re- porting about 25 dead and Alabama H. In Texas. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Ten nessee also loss of life and property dafn- age is reported.