The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-04-26
DEATH LIST GROWS
IN PATH Of STORM,
Loss IS MILLIONS
Reports From Rural Dis
trlCts Add Horrors to
Appalling Stories.
Business Is at a Stand
still Throughout the
Stricken Sections.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Apri. 2J.-Returns
from the stricken districts tonight indi-
cate that betwee- 800 and 100 persons
lost their lives and Loo were injured IN
the series Of cyclones which swept the
States Of Mis- ,issippi Louisiana. Ala
bana. Tennessee and Georgia yesterday
and today. Millions OF dollars worth
Of property had been destroyed and the
business OF the stricken sections oar
alyzed
Every point which has been reported
has SHOWN heavy loss Of life and prof.
erty- Telegraph wires are down in all
directions and advices are sun com
paTstively meageT.
The heaviest loss OF life is reported
from Natchez. Miss, the capita! Of
Adams county, and Amite. Ia. and
from the vicinity Of Cedartown. Ca,
Easterh Tennessee. between ChaJra-
noosa and Knoxville, along the line Of
the Southern railway. suffered more Sc
verely from "a cyclone early Saturday
than did West Tennessee or the other
portions Of the Memphis district which
suffered Friday morning. The storms
started Wednesday I'm Texas and have
moved steadily eastward
Reports Of Suffering.
Visitors 20 the storm scene at Purvis,
McLane. McLaurin. and McCallUm bring
heartrending reports. A receipt was
picked up on the streets Of ElisvilIe,
Miss. signed by a merchant at Dickey.
Miss. a hundred miles away.
The cyclone hit the Mississippi State
farm at Parcaamam, doing great dam
age. Many convicts were sleep in the
house which was blown away. They
were not hurt.
Between twenty-five and forty dead
with SO injured. is the .OII exacted by
the tornsJo N Georgia =. struck with
force in Griffin, Columbus. Chipley.
Harris city, McDonough, and Locust
Grove.
a special from Chipley reports two
white women and ten negroes killed.
At Cameo two negroes were killed
Stimson reports one white person dead
In the vicinity Of Cave Springs and
Cedartown. Ca. fifteen dead are re-
ported.
In the vicinity OF Rome. Ca. nine
persons were killed. all whites. one ne
gro was fatally injured.
In Button three persons was killed
Destroys IS Houses.
Authentic news from Griffin Is 10 the
effect that seventy-hve houses were
blown down there. and five white per
sons killed. and Columbus. Ga. reports
two whites dead and e. dozen injured,
and several negroes killed
Reports indicate that at least twenty
FIVE people lost their lives in Alabama,
and six or eight others VIII die
At Bergen Walker county, four are
dead and fifteen hurt.
A telegram from AlbertviHe, Ala,
says five were killed at High Mound.
four at Harton. four AT Leysburg. and
three killed and tWenty-One injured at
Settlement
The home Of Henry Reeves. at Demo I
Crat. Jefferson county, was blow away.
and he, his wife, and two children we're
killed. and one son ana a daughter IA
tally injured
College Destroyed.
\ meager report from Brownsville IS
TO the effect that the college there has
been destroyed
Half Of Rector. Ark. a town OF 200 in |
habitants. was blown away.
Three men were killed and about /
thirty injured near Cleveland Tenn, |
eight persons were injured. and one
killed The storm was severest at /
North Highlands. 1t sweP through the /
district. cutting a path hall a mile wide. (
At Phoenix City and Girard, Ala, sew !