Woodruff County news., 1908-04-30
VICTIMS NOW NUMBER 400
I 200 Injured, 46 Towns Wrecked and 2,500 Buildings Razed by WhrI-
 wnds-Dead Mainly Negroes.

Atlanta Ga-News from isolated points in Mississippi late Sunday night add 15 more deaths to the list of vic fims of the storms which swept four Southern states Friday and Saturday, pitals at Albertville, Ala, died Sun day, making the total death list 368 Unconfrmed reports run the number up to 400
 Another severe electrical storm struck Georgia Sunday, but so far as is known there were no fatalities and property damage was slight.
 The death list in Georgia stands at approximately 30, with heavy loss in farming districts to property. The crop damage is small.
 With probably 1,20O persons injur- ed, half a hundred towns damaged and 2,500 buildings razed, the story of ruin is told The communities which suffered most were wooden-built viii Kages, the majority of them with B comparatively small number of in habitants. Wind caused the greatest havoc and negro residents form the larger proportion of dead and injured
 The totals of death and misery and ruin caused in four Southern states by Fridays tornadoes came to hand Sunday in approximately correct form Briefly stated, they are:
 Killed, about 36S.
 Injured painfully or seriously, 1,200.
 Homeless, several thousand
 Towns reporting serious wreckage, <46.
 Habitations and business houses practically complete ruins in these towns, about 2,50O.
 The above figures do not include the wreckage on plantations and farms, scores of which were struck and damaged. The number of dead will never be known accurately for the reason that about 300 of them were negroes and they were buried in many communities without careful records of their numbers. While some of the first reports giving apparently reliable death lists have since proved untrue, remote places which were late 5n reporting their dead have served to increase the death list. The man. ner in which this death list has grown for the past two days, in spite of con- tinual subtractions from early reports, has been melancholy index of the scope of the disaster
 By following the wreckage of towns, the general direction of the tornadoes can be traced closely. Apparently the storm struck in three separate currents, each describing the arc of a circle and travelling toward the northeast.
 The first of these struck through northern Louisiana, Mississippi and in fo Tennessee before daylight Friday morning. The second appeared furth- er south about breakfast time in cen 1ral Louisiana and Mississippi, This apparently was the portion of the storm which swept on through Ala bama and Georgia on Friday night and Saturday morning. The third tornado appeared Friday afternoon, further south than either of it's predecessors. This was the storm which demolished Amite, La, and Purvis Miss, the two towns in which the wreckage was gorst.
 Following is list by states of the 46 towns reporting more or less dam age, most of which are small:
 Louisiana-Lucerne, Kenmore, La ~ mourie, Richland, Amite, Essie, Pine Angie Franklington, Sheridan, Award Eunice. Total, 12.
 Mississippi-Gile Bend, Purvis, Churchill, Lorman, Tillman, Melton, Baskerville, Braxton, Sunflower, Waha- 3ak, Wingate, Columbus, Walls, Fair Ghild's Creek, Quitman's Landing, Me Laurin, McCallum, Winchester, Pine Ridge Total, 19
 GeOrgia-Columbus Chipley, La Grange Harris, Griffin, McDonough, Locust, Grove, Cleveland, Cedartown, , Cave Springs Total, 9.
 Alabama-Albertvil High Mound, Hatton, Lessburg, Settlement, Blounts- vile. Total, 6.
 The four members of the Rayburn family reported killed at Baskerville, Miss, were not killed, but were in- jured, two of them. Robert Rayburn and wife, seriously.
 34 Of GIadiat Crew Missing.