Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-04-30
LOSS OF LIFE
Caused by Destructive Cyclone In
Louisiana and Mississippi
ONE HUNDRED KILLED.

Over One Hundred People Killed and
Many Cabins Wrcckcd-AIl of the
Dead Except Two Are Colored-
"A Parish i'm Louisiana and Three
Counties i'm Mississippi Swept by
the Cyclone.
a wind of cyclonic proportions
swept over portions of Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama late Friday,
leaving a trail of dead and injured
The number of killed is estimated at
close to 100 and the number of the
injured at over 100 with many por-
tions of the afflicted districts to hear
from.
Most OF the dead are negroes. Per-
haps dozen white persons were
caught in falling buildings and either
fatally injured or so seriously disabled
as to require medical attention.
The loss of life was in the quar-
ters OF colored persons where the
wind destroyed their cabins. buryins
the occupants in the debris, or in the
farming section of the country where
trees were uprooted, telegraph ana
telephone polls torn up and general
destruction became an encore to a
storm which, with almost tornado
fury, swept through the country.
1t is difficult to estimate the loss
OF life or the extent of the disaster
for there is little or no communica-
tion with the points where the wind
and rain did it's greatest damage.
In Louisiana it is estimated that a
score of small towns were destro! ed
or partially wrecked These include
Amite City, Arcadia and Inderend-
ence, Belle Grove. Melton, Lorman
Pine Ridge, Quitman, Landing. Fair.
childs Creek, Purvis and Lumberton
Miss, are reported seriously damaged
by the storm.
In Alabama, Dora was the chief
sufferer. This town is also known as
Bergen. -Four or more persons were
killed, among them the wife and
daughter of Section Master Moore
Fifty persons at the lowest estimate
were injured. Those most seriously
hurt were carried to hospitals in Bir-
mingham, Ala. One woman, NJ -
McCully, died on the train Two
other members of this family were
seriously injured. At Bergen cars
We're blown from the railroad tracks
and considerable other property de-
stroyed. Reports also say that the
storm struck Abertville, Ala, and de-
stroyed nearly the entire northern
portion of the town A cotton mil
was blown down, the storm ranging
northward. doing much destruction to
life and property.
An unconfrmed report from that
section gives the death list as from 3 o
to 80 with other persons injured. y
special train was sent from Birming-
ham, carrying physicians and squad
of State militiamen to the district.
Aid Is also pouring in from all drec-
tons.
From Meridian. Miss, comes re-
port that Mrs. John Minniece and her
child were killed outright and John
Minniece was seriously injured, while
number of other persons were hurt
and there was considerable destruc-
ton of property.
Richand and Lamourie, La. were
struck by the storm and nearly fifth
Of their population injured
Winchester, Miss, a small town, Is
reported wiped out. though only
two persons are known to have beer
killed.
Natchez, Miss. reports sixty are
known to be dead in the northern
Louisiana storm. Hundreds of plan
tation cabins are reported destroyed
in that section.
Mobile reported nine dead i'll Hat
tiesburg. Miss, but this has not beer
confirmed