Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-28
YESTERDAYS CYCLONE IN LOUIS.
lana, MISSISSIPPI AND ALA.
BAMA DEAL DEATH AND DE.
STRUcTIoN IN PATH.
NEARLY ALL OF
DEAD ARE NEGROS
RUDE sHAcks OF coLoRED PEo-
PIE PROVE VERITABLE DEATH
TRAPS TO INHABITANTS OF
SETTLEMENTS.

New Orleans, April 25.-The latest
reports from yesterdays tornado in
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
place the dead at over two hundred
and the injured at FIVE hundred, the
majority being negroes whose poorly
constructed cabins were converted in
to veritable death traps by the fierce
winds. Telegraphic communication is
still badly interrupted So far as was
learned the following towns were the
worst sufferers with the number of
dead:
Mississippi Death List
Purvis, forty.
McCallum, eight
Winchester, two.
Wahalaka, four.
Baskerville, four.
Adams county, twenty-five.
Churchill, thirty-five.
Fort Gibson, one.
Lorman, one.
Natchez, seventy-one.
Wlngate, New Augusta, Columbus
walls, Braxton, Bellegrove, Melton,
Pine Ridge, Quitman's Landing, Fair.
child's Creek.
Louisiana Losses. @
Amite City and vicinity, fifteen.
Angie, two.
Concordia Parish, 10,
Lameturie, one.
Richland, TOUR.
Alabama Losses.
Bergens, five.
Thomas Hill, two.
Albertville, 8.
Most of these places are merely q
collection of a few stores and dwell.
sings SO the property losses will not,
reach startling and large figures. No
estimate of the damage has been
made with the exception OF at Amite,
La, and Purvis, Miss, two of the
worst sufferers, where the damage,
which will never be estimated in thu
aggregate, was done to timberlands,
plantations and railroad property, scat.
tered through belt of about five hun
dred miles long.
Damage Widespread.
New Orleans, La, April 25.-More
than 200 dead, 600 injured and prop
erty loss amounting into the hundreds
OF thousands Of dollars are the results
of several cyclones that swept over
portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Alabama late yesterday.
At midnight communication had not
been re-estabished with the storm
stricken districts, and only the most
meager details, coupled with the wild.
est reports, are obtainable.
Relief trains have started from
several points to the devasted region,
but it is not likely that the relief par
ties can send out any definite infor-
nation before morning
Many Towns Are Wrecked
The stricken towns, together with
the number of dead and injured, ac-
cording to present information, follow:
Amite City, La-Forty-five killed,
seventy-fve injured.
Dora, Ala, (also known as Burgin)-
Five dead and fifty injured.
Albertyille, Ala-Thirty-fv killed
and seventy-fge injured
Winchester, Miss Entire town de-
stroyed; two dead, many injured.
Hattiesburg, Miss.-Nine dead, many
hurt (unconfrmed).
Vidalia, La.-Five dead, several in
jured.
Richland, La.-Four dead; two
fatally hurt; many slightly injured.
jured.
Sixty-Four Dead in Rural Districts.
In addition it is estimated that sixty
four persons were killed in the rural
districts of northern Louisiana, al
though these casualties are so scat
tered and communication so crippled
that they cannot be confirmed.
The other towns which We're struck
by storms, but from which no fatalities
are reported, are Arcadia, and Inde-
pendence, in Louisiana Belle Grove,
Melton, in Lorman, Pine Ridge, Quit
man Landing, Fairchilds Creek, Pur-
Wis, and Lumberton, in Mississippi
and two or three small places in Ala
bama.
Most of the fatalities are among ne
groes, their. cabins collapsing in the
wind and killing or seriously injuring
the occupants. There are also many
fatalities among whites.