Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-25
WINDS TAKE
AWFUL TOLL
ENTIRE TOWNS DESTROYED;
1000 PERSONS HURT
NEGROES PERISH AS CABINS ARE
DEMOLISHED
In Purvis, Miss, Twenty-Five Whites
and Fifty colored People Meet
Death-Storm Covers
Wide Area
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, April Is
Reports up to 2 o'clock this
morning indicate that 225 per-
sons were killed and 1000 were
injured in storms of great vio-
lence which passed over sections
of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama yesterday.
Several towns were almost to-
tally destroyed and the property
damage will run into large fig
ures.
Most of those killed were ne
groes, whose cabins were swept
away like SO much paper.
Natchez, Miss, reports that of
sixty-four persons killed in that
section only two were whites.
Late reports from Amite, a
small town in southeastern Lou
isiana, say that the town was
almost entirely destroyed and
the estimates place the number
killed at between twenty-five and
fifty, while at least seventy-hve
were injured.
At McLain, Miss, eight are
killed; at Vidalia, La, one white
woman and six negroes are dead;
at Quitman Landing eleven ne
groes were killed.
The latest report at hand comes
from Purvis, Miss, where twen-
ty-hve whites and fifty negroes
were killed, and reports OF one
to five deaths come from many
towns scattered over the storm
swept area.
Details at present are meager.
New Orleans and Mobile were
cut off from wire communication
with the otuside world for sew
eral hours today and the tele-
graph companies report wires
down in all directions.
| Last night the storm swept through
Georgia, but beyond torrentlal rams
accompanied by high winds ana prH-
liant electrical displays, no serious
damage or loss or lie mas peeh Ae
! ported in the state.
In Louisiana, it is estimated that a
score of small towns were destroyed,
or partially wrecked. They lncluue
Amite City, Arcadia and Independents
Belle Grove, Velton, Lorman, Pine
Ridee Ouitman Landing, Fairchilds
crock Purvis and Lumberton, Miss,
are reported seriously damaged by the
|
In Alabama, Dora was the chief suf-
ferer. This town is also known as Ser
gen. 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 car
ried to hospitals in Birmingham one
woman, Mrs. McCully, died on the train.
Cars Blown Away
At Bergen cars were blown from
| the railroad tracks and 'conslderaple
other property destroyed.
Reports also say that the storm
struck Albertville, La, late last night,
doing much destruction to hte ana
property. An uncontirmed report from
this section gives the death list at from
thirty to thirty-five, with scores OF
persons injured.
train was sent from birmingham
last night carrying physicians and
squad of state militiamen to the dis
trict.
From Meridian, Miss, comes re-
mort that Mrs. John Minniece and her
| child were killed outright and John
Minniece was seriolsly injured, while
q number of other persons were hurt,
and there was considerable destruction
of property.
Richland and Lamourie, La, were
struck by the storm and nearly fifth
iT1i1
Winchester, Miss, a small town, is
reported destroyed, though only two
persons are known to have been killed.
Mobile reported nine dead at Hat
tiesburg, Miss, but this has not been
confirmed.