The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-04-25
225 DEAD IN WAKE
OF TORNADO TINT
SWEPT s STATES
SCORE OF SMALL TOWNS pG
sTRoyED. OR PARTLY wREcl<
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Partial List Of Dead
4 partial inst OF dead in the tern4de
Grimm. Ga--Mrs Randolph Harrison.
MIS-; Chapman. and two children. Afs,
Columbus. Ga.--Mrs. Viola Norris and 4.
daughter aged >.
Fr. Felix Rumpf Camille Mcainu3yx
Angle. Ls.aTwo Negroes. N
Shields. and Negroes. N.
Lamourie. La,--One Negro. '
Richdsnd: Lac. I. Price, wife and
Purvis. Miss. n. Hoffat. Mrs. J. H4'
Moffatt. Mrs. Lewis Mofratt Claf4
weems. Mrs w. IA. Vowel Gerlrude
Ise rsm r lams ssn kn slss e @s@s y Ma
Ledbetter, child or Mrs, Palmer. Mrs,
Grice, Sue Wall. and rs Negroes
Adams county. Miss--Jim vicksrs
Churchill. Miss. and yicinity--ss Ne.
Near Port Gibson. Miss--Negro wes
Lorman. Miss--Negro child.
Winchester, Miss.-Two unknown
dead. AK
Baxtersville, Miss.--Four OF Rayburr
family. S
Mccaium. Miss--Eight. four Of theu
white. .
WahIaka. MIss.-Mrs. John Names v
Mrs. Names and child, Mrs. Montford. 81
Albertville, Aia.--Mrs. John Deckoff
and two children. Mrs. William Averyt
Burkhardt. aged 10: Young Birdsong.
Bergen. Ala--Sectfon Foreman Moor4s
wife and daughter, Mrs. Gully, G. III,
Thomas Mil. Ala--Herbert Thomas
Mrs. CALDWELL. w
COLUMBUS. a.. April 2ss-- NJ
Mrs. Viola Norris, aged 30,
widow, and her s-year-oId daugh-
ter, were instantly killed here this
morning when the storm blew
down the Old Casino At North
Highland park, where the family
lived.
Mrs. J. @. Dunn, her three chill
dren, Charles, Willie and Frank
Dunn. were all injured, but not
fatally. Two other families lived
In the building. but all these - II
capped serious injury.
Mrs, Norris was praying a. the
bedside Of her little daughter when
wreckage fell on them, killing
both.
NEW YORK, April 25.---Ths
weather bureau gave out thip
morning this dispatch from VAST
inoton: NJ
"southwest storms warning die
played At II .. m, 6aitimore - IA
! New York. Storm over extreme 81
upper Mississippi valley npovjn6
east. High southwest winds t.
night, shifting to west Sunday
cEDARToWN, Ca. April 2s.--
The storm that swept over this
place and over parts Of Polk coun-
ty last night was the most de-
structiye to, visit this section IN
many years. As 4 result ten are
dead, twenty injured. trees and
houses blown down and great
damage done to fruit and grew
crops.
GREENviLLE, Ca, April 26s-
Eight persons, two white and six
colored, were killed at Chiplsy
last night by the fearful storm
which practically destroyed ths
village.
At Harris, near chlpiey, two Ne
groes were killed and = number
Of persons were injured. Among
the latter To- Mrs. g. w. jenkins. =
prominent lady. Damage 70 dwell
ines at White Sulphur Springs II
reported and at stimsou the
school house and church we're D.
molished.
HAMILTON, Ga, April 49,
MIRA. Frank Hopkins was instantly
killed and Mr.. Hopkins fatally In
iured when their home was
wrecked by the storm today.
Fifteen other residences were
demolished and perhaps dozen
persons were injured.
DALLAS, Tex, April 2s.--At X
noon today the revised reports -
damage from the cyclone In Tsxas
showed q total Of approxim steIy
200 buildings destroyed In the
towns and surroundings Of o.
port. MlneoIa, Grand Saline, Oak
Grove, staoner, Price and Clifton.
In these same places IS lives have
been lost and nearly 100 perDcne
Injured. The property losses, In
cIudjno crop damages by the cy-
clone. viii reach one million dol
lars.
NEW ORLEANS. La. April Ia
At least 225 Is thought TO be . Con-
sentative estimate of the plumber q
dead In the wake OF the tornado tnq<
swept across Louisiana, MississtPp&
and Alabama. doing great damage ~
South Dakota, Nebraska and Texas
Concordia parish. In Louisiana. afon4
reports 81 dead, while the number a.
injured cannot he estimated any more
than the property loss.
Amite, La, south OF Matches. vns|
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