The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-04-30
N|RNADO'S TRAIL 0F DEATH
KILLED IN SOUTHERN STORM ES-
TtMATED AT TWO HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-FIVE.
MANY MORE ARE INJURED
The Loss of Life Was Chiefly In the
Quarters of the CoIored people,
Whose Cabins Were
Destroyed.

Atlanta, Ga April 25.-Reports up
20 midnight indicate that 225 persons
were killed and about 500 injured in
storms of great violence, which passed
over sections of Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama Friday.
Several towns were almost totally
swept away and the property damage
will run into large figures.
Most of those killed were negroes.
whose cabins were swept away like
% much paper.
Natchez. Miss, reports that Of Ga
persons killed in that section only
two were whites.
An,lte Almost Entirely Destroyed.
Late reports from Amite, small
town in Southeastern Louisiana say
that the town was almost entirely de-
stroyed and the estimates place the
number killed at between % and so,
while at least IS were injured
At McLain, Miss. eight are reported
to have been killed
At Vidalia, La, one white woman
and six negroes are dead.
At Quitman Landing II negroes
were killed
At Purvis Landing. Miss, three
whites and nine negroes were victims
of the storm and reports of from one
to five deaths come from many towns
scattered over the storm-swept area.
New Orleans and Mobile were cut
off from wire connection with the out
side world for several hours Friday
night and the telegraph companies re-
port wires down in all sections.
Friday night the storm was sweep
ing through Georgia, but between tor
rental rains, accompanied by high
winds and by brilliant electrical dis
plays, no serious damage or serious
loss of life has been reported in the
state.
twenty-five Towns Stricken.
In all nearly twenty towns were
struck by the "twisters, of which
there seems to have been at least five.
The tornado that first appeared in
Concordia Parish, La, appears 10 have
been the most serious. both in respect
to number of victims and extent of
territory covered.
Although 1t covered a rural district
and struck no large town, the known
results of It's work are Ga dead and
at least 100 injured, with the prospect
that the list will be considerably
swelled by more complete reports.
More than fifty OF the dead are ne
ticularly fatal to the occupants, be
fng easily torn to pieces, while the
weight of the timbers crushed the in
mates to death.
After leaving Concordia Parish, the
storm crossed over into Mississippi
and traversed portions OF Adams, JEFF
ferson and Claiborne counties, its path
being about 1000 feet wide.
Two Different Tornadoes.
What appears to have been two DIFF
ferent tornadoes also struck in West
tTu AidUdlid, OllS Claiming SiA NlClllliS
at Bergen and Thomas sawmill, small
places. and another striking Albert
vile, where 80 persons are reported
to have been killed This. however
can not be confirmed, as all wires are
down.
Relief for the sufferers il being dis
patched from all available points Bir
mingham and Mobile and nearby
towns have sent physicians and nurses
to the Alabama districts touched by
the tornadoes.
Meriden, Miss, has sent help to The
storm-swept district in Central Mis-
sissippi Natchez is looking after Con
cordia Parish, La. and Jefferson
Adams and Claiborne counties, while
New Orleans has dispatched assist
ance to Amite City and the other par
ishes in Southeastern Louisiana,
Relief has also been sent to Albert
vile. Ala. Should the Albertyille tor
nado prove as disastrous as reported
the total dead in the three states vii
run well up to 200 and the injured tC
over 500,