The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
900 PEOPLE REPORTED
KILLED IN CYCLONE
Over a Score Of Southern Towns
Wrecked.
FOUR HUNDRED ARE INJURED.
A.Terrific windstorm Sweeps Through
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
Loss of Life Occurs Chiefly Among
the Colored Population Their Cabins
Are Destroyed and They Are Buried
Under Debris.

the Colored Population Their Cabins
Are Destroyed and They Are Buried
Under Debris.
Atlanta, Ga. Especially A wind
of cyclonic proportions swept over
portions of Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama, leaving trail of dead
and injured. The number of killed
is estimated at $50 and the nui-iber
of injured at about 400.
Most of the dead are negroes. Per-
haps a dozen white persons were
caught in falling buildings and eth
er fatally injured or so seriously dis
abled as to require medical attention.
The loss of life was chiefly in the
quarters of colored persons, W re
the wind destroyed their csJins,
burying the occupants in the debris,
or In the farming sections Cf the
country, where trees we're uprooted,
telegraph and telephone poles torn
up and general destruction became
an encore to a storm which swept
with almost tornado fury through
the country
New Orleans and Mobile were cut
off from wire communication with
the outside world for several hours
and the telegraph companies report
wires down in all directions.
The Wrecked Towns.
In Louisiana 1t is estimated that
score of small towns were destroy
ed or partly wrecked. They include
Amite City, Arcadia and Independ-
ence. Bell Grove, Melton, Lorman,
Pine Ridge, Quitman Landing, Fair
childs Creek, Purvis and Lumberton
Miss, are reported seriously dam
aged 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
hurried to hospitals in Birmingham,
Ala. One woman, Mrs. Gully, died
on the train. Two other members
of this family were seriously injured.
At Bergen cars were blown from
the railroad tracks, and considerable
other property destroyed
Reports also say that the storm
struck Albertville, Ala, and destroy
ed nearly the entire northern portion
of the town. A cotton mill was
blown down, the storm ranging
northward, doing much destruction
to life and property. An uncon-
firmed report from this section gives
the death list as from 80 to 35, with
scores of persons injured.
State Militia Sent.
A special train was sent from Bir-
mingham carrying physicians and a
squad of State militiamen to the dis
trict. Aid is also pouring in from
all other directions
From Meridian, Miss, comes a re-
port that Mrs. John Minniece and her
child were killed outright and John
Minniece was seriously injured,
while a number OF other persons
were hurt, and there was consider
able destruction of property.
Richland and Lamourie, La, were
struck by the storm and nearly a
fifth of their population injured.
Winchester, Miss, small town,
lis reported wiped out, though only
two persons are known to have been
killed.
Natchez, Miss, reports 60 are
known to be dead in the Northern
Louisiana storm. Hundreds of plan
tation cabins are reported destroyed
in this section.
Mobile reported nine dead in Hat
tiesburg, Miss, but this has not been
confirmed.
Churches Demolished.
kA ~ 1f-A
Church was blown down, and the
parsonage adjoining that structure
destroyer. The Presbyterian and
Episcopal Churches were both prac-
tically destroyed and several houses
we're blown down.
! In Memphis the wind reached a
velocity of 60 miles an hour. 1t up
rooted shade trees, blew down tele-
graph and telephone wires and forced
in plate glass windows
Richland and Lamourie, La, which
are close together in. Rapides parish,
were apparently struck by the same
tornado. Richland has 500 inhabi-
tants, while Lamourie is much small
er.
At Baxter, Miss, about a dozen
| buildings were damaged, among
them a wooden school house in'which
there were about so children when
the storm began. Teachers realized
the peril in time to get the children
into places of safety. The wind lifted
off the roof of the school building
and then blew down the walls.
At Amite, small town in South
eastern Louisiana, the dead are es-
timated by physicians at from 25 to
| So. Correspondents on the scene,
however, assert that not more than
a dozen were killed, but that so many
suffered fatal injuries that the list
will reach 20.
Doctor Killed by Lightning.
Galveston, Texas Especially DR.
Wallace Rouse. aged 36 years. lee.
turer and demonstrator at the Medi-